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tommyboy72

jcbuttry8 wrote: I keep hearing how my next will be somewhat disappointing. Had a couple of people so far shocked I got this kind of skill first time out. I can't wait to hear how she does up north. Joe

Don't worry Joe I'll send you another good one.

tommyboy72

I know jcbuttry8 will dispute this but my favorite dog I have ever had was an Irish Setter out of champion show stock that I hunted with back in the day. Not much of a pointing dog but man he could find birds and was a retrieving machine. He even brought me live wild quail out of the bush without me...

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Wow, Joe I must be Satan then because if they don't work out at my house or live up to my standards they go down the road or worse. Can't wait to hear how Kona progresses and to hopefully join you in the circus and be there to watch Kona run in person soon.

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Last litters I whelped I used a kiddie pool with an old sheet in the bottom for one and I built a box from fiber board and put pet bedding in the bottom for the other litter. I had 2 litters I was whelping at the same time though. Just make sure your whelping box is oversized to give the female room...

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This could be wrong, but I heard if the corn doesn't reach a certain maturity, it can't even be cut down and used for silage because there is too much anhydrous ammonia in it, which can make the cows sick? I worked in ammonia refrigeration for large processing plants for many years before returning...

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Here is what I am running on my 2000 model 3/4 ton Chevy 4wd with a 6.0l vortec engine. They have been good to me so far and I drive about 200 miles a week for work on highway and then all our county roads here are caliche. I also hunt and train on a 15,000 acre ranch with cow paths to get into trai...

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I miss home. Haven't been back in years. Pearl River in St. Tammany Parish.

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Tommy, I think they got most of the people turned back on today here in northern IL. WE just need to complain more I guess so you all know there are people from here east that are still hurting even though some places were harder hit than others. Doesn't seem to make much difference to people how m...

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Aren't the power outages on the east coast and isn't the American Field Publishing located in Chicago? Just askin. From what I have read the hardest hit states have been Virginia and West Virginia. Last I knew Chicago was a long way from there.

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I had one from there a few years ago. I purchased him second hand from a guy out where I live not directly from Nitro but Nitro was the breeder. He was a direct son of Elhew Jefferson. He is at Deep Red Kennel in Lawton now. He was a good dog, great on quail, great in the house, great with the kids,...

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Didn't see a post wishing everyone best wishes for the most important holiday of the year so I thought I would wish everyone Happy Independence day while we still have one before we have to start wishing happy Ramadan.

Hope everyone is doing well.

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You might try contacting Southwind of this website. I believe he lives over there now.

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I am just posting this for a friend. He owns a quail preserve in the Ozarks of Missouri and is the only place I know where you can hunt quail 365 days a year even in the spring and summer. For any additional info. give him a call. Here is the link. http://quailquest.com/quailquest.com/Quail_Quest.html

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You might contact chiefdog of this website. Not sure what he has right now but I have run dogs with him and can tell you they are the biggest running GSP's I have ever seen.

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Good job Joe and Kona. Not bad for a scatterbred dog from Oklahoma.

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Peanut butter on a rat trap. If that don't catch it you know it's a shrew. We don't have them here but rats and mice cannot resist peanut butter. AN/PVS-7D Generation 4 U.S. military night vision Goggle / Binocular system $ 3500.00 AirForce AirForce Condor Bounty Hunter Precharged Pneumatic Pellet R...

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It's ok Dave. I was also a football coach at the college level as a student job when I was going to college and that was just a few years ago when I finished up but kids didn't take criticism, discipline and coaching the way we did back in the day. They also don't push themselves physically or menta...

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108 degrees with a 14mph wind here today fellas. It is so hot I completely thawed 3 completely rock hard solid frozen steaks outside in about 20 minutes. It is so hot and dry that earlier when I went to the convenience store to get beer that I decided to wash the windshield with the sqeegees they pr...

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Don't get me wrong Dave, I still got into minor trouble when I was young. Typical teenage stuff like fighting and drinking under age but back then that was common and we all held summer jobs and participated in sports and went to high school in the fall. I have a spotless criminal record not even a ...

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I watch it once in awhile. Those kids just lack discipline. When they go stay with the "strict" parents they are expected to act like civilized children, mind their manners, do their chores, respect their elders, and go to school. Most of them just need a good a%$ whoopin and something to occupy the...

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I read a study a few months ago that also stated that the age of the bird played a role as well as the species of bird. I believe it was from Texas A&M if I remember correctly but it may have been the University of Georgia and they stated that younger birds and chicks gave off less scent than adult ...

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Great, I am seriously considering moving my family to the Troy, Mo. area right outside St. Louis. Just what I wanted to hear about the gangs and guns. :lol: Lived in Troy for a couple of years met my wife there. Nice place to live plenty far from St.Louis, Qiuver River state park is beautiful and d...

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CHJIII wrote:
volraider wrote:Oh I believed you! When I left St. Louis to move out here I took a $20k pay hit. Gee how I miss those gangs and gun.

Great, I am seriously considering moving my family to the Troy, Mo. area right outside St. Louis. Just what I wanted to hear about the gangs and guns.

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Right now I have 3 pointers and have had several others and as Casey stated to a T everyone was a 180 on/off dog. Everyone was a joy in the house and just want attention and to find a place to lay down. Even the female I took in and whelped out a litter for Texasdogtrainer was the same and she had b...

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Wow looks like I should have gotten into the teaching racket. I bet my buddy Dave, Chiefdog, from this site would not have given up teaching and coaching wrestling and football after 16 years if he was making that much with a full benefits package out here.

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There are some really cool videos on youtube where guys are making paracord collars and it looks pretty easy if you have the patience which I do not. There are many different types of braiding techniques and if you decide to check it out look for the millipede style of braiding. One pull of the cord...

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jetjockey is that a Bracco Italiano in your avatar pic?

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A dog who never has birds shot down over them or is never allowed to retrieve I would consider a trial dog. Example: I gave jcbuttry of this site a pup who is turning out to be a nice little trial dog for him. She is with the Tracys being trained right now. I love Joe like a brother so I am not knoc...

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The problem is there is really no way of fixing stupidity like this. You vote out one moron and vote another in and even if the guy you vote is competent then just as soon as he takes office he falls in with the rest of the ignorant morons making laws in this country. I am afraid no amount of voting...

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Personally, I like the grassroots festival idea. There seem to be events targeted at the competitive venues but not much focusing on hunting dogs and novice bird dog enthusiasts. You might think twice about allowing the HSUS, SPCA, and certain other animal rescue groups who are catching bad publicit...

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They tasted similar to dove in my opinion. I ate them along time ago before I started using them for training. They were wild pigeons I had shot out of friend's barn. Squab is a delicacy in some other countries. They were ok but gamey in my opinion. Probably tastier with some type of sauce on them.

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Here are some pics I shot with it. img]http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp17/tornrnyboy72/dog%20training%20pics/DSCN1024.jpg[/img] http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp17/tornrnyboy72/dog%20training%20pics/DSCN1023.jpg http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp17/tornrnyboy72/dog%20training%20pics/DSCN...

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I like the Nikon L110. It is a nice crossover camera. Not a DSLR but not just a point and click digital camera either. It is a cross between the 2 and graded out very highly on all the internet research I did on it before I bought it. It runs about $200 and it has a continuous sport setting for acti...

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Prefix of Brophy, pros Tim Hidalgo and Ray Dohse. National is in Booneville, AR, in October. I know Tim. He lives out here over at Hardesty about 20 miles from where I work in Guymon. Been to his place a few times. I was going to breed my female setter at the time to his personal English Setter mal...

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You know, the thing about jumping from one side of the fence to the other repeatedly is that, eventually, as my grandma said, you'll come down astraddle. Creating discord through comparison gains no one anything in the long run. Were you speaking of me? I don't recall jumping from one side of the f...

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Tommy: I almost threw up..... Show pointers are horrible looking when you look at the field bred.version I agree with you totally. Looks like me compared to an Olympian. :lol: Is the conformation standard not an average of what the breed should look like? Hunters like myself and field trialers that...

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So you are saying this

field trial pointer.jpg

Should look like this whenever possible?

show pointer.jpg

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I have seen some heavy bred Miller dogs that looked like pit bulls which I rather like but the HTA dogs that look like a GSP with a long tail is where I have to draw the line. :lol: I misunderstood what you were talking about jimbo. I like a pointer to look like a pointer. I thought you were talking...

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Why does the breed have to look a certain way? Who says? Dogs like people differ in body shape, size and musculature. Meaning that an athlete like a AA dog is not going to look like show queen just like an Olympic track star is not going to look like a 9-5 married father of 2 kids who works all the ...

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For smooth strides we'd have to talk about the legs too. I prefer long, straight, slightly thinner with the rear forming a very strong, tight muscular hind end. I prefer a big thick junk in the trunk rear end that pops when they walk. A table top rear end you can sit a dinner plate on. :mrgreen: :m...

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It was an interesting article. Some of the proposals were interesting as well. I don't think taking away the February hunting month is going to help more birds survive the winter. Other than the Texas panhandle, winters in Texas are fairly mild which is why a lot of guides move to Texas in the winte...

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Sometimes you are so much of an idiot you get banned, like me.

Just don't disagree with the masses and you are a genius just like them.

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More than a handful is a waste.

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Where I live and in my limited experience, wild pheasant hold great in natural CRP grass that is at least knee to waist high on me ( I am 6'3") but just will not hold in cut crop fields or fields with rows and I have found more quail out in the open in shin high grass or near yucca or mesquite bushe...

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Here I built a couple of these bird transport cages with some spare OSB/fiberboard, some construction glue, hinges and some fresh vegetable delivery trays I got off the cooks at the jail where I work. http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp17/tornrnyboy72/bird%20transport/DSCN0972.jpg http://i393.phot...

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A good hunting dog is one that finds birds, points them and holds them so you can walk up and shoot them. A good foot hunting dog hunts the country available to it so I don't have to waste time and energy walking throughout all of it. As I get older I will definitely be concerned about the kind of ...

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And there in lies the problem. The word you are looking for is called integrity or lack of it in dog breeders especially those wanting to win a championship. Guess it is what it is. I call it lying and cheating buy you can call it whatever you want. :wink: Guess a guy that won't cheat for a champion...

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I have had good luck with Sportdog. I bought one about 15 or 20 years ago that was powered by a 9 volt battery. One of the first models that Sportdog introduced and when ecollars were not real big yet. After about 5 years it died and it sit on the shelf till about 5 or 6 years ago or so. I then deci...

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Turtle soup tonight PaPa!!!!!!!!

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As long as we are on the subject of messed up education systems, sometimes it isn't the fault of kids or bad parents, sometimes it is the administration and school district. I live in a town of about 1200 people. Half the town is in Texas and half is in Oklahoma. Our school is set up where children ...

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