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Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/26/14 07:23 AM
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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You ever been Largemouth Bass fishing where your not catching many fish and schools of Sandbass keep rising in the lake nearby tempting you. What do you do, you go catch a limit of Sandbass. At least I do. This is what happened with my Prairie Grouse hunting. I have never seen so many Dove in my life. Every tree was full of them. Every field with grain had birds coming and going sometimes in waves. So what did I do. Shoot limits of dove everyday during my time in Kansas. It was fun. After 17 days of hunting and travel time, Dash was tired and out like a light the entire drive home. I unfortunately had to shave my beard when I got home and Dash then was lent out to a friend to hunt in Montana for over two weeks where Dash was hunting with his Mother, Sister, and Uncle Abe. You will notice Dash is not in this picture. They said when they let the dogs out for the picture, Dash ran off hunting as usual. Dash is home now, but pretty bored after all that. I will have him out hunting again soon. One last picture of Dash showing off his teardrop tattoo.
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/26/14 10:34 AM
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Enjoyed the pics and the read.
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/26/14 11:27 AM
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How awesome! Thanks for sharing and great pics!
Patience, Lots of Patience!
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/26/14 12:08 PM
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that's amazing John, thanks for sharing
hold on Newt, we got a runaway
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/26/14 12:36 PM
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Sniper John, No words are good enuf to reply to your story, except to say well done my friend. I thoroughly enjoyed your hunting trip photos and narrative. Better than any hunting magazine article I've every read. Whatever THF is paying you is not enough. Thank you, Dodge p.s. Dash is one hellofva dog. Your personal best image of him on pt with the rainbow is beautiful.
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/26/14 12:55 PM
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It certainly is a lot different trip than what I do. I don't see many hunters that put in all that time driving and scouting , finally put it together and figure it out Then move on to another place next morning
Very nice versatile hunter in dash
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/26/14 01:05 PM
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Sniper John is the man. Great pictures.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/26/14 01:48 PM
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/26/14 02:09 PM
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Enjoyed the pics and the read. What a great trip!!!
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/26/14 02:17 PM
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This had to be totally awesome. Wow how fortunate you are and generous to share your story. Thanks!
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/26/14 02:49 PM
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Awesome write up and pics. I'm heading up to Kansas in a couple weeks. You should have bagged up some of that stinky weed to help pay for your fuel cost.
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/26/14 03:48 PM
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That was quite the write up. I stumbled upon 2, then had to go back for the rest. What a trip.
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/26/14 03:58 PM
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Living the dream my friend... Great story and pictures.
Wasn't born in Texas, but I got there as fast as I could.
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/27/14 01:41 AM
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Great stuff. The skunk smell may have been those plants. That looks like pot to me. You may have hunted through someone's personal stash.
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/27/14 04:06 AM
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Great stuff. The skunk smell may have been those plants. That looks like pot to me. You may have hunted through someone's personal stash. Yeah, think I see the buds on the stems actually...
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/27/14 04:34 AM
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Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/27/14 12:34 PM
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Great write up, and excellent photos.
Shopping with your husband is like hunting with the game warden. Experience is what you get, when you didn't get what you wanted.
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/27/14 12:52 PM
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Great stuff. The skunk smell may have been those plants. That looks like pot to me. You may have hunted through someone's personal stash. Yeah, think I see the buds on the stems actually... I know the Dove sure like it. Dash Rip Rock was acting all happy trying to eat it..
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/27/14 01:07 PM
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It certainly is a lot different trip than what I do. I don't see many hunters that put in all that time driving and scouting , finally put it together and figure it out Then move on to another place next morning
Very nice versatile hunter in dash This trip was a little more planned than what I am used to in that I had two cabins reserved from the forest service and one state park cabin. Normally I would be more mobile. I would like to have stayed on the blue grouse a couple more days once I found them. I would have liked to have had more time to hunt those Colombian Sharptails. I would have liked to stay in Colorado another day to hunt Ptarmigan. I did get tired of shooting and eating Dove every day in Kansas and because of the last minute boundary change with the Prairie Chicken zone it was a very long drive to hunt those. I would have moved, but was unable to get a refund on the last days of the cabin there. Otherwise I would have gone to Oklahoma to hunt resident geese for a couple days. Opening season dates were staggered too and limited some hunting opportunity.
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/27/14 01:43 PM
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Great pics as usual. You are livin the dream for sure.
Haven't had it in years but never spit any out. I am a sucker for happy endings and strapped cowboys.
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/28/14 02:39 AM
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This is the best thread I have ever read on the THF. You are the man SniperJohn.
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/28/14 05:14 PM
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Thanks for the terrific story and photos! I'm glad you had a good trip to Colorado. I'm jealous even though I live down the road from where you're hunting. I'm pretty sure I also applied for a permit on the state trust land where you hunted sharptails (didn't get drawn). Just curious, at what elevation were you finding blue grouse and what were they eating? Great stuff. The skunk smell may have been those plants. That looks like pot to me. You may have hunted through someone's personal stash. That's not anyone's personal stash. Hemp was a major agricultural product in Kansas before the federal government outlawed marijuana in the '20s or '30s. Hemp still grows wild along drainages all over Kansas. In case you were wondering, it won't do anything if you smoke it (or at least that's what the people in Kansas say).
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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10/31/14 05:43 PM
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Well done. Article, trip and from this glimpse--life.
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Re: Dash's TX CO KS 2014 bird hunting road trip #4
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11/07/14 03:28 PM
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is the person you lent him out to in MT the lady from Louisiana? think I recognize that sportsmobile. I ran into her in the dairy queen up there. If so, he is a lucky dog. She has some stellar access locked up around there.
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