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Re: Matador wma [Re: 3 alarm bbq] #6124603 01/08/16 12:23 AM
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I got 13k invested in a Ranger. I can't afford to walk


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Re: Matador wma [Re: 3 alarm bbq] #6124606 01/08/16 12:25 AM
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I live by the cowboy creed, "Never walk if you can ride."

Re: Matador wma [Re: 3 alarm bbq] #6124674 01/08/16 01:03 AM
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Hey nak for future reference if you want to stir trouble on the THF

Go to the deer hunting section and talk about high fence vs low fence

Go to the migratory section and talk about public vs private

And apparently if you go to the upland section you can talk about ATV hunters and it gets a nice rise

cheers rofl

I do both so I have no dog in this fight lol

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Re: Matador wma [Re: stinkbelly] #6125007 01/08/16 04:12 AM
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I've seen some recent pics. Some of you could stand to walk. grin




now that's just mean laugh


I always tell my wife it isn't mean if it is the truth.

My boy said that to my wife this past week and she immediately looked at me.
Now that's funny. Side eye glance!


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Re: Matador wma [Re: CinchMan] #6125619 01/08/16 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted By: CinchMan
Hey nak for future reference if you want to stir trouble on the THF

Go to the deer hunting section and talk about high fence vs low fence

Go to the migratory section and talk about public vs private

And apparently if you go to the upland section you can talk about ATV hunters and it gets a nice rise

cheers rofl

I do both so I have no dog in this fight lol


You left out canned hunts
using a auto instead of a O/U



Shopping with your husband is like hunting with the game warden.
Experience is what you get, when you didn't get what you wanted.


Re: Matador wma [Re: 3 alarm bbq] #6125658 01/08/16 05:46 PM
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I stay in it for the dogs. I can see them better from a UTV. I never carry a gun anymore. You'll find mor quail while riding but shoot a lot less.


Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill


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Re: Matador wma [Re: 3 alarm bbq] #6126269 01/09/16 12:25 AM
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I don't see the logic in hunting with a utv/atv. The dogs follow you instead of you follow the dogs. The more you get off the beaten path the more birds your likely to find

Re: Matador wma [Re: blanked] #6126296 01/09/16 12:41 AM
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Originally Posted By: blanked
I don't see the logic in hunting with a utv/atv. The dogs follow you instead of you follow the dogs. The more you get off the beaten path the more birds your likely to find


You must have seen some slow dogs in your life. Our dogs stay out front as far as it takes to find birds.


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Re: Matador wma [Re: 3 alarm bbq] #6126458 01/09/16 02:27 AM
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No they just don't let an ATV road direct them where to hunt

Re: Matador wma [Re: blanked] #6126877 01/09/16 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted By: blanked
No they just don't let an ATV road direct them where to hunt


It's difficult to make a point with someone who doesn't have a clue. I generally hunt on a section of land which in a half mile by two miles with at least one cross fence. There are no ATV roads. We hunt across an open pasture, sometimes up one side and down the other, about roost thirty from the fence. The dogs are ahead at ten and two as far ahead as they need to go to find birds. They know to go to the downwind side of brush, like this.




Go to the last dogs on point thread and look at the pictures. I only saw one that had tire tracks.


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Re: Matador wma [Re: 3 alarm bbq] #6128046 01/10/16 04:47 AM
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Hunting upland birds from ATVs is just a style, not a crime. I'm just a little more of a purest, and I'm more about watching good dogs work than I am about the shooting. I've gone on a few hunts with friends that hunt from ATVs...its different and just doesn't feel the same to me.

I also hunt everything with a autoloader, but probably spend as much time looking for hulls as I spend looking for downed birds, I wear snake boots even in the snow, and I don't own a Yeti.


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Re: Matador wma [Re: 3 alarm bbq] #6128163 01/10/16 11:22 AM
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All the folks who are "purists" will some day either decide to ride or quit. We shall see how pure they are when their legs are gone but the desire is still in the heart. The days of walking miles behind our dogs are over for a lot of us. Bird hunting is exclusive enough without leaving out the physically challenged. I say enjoy the ride however you do it.

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Re: Matador wma [Re: 3 alarm bbq] #6128239 01/10/16 01:47 PM
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Pickups have heaters and windshields.

Re: Matador wma [Re: coolie] #6128348 01/10/16 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted By: coolie
Pickups have heaters and windshields.


YEP, and they are a lot more comfortable, but I prefer the UTVs. They are a lot lighter, and stay on top whereas the pickups will rut the pastures.

The UTVs are evolving into something that I'm not fond of. They are removing the beds and adding 1,000 dog boxes. My fiend with the red setters called yesterday from south Texas. His tricked out Ranger broke an axes crossing a cattle guard. I much prefer my stripped down Gator with a 100 pound dog box and rigging. This is my second one and I've never left it in the field. Here you go.



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Re: Matador wma [Re: 3 alarm bbq] #6128404 01/10/16 03:44 PM
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My friend and I met a gentleman and his dad while hunting at Matador. The dad is 89 years young. He still walked. I told him he was my new hero. He's hunted quail for 75 years. Unlike sitting in a box, it never gets old.

Re: Matador wma [Re: nak] #6128993 01/10/16 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted By: nak
Hunting upland birds from ATVs is just a style, not a crime. I'm just a little more of a purest, and I'm more about watching good dogs work than I am about the shooting. I've gone on a few hunts with friends that hunt from ATVs...its different and just doesn't feel the same to me.

I also hunt everything with a autoloader, but probably spend as much time looking for hulls as I spend looking for downed birds, I wear snake boots even in the snow, and I don't own a Yeti.




Then how do you take pictures after the hunt?! I didn't think it was possible to take outdoor pictures without a yeti as the focal point.

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Re: Matador wma [Re: 3 alarm bbq] #6131622 01/12/16 04:37 AM
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How's the mud? UTV or not it has been pretty mucky out there?


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Re: Matador wma [Re: arandy] #6131958 01/12/16 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted By: arandy
All the folks who are "purists" will some day either decide to ride or quit. We shall see how pure they are when their legs are gone but the desire is still in the heart. The days of walking miles behind our dogs are over for a lot of us. Bird hunting is exclusive enough without leaving out the physically challenged. I say enjoy the ride however you do it.


Well, I have nothing against riding as long as it's legal. However the more you walk the better shape you'll be in when you get older. I've hunted with 75-85 years old gentlemen who can walk because they have been walking!

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I like road hunting. That's where the birds are.
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