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Got to be some opening week reports? #6525244 11/03/16 02:26 PM
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Let's hear some.

Re: Got to be some opening week reports? [Re: Chet] #6525322 11/03/16 03:05 PM
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Hunted Briscoe in McMullen Co. Very hot. Lots of tall grass. Hunted 2 hrs in am. and 2 in late pm each day. Moved 20+ coveys each day. The last 2 working puppies only.
Lots of immature birds, saw chicks still in down, lots of bumblebee sized birds. Several 40 bird coveys.

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Dang!!!

Re: Got to be some opening week reports? [Re: Chet] #6525392 11/03/16 03:35 PM
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Wow that's the same County as mine. Can't wait until it cools down, just too hot for my dog.


Originally Posted By: Fooshman
I'll take a Black Female every time.

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Still too hot for a longer trip. Sunday, went to the parents place in Burnet county. 1 hr. in the am and 45 mins after the Texans win...3 coveys where there was none 2 years ago! Come on cold fronts!!!

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Wow that's the same County as mine. Can't wait until it cools down, just too hot for my dog.


Where is your lease? We are on the West Mule Pasture of the Briscoe. It is on Cameron Rd. South from Fowlerton. Briscoe keeps a tremendous inventory of grass. Never seen the place overgrazed. In wet years the buffel grass is a problem.

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Originally Posted By: Mundo
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Wow that's the same County as mine. Can't wait until it cools down, just too hot for my dog.


Where is your lease? We are on the West Mule Pasture of the Briscoe. It is on Cameron Rd. South from Fowlerton. Briscoe keeps a tremendous inventory of grass. Never seen the place overgrazed. In wet years the buffel grass is a problem.


Do they still have the baseball size gravel on the roads?


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4 coveys per hour kent county, many immature birds, nice size coveys. Very pleased considering the heat
3" of rain today Suppose to rain all next week. Wonderful news

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Originally Posted By: tigger
4 coveys per hour kent county, many immature birds, nice size coveys. Very pleased considering the heat
3" of rain today Suppose to rain all next week. Wonderful news


Good to know - last year at our place in kent county it was good. Sounds like this year will be muy bueno

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Howard County opening day moved 4 coveys in 2 hours. Too hot to hunt by 10am. Grass burrs by the bazillions. Gonna be tough on the dogs but seems to be a good many birds. Cover is excellent. Not going back until it cools off. A good frost would help some, a good freeze would be better, and a little snow would be great.

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Cottle county, three hunters and no dogs. Killed 35 birds over the course of the weekend. Lost count of the coveys. Never seen so many birds in my life.

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Wow that's the same County as mine. Can't wait until it cools down, just too hot for my dog.


Where is your lease? We are on the West Mule Pasture of the Briscoe. It is on Cameron Rd. South from Fowlerton. Briscoe keeps a tremendous inventory of grass. Never seen the place overgrazed. In wet years the buffel grass is a problem.


I just got on this year and have only been once so am not familiar with the area but I am on the Greenbranch ranch.


Originally Posted By: Fooshman
I'll take a Black Female every time.

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I just got on this year and have only been once so am not familiar with the area but I am on the Greenbranch ranch. [/quote]

I believe that is southwest of us; closer to 6 24. We are on the western border of the county.

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Really enjoyed the hunt on the wine glass ranch this week lots of birds.


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Glad you enjoyed it, for some reason the check wasn't in the mailbox.


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Right at 6" in rain gauge today.


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We hunted Matador WMA...lots and lots and lots of......

...people:)
We got into birds but weather was way to warm. Sunday was better. We hunted hard and there were orange vests everywhere we went... kind of a bummer

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But we had fun and I learned quite a bit from you guys. If the weather would've cooperated and I had boots for my dogs it would've been better. I guess mucho rain means mucho sand spurs. Look forward to more trips when the weather cools down.


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Hunted near Childress. At dawn lots of birds calling...I thought I would never hear that many again in my lifetime. The cover is too thick to hunt on most of the ranch but I did hunt for few hours in a grazed off area and moved about 8 coveys and lots of singles. Until there is a freeze, it will be tough to find dead birds.

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Originally Posted By: cattle69
Right at 6" in rain gauge today.

Check washed away.


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