Last Saturday Bill, and his Cracker, Chris and his Clifford and Sandy, my wife and I and my dogs, Yeats and Zorro, did a lot of quail finding and very little shooting. We shot one bird and we will keep up that pace until this drought is over. It has rained and there is water in these pictures, but the drought is not over so we are being extreme conservationists. The dogs found eleven good coveys.

Yeats (the red setter) and Zorro honoring:



Yeats with the point, Cracker honoring:



Cracker with the point, Yeats and Sandy honoring, my wife with flushing and shooting duty:



My wife trying to flush a single Yeats has pointed. (It was a bit to her right.)




Water dogs:




Clifford, Yeats and Cracker sharing a point or pointing birds spread out in thick bushes:



Sandy on point:



Cracker on point:



Two happy campers:




After the hunt, there were three happy eaters of crab, oysters and shrimp. Poor Chris is alergic so he had to eat tofu. Ha!:

I cannot get the picture of the feast to open.


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ET1

neat pictures. looks like a european hunt the way your dressed.
does bill look european?

Just to add a few more pics

Yeats


Mrs. ET


Clifford


Cracker


Quarry


Mr ET


Zorro


Sandy

Sounds and looks like a great time! Thanks for sharing your weekend with us!

Great pictures. Thanks for posting them.

Only 10 pictures will open per thread. Here's the oyster picture. The seafood came from Airline seafood. I'm goiung there Friday. I have a few pictures from the same hunt. Later;




I'm not sure Cracker was honoring on this picture. She somehow got into the scent cone. ET is this famous downtown litigator.

Yeats made a really wide cast, and stuck the point. ET said that Yeats really prevailed on that one. I had to teach him some bird dog talk. It was a limb find. I bumbed cracker around, and she ended up almost next to Yeats.

Yeats with the point, Cracker honoring:

Very good pictures. Thanks for sharing!

Some beautiful dogs in this thread

that red setter is pretty...do they have the same temperament as english setters?

Those birds look big and slow when you're not carrying a gun. We were treated to a split find after the limb find;



Yeats found this covey after his limb find. I had dinner with Bob Birtrum, and another artist at the first Quail Forever trial. We got into a conversation about taking pictures. They both agreed that the best pointing pictures were taken when the camera was lower. I tried that on this one;

Great camera and camera work. Somebody knows there way around shutter speed settings and the like.

Still trying to get my South Texas trip to happen but odds are falling with each passing week. Would love to do the same thing - lots of pictures, lots of food, and a few birds to hand.

Do another video. I loved your video from last year.

I have to post a couple for Paulette. Cracker is her baby. We came to a big flooded area. Cracker went right, and we went left. Here she is going away.



Here's how we found her.

Really nice pictures! Were there any snipe in that muddy field. I know from another forum that ET like to snipe hunt too.

Great pics of the birds in the air; Mr Bill are you are as good with a shotgun as you are with a camera. I still think that red setter is going to be a great dog.

Chris got the pictures of the birds in the air. He was an opra singer, and a skeet shooter in a previous life.

We also hunted Sunday in another pasture. We found only 4 coveys. There were 13 birds in this covey. Cracker had to hold the point forever, while ET, and Chris got into position. That's one good thing about this area. Birds seldom run.



Pickup time. YEATS!!!!!!!! Don't roll in that. DDT will never let you back in the house.

Great pics. Love that Red Setter

Welcome to THF ET Great job.
Beautiful pictures and great essay.

These stubs or stubble could be called little stumps. They're from cut or shredded sennabeans, which is a woody plant. We wenched my Gator out using one for an anchor several years ago. Chris and I both cringe when we cross them with our UTVs. It seems as if they could puncture a tire, but so far, so good.

Hey ET1, would you PM me the contact info where you picked up that red pooch?

That is one fine Red Setter

He must be in trial. Here you go. His user name is LoboZorro on the Snipe Hunters forum.

http://thesnipehuntersforum.yuku.com/topic/3865/New-Pup-with-Pictures-This-Time


http://www.bdarn.com/celtic/Breeding.html

I had trouble trying to send a private message. The source of Yeats the red setter is:

Celtic Farms & Kennels, Inc.
Paul R. Ober, President

53 North Garfield Rd, Mohrsville, PA 19541

Phone 610-488-9273

The answer to the shooting is yes. I've seen him at NSTRA and sporting clays with his 20 ga.

Bill, is this place at Lissie?

Also, pm sent.

Phil

Nope!! I just look like an old bird hunter;

I got onto Facebook with a bunch of PDJ members. I'm no longer on there. I posted this thread. I thought it might be worth another peek on here.