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Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/26/17 11:12 PM
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bill oxner
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I did but don't anymore. Do you?
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/26/17 11:58 PM
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Chet
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Guess you mean un-pointed and no.
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/27/17 02:55 AM
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pharmvet
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Yes, every chance I get. I'm just not at that level yet.
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/27/17 03:18 AM
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bobcat1
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I wouldn't if I was working dogs. Old days on meat hunts I would have and did.
Bobby Barnett
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/27/17 03:53 AM
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NorthTXbirdhunter
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I did but don't anymore. Do you? Not a chance!
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/27/17 02:29 PM
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Mundo
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pointed birds only--even on old dogs
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/27/17 03:17 PM
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Nogalus Prairie
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Don't have that problem with woodcock. Just about have to step on them to flush them anyway.
I learned long ago you can't reason someone out of something they don't reason themselves into.
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/27/17 04:25 PM
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RayB
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What skill is there in ground swatting flushing birds? Like the dog work mostly anyway
There is time, and you must take it, to lay your hand on your dog's head as you walk past him lying on the floor or on his settle, time to talk with him, to remember with him, time to please him, time you can't buy back once he's gone" GBE
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/27/17 05:10 PM
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bill oxner
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I Yes, every chance I get. I'm just not at that level yet. I once saw a video where a dog was pointed. Another stole the point and then put the quail in the air. The gunner shot the busted bird. Would you have taken that shot?
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/27/17 06:25 PM
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Yes Bill I probably would, if I had experienced dogs on ground.
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/27/17 08:34 PM
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/27/17 08:41 PM
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bill oxner
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Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/27/17 09:31 PM
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I Yes, every chance I get. I'm just not at that level yet. I once saw a video where a dog was pointed. Another stole the point and then put the quail in the air. The gunner shot the busted bird. Would you have taken that shot? Not if I was training and probably not anyway. That rewards bad behaviour.
Bobby Barnett
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/27/17 09:36 PM
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If there are plenty of birds like the last two years I might and if they are blues I will, just to get them scattered so the dogs can do something with them. When the birds were having a hard time I sometimes would not even shoot a pointed bird. I like to shoot birds and I like to eat birds but I like to watch the dog best of all. Under the right circumstances, I do it all but in bad times it's the dogs.
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/27/17 10:15 PM
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Tigger If it isn't white it is not a birddog.
KC Lying is lying. Don't bitch about one doing it and condone another. That's called hypocrisy. _________________
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/28/17 01:42 AM
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I have before, and will again.
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/28/17 01:34 PM
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rickym
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If they flyin, they die'n.
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/28/17 04:28 PM
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Mundo
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I Yes, every chance I get. I'm just not at that level yet. I once saw a video where a dog was pointed. Another stole the point and then put the quail in the air. The gunner shot the busted bird. Would you have taken that shot? No, if you shoot the dog that busted learns to do it again.
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/28/17 11:43 PM
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No, and if someone hunting with me did I probably wouldn't hunt with them again. I have shot enough birds that I don't have anything to prove to myself anymore and the dog work is what it's about to me.
Smokey Bear---Lone Star State.
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Re: Shooting up-pointed birds
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05/29/17 01:23 AM
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As it happens I am just now reading a selection written by an early American bird hunter. He writes regarding shooting unpointed birds:
"In this matter I never vary, and I do most strenuously urge it upon all sportsmen, who would have good dogs and good sport, to neglect and sacrifice all individual shots on birds not pointed, rather than do a wrong thing themselves before their dogs or allow them to do the wrong thing uncorrected."
-Frank Forester, 1849
I learned long ago you can't reason someone out of something they don't reason themselves into.
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