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Road Trip goes on forever: Jurassic Park quail
I am at the mouth of a canyon that harbors the bones of prehistoric horses and mastodons, an ancient seabed now covered with sage and juniper. The trickle of water in the tiny creek is, ironically, the...
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Awesome Upland Road Trip, solo chukar hunt
So, what does a guy who makes TV shows about bird hunting do in his free time? Goes bird hunting, of course. I had a hall pass for the day, not enough time to head for my usual haunts. It forced me to...
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Reading signs
What do you think this means? I was beginning to wonder how the long, wet spring had affected hatch rates on our local valley quail population. For weeks, I’d been woken up by their calls, from every...
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How was YOUR opener?
Mine? Beyond my wildest expectations. That was our chukar and valley quail opening weekend. Our annual “Boy’s Weekend” at 1) our usual camp spot (unoccupied); 2) weather threatened but skies...
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Better late than never
I try to visit this spot twice a year, near the opener and to put a fork in the season when it’s done. But this year, duty called and I was in Illinois (or was it Nebraska?) or somewhere else for all I...
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Wild times in the wild west
Wild birds? Yah, we got ’em. The newest show in our archives was shot at Flying Double F Ranch near Vale, Ore. If you love burning boot leather and shooting while huffing and puffing, go here and...
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Manny becomes a man
Whirrrrrrr! A long, dry slog down canyon went from relaxed camaraderie to high alert as four valley quail flushed wild on both sides of us. Manny’s attention was seized, he arrived at the scene of the...
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