Recent content by enzinn

Does hot weather impact the young birds if there is water around? They survive week after week of temperatures that exceed 100 degrees in Central California, although the stock has been genetically conditioned through decades of selective breeding to survive those temperatures. I am glad to...

Did that supercell near Capitol in late June do widespread damage? Do they hide in other nearby crops when their fields are combined? The drop in CRP is disconcerting everywhere in the High Plains. I have seen the loss of CRP and the drought positively hammer my familiar rooster haunts in...

I did both!

So you noticed the same thing I did - the snipe are in early and there are shit tons of them. I am going to try to work the cover for pheasants along the slough on southwestern Salt Slough WA tomorrow, starting right at the check station parking lot and working north. I am sure the dog and I...

Yes, sorry for getting OT OP.

Absolutely. The dog doesn't know the difference and they are just having fun being out there and looking for scent. I should take a cue from my dog and just enjoy the wetlands.

I have hunted there in the winter. It can, of course, get brutally cold. I sometimes felt guilty hunting the thick cover and cattails, busting out pheasants, because I know they use a lot of energy to fly and run in the cold. I do love chasing after grouse, huns and pheasants in the winter...

I have had similar experiences thus far for pheasant season on the Grassland refuges. I am hoping it is just too dry and an intersection problem. Then again, I am always overly optimistic. Most people who aren't pheasant hunters and have tried it think I am completely insane. Then I take...

Yes, I chose to live there because of the town and my experiences hunting in that area, among other reasons. I know what you mean about public versus private. The one place north of there that has always produced for me has been the Missouri Breaks. That is a little farther afield then the...

Nice tales! I like the ingenuity of the limb. I have often thought as I reined in my Lab hot on trail near blackberries that it would be great if I could train a Chihuahua or something similarly small to chase after the birds hiding in there. One of my dogs from way back almost lost an eye...

I have hit my familiar grounds at Salt Slough WA and San Luis NWR since opening day. I have to give the dog a rest today through Tuesday because her nose and eyes are pretty torn up after hunting four of seven days. The cover and feed are about as good as I have seen at both Salt Slough and...

Well...I do both, so I guess that makes me dull witted AND bi-polar! Okay, I'll bite - expand a little bit on a 10' limb and the cat.

BTW - I heard a bunch of crowing at Salt Slough in September while dove hunting, so I suspect we might find birds there this year too.

Sorry - I just looked at my messages just now. I am Kansas on business and have been ignoring my California stuff! I will be around for the California opener. Do you think it will be easy to get on China Island d on the Saturday opener?

I think you guys are right on the steel. I just stopped using lead altogether years ago to avoid my own confusion when going to state and federal refuges. And when I factored in my fuel bill, my cocktail tab, dinners, etc., the cost of the one to three expensive non-tox shotshells was a very...