Recent content by Tori

Very nice ... wonder what she is saying to the other one !!!

I loved my Beretta Silver Pigeon 686, 12g, o/u but it was getting to be a little heavy for me after following the dogs ... so I swapped it with my brother and bought a Yildiz 20g s/s ... I do miss it, so easy to fire but ... the Yildiz is a nice little gun ... had swivels put on it and made a...

They can be very sneaky ...

Fabulous fotos ...

This is very interesting ... some days for us, the birds, particularly hens can be really 'sticky' ... other days, both cock birds and hens are very mobile ... I do believe that they are much more susceptible to the weather conditions than some people might think ... mind you, in my area, we are...

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year ... we are supposed to be in our first month of Summer, but this evening is chilly from a wanton Souwesterly ... the Californians are everywhere at the moment and from my desk I have just heard a cock pheasant ... roll on the first...

Very nice ... nothing like brass fittings!! I make all my own leads and collars, and also hi-viz collars as well ... in our vegetation (NZ), the best colour is NATO blue ...

Lovely thread ...

Gorgeous fotos ...

Beautiful ...

Great foto ...

Yes, it is a good read ... I was mowing in the tractor on the vineyard one day and got thinking about bird dog books ... how alot of the paragraphs are observations of the leaf drop; that breeze that can come through the vegetation like a sneaky cat; the dog with its nose in the air and that...

I wish you all and your dogs a safe and wonderful bird season ... as I hunt local I always take a thermos of coffee and a ham and brie sandwich ... I have never tried tacos ... whichever the dog is, they get half of the sandwich ... this season just gone a friend and I spent a wonderful day up...

IrishWhistler, I bought both the callie and the pheasant Dokken dummies (they are not cheap!!) but do look nice on the wall with all the hunting gear... the EBs did not like them!! So I went back to the old stuffed sock with pheasant wings wrapped around and they responded as they should have...

The vineyard I am working on is full of Californian Quail ... it is so lovely to see and hear them ... I have not seen any youngsters yet as we have had a prolonged Winter and colder temperatures this Spring ...