Recent content by zia

I have hunted those areas a number of times this year. Has been a down year due to drought but there are birds......mostly gambels. I found 2 decent covies yesterday , the garmin says I went 8 miles and the dogs more than twice that. Make sure to have good forceps to remove Cholla cactus from...

2 out of a group of 4 hit the trifecta......here's mine

I have shot pheasant , sharptail , chickens and huns in the same field on the same day twice, the trifecta ( minus the huns) quite a few times but not that late in the season.....might take a 22-250 to get the chicken that time of year lol.

I hunted SW NM 2 days and saw 6 birds where in typical years I would see 100 plus . Didn't have the heart to shoot one

Thats my main hunting gun as well, I have a couple, the latest born in 1959 like me. What Dakotazeb said is spot on regarding rings and springs. DEADLY using Fiocchi golden pheasant # 5, luckily I stored up many cases of the shells so my grandchildren will probably have enough for their hunting...

I am a veterinarian, bird hunter. My bird dog clients get two wings from me ( I save from from my SDak hunts), the first is during the puppies inital visit...... tie it to a bumper, use it however you want to get the puppy excited about birds. The second wing they get is 12-14y ears later while...

Haven't heard anything about Roswell but its been difficult around Socorro in any direction I've hunted. Bernardo area east and west, all over off highway 380 and south almost to T or C. 3 pretty good dogs and lots of miles and have seen 2 birds. So far the worst year I have had in a very long...

I tried a few boxes of the 1 1/16 loads in my 28's but they kicked harder and didn't pattern nearly as well as the 15/16 loads. I have 6 cases of the 15/16 left and shoot them happily for SDak sharptail, huns and desert quail in NM. They tend to shoot very tight groups so I open the chokes a bit...

my first thought too, we are bad

Good luck! it was a great hunt, hope you have as much fun as we did!

Hunted a mix of public and private south central and west central SDAK. Tried to mainly hunt grasslands and CRP next to grain fields. Bird numbers of both grouse and pheasant were excellent, even saw 2 covies of Hungarian Partridge but didn't harvest any.

I have 2 vet practices in NM, between the 2 we probably do an obstruction/exploratory surgery monthly. Labrador retrievers are over-represented in the patient load living the lab motto of "eat everything you can and try to vomit it up later". Labs remind me of when they catch a big shark and...

surefire, sent u a pm

went out this afternoon on a spur of the moment hunt. My two setters are still figuring things out. This time they worked a long way away and bumped a big covey of 50 or so blues so I didn't get a shot. Not sure what to do but keep hunting, hopefully they will realize its a lot funner when we...