Category Archives: Hunts

Truman Lake Quail Hunt

Quail season in Missouri opened on the first of November. Vince Dye and I hunted private property so I didn’t write about that hunt. It’s been so warm that I didn’t go again until this morning. It was still warm … Continue reading

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Retrieves By Pointing Dogs

I got my copy of the Shooting Sportsman yesterday and the editor, Ralph P. Stuart, had an editorial about recovering shot game. I, too, think this is real important. I decided to tell about some retrieves that I thought were … Continue reading

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How Do Dogs Scent Game?

Let me preface this with, I don’t have a clue about how dogs smell birds. I have read a couple of books that are supposed to enlighten the reader on how it happens but at the end the writer doesn’t … Continue reading

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2014/2015 Quail Season

This was the year that I intended to hunt all 6 kinds of quail in the U.S.A. In October my wife, June, had a couple of surgeries and I wound up being her driver. This threw the timing off for … Continue reading

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