I gave Tur Bo the whoa command.
Blaze backing Luke.
Luke pointing Dolly honoring.
Lucky
Merry Christmas everyone. I didn’t give much information on the Oklahoma hunting trip. To get maps for Black Kettle National Grasslands go to Cheyenne, Oklahoma. The National Grasslands has an office just to the west of Cheyenne on 47A highway. They may have a free map but the one with the most detail costs $10. Even that one doesn’t have the name of the roads on them.
Black Kettle has 30,710 acres contained in 114 different parcels. Packsaddle WMA is near some of the Black Kettle parcels. Packsaddle is 7500 acres. I heard that there are a lot of quail on Packsaddle but I haven’t hunted it in about 10 years.
There are a couple of motels in Cheyenne but the last few years I have stayed at the Bradford Inn in Elk City, Oklahoma. It’s about 30 miles from Cheyenne. A few years ago both motels in Cheyenne were full with oil field workers so I had to find another place to stay. The Bradford Inn is a nice, clean, quiet place to stay.
A lot of the parcels are in remote areas so I usually take sandwiches along but when the Hill Top Cafe in Reydon, Oklahoma is open I stop for lunch at least once a trip. They have a full menu but I had a really good hamburger the last time.
If you have hard charging dogs this area is hard on them. Everything has a thorn or at least a sharp point but in a few days of hunting you can see young dogs learn to handle the birds and figure out where to find them. This part of Oklahoma has a oak that is only about knee high. Quail use these oak patches to roost and loaf in as well as the plum thickets. Dogs learn to run from thicket to thicket checking for quail.
It’s hard to bird hunt and take pictures. I usually have to recycle pictures and these are no exception. They have been on here before but it’s pictures I like. I have better pictures of Lucky but he’s getting old and this is what he usually looks like now. He’s 11 1/2 years old and any hunt with him is icing on a really good cake.
Again merry Christmas. Each time we write the date we are acknowledging that Jesus is the most important person to have ever lived. We count the days, months and years from His birth. Don’t forget the reason for the season.