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Selling powder and primers I have 16lbs of Red Dot 3/4 full on the Hercules Bullseye 5000 CCI primers 1000 Winchester (WLP) primers 700 Federal Rifle primers Willing to trade for some Winchester 209 primers

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Very cool! Congrats!

Thanks for the invite. It was a lot of fun!

+1 for Lewis Dog boots

Congrats! Those are rare to find.

Good write up Tres. I saw a lot more upland bird hunters this season than I have ever seen and I didn't hunt on weekends. The good news is there are still a lot of carry over birds for next season. We are getting awesome rainfall totals at the perfect timing for our desert birds. I'm hoping this rain will cause us to have a "BOOM" population growth for our Gambel's quail. I would like to see more research and monitoring of both our Mearns and Scaled quail. We don't have a lot of information on our Scaled quail. No one really knows what triggers Scalies breeding cycle like we know with Mearns (summer rain) and Gambel's.(winter rain) I also enjoy and cherish getting to hunt with the legend quail hunters we have in this state.(Bob C. and Dave L.) Those guys are not only great shots but they also know how to hunt these birds very well. I amazed how they can walk every mile we do at 60-70 years old! I hope Im in that good of shape at that age in my life. They have mastered the dog/hunter companionship. I wish I could do something off of the Matrix where I could download all of their knowledge. Looking forward as well to next season! Should be a good one.

Good job! They are so much fun to hunt.

I went to this one as well. I believe its called "Arizona Pheasant and Chukar". I had a bad experience as well. The guy released the birds right in front of us and told us we can only hunt in this one specific field and only between these 3 corn rows. He said if the birds run into any of the other fields they get away.(But we still paid for them which is to be expected) He also laughed when I said I wont need any of his dogs help and that I will be using my Britt. My dog found every bird in the field we were allowed to hunt and held point very well on all of the birds. We didn't find 3 birds at the end of the hunt. He said: "You are missing 3 birds let me let my dogs out and get some exercise and see if we can find them." He let out about 6 dogs all at once and my dog was put back into the kennel. His dogs were running all over the place including the fields we were not allowed to hunt. All three birds had ran into fields we were not allowed to hunt. At the end of the day he said "Usually if you bring your own dog and I have to get mine out to find the rest of the birds I charge you more but Im just being a nice guy today."(He was fishing for a tip) I didn't give him one because I told him I didn't ask you to bring your dogs out that was his choice. If I did it again I would only buy the Chukars because they would hold real well. Pen raised birds seem to always have short tail feathers. The only way to get really long tail feathers is to shoot wild pheasants. I went wild pheasant hunting a couple years ago and all the roosters had 20" tail feathers.

Josh I just need to go with you quail hunting Yeah Brandon, that would be a lot of fun!

I was able to get out and got a limit fairly quickly. I came across 9-10 coveys in 6 hours.(Average 8-10 birds/covey) Plenty of birds still out there

Very cool. You did really well. I'm glad you were able to get out.

Hunt near water and you should find birds. I have hunted near there a few times and every time I have gone out I found birds. Covey sizes have ranged from 6-8 birds to 15+ birds. If it's windy or a little warm look around the small raveens. They will go there for cover. Good luck and have fun.

I have a 20gauge Beretta SP o/u and I love it! For quail hunting, me personally, would shoot a 20 gauge or smaller. They are light and easy to pack around all day. I would either go with SxS or O/U. Also it is much easier grabbing your spent casings then trying to chase a covey of quail and have to pick up all of your spent shells off the ground.

I've been out about a dozen times so far and what I've seen in most places is it's about like last year.(1 covey an hour). Some places are better and some are worse. As warm as it has been the birds have been close to water or in cool raveens. Mearns season opens up next Friday. I will be out for the opener. I'm thinking Mearns will be better than our desert quail.

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

Wow very cool! Good job! Nice fish and beautiful pics

Ha ha you should have no problem. We've gained about 30lbs.😩

Ellie and I are both ready for this upcoming season. I need to hit the Sporting Clays a little bit before it begins though.