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I hunt a variety of game around the country, waterfowl, grouse, pheasant, quail. All hammerguns, 10 Charles Daly waterfowl, 12 Army Navy CSL pheasant, 16 Ferlach guild, and 28 Army Navy CSL grouse and quail. Three small munsterlanders, very versatile dogs, do the job for me. Jada (7), Allie (5), Dnepr, (1 1/2) also have a new pup Merry that came for Christmas. Since I don't hear too well any more I usually run two so that when the beeper goes off I can watch the other dog find the point dog.
For me its mostly about the geat outdoors and the dogs.

Alabama/Tennessee/Kentucky quail, Dog Pointer-(akc name, Styling Daddy Mack) and yes he styles!! favorite gun to carry 5lb 20ga ithaca s/s (old and ugly, been threw tons of briars) and a ruger 28ga o/u

My dogs are English Springer Spaniels. I have three of them. The first is Maggie who is mostly retired (12 years old)and has had more birds shot over her than most hunters see in a lifetime. I wish she was 3 years old again. The second is Zach (8 years old) who gets most of the action these days. He is a perrfect hunting companion. The third is Dillon (2 years old) and he is nearly finished. All of them are steady to wing and shot and retreive on command. I hunt mostly pheasants. Springers are about as effecient a pheasant dog as there is. They have great noses, they will relentlessly trail a bird, flush it for you and retrieve it. Into the next county if they have to. The gun BTW is a 12-ga. Lefever EE (Damascus Barrels). My other most used gun is a 16-ga. round body G&H.

Maggie

Zach & Me in SD

Zach in SD

Dillon

I hunt with a Chessie. We're almost exclusively into ducks and geese, although he's been known to run the odd squirell up a tree for me, and gets some work on pheasant and quail from time to time....oh, and I guess he picks up his fair share of doves as well.

Todd

You're right, Drew; she spots the camera and instantly the ears and tail droop. That Dirk has a beautiful head; I'm partial to dark heads and tri-colors.

Ted - Very nice turn of phrase. Jay

I have a 15 month old German Wirehaired Pointer named Elsa.

I hunt mainly ducks. Here in Virginia I jump shoot or put out 8 or so decoys out on small beaver ponds. In New York I pass shoot for them, but also hunt pheasants, partridge and woodcock.

This year, I used my old Ithaca M37 16 gauge alot. I retired it a few years ago, and feeling nostalgic, put it back on "active duty" this season. I also use a Browning Citori, and every once in awhile, my Parker.

I also really got into NAVHDA this past year. We love Elsa so much that my wife and I bought a direct sister from the breeder. Same sire and dam, different litter. She comes home in mid-February.

Kind regards,

For Pheasants - a 12 bore Damascus DE Lefever and L'Archer a French Brittany but it is a four hour drive to the first hunting.
For Grouse same but 15 minute drive.
For ducks in Oregon 12 bore FE Lefever but the water is too cold for L'Archer (nickname Turbo by trainer)
For ducks in Alaska 12 bore Alfred Woodhill Pinfire and a rubber kayak. very quiet, very efficient. But lots of smoke jas

Last day of upland game was Sunday. Pic shows my viszla Ben who still has a paw up while posing. He saw a wing-tipped rooster go down into dense cattails 200 yards away across a frozen lake and came back with it! Gun is a Sauer Model 8 16 ga built in 1911. Birds were flushing so close in the deep snow that an ounce of 8's was all I needed. Super waterfowl retriever also, but I won't take him in a boat in really cold weather. But with a shore hunt he dries himself off quickly by squirming in the dead grass.

Pic from October in Manitoba the day Ben completed his "trifecta", a brace each of sharptails, ruffed, and spruce grouse along the same trail. Same gun, Sauer 16 ga. and an ounce of reloaded 8's.