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Just got back from a week long hunt chasing prairie grouse. Long distance walking behind an 18 month old English setter and an 10 year old French Brittany. My 11 year setter Jack stayed home this go around. 12 to 14 hour truck rides? Ya, he’d rather be at home sprawled out on his cushy pillow these days. He still hunts hard, but he’s pretty selective these days on long distance trips.
My dad who’s 78, flew up from San Antonio to accompany me on this trip. He hasn’t hunted prairie grouse with me since 2016. He told me the combo of altitude, distances we were covering and the pace we were moving at to keep up with the dogs was a bit too much.
He surprised me how he was able to keep up this go around. He was a real trooper, he matched me step for step. We only hunted the early morning because of the heat that would show up by mid morning was too much for the dogs. No need to push it.

The country:








Hunting:




Dad even knocked a bird down, using my 20 bore 5 lb 10 oz Franchi 48AL, his first hunt with it and he loved it:


Me with a double I took over a beautiful find and point by my French Britt, Ranger. He put on 12 miles in this field. About 45 min into this walk, he finally hits scents and locks up solid. We walk in….and a triple flushes at about 30 yrds, dad missed, I doubled. They were literally the only birds we saw in the field. No bumped birds, no wild flushes, etc…Pretty unusual, but it happens.


The final step: