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Here are some shots of friends, favorite haunts, pups and a little success from my grouse and pheasant season. Hope you enjoy the off season as much as I will training my new pup.

Mike

Aspen with one of my hunting partners

A favorite covert

Another hunting partner with his lab

His lab and me

One of Michigan's great rivers with prime habitat nearby

One of Michigan's many waterfalls

Sonja my GSP makes good

Aspen not wanting to be outdone

Aspen nails a rooster and Sonja was on another - a double - sort of

1st rooster of the year

And a fine season it appears. CONGRATULATION on your memories. Cool

Member Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Posts: 460 Location: Texas

That first photo looks like a post card, great pics, thanks for sharing !!

Those pics have me longing for Oct. and it's only April Crying or Very sad

. Thanks for sharing.

Member Joined: 09 Jun 2005 Posts: 885 Location: Wisconsin

Nice pictures, I thank you. Now have to wait till Sept. and Oct.

As much as I love the Plains and our wide-open grasslands, I have to admit that they look pretty doughty in comparison to your scenery!

I love seeing pictures like this because it also helps put the origins of the guns we love in context, since many of them were designed with this kind of shooting in mind. Great pics!

Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Posts: 21 Location: WMass

Beautiful, thanks for sharing.
I'm already obsessing over the fact that Fall will be here in a mere half year.

Joined: 12 Sep 2010 Posts: 1975 Location: Maine

Gorgeous. Though I'd say the Maine woods might have a little on the Michigan woods in the "pretty" department Razz

, I'd definitely go all in for some cornfields like you have out there fer huntin' pheasants. Around here, it's all juniper, underbrush, thick stuff under the powerlines and swampy wet stuff that looks like the pictures of sawgrass from Vietnam. A "big" cornfield in Maine might be all of 5 acres.

I'm ready to go hunting now, but I'm also getting hopped up for brookies and landlocks on flies. And smallies from my canoe. And pike.

And turkey season's coming, too.

And I'm debating whether I can justify the price of gas and boarding the dog for a three or four day trip up to the Crown of Maine (300+ miles to Fort Kent, then another 40 or so down a dirt road, each way) to chase after bluebacks next month when the ice goes out. FWIW, "bluebacks" are a subspecies of landlocked arctic char native to Maine, living in a dozen or so bodies of water. They are Ice Age relicts, and a careful look at the hillsides near some of the lakes where bluebacks live will reveal the presence of lenses of permafrost. Seriously.