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< 16ga. General Discussion ~ Is it just me... |
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Fri Sep 14, 2018 12:30 pm
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Joined: 08 Feb 2009
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Location: Western WA
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Or do the shortening days and chill nights bring something different: a quickening step, a more searching eye and querying ear, a sharper sense of purpose that follows summer's ease?
Does not the dog watch us more keenly as we move around the home? Are we not drawn to the cabinet to count our rounds more carefully, and inspect our arms not to admire the gunmaker's art, but to seek out the one we trust, and hold it with firmness as if to ask, "are you ready, my friend?"
These seasonal urgings surely have accompanied man since the dawn of time, and are we not still compelled today to follow them for no reason but to satisfy some unnamed inner drive that dwells deeply in our souls?
It's that time again, gentlemen, is it not? |
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Fri Sep 14, 2018 12:36 pm
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Joined: 17 Mar 2017
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Location: Endless Mountains of Pa
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Brewster 11,
Fall is coming, the leaves will be turning shortly the cool days to hunt in the beautiful forest will be here soon, the old dogs are looking forward to bird season and the guns will be ready. Fall Fly fishing is great and it's going to be beautiful in the high mountain streams.
Get into the Cast and Blast time of the year, it's memory making time!
Pine Creek/Dave
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Fri Sep 14, 2018 1:01 pm
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Joined: 16 Jul 2015
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Location: Hudson,Wy
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Call it Indian Summer, or whatever you wish. But this is the time of year when the heat of day is kind enough to sneak up slowly while taking it's time to arrive, doesn't stay long, and has the decency to exit quickly once it has worn out it's welcome. The coincidence with bird seasons, glowing fall colors, and the last great bite before winter's chill eases in to lock our lakes under ice, surely makes September and October a blissful experience. |
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Fri Sep 14, 2018 1:05 pm
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Joined: 15 Apr 2007
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Location: Amarillo, Texas
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I call it "getting pin feathery"
Got that special itch
Mike |
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Fri Sep 14, 2018 6:38 pm
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I couldn't stand it any longer. Called my buddy who raises quail commercially and got 10 quail to put out for my two GSP's, 5 apiece. I planted them in one of his neighbor's hay fields that had chest high fescue and unleashed the hounds, one at a time. Both dogs found their 5 birds and I got to shoot the 16 ga Ringneck that Kirby put the chokes in. I was grateful for the Garmin Alpha in that heavy cover. A couple of times the Alpha buzzed that the dog was on point and I had to navigate to within about 20 feet before I saw my dog. I figure that bird fix may hold me until I get to Montana later this month. My two big road warriors are still pointing meadowlarks on their runs around here, but no problem for them to remember what a bobwhite smells like. |
_________________ An elderly gentleman, his faithful dogs, and a 16 ga SXS. All is right with the world. |
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Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:27 pm
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Joined: 05 Nov 2016
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Location: Montana
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In Montana, that feeling is a tug of war between this - and - this.
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a good dilemma. |
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Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:40 pm
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Joined: 05 Nov 2016
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Location: Montana
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Or maybe between pointing dogs and spawning Browns......
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Fri Sep 14, 2018 8:04 pm
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Joined: 05 Nov 2016
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Location: Montana
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Possibly a successful antelope hunt or a Grif who knows when the 16 comes out............
All indicators of the best time of year.
It's not just you.....
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Sat Sep 15, 2018 4:19 am
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Joined: 29 May 2016
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Location: Burke Co, GA
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I have always noticed, toward the end of August usually, a difference in the sunlight's late evening glow as the sunset's rays wash the trees as you look east. There is just more of a golden "glow" than earlier in the month and summer. After a few years of me mentioning it my wife learned to notice it, too. It closely coincides with the beginning of our dove season, which is, of course, the kick-off of our bird seasons.
Best wishes to all who anticipate the bird fields and woods.
SRH |
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Sat Sep 15, 2018 7:01 am
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Stan, your thoughts remind me of a line in an Emily Dickinson's poem which goes, "There's a certain slant of light on winter afternoons..."
That in turn brings me to the late season days up here where the dark woods are held in contrast to the snow and gunmetal gray skies; so still. At that point you're a little beat down from the season, but you hunt on, and the soul feeds. |
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Sat Sep 15, 2018 7:33 am
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Location: eastern oregon
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I know it is fall when we get this in the mornings:
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Sat Sep 15, 2018 12:01 pm
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Location: Central CT
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mtbirder,
That is some good stuff. Landscape, antelope, browns and birds.......how can you beat that??
I am looking for a place in northeastern MT to retire to. Your pics are fueling the fire. |
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Sat Sep 15, 2018 1:26 pm
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Location: Northern Illinois
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Great photos and more pics please. I am sitting in the hospital, confined to a chair or bed, while they change my medication for A-Fib. Goofing up my opening plans, but they should have all the data they need for a Monday discharge. Then North I go.
Good Hunting,
Mike |
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Sat Sep 15, 2018 2:34 pm
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Great photos and more pics please. I am sitting in the hospital, confined to a chair or bed, while they change my medication for A-Fib. Goofing up my opening plans, but they should have all the data they need for a Monday discharge. Then North I go.
Good Hunting,
Mike
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Mike, I hope you get your meds dialed in and you're in the woods soon. |
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Sat Sep 15, 2018 4:52 pm
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Joined: 15 Apr 2007
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Location: Amarillo, Texas
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Mike
SOOOOOOOOOO sorry
Anything that I can do for you??
Mike |
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