Rips First Birds

Rip is going on 4 1/2 months and I have been so busy I haven't been able to do a bird intro until this weekend. I was not sure what to expect but I figured whatever happens ill make it fun and let her just do what she does. So I went and planted some pigeons and let her at um, no check cord no nothing this is just all pure instinct and fun. Needless to say she brought the noise and laid down solid points on her first birds.

One of her points of the day.

She held long enough for Jill to snap of few.

I had to kick the bird up to get it to fly....look how graceful I am!! Rip looks cool.

And she is off to the races

I got a few more pigeons that I will use to finish up her gun intro and after that she is on a diet of wild birds only!!!

Grouse

Grouse hunting started a few weeks ago we have made it out a few times and had some success. This year because we seems to have a good hatch and I have seen a lot of birds. Louie seems to finally be figuring these tricky buggers out.

Louie at the Basin, We had a good hunt and managed to bag one bird. I missed a big blue which would have been awesome. The Basin is really steep and when the blue got up I was so out of breath I could barely mount my gun. So we droped down into a canyon which held some Ruffies.

Ruffed Grouse

We have also been hunting The Corral which is one of my standard coverts that is a ton of fun to hunt. This year I have been hunting it a little different then years past and have been having success getting into birds. Last sabbath I was able to put two birds to rest, the grouse gods were good to me. I manage to get up about 5 flushes that day and connect on 2, not bad for me.