Started Dogs & Puppies, Training, Stud Service for GSPs
In mid-February 2025 Lily found this covey of wild bobwhite up on a hillside late in the day. We fought high winds all day and they were still strong as the sun was starting to set. If you watch you can see Lily’s ears flap in the wind as she stands on point. It was a nice strong covey for that late in the year and despite my best efforts they all flew away.
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Ellie Mae found this covey of public land bobwhite on 2/7/22. It was a thing of beauty to watch. She winded where they had been and circled downwind moving into the nice point you see on the video. Lupin, Tom’s young setter, on the other hand did what puppies do and ran pell-mell into the pointed covey. In what has become a disturbing trend for me pulled the trigger on an empty chamber. I MUSTstart loading my gun occasionally! Feel free to laugh at me.
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My little pointer Dot found this covey on the edge of a sand draw in a pasture we call the “Andy”. She was all contorted around a big sand plum shrub with the birds below her. Only two birds flushed initially with the remainder of the covey (about 10 birds) going out well after the shots. I can tell it’s early season as it took me two shots to knock one down and I was out of breath after the action. I’ll be back after them this weekend and can hopefully get some better footage. #bobwhitehunting #birdhunting #bobwhite_hunting #oklahomahunting
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Ellie Mae finally pinned this running covey of late-season bobwhite in the spectacular backdrop of February, 2021.
Todd’s Wirehaired Pointing Griffon, Bailey, is the first of the continental breeds to make it to my page this season. She found this covey of public land bobwhites feeding in a sage flat in amongst some stately cottonwoods late in the day on 12/2/24.
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I normally edit a lot of the approach out of my videos but I left this one entirely intact from when I turned my camera on to when I shut it off. This video shows the entire process as well as any I’ve captured in a long time. Plus, it’s Dot who I love. She’s such a sweetheart and deadly on bobwhite. I hope you enjoy this clip as much as I enjoyed filming it.
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Dot has gotten progressively weaker as the season has passed. I have to only take her on really short walks as she has virtually no stamina. Despite her limits she almost always finds birds.
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You don’t see much of her in the clip but my Ellie Mae found these birds in some thick thistles after we had walked past them. She’s an old hand and not much escapes her. The clip is also neat because I wasn’t the only one wearing a camera. Listen to the birds flush in the clip Dave captured. They make quite the racket coming out of the thick brush.
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In late 2017 I captured this covey of Oklahoma bobwhite wildly flushing from a large plum thicket.
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