Started Dogs & Puppies, Training, Stud Service for GSPs
In early February, 2025, Brent’s Penny Pointer found this single in the middle of a large sage flat. While everyone else in the party searched for a downed bird I made the long trek to see what she’d found. This bird held tight and flushed strong. Watch her enthusiastically search for the dead bird and deliver it to me. As brother Mark would say, “She’s shiny as a new penny!”.
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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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It’s been tough hunting this past week. This covey find by Ellie Mae and Maddie is fairly typical of what I’ve been seeing. The birds don’t leave much scent and move off the points when the dogs do find them making them extremely hard to get close to, and therefore, hard to get decent video. Despite the less than stellar dog/bird action in this video Aidan’s reaction to his banded/collared bird is pretty neat.
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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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This is my second effort at this video. Ellie, Dot and I had a wonderful afternoon. Ellie pointed a tight-holding covey right out of the truck (I missed). She then nailed a single (I did not miss). Dot then bumped our second covey but helped Ellie with a single on covey number three. This is my first video of Dot on wild birds and I know the last clip isn’t very good but it I want to remember her.
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Graystalkers weimaraner, Caledonia (bree) on her first bobwhite hunt with her mum (beth) bree shared the retrive. Bree has turned out to be as good at hunting on bobwhite,deer & duck as her mum Beth.
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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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Jaeger’s second bobwhite hunt of the 2020 ‘Quail Tour’ of Georgia was a stop at Rio Piedra Plantation. The cover was thicker but Jaeger still had a ball flushing a lot of bobwhite. Dad had the gun of the day and cleaned up. We found some areas to improve, but had a really fun day at the plantation. #bobwhitehunting #dachshund #gundog
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She’s hard to see through the sumac but that’s my Ellie Mae (Elton John when she’s a rock star like in this video) making the find on a sneaky covey of wild bobwhite hiding alongside a draw wall. I called it the Bomb Covey because when these birds came out of that bush it sounded like a bomb going off! Ellie was joined by Brent’s pointer Maddie and Will’s wirehair Etta and Baer. So many cool dogs so little time.
There’s a bit of NSFW language in the video so beware. I started to edit it out but ultimately decided that the covey flush is, in fact, ****** cool! Will from Tennessee sure seemed to think it was alright.
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Quail shattered when hit #Quail #Hunting #wounded
In the bobwhite hunt I did, it was shattered because the bird was too close.
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