Upland opener

what an opener. Had a great time over east of the mountains with my girlfriend Sammie, and good buddy john. She got to spend some time with her family while John and I hunted hard for 2 days. We saw a fair number of birds and I shot well enough to limit both days which was great. my feet will eventually stop hurting, i hope.
My dog madison did well the first day including a couple great retrieves of birds that rolled well down into the canyons. And john;s new 11 month old GSP did well today, his first real day in the field. He pointed his first chukar and found 3 downed birds. Not bad for the little guy.
Had fun, got some birds and will do it again soon.

Congrats!

Thanks Andy. I didnt stop to take many pictures, and none of the birds but here is a shot of John with his pup way down in the canyon. Unfortunately he didnt understand the meaning of "staying high" and seemed to think it was a race to the bottom of the draw. He'll learn though

Cool shot.

How were the bird numbers?

I need to trade you a trip for a trip. Want to fish the Nooch some time?

you want to hunt chukars?

Love to some time.

Was thinking bout getting over there and looking for some chuckar in the next couple weeks. Did well on them last year and was wondering how well they came through the winter and cold spring. If you don't mind saying the general region your hunting and how the brood sizes look it would be much appreciated...thanks

Ryan

lets go then. give me a call.

the brood sizes looked pretty small and there must have been a small late hatch as well. i shot one tiny bird.
North of vantage

Did you do any quail hunting or see how the hatch looked on those as well?

seemed to be a very poor quail hatch where we were. usually there are a couple of big (50+ bird) coveys in the bottoms and we never ended up seeing a single quail.

Thanks for the report. Sounds like it might be sub parr year for numbers. Kinda what I thought with the weather we had Dec-June.

Might have to get my fill back in MT this year. Last year I did great back there on sharpies,huns and pheasant.

I hear they are about the same to slightly down from last yr. and I've got an A tag in my back pocket this yr! Cant wait.

Wonder why my thighs are burning looking at that pic?!