After the last couple hikes with Angus, I'm feeling pretty lucky. With Leslie away, it was just my best friend and me. We went to a new spot, the opposite direction from our normal compass bearing. Filtering through private land, endless rolling hills, creeks, basalt scatter, barbed wire in various states of repair, muddy tracks …
The strangeness of hunting chukar
A couple of windy hunts with not much bird action but lots of pretty stuff to look at. Leslie's photos add spectacularly to our videos, I think, and to this blog. I'm grateful she wants to go chukar hunting with me, even though while we're out I almost totally ignore her. To use my friend …
Going up?
Had a couple good hikes on Wednesday and Thursday (Thanksgiving). I ponied up for the 3-day Oregon non-resident bird hunting license, a transgression caused by the "grass-is-greener" syndrome. In any case, we had a good time. Our vertical accomplishments vastly exceeded my shooting prowess and the coveys-per-hour encountered. The video below is our little story …
Just another chukar hunting video
Action, and lack thereof, from the last week. Enjoy.
Insanity
Was it Einstein who defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over and over, always expecting different results? Chukar hunting might expose some holes in ol' Einstein's inference. Last weekend I busted major hump looking for chukar in some spectacular habitat which, in seasons past, has held good numbers of coveys. Angus found …