Bummed to see the end of the Missouri upland season

[slothman]

I was really hoping to get out today for the last day of the Missouri quail season, but Mother Nature had a different idea. I didn’t get out as much as I would have liked to this season, but I did manage to get my pup (a 10 1/2 month old German Shorthaired Pointer) on some preserve birds a few times as an early season warm-up, then we got her into some wild quail in Kansas, finally after walking countless miles in Missouri I finally found several coveys of wild quail here in our own state. We managed to bag 16 of those wild quail in the past two weeks and left tons more to repopulate for next year. I don’t know if I’ll make it back to Kansas before their season ends or not, but I’ll probably hit up another preserve hunt or two to allow Brownie (my pup) a few more bird contacts before we hang it up for this year. 

[Ketchup]

Nice picture. Every.single.spring i say I’m getting another GSP pup and will get back to chasing birds, yet here it is spring again, and no pup. It has been nice being dogless tho. These spare of the moment hunting/fishing trips go off without a hitch. 
 

I raised some Rawhides Clown blood back in the mid 90’s to early 2000’s.  Had 1 litter a year, and kept 1 pup from each to sell as started. Lots of memories there. 
 

Had a neighbor bird chaser that had a 10 week old Llwellyn Setter he wanted to trade for pick of litter on an upcoming litter, so we did. That little setter turned out to be one of the best dogs I’ve hunted behind. Beautiful, graceful, and style all in those ruffled feathered hairs. Boy i miss that dog.