A few more

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One of the sights we all see after a snowy day is chukar tracks. How come they always seem to be going up into the deeper smow?

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And up above is Grady trying to locate the birds. I’ve got hours of filming the dogs running the hills and hoping to get that shot of them slamming to a point on some birds. I can’t seem to get that shot. But sometimes I get these unwanted moments.

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I call that “crap happens”. Grady ended up busting a half of dozen chukars. I would be bummed if I knew he done it on purpose, but I’ve seen him lock up on scent way more times than busting them. Such as this point by Jake down below and as I was heading down to him Grady was on a different point. It wasn’t an honor because Grady couldn’t see Jake. Jake had a small covey that flew just before the pair Grady had. You can tell when the birds flew when Jake turned to look up hill.

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This last video was about twenty minutes long before I cut out all the falling and heavy breathing. I didn’t think anyone cared to see what the ground looked like under the snow or the sky looked like when I slid down the hill. But it was fun going down the steep slope to get a peak at this pair.

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These were about 1/3 of the video’s I took but the rest was unsalvagable. Most of the flushes were within shotgun range but in order to get the birds flushing I had to keep the zoom mormal. Just shows how much fun a guy can have on the mountain with his dogs.

Heading out now to a local spot for some hun chasing. The ground will be a little less steep.

Published by jakeandgrady

Hunting has been a favorite past time for me for 55 years but the last twenty five years I have been consumed by chukar hunting and more specifically chukar hunting with fantastic dogs. In this blog I hope to pass on any information I can about chukar hunting but more than anything I want to showcase what will probably be my last two chukar dogs, Jake and Grady. I am 70 years old, Jake is 8 and Grady is 3 and I'm hoping to stay on the chukar mountain until I am 80 when Grady will be fetching my final chukars.

4 thoughts on “A few more”

  3. Should have known a little snow wouldn’t stop you from tromping the hills. Being a winter wimp by spending two months in Arizona my bride and I then skipped to the Bahamas for a couple of weeks. Hard to kennel the dogs for two weeks though.

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  4. The warmth sounds great. I’m not a big fan of the snow and cold anymore. Luckily for me it was soft snow and the ground underneath was soft also. Obviously the dogs love it.

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