Took a break and stayed closer to home on some lower country hungarian partridge. Nothing overly exciting but I like to show off the boys anyhow. This first video is the old boy, Jake, showing that he can still do it without Grady’s help.
Lots of bouncing around in these video’s because if I look through the view finder I’d surely trip over the rocks and I’m to blind to see the larger view screen. So I just point and hope I have the dogs on the camera. Here, Grady has a pair trapped in between us.
This last video took over 8 minutes from the time I first saw Grady on point and when the birds flushed. It shows how we work as a team with relocating to let me know where the birds were. They actually flushed at about thirty yards but the camera makes it look like they were way out there.
The huns are pretty much paired up. We’re looking forwards to getting back up on the chukar mountain.
The Reigning Chukar Champions 
Snow in patches will stretch soil moisture without stress to Huns and chukars I presume. Huns live in more sane terrain for sure. (Somehow I guess my name is anonymous now instead of Greg)
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For what it’s worth, the same happened here. WordPress required me to subscribe again (even though am getting the subscription emails), and still didn’t show my name when I commented. Now, it’s offering to let me login again. I’ll try that and see if my name shows up.
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Greg, I always know who you are. I still try and keep up with you and only hope I can do as well as you when I get your age. I’ll never catch up to you on the age part and I’m trying hard on the physical side by might never make it if I keep having those silly accidents.
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It’s a treat to watch the dogs left alone to manage the birds.
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Hey, my name shows up now. See above.
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But every time I replied, ask me to subscribe again. I hate computers.
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benvoris. I do to. It’s the reason I get most comments through texts. I believe I could have some good conversations and a lot more people would be posting pictures if they didn’t complicate things. I had some great go pro video’s a couple of years ago but they got too complicated with some kind of cloud stuff and I decided just to get by with what I got. The main thing is keep commenting because there is nothing like a happy chukar hunter.
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Here in Oregon it is illegal to run our dogs on game birds from Feb 1 thru the end of August
I’m surprised that’s not a violation.
My grandfather would’ve tore my behind up for it
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But I do see it’s legal in idaho .
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I’ve been chasing birds in the Spring for over thirty years and have never seen any kind of detriment to the chukars and huns. I usually stop about Apr. 15 but not because it’s hard on the birds but because you can’t fine them. Mother Nature has a way of protecting wild animals. A good example is the number of quail that seem to survive in those rural area where there are loads of wild domestic cats running around. If I thought that being out with my dogs in the Spring hurt the bird populations I wouldn’t be out there. There is nothing I enjoy more than hunting chukars.
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I did just read that Oregon had lifted the rule of running hunting dogs from April to July during the nesting season in December of 2023. Not saying that I am right. We all should do what we believe is ethical as long as we stay within the law.
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