fatrap
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Rob
What kind of birds you hunting this weekend? Take your camera. Please
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What kind of birds you hunting this weekend? Take your camera. Please
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Bill McElroy
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Rob shoots tweety birds off of bird feeders in the front yard of his neighbors!!.....He just "guides" the shooters into position,...ala "beeee veerrrwwwyyyyy quiet,...sneak up behind dat twuck and BWAST'em!!!"..hhhhahhhh...eh..he...he....Elmer WuhMoy
hey I taut I taw a mackelroy! I did, I did taw a mackelroy, bad ole mackelroy!
Actually fatrap, I'm guiding for grouse and woodcock. But if the clients are the type that don't wingshoot often and can't hit much I will always take them to the state land where the released phesants are. If they can't hit THOSE, it's time to go to the skeet range! LOL I always carry a camera in the field for pics to use for advertising and to send to clients. It's a good little extra thing that makes my service stand out from ones that people like Mac might normally set up! LOL But I don't usually use the whole role for a few weeks. Don't worry, once developed, I'll post some if you like.
Actually fatrap, I'm guiding for grouse and woodcock. But if the clients are the type that don't wingshoot often and can't hit much I will always take them to the state land where the released phesants are. If they can't hit THOSE, it's time to go to the skeet range! LOL I always carry a camera in the field for pics to use for advertising and to send to clients. It's a good little extra thing that makes my service stand out from ones that people like Mac might normally set up! LOL But I don't usually use the whole role for a few weeks. Don't worry, once developed, I'll post some if you like.
Bill McElroy
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We don't need guides here,...we've got birds out the ying-yang here.....even better than the fishin'!! ahahahaha
fatrap
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Mac and where is that?
Yeah Rob I'd love to see some. Woodcock are real seasonal here and I don't even shoot(at) them anymore since I tried to eat some a few year back
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Yeah Rob I'd love to see some. Woodcock are real seasonal here and I don't even shoot(at) them anymore since I tried to eat some a few year back
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Scott Hammer TOXIC
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And Rob, don't go shootin' the head off some defenceless pigeon and callin' it a game bird to some unsuspecting client!! NO SQUAB!!
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Man Mac, you ought to warn me before doing that so I don't ruin my shoes! Anything NOT better in MI???? LOL
Fatrap, I hear ya, it's definately an acquired taste. Very gamey little bird but then again all they do is waddle around eating bugs and junk off the ground so what can you expect.
And Toxic! I actually use pigeons to train my dogs, they're perfect. They hold scent (nasty I might add) very well, and flush much like a game bird and best of all are FREE! I trap them at the local barns at night. To buy training birds like phesants is $10 a bird. That gets expensive quick with a thick headed puppy! But half my clients wouldn't know the difference anyway! kidding, mostly they're doctors, lawyers, CPA's business owners, realtors and the likes for NYC and long island, NJ, etc. But I honestly had a client one time that couldn't tell the difference. True story, we were 3 wide pushing the swail grass, about waist deep trying to force the phesants to the end where they would eventually flush giving us shots. Phesant will run all day if they can and don't have to fly. So there we were when all the sudden up pops a bird. All guns go to shoulders and the bird opens up a 6 foot wingspan.....dang, a red hawk. I put the gun down and all the sudden I hear BOOM, and look the BIRD of PREY, ENDANGERED SPECIES, FEDERALLY PROTECTED hawk folds and drops. I look to my left at this idiot grinning ear to ear and he realizes that I AND his companion are glaring at him. "WHAT? I got a gross! Right, they're called gross?"
"NO, I yelled it's called GROUSE and NO they don't have a 6 foot wingspan you moron! THAT was an endangered hawk with a $10k fine!" I buried the poor bird and promptly ended the hunt. I brought by a grouse the following day to the lodge and told him "THIS is a grouse. Learn it!" You get all kinds when guiding! I have since turned the guy down for a second trip.
Fatrap, I hear ya, it's definately an acquired taste. Very gamey little bird but then again all they do is waddle around eating bugs and junk off the ground so what can you expect.
And Toxic! I actually use pigeons to train my dogs, they're perfect. They hold scent (nasty I might add) very well, and flush much like a game bird and best of all are FREE! I trap them at the local barns at night. To buy training birds like phesants is $10 a bird. That gets expensive quick with a thick headed puppy! But half my clients wouldn't know the difference anyway! kidding, mostly they're doctors, lawyers, CPA's business owners, realtors and the likes for NYC and long island, NJ, etc. But I honestly had a client one time that couldn't tell the difference. True story, we were 3 wide pushing the swail grass, about waist deep trying to force the phesants to the end where they would eventually flush giving us shots. Phesant will run all day if they can and don't have to fly. So there we were when all the sudden up pops a bird. All guns go to shoulders and the bird opens up a 6 foot wingspan.....dang, a red hawk. I put the gun down and all the sudden I hear BOOM, and look the BIRD of PREY, ENDANGERED SPECIES, FEDERALLY PROTECTED hawk folds and drops. I look to my left at this idiot grinning ear to ear and he realizes that I AND his companion are glaring at him. "WHAT? I got a gross! Right, they're called gross?"
"NO, I yelled it's called GROUSE and NO they don't have a 6 foot wingspan you moron! THAT was an endangered hawk with a $10k fine!" I buried the poor bird and promptly ended the hunt. I brought by a grouse the following day to the lodge and told him "THIS is a grouse. Learn it!" You get all kinds when guiding! I have since turned the guy down for a second trip.
fatrap
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The late Al Easson was a Texas guide and he once told the story about a client and his boy in the boat. It was evening and the boy was making an owl noise and waving a crankbait around in the air on the end of his fishing rod. An owl swooped in and grabbed the crankbait and got hooked. The whole mess ended up in the bottom of the boat flopping, crawling, and biting. End of trip.
To hear him tell the story was hilarious. I believe he wrote a book on his mis-adventures as a fishing guide.
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To hear him tell the story was hilarious. I believe he wrote a book on his mis-adventures as a fishing guide.
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Scott Hammer TOXIC
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Yeah, you get some guys behind the sight of a gun and it becomes "If it flies, it dies" type of shoot. My dad used to use me to flush birds when I was small and I'll never forget the day when we were walking a thicket fence line and a bird flushed from the top of the thicket.....my dad wheeled and shot instinctively and all i saw was a white explosion of feathers. He shot a chicken. I laughed so hard I couldn't walk. We did have chicken for dinner.
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fatrap
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A chicken? Lord! I would have lost it too. I bet he never lived it down.
Had another friend who shot morning larks. He thought they were quail. Wondered why everyone told him quail were delicious.
I had a former friend who shot a pheasant off the front steps of a farmer's house. The farmer wasn't home but the shot peppered the steps and some siding. My exfriend's comment was that the farmer wouldn't know who did it. This was 35 years ago and I never hunted with him again.
You all are right some people are nuts. Guides get the money they get because they deserve it and more.
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Had another friend who shot morning larks. He thought they were quail. Wondered why everyone told him quail were delicious.
I had a former friend who shot a pheasant off the front steps of a farmer's house. The farmer wasn't home but the shot peppered the steps and some siding. My exfriend's comment was that the farmer wouldn't know who did it. This was 35 years ago and I never hunted with him again.
You all are right some people are nuts. Guides get the money they get because they deserve it and more.
fatrap
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