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A little bit of pre-tune up skeet shooting today in Bandera

A little bit of pre-tune up skeet shooting today in Bandera

I went over to Bandera today for a couple of rounds of skeet and I did it again. I was off to a slow start because I have not had the shotgun out since the great Oklahoma Pheasant Shoot in February. I came home from that trip and clean up my gun and gear and […]

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There are snakes in them there fields.

There are snakes in them there fields.

Well, good news and bad news, I received an email from a friend in Cross Plains, Texas this week with a picture, above, of a nice long copperhead snake. There are a lot of snakes this year according to my friend and he trains dogs so he is our among them more than most people. […]

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100 Years Ago This Week – WWI Commenced

100 Years Ago This Week – WWI Commenced

I have been reading several speculations on why WWI got started and how it could have and should have been avoided if only cousins who were the Monarchs of Europe could have just communicated a bit better and just gotten along with each other. Of course that is all mostly a bunch of bull because […]

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A very good question:  Do you put salt on melons?

A very good question: Do you put salt on melons?

Mary and I get into this discussion every year when cantaloupe come into season and begin to ripen. I don’t see any point in eating these delicious melons unless they have a reasonable coating of salt, preferably Kosher salt sprinkled over them. The same goes for watermelon only more so, I would always slip a […]

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Bluff Creek Farm Gathering of the High Plains Shooters – Saturday, August 16

Bluff Creek Farm Gathering of the High Plains Shooters – Saturday, August 16

We will gather at the creek, Bluff Creek on Saturday the 17th of August to do a little bit of shooting and tune up for the 2014 Dove Day Hunt on September 6 in Brownwood. Keith has bunk space for lots of guys and Bluff Creek Farm out of Crawford is an easy day trip […]

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Trying to decide if I want to start a new hunting dog.   (Not my dog in photo, one of Dave’s other Brittanys.)

Trying to decide if I want to start a new hunting dog. (Not my dog in photo, one of Dave’s other Brittanys.)

In 2001 I got a great little Brittany dog from breeder David Jones at Chief’s Brittanys in Cross Plains Texas. Mary and I picked our dog, who we named Happy, up when he was seven weeks old and I got off to kind of a rough start with him because I had some major surgery […]

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Electric Skeet Thrower at Bluff Creek Farm for August Tune Up

Electric Skeet Thrower at Bluff Creek Farm for August Tune Up

I spoke to Larry Bedinghaus yesterday and his brother Ron who lives in the Austin area has purchased one those nifty electric skeet throwers that we can use for the August Dove tune up. Electric throwers can load about 30 clay pigeons and they run on 12 volt batteries and can be set out so […]

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Quail are Fun to Shoot But 300 Live Quail are Smelly in a RAV4.

Quail are Fun to Shoot But 300 Live Quail are Smelly in a RAV4.

About 13 years ago I purchased a nice little Brittany and named him Happy and I trained him to hunt. Over time, and because he was a great dog and not because I was a good trainer he became and incredible bird dog, he could find the birds, freeze on point and when the bird […]

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It’s not too early to start shopping for Dove Day shotgun shells.

It’s not too early to start shopping for Dove Day shotgun shells.

Question, does it make much difference what kind of shells you use in your shotgun? Answer, yes it does make a little bit of difference and a little bit of improvement over four boxes of shells could mean a 20% increase in the number of doves your bring down. What this means to me is […]

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I have a few Doves left to Bacon Wrap and Grill this Week.

I have a few Doves left to Bacon Wrap and Grill this Week.

I was recently visiting a fellow dove hunter and he shared some some game with me that included a few doves. Now I need to gently thaw them out, take the breast meat off of the bone, brine them and stuff them with fresh chopped jalapeƱos, wrap them in bacon and grill them fast and […]

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