The Fourth SeasonKaren and I wanted to let you know that we had a wonderful time on our trips this year. We made our first trip to Missouri to bird hunt and took our 7-year-old son Josh along. We didn’t have great weather, but enjoyed introducing Josh to wild bird hunting. Josh “claimed” more birds with his BB-gun than both of us combined.
We met a fellow club member our last day in Missouri and then ended up running into Bill again when we returned for our Kansas trip after taking Josh back home. We had already found 2 coveys and teamed up with Bill to find 3 more coveys and take a few roosters to be off to a good start for the Kansas trip. We enjoyed our first venture out to a completely new area of the state.
After we got to our usual destination and started hunting, we found some coveys in the same fields as previous years. We also added a large number of new coveys to our notes for future reference. For really the first time since we started in 1999, we were consistently finding multiple coveys on individual properties. We found multiple coveys on 8 different sections and we only count them as a separate covey if we felt sure there was no way the second covey could have been related to the first covey. We joined up with couple fellow club members from WV on a few of the days. We were able to split up on a single piece of property and both groups find coveys.
Overall, we set personal records of 30 coveys in our 6-day hunt and matched our single day covey count of 7 twice. By far, we saw more birds this year than any year since joining the club. That said, we are already planning for next year!
(We will have to wait and send a picture from the Missouri hunt with Josh because our scanner is broken and the Missouri pictures weren't taken with the digital camera.)
Thanks again for allowing us this unique hunting opportunity!
John and Karen |
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