HUNTING/SHOOTING PAGE

I enjoy hunting and shooting. Hunting season only comes around once a year, so it is a special time and cannot be missed. Waterfowl starts in autumn. Grouse, rabbit, and archery season start in early fall, then there is firearm deer season, then after that archery deer season opens again and ends on New Years Day. I do not go hunting all the time, but I do enjoy getting outdoors when I can.

Update: Currently I'm the Archery and Rifle Instructor at MTU (while finishing my engineering degree). Maybe I'll put up some videos and pics soon:)

HEY, I'll be redesigning this page before long. It will be easier to look through, and will have more hunting and shooting action. Thanks for your patience.

For those of you who love hunting birds and rabbit with dogs, there will be more in the future. I have a dog that is fantastic on pheasant, good on grouse and quail. He likes rabbit and I am working on teaching him the subtleties of hunting the elusive hare.

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Here are some hunting/shooting pictures (click on videos available on bottom of this page):

This is a picture of me and Sadie with one of my hunting buddies and his Chesapeake . Sadie was just a pup, so I kept all hunting trips light and fun for her. She really liked working with me and was a easy dog to teach. She lacked a little on drive, but was just fine on handling. When we were in the woods hunting, her obedience was nearly perfect. She became a bit spoiled and sassy later on, but she was always a good dog. Sadie was never my dog, I just trained her some basic hunting obedience for a friend of mine.

See more of Sadie on the Dog Page

I had a lot of fun hunting with Sadie. We bagged several grouse together. I brought my camera for one of the hunts, and I have some footage of the woods we were hunting in and of Sadie working the grouse. I would have never recovered that bird without Sadie. I thought the bird was in another place altogether, but she could smell it, and she went right near it. When I saw where she was sniffing, I couldn't believe my eyes, there was that grouse, laying under a tree. Try to find it in the video before Sadie does. I don't think that any more than 1 in 100 of you who view this will spot that grouse before Sadie gets it.

See quicktime movie of Sadie with her first wild grouse. Sadie and a grouse

Currently I have a German Shorthaired pup. Talk about birdy, Max is a pro. He was pointing Grouse solid at just 13 weeks of age. I've seen Max do things while pheasant hunting I didn't think was possible. As good as Max is bird hunting, I've noticed a pattern in the field with him. If I bag game, he is the most cooperative dog you could imagine, quickly finding birds and bringing them to hand, listening intently for and following my every command. However I have also witnessed if I don't bag game, he eventually turns a deaf ear to my "requests" for obedience and has frustrated me more than once. I've seen this in the past with another shorthair. Fantastic bird dog, but you better be committed to finding and getting a few birds if you want to have a good relationship with a good bird dog.

Max has an interesting personality. He loves every person and every dog he meets. He also is something of an attractive dog given the response he gets when we go for walks. I've had ladies stop their vehicles on city streets just to compliment his good looks. It is not uncommon to see an old bird hunter with a big grin having a "chat" with Max near my car. And the looks he gets from adults and children alike are indescribable.

See my hunting dog Max

Here is a picture of Max with a snowshoe hare that he got for me.

Rabbit season is finished right now, on to bird training again. If you want to see more footage of Max hunting, just make a donation thru paypal

to buy him some birds and I'll put some video of him hunting them up. Just let me know that is what you made the donation for by typing into the "payment for" field.

Here is another picture of Max with a Hare

Deer camp. (We all got venison that year, just no 30 point bucks :) One of my buddies is a police special forces sniper. Below is a picture of me in prone position with his sniper rifle. We wanted to do some shooting, so he set up a tennis ball at 206 yards. I took one shot at it, you can see the results in the next picture.

That little black dot on the Tennis ball is where the bullet entered the tennis ball. I’m definitely impressed with the guns ability to hit a mark.

Videos

Been a little busy, intend on getting some more footage up on the web soon....

Used milk jugs can make a great target. Fill the milk jug full of water, and well the results can be seen in the video.. milkjg (note: The bullet hits the milk jug during the first couple seconds of the film. If you don’t see the very beginning of the film, you probably missed the shot). The gun I used for that was a Savage 7mm Rem-Mag, and the projectile was an 140 grain nosler ballistic tip.

Sadie and Grouse (same as above) Sadie and the Grouse

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