Fall 2009 UAD Hunt

Saying we all had so much fun last year with the UAD hunt lets get another one going! I have not pinpointed a date yet. I am thinking October saying things start to wind down after Ultimate Air Games in September. We have also decided to try and do maybe a fall hunt and a spring hunt. Saying the spring hunt was out east we were planning to do the fall hunt out here on the westside at Raging Rooster Preserve in Coopersville. Then have the spring hunt go back to the east side and such.

Here is the link for Raging Rooster as well:

http://www.raging-roosters.com/Welcome.html

So lets start a sign up and once again tell me what kind of dog you have so we know how we will need to split things up. Maybe if weather is permitting we can also do a cook out! :-)

Costs according to the website will be:


Pheasants: $19.00 per bird


Chukars: $12.00 per bird


With a total of a 10 bird minimum. So let me know what kind of birds you want and how many! :-)



1. Beth and Jeff DeVries- Not sure if we will have a dog ready or not. If so a pointer.-2 Pheasant

2. Jim Allen-Moose-GSP-6 Pheasant

3. John and Lynn Taylor-GSP-

4. Brian and Brian Butler- Sky and Star? Labs-

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Jim
Moose
6 pheasants

We're in as long as it's after the middle of October!

We'll bring Champ this time and hopefully have the "Woah" command completely down by then!!

Well I know the Ohio championships are the weekend of Oct. 3 and I have a show I am going to the following weekend. So it will be after that. :-)

I am sure we will be game. As long as it is in Mid-October or the middle of september.

Gus loves to chase birds but has never hunted before (nor have John and I). Is this for more experienced people/dog teams?

What kind of dog is Gus again? Sorry it is hard to remember! lol

What we did last year was split the pointing dogs into a group and the flushing dogs into a group an hunted that way. My biggest concern is always for the dogs. If a dog has never been shot over before I would be a bit concerned about letting them hunt but that is ultimatly your decision. And with bird hunting the dog isn't going to see the bird necisarily so if a dog likes to chase pigons or little tweedy birds they may not understand how to find game birds as they are going to be "barried" in cover like grass.

But of course new commers to the game of hunting are welcome. What John and Lynn did last year is come along to see how it all worked and then they got the "hunting bug" and want to keep doing it. If you want to try running your dog on some birds we can always do our best to assist you with that.

Here is my next question. Would Saturday or Sunday afternoons be best? My vote would be Sunday but I want to do what works best for most people.

Phoenix wrote:What kind of dog is Gus again? Sorry it is hard to remember! lol

What we did last year was split the pointing dogs into a group and the flushing dogs into a group an hunted that way. My biggest concern is always for the dogs. If a dog has never been shot over before I would be a bit concerned about letting them hunt but that is ultimatly your decision. And with bird hunting the dog isn't going to see the bird necisarily so if a dog likes to chase pigons or little tweedy birds they may not understand how to find game birds as they are going to be "barried" in cover like grass.

But of course new commers to the game of hunting are welcome. What John and Lynn did last year is come along to see how it all worked and then they got the "hunting bug" and want to keep doing it. If you want to try running your dog on some birds we can always do our best to assist you with that.

Here is my next question. Would Saturday or Sunday afternoons be best? My vote would be Sunday but I want to do what works best for most people.

Saturday!

either is fine

No problem, there are lots of dogs out there! Gus is a GSP. Either day is fine with us (depending on the weekend chosen).

Is anyone still interested in doing a hunt this fall? If so I can get us a pretty good deal on a European tower hunt where we would have the use of the whole facility from Dawn to Dusk. And with as nice as it has been lately there are lots of Extra birds at the preserve right now. We are going out and seeing at least 15-20 birds on 3 bird hunts.

If so I can easily get something set up for the first or Second week of December on a Saturday or Sunday. Everyone is able to bring there dogs as we have would be utilizing a 160 acre field that has Corn, wheat, and switch grass growing throughout it. The day would also include a catered lunch if we wanted to do the European hunt and then we have the rest of the day to hunt as much as we want.

For something like this we would need 8-20 people and it would be anywhere from 5-10 birds a person depending on how many people would be interested.

Anyway it is just still an option if anyone would be interested.

Sorry guys the fall kind of got away from me.

Brian-
How much would it cost to do a hunt like this? Thanks for being willing to help out.

A Sunday would probably work best for us (if it's the first or 2nd weekend in December). I think Gus would have a blast.

I am curious about the cost as well.

Thanks!

We would be interested if it is done in Nov. Doug is leaving on Dec. 1 for the month. either Sat or Sun would be okay for us. How about Thanksgiving weekend????

John & I don't have any plans for Thanksgiving weekend, so that would work for us.

We're heading on vacation (assuming Champ is ok) the week of Thanksgiving so we're out for then. If you end up doing it in December, we're in!