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A collection of the best flushes I captured while hunting wild bobwhite in the 16-17 season. Increasing your video quality settings when viewing makes seeing the birds easier. My favorites are the huge covey at 0:13 and the feathers floating at 2:00 .
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I normally edit a lot of the approach out of my videos but I left this one entirely intact from when I turned my camera on to when I shut it off. This video shows the entire process as well as any I’ve captured in a long time. Plus, it’s Dot who I love. She’s such a sweetheart and deadly on bobwhite. I hope you enjoy this clip as much as I enjoyed filming it.
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It’s been tough hunting this past week. This covey find by Ellie Mae and Maddie is fairly typical of what I’ve been seeing. The birds don’t leave much scent and move off the points when the dogs do find them making them extremely hard to get close to, and therefore, hard to get decent video. Despite the less than stellar dog/bird action in this video Aidan’s reaction to his banded/collared bird is pretty neat.
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Dot has gotten progressively weaker as the season has passed. I have to only take her on really short walks as she has virtually no stamina. Despite her limits she almost always finds birds.
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You don’t see much of her in the clip but my Ellie Mae found these birds in some thick thistles after we had walked past them. She’s an old hand and not much escapes her. The clip is also neat because I wasn’t the only one wearing a camera. Listen to the birds flush in the clip Dave captured. They make quite the racket coming out of the thick brush.
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A hunt for association and research between Quail Forever Forever and the Wildlife Conservation Department of Oklahoma in three Ríos WMA and Honobia WMA.
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This is my second effort at this video. Ellie, Dot and I had a wonderful afternoon. Ellie pointed a tight-holding covey right out of the truck (I missed). She then nailed a single (I did not miss). Dot then bumped our second covey but helped Ellie with a single on covey number three. This is my first video of Dot on wild birds and I know the last clip isn’t very good but it I want to remember her.
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Ellie Mae found this covey on some OLAP (Oklahoma Landowner Access Program) property. They were tucked way back in an old wind-break tree row and held super tight on the point. It was a quiet afternoon and you can really hear the birds flush in the video. I’m disappointed with the video because in real life this was a really neat point/flush. I could see Ellie much better and could also see the birds on the ground before the hard flush. Too bad real life doesn’t always translate to video well. Anyway I told Allen I’d post a video of me missing so here it is…
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In late 2017 I captured this covey of Oklahoma bobwhite wildly flushing from a large plum thicket.
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She’s hard to see through the sumac but that’s my Ellie Mae (Elton John when she’s a rock star like in this video) making the find on a sneaky covey of wild bobwhite hiding alongside a draw wall. I called it the Bomb Covey because when these birds came out of that bush it sounded like a bomb going off! Ellie was joined by Brent’s pointer Maddie and Will’s wirehair Etta and Baer. So many cool dogs so little time.
There’s a bit of NSFW language in the video so beware. I started to edit it out but ultimately decided that the covey flush is, in fact, ****** cool! Will from Tennessee sure seemed to think it was alright.
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I’ve seen, and participated in, numerous discussions on various platforms about which hunting breed is the “best”. These mostly devolve into ugly name calling which serves as proof that dogs of all breeds are better than us humans. I have my own favorite breed but I don’t allow that to keep me from enjoying as many of the other breeds as possible. I offer this collection simply as a celebration of the dogs I’ve been lucky enough to hunt behind in the last five years. It is not exhaustive as I didn’t capture good video or photos of every wonderful dog. I’ve hunted behind so many… pointers, setters, brittanies, pointers, vizslas, weimaraners, American water spaniels, cockers, pudelpointers and labrador retrievers are the ones I can remember. Some are still hunting others have passed. I hope you enjoy the ones I was able to include.
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Ellie Mae found this covey on a windy day in December 2019.
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Ben’s little Brittany Cali found these birds on a frosty February morning in 2021.
The Tuesday before this clip (really all these frost clips) were taken we had freezing fog. This hunt was that following Thursday and the frost on the tops of the sage hadn’t melted making for a surreal landscape unlike anything I can recall in past years. The sun was out and the temperatures were in the high 20’s with only a light breeze making for a wonderful day of hunting. The big arctic blast that pushed temperatures down near 0 didn’t set in here until late the next day.
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Eric and I had a wonderful day chasing bobwhite in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Eric’s Wirehair, ,Heidi, pointed this beautiful covey of wild bobwhite in a large sand plum thicket. The normal covey size in this are is 8-12 birds. I haven’t counted but I’m pretty sure 25 birds got up on this flush. Too bad I’d forgotten to load my gun!
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Good sport Allen missed this layup shot twice after Ellie Mae stuck this single wild bobwhite on a grey afternoon in December 2020. He redeemed himself the next day (a bit).
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Dot found this covey of public land birds near a big stack of wood where they are doing some brush mitigation work. Her health has dramatically decreased her stamina and energy. She gets short walks exclusively now. I’m thankful she’s still able to hunt and she certainly finds her share of birds.
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