A windy day in the Mearns hills..

Here are a few pics I took yesterday out in the Mearns hills.. It was a horrible morning for getting out in the hills, but still better than being at work!! The wind was FIERCE, it was extremely dry with NO humidity in the air for the mutts to find any scent, and it was just plain dusty!! But, we went anyways.. it was just the family on this hunt... the Wifey and I with the kiddos out for the day to get out and get some dirt on my brand new pickup, and find a covey or 2 of birdies for the pups... We only ended up with 3 coveys by lunch and 2 birds to show for it (my POOR shooting!), and we decided that was good enough and to call it a day.. Each dog had one covey find of their own and I stumbled into one..
We still had a great morning hunt in spite of the adverse conditions!

Here I am walking in on the first covey of the day..


Here is Penny with a hard won bird.. She pointed this covey solo, and on the rise, I barely managed to get a pellet into this bird.. I watched him go down, but I could tell he was barely hit.. Penny stayed on the trail of this bird till she caught him halfway back up the side of the slope! She caught up with him, and brought him back to hand! I was so proud of her, and the bird was so flawless, that I decided to keep him for a mount.. wife was really proud of her little girl!!


What a beautiful bird... my all time favorite game bird.


And here is Virgil's covey find of the day with Penny backing and your's truely walking in..


I snapped this quick shot of these Coues deer does after we woke them up from their mid day nap..


thanks for lookin' guys!!

Awesome! Penny looks so pleased w/her bird. They are very pretty, BTW. Post pics when you get it back. I think bird mounts always end up looking so cool.

Cool....looks like fun. Are you sure you want to give that up and move up north? Of course, it's pretty fun up there too.