Califelkslayer
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I've been hunting chukar for 17 years and 25+ times a year for the last 4 or 5. Have you die-hard chukar fanatics experenced this?
My GWP has, probably a dozen times in the last 3 years, winded coveys from 300-400 yards. An example is last Saturday. We were headed to the truck bout a mile away. She was tired and had been basically hunting straight towards the truck for the last 3/4 mile. She turned into the wind without a hint of being birdy. I've learned the hard way to follow. After about 200 yards, she put her nose up a couple of time and I knew from experence that she was on birds but that they were a ways away. the next 100-150 yards, she checked me everytime she got to a dropoff and waited til I caught up. The last 100 yards she was having trouble on their exact location cause she tossed back and forth but slowed way down, waiting for me. The wind was bout 8-12 miles an hour and shifted depending on where you were on the hill. Finally she nailed them and the covey only had 7 birds in it. They hadn't run cause they were in a little south facing cut out of the wind with pretty high brush and the covey was scattered, not like when they've been pushed plus they had to be flushed instead of flushing when I topped out above them. Another example was hunting in a blazzard last year, she got birdy for at least 400 yards into the storm. When the covey flushed, there were no tracks in the snow. They had been holed up in tall brush, waiting the storm out I guess.
Just wanted to know if this is usual for dogs that have alot of experence on chukar.
My GWP has, probably a dozen times in the last 3 years, winded coveys from 300-400 yards. An example is last Saturday. We were headed to the truck bout a mile away. She was tired and had been basically hunting straight towards the truck for the last 3/4 mile. She turned into the wind without a hint of being birdy. I've learned the hard way to follow. After about 200 yards, she put her nose up a couple of time and I knew from experence that she was on birds but that they were a ways away. the next 100-150 yards, she checked me everytime she got to a dropoff and waited til I caught up. The last 100 yards she was having trouble on their exact location cause she tossed back and forth but slowed way down, waiting for me. The wind was bout 8-12 miles an hour and shifted depending on where you were on the hill. Finally she nailed them and the covey only had 7 birds in it. They hadn't run cause they were in a little south facing cut out of the wind with pretty high brush and the covey was scattered, not like when they've been pushed plus they had to be flushed instead of flushing when I topped out above them. Another example was hunting in a blazzard last year, she got birdy for at least 400 yards into the storm. When the covey flushed, there were no tracks in the snow. They had been holed up in tall brush, waiting the storm out I guess.
Just wanted to know if this is usual for dogs that have alot of experence on chukar.