Ready for a Road Trip

I have spent the last few weeks staying really close to home, as my wife and I have two new little ones to look after. I have been able to sneak out with the dogs for a few hours at a time to get them some exercise, and maybe bag a few birds while we are at it. This has resulted in some surprisingly good days of hunting close to home, and also some days that were not so good. It’s no big deal either way, as the expectation isn’t very high. If the dogs get to run for a couple of hours and we can score some birds in the process, that is a good day. With that said, I am ready for a little bit of road time. I am not sure when this is going to happen, but I have a four day weekend coming up, so maybe it will happen soon…..

Below is a picture of Cash on point in the rocks. For some reason these Chukar wanted to be right in the middle of a fresh burn, despite the fact that there was good habitat in all directions surrounding the burn. This burn looked like the moon. For the life of me I couldn’t figure out why they wanted to be there, as there certainly appeared to be much better options close by, but they did. Most chukar hunters will read this and assume that maybe the birds were there because there was green up in the burn. That’s the first question that I would ask. Chukar hunters know that desert game birds are obsessed by fresh green sprouts of grass. There was no green grass though, so who knows why, but them. Regardless that is where they were, and it was a challenge getting close to them.
Jay