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A couple more pictures.
The first is a typical sight on the edge of one of the ranch roads. That buck would only be a shooter on the last day of a hunt if you were getting desperate, there are much nicer ones down there.
The second is South Texas puppy development. Those pups are about 10 weeks old. The older dog points a covey and the pups are cut loose off the truck to explore, find, flush and chase the birds.
The last picture is the hunt truck we were running the dogs off. There is a seat attached to the front bumper for the dog handler while someone else drives and the hunters ride up top. There are 4 dog boxes are under the hunters seats and the angled boxes near the back have leather gun scabbards inserted for the hunters firearms.
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That's a great way to give pups an opportunity to learn and to have an opportunity to enforce the older dog being steady no matter what's going on around him. Great idea.
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Jake,
i just got back from Kansas and we thought 4 coveys a day was great, sounds like Texas is the place.
Was hunting season for quail still opened in January?
dave
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I think the season goes to February 23rd down there.
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I was thinking about the snakes, now I see there's photo of one on FB.
So what about the snakes?
I was talking to some FT in an airport couple years ago, she told me they lose pups to snakes every year...
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There are snakes down there but they are hibernating at the moment. The one you saw on FB was a blue indigo that was about 7ft and he lived in the back yard. They are a predator of rattlers so they are good ones to have around. All the dogs get a snake vaccination when they get down there. By the end of the trip in February I think the snakes start to some back out but it has been several years since anyone has lost a dog on the ranch due to a snake.
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Has the Griffon been able to keep up with the pace of the other breeds?
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Very cool place indeed. Thanks for sharing.
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Where abouts in south Texas. My sister in law lives in Conroe about 30min north of Houston.
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The ranch is South of Corpus Christi.
Nothing can keep up with the pointers, but hunting quail in the south is what they were bred for so it's no surprise. The versatile breeds are all about the same with the exception being the GSP's. The Vizsla's can run with the pointers but don't share their bird finding ability.
