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Do you need an apprentice?Maybe I should knock at the neighbors, see if anyone’s available to party
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Hope I don’t scratch anything
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. I need someone who knows what they’re doing.
It appears you're doing something rightI am the apprentice. All hat, no cowboy
8’ from a mtn lion?!? What size was it? Are your dogs trained for any kind of hunting, i know they are good bird dogs? My 40lb terrier decided he wanted to taste Coyote blood Sunday and he got his wish. He quickly found that 4 vs 1 isnt a very fair fight and ended up with a trip to the doggy hospital. Makes me ponder what instinct he was operating on (Protection/hunting/just being a bully in general) and if he’d do the same with a cat. I sure hope he’d have the sense to know better. Glad no harm to you or the pups.Non-tech, non-cruiser post.
Boring pic of one of our summer ponds. Good to see the water, we need it (you can see my 40 off in the distance to the right).
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About two minutes after I took this pic my Brittanys pointed up a mountain lion. I was about 8ft away. Fortunately it wasn’t aggressive and took off after a bit of bird shot incentive. A bit close for this Boy Scout
, but I’ve never been close enough to one to know the difference. Dogs were looking for upland birds, that’s their wheelhouse. I was back about 50yds when their collars started to beep, which means they’re no longer moving and on point. When I caught up to them about 30secs later I expected quail to bust out of the big bush they were pointing on, but instead when I looked down below us the cat was slowly moving down the ephemeral creek bottom, 8’ or so below us. It stopped, looking and facing away from us, both dogs watching but still pointing. I’ve had them point up porcupine, badger and stray house cats this same way. Even a small black bear a few years ago. So far no rattlesnakes. That’s why I carry my 357 with a couple of snake/bird shot rounds when I’m not actually bird hunting with a 12ga shotgun.
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