The Golden Years of the best chukar dogs on the mountain.
I had an abbreviated season this year with only 44 chukar hunts. Most would relish at that. It was still a wonderful season with great numbers of birds. The dogs did wonderful and for the most part my shooting was above par. I did a lot of hobbling along towards the end of the season but still it was a year filled with great memories.
Enjoy.
Hunting has been a favorite past time for me for 55 years but the last twenty five years I have been consumed by chukar hunting and more specifically chukar hunting with fantastic dogs. In this blog I hope to pass on any information I can about chukar hunting but more than anything I want to showcase what will probably be my last two chukar dogs, Jake and Grady. I am 70 years old, Jake is 8 and Grady is 3 and I'm hoping to stay on the chukar mountain until I am 80 when Grady will be fetching my final chukars. View more posts
The Reigning Chukar Champions
Loved it! I’ve got to slow down and start taking more pix! That was a great video!
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Thank you Larry for the compilation you do an amazing job taking pictures and video considering the difficulty of Chukar hunting!
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Nice photos! 44 hunts is a bunch, especially considering the health challenges you worked with! I will have less than that and my wife thinks Iâm hunting all the timeð
Last day of quail season here today. Plan to go for a short hunt, #20 since 1/16. Iâll get to go right out the door of the camper. Pretty country here.
Hope you heal up quickly!
Larry
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Thanks Erik. I didn’t start packing the camera until about twenty years ago and I don’t think it affected my bird take at all. In fact it may of helped. It slows me down and also takes time to let the dogs, birds and me calm down some.
Thank you Wayne.
Larry, I can live with 44 but would be more happy with the 61 that I have averaged over the past thirty years. I was planning on trying that Arizona hunt this year but would have been hurting as much there as here. It’s better sleeping in my comfortable bed at home and soaking in a warm bath at night here. Hope your stay in Arizona was successful along with the fun you must have had.
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I hate to admit it, but I didn’t do a single dedicated chukar hunt this year. My 2022 season recap may explain why:
https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-2022-season.html
Funny thing is, as soon as the season was over here, I ran into the goose hunting (I jump shoot geese, perhaps the only person in the region to do so) constantly. It drove the dog crazy. I figure the Arctic weather drove them down to the river. I’d hunt chukar’s any day over geese, just as I hunt geese any day over ducks. Oh well.
Here’s to 2023!
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Nice post and yes, let’s go hard in 2023.
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