Wally Dog
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My partner's take on the weekend.
Spectacular weekend in Orofino with Paul. We were blessed with good weather the entire time even though it was wet and windy in many other NW areas. We hunted out of Paul's blind on private land and Paul did the calling. I used my “Larry Lombard” autograph model blackpowder 12 ga. For the first time. My bird came in about 2:00 PM on Saturday and was smoked at 27 paces. Nice 3 year-year old — 9” beard, spurs starting to get sharp and 19 Lbs. after field dressing.
We returned to the blind yesterday morning only to find the birds had roosted literally above the blind. We were a little late getting in. They saw us and flew off while we were getting set up and performing other, uh, necessary morning functions. They evidently forgot about it though because Paul got them gobbling individually, then in unison, less than an hour later. Five longbeards came to the decoys in full strut at 15 yards (!!!) and Paul tipped over a nice 2 year-old with a very bushy beard about 7:00. Things happened a bit too fast and a shotgun instead of a camera occupied the window on that side of the blind… so no photo of the birds except for the ones in our minds’ eye. It was an incredible scene.
Spectacular weekend in Orofino with Paul. We were blessed with good weather the entire time even though it was wet and windy in many other NW areas. We hunted out of Paul's blind on private land and Paul did the calling. I used my “Larry Lombard” autograph model blackpowder 12 ga. For the first time. My bird came in about 2:00 PM on Saturday and was smoked at 27 paces. Nice 3 year-year old — 9” beard, spurs starting to get sharp and 19 Lbs. after field dressing.
We returned to the blind yesterday morning only to find the birds had roosted literally above the blind. We were a little late getting in. They saw us and flew off while we were getting set up and performing other, uh, necessary morning functions. They evidently forgot about it though because Paul got them gobbling individually, then in unison, less than an hour later. Five longbeards came to the decoys in full strut at 15 yards (!!!) and Paul tipped over a nice 2 year-old with a very bushy beard about 7:00. Things happened a bit too fast and a shotgun instead of a camera occupied the window on that side of the blind… so no photo of the birds except for the ones in our minds’ eye. It was an incredible scene.
