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11-07-2009, 11:23 PM
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Michiganiac
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I was hoping to go up Thursday and get my pup. I found out he's still being pimped out so maybe Saturday. Deer hunter just love bird hunter running their area day before season!
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11-08-2009, 05:44 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Lansing, MI
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Originally Posted by Worm Dunker
Deer hunter just love bird hunter running their area day before season!
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I'll be doing both!
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11-08-2009, 07:58 AM
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Pointer Guy!
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Dimondale, near Lansing
Posts: 2,098
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Originally Posted by k9wernet
I'll be doing both!
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There's an excellent chance that I'll be out there with bird shot and dogs on 11/14 too.
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11-08-2009, 08:46 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: West Michigan
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Originally Posted by Worm Dunker
I was hoping to go up Thursday and get my pup. I found out he's still being pimped out so maybe Saturday. Deer hunter just love bird hunter running their area day before season!
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It's our woods too. Tough luck, I say.
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11-08-2009, 08:31 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Riverview
Posts: 3,278
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Originally Posted by jimmyjette14
headed up in the morning , I put a tracker on fieldwalkers ride , will mark all his spots and sell them on ebay  |
I think somebody already did... 
I wasn't planning on heading up next weekend... but I think I may have to... and redeem myself after this past weekend.
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11-09-2009, 12:16 AM
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Michigan Sportsman
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Hi-Line, Montana
Posts: 5,155
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Hope everyone did well. I tried to hunt Saturday and almost died doing it. Been really sick. Thought I could get out for a light hunt but even that wasn't light enough. Spent the past day and a half in bed again and won't make it to work tomorrow. Hope the doc...I think we have a doctor in town?!?!?... well, hope someone clears me from h1n1. Sure would be happy if it is just a bad respiratory infection or something. Tried to hunt for an hour Saturday afternoon but the walk in and out of canyon wiped me out so much I had to lay down in my truck for a long time. I hope a bunch of guys post some pics so I can se something while I am bedridden.
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11-09-2009, 06:31 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Lansing, MI
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Originally Posted by Tecumseh
Hope everyone did well. I tried to hunt Saturday and almost died doing it. Been really sick. Thought I could get out for a light hunt but even that wasn't light enough. Spent the past day and a half in bed again and won't make it to work tomorrow. Hope the doc...I think we have a doctor in town?!?!?... well, hope someone clears me from h1n1. Sure would be happy if it is just a bad respiratory infection or something. Tried to hunt for an hour Saturday afternoon but the walk in and out of canyon wiped me out so much I had to lay down in my truck for a long time. I hope a bunch of guys post some pics so I can se something while I am bedridden.
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Mike, I've had a respiratory infection going on since Oct 16. The good news is it's not H1N1, the bad news is I'm only sleeping a couple hours at a time before coughing fits wake me up. I've continued to hunt, which probably hasn't helped... You're probably doing the right thing by staying in bed.
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11-09-2009, 07:31 AM
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Michiganiac
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: in the thickets
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I made it up for a few days.
Only having one weekend during the best month of the season is a bummer but whatcha gonna do? In my book it ends Friday the 13th, the woods will be filling up fast starting then.
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11-09-2009, 08:47 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Gaines,MI
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I'll be hitting it hard the next several days before deer season. This is my favorite time to hunt grouse. The birds are alot more limited to what type of cover they can hide in. Food sources are alot more narrowed down as well. I know my Griff is ready. He had to miss the last week. Due to a foot enjury. Good luck folks.
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11-09-2009, 09:21 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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I went out Sun. and man did I sweat! I couldn't believe I was sweating that hard in the middle of Nov. without long johns on.
Flushed 3 ruffs and missed a wide open staight away shot. You know, the kind of look that haunts your dreams for weeks to come. Man I want that shot back! I ended up with a bonus cottontail that jumped up after a long pause in some ideal looking cover.
Thats probably it for me until Dec.
Good Luck to all going for whitetails
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11-09-2009, 09:58 PM
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Sportsman
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: wherever the birds happen to be ...
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I am blessed that I can work from anywhere that I can get an internet (or cell phone) connection. So, I got to spend a month and the last week was just as good--if not better than the first. The dogs were all on their game and it was a sad day for all when we pulled out. The only thing that made me think I was the tiniest bit glad to leave was all the trucks with dog boxes in town at the co-op. It was the most I had seen all month long (although I didn't spend much time in "town"). Maybe it was that was all along and I have read a lot of complaints about the numbers of hunters, but I never saw them! On my way east, then south I saw truck after truck with dog boxes. wow.
Now, it is time to head west for a bit of prairie hunting ... quite a change from the close-cover conditions of the Ruffed Grouse woods. I'm sure we'll manage, though.
It's just too bad that dang deer season has to come along and mess up a perfectly excellent upland bird season!
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11-10-2009, 06:36 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Lansing, MI
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Originally Posted by llewella
I am blessed that I can work from anywhere that I can get an internet (or cell phone) connection.
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Wow, I need that job! What do you do?
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11-10-2009, 09:29 PM
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Sportsman
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: wherever the birds happen to be ...
Posts: 9
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I am a Web site designer/developer. I'm am soooo blessed to do what I do and be able to make a living at it and at the same time able to get to the train and hunt the dogs on wild birds as much as humanly possible. It's all for the dogs 
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"Class in a bird dog is the ability to do, at great speed and with unusual accuracy, what the average can only do slowly and under particularly favourable circumstances."—Bill Brown, the late editor of The American Field
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