We had a stocked pheasant and chukar hunt yesterday at my gun club.

My vizsla Gus and I had a great time, and we helped several club hunters harvest good numbers of birds.

A.C. Coggins with his first upland bird

A.C. Coggins. 12, grandson of club member Mike Wheeler, participated in his first upland bird hunt. With mentoring from Wheeler, John Koval, and myself, A.C. successfully harvested a pheasant and several chukars with his new 20-gauge pump.

It’s great seeing older family members passing on the hunting tradition. Across the board, we need to see more of this.

Starr Point's Gustav of Glenside JH pointing a chukar

Starr Point's Gustav of Glenside JH retrieving a chukar

After two hard days of woodcock hunting on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, my vizsla Gus and I joined some fellow members of the Brandywine Hundred Rod and Gun Club for a stocked pheasant and chukar hunt on Saturday, November 28.

The wind was gusting up to 40 mph, and we hunted a large fallow field. The pheasants and chukars were strong runners and flyers, and we chased them all over the field.

Although the shooting accuracy wasn’t where it should have been, Gus was on target as usual. I ended up with one pheasant and three chukars, John Koval had one pheasant and two chukars, and Rich Lanyon had two pheasants and a chukar.

Check of the photos of Gus pointing and retrieving.