Hunting With The Veteran

Yesterday the fog rolled in....

and almost foiled the 

annual Sall Brother's hunt!

Sall's brother, Doug, likes 

to get up to the prairie 

at least once a year and shoot 

some birds with his little brother!

if there's one thing these 

two like to do,

it's 

Hunt 

&

TALK GUNS!!

They headed out,

and I wondered if I

was going to see them again

after they faded

into the fog??

 I waited and watched and 

listened to the dead silence...

the pheasants were holding tight

and were not 

going to make it an

easy hunt for the Sall boys today!!

We headed for a tree grove 

and saw a few more birds...

on this wet day, it seems 

the cover of the trees 

was a better place to be...

it was also a little tougher

to hit one flying through

the tree branches!

It seemed the pheasants

were going to win the battle today,

so we headed back to the house 

for some lunch....

lo and behold as the soup's 

heating up...

out comes a brazen rooster

right through our yard!!

we grabbed the cameras and

got a shot of him out my kitchen window,

and as you might expect

by the time a gun was loaded 

the smart rooster headed for cover!!

Not ready to give up yet,

we headed for the back 10 

with hopes of chasing one of 

the dumber ones to the edge of the property,

where we could actually shoot 

and not spook all of our 

resident garden pheasants!!

Sure enough, after sweeping the trees...

Doug actually got the first and only rooster

of the day!!

Score 1 for Doug!!

the birds were hangin' low today

and we were all satisfied with 

the 2 mile walk we got in 

and the 1 bird in our bag....

we headed back to the house 

where they could do a little

target shooting with Doug's 

antique rifles...

Doug is not only a veteran,

but an avid gun collector, and historian...

watching the two of them 

talking GUNS, shooting, 

and bonding (as brothers do)

made me smile 

and think of their long history together....

Whoa, 50 years ago...

Doug was in the army,

little Sall was 12!

many years and 

many hunts

have come

and went....

 You Sall's sure

know how to stay young!!

Happy Veteran's Day, Doug!

Thanks for another good hunt

and 

one for the history book...