South Texas Update

Wonderful news from South Texas! Our ranch manager spent a few hours this weekend shredding the ranch roads and called with an enthusiastic quail report. On the initial 1.2 mile drive down the main caliche road, 9 covies of quail crossed in front of his pickup. After hooking the shredder to the "Deere", he called again and reported birds "everywhere" from what appears to be three different hatches. With recent rains and warm weather, it is possible that some hens may still get off another hatch. I can remember hunting at my friend Joe Coleman's ranch north of Hebronville in 1987 and moving what literally were 'hundreds' of quail! We could run only one dog at a time because we would have multiple finds in different directions. The sunflower is very thick this year at Dos Jefes and, even though we are doing some shredding this week, will still impede access to some of our best territory until late December. Looks like there will be plenty of birds to keep the puppies busy untill then however.

Spoke with two of my favorite hunting partners this week...
Gareth Cook and wife Janie stopped by Saturday to see Dolly's new litter of pups. He also brought along the new Garmin Astro "dog" GPS that will sure come in handy this year with all the birds and cover. Check out the story of Gareth's world class brittany female at: http://www.lamontbrittany.com/OurHistory.aspx?id=13

Also a visit from Jerry Hoffman from Dallas, who joins us at Dos Jefes every Christmas-NewYears, and he is raving about his new Astro GPS also. Jerry is the best equipped quail hunter alive with every new gadget ever produced. We kid him that, if he ever stumbles and falls while in the field, it will look like a tornado hitting Cabela's! Jerry runs a couple of fine GSPs and stopped by to see the pups recently after taking a dog to Pete Thuman at Pecan Hill Kennels.