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Chasing Chukar

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This year I was getting a bit bored of spending so much time walking the wet grass and woods, not to mention getting hit by shot, at Crescent Lake and Stillwater so made a decision to get over to the dry side of the mountains to hunt wild birds more.   Early in the year I got Lira out at Cooke Canyon a few days on planted chukar just so she’d have some exposure to the birds and that was a lot of fun so this fall we took up chukar hunting for real.   We just got back from our fourth outing after these birds and it has been a lot of work and a lot of fun.

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Adding more bird species

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Up until this year Lira and I spent all our time hunting pheasants but this year that changed.  Yes, we still hunt a lot of pheasant but we also started hunting frequently in Eastern Washington for other upland birds as well as spending some time in the woods hunting grouse.  Trust me hunting is the appropriate word for grouse, we didn’t spend much time killing grouse.   So far this season we’ve added four new species of birds to our list.

Chukar

Chukar have sort of always intrigued me as a game bird ever since reading East of the Mountains by David Guterson.  Tough terrain to say the least and they are hard to hit.  Early in the year we hunted some planted chukar at Cooke Canyon just to get Lira onto a new bird.  While deer hunting in Ellensburg we saw so many chukar that I decided it was time to hunt them for real and have spent several days now along the rimrock and high flats searching for them.  We have managed one wild chukar and that is one Lira literally grabbed out of a bush.

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2017 – A lot of firsts!

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My seasons of 2017 – spring lake rainbows, spring turkey season, tenkara trout,  summer fly fishing, summer steelhead fishing, pheasant hunting, elk hunting, late deer season,  chukar hunting

I can hardly believe that 2017 is drawing to a close already, where did it go?   As I sit back and look over the year I realize that I have had one heck of a year with a lot of firsts.  For the first year in a while health was just not an issue, as you can tell from my lack of health related blog posts, so it freed me up to get back into fly fishing, to really get into hunting and to finally reach my goal of stocking my freezer by myself.   On top of spending almost one-third of my days in the field I was able to get out for daily hikes (and later runs) with Lira and still find time to work all year long.

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