Hunting journal, v4471
Page 53
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Transcription
Craig Wiley ranch, Greenfield Nov. 25-27, 1977 Work as I came down for our annual quail hunt. Arrived Friday late morning (day after Thanksgiving) and hunted close to the ranchhouse for a bit - then went up to the cabin in the hills at "Middlehauff Flats" in the afternoon. Found several small bunches but they are largely adult birds and very hard to stitch up with. On Saturday we again started around the ranch and this time located a very nice bunch of 50 birds or so, watering at Arroyo Seco creek at 8:30 PM. On the very flush we each got a bird and young Mike did a masterful job of trailing a cripple through extremely dense creek closer along the stream bank. We failed however, to get another decent shot. But the birds went out the extremely steep bank - almost a cliff - on the S side of the stream. They ran and flew along the upper zone, too far to shoot. At 9 PM we set out from the ranch with Craig and his two younger sons Richard & John (Budda). Went up Arroyo Seco several miles & another family ranch. Here we ganged two crews of 25 or 30 each and got a bit of