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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