Category: Ill-mannered Jackals

Rough shooting

On By Greg McReynoldsIn Ill-mannered Jackals, Recommended Reads6 Comments

As it turns out, I need a gun-bearer.

I’ve been reading a copy of Shooting By Moor, Field and Shore, an almanac of shooting in England, published 1929. It paints a portrait of a different time and a different world. Furthermore, it points out the inadequacy of my low brow ways. In the brief section on “walk up hunting” as opposed to shooting driven game, the authors point out the obvious burdens associated with “rough shooting.”

“In order to kill game on a rough shoot, you must either walk it up, or indulge in impromptu driving either with the help of a friend of friends. You have to carry your own gun all day, and most probably the game bag as well.”

Imagine the horror of having to “carry your own gun” and game whilst hunting. I should have flipped through this book before I logged a hundred or so miles to shoot only a handful of quail this season, carrying my own gun the whole time.

A texting duel between chukar hunters

On By Tom ReedIn Chukar, Fodder, Glutton For Punishment, Ill-mannered Jackals2 Comments

Background: The following is a text conversation between two avid chukar hunters hunting separate states on the same January weekend. DG was in Nevada, a state of abundant chukars. TR was in Wyoming, a state of scarce chukars. The following is further evidence that chukar hunting, particularly late season, drives one to act oddly. Initials are used to protect the guilty.

DG: How’s it going out there?

DG: Got lucky, killed six chukars before 10:30. Great dog work.

TR: Fuck off.

DG: Wow.

TR: No one likes a braggart.

DG: Fuck you. I hunted 2 days hard and never killed a bird. I said I lucked out dude. I did. That ain’t braggin.

TR: Yawn.

DG: WTF? You OK?

DG: Are you serious about this? If you textd me and told me you got into the birds I would have been psyched for you.

TR: Are u queer?

DG: Would luv to see SD and phillip get crushed by the Jets.

Zach

On By Tosh BrownIn Bobwhites, Dogs, Ill-mannered Jackals3 Comments

WSDG12

He was three years old when I bought him and he came with that name. He never found many birds, but one day (before lunch) he killed a baby goat, got sprayed by a skunk, and ate two bobwhites that he neither pointed or retrieved. He ran off the first six times I let him out of the box. On one of those jaunts he was gone overnight. The next morning I found him snoozing in a hog trap where he had eaten and rolled in a vile mixture of rotten feed corn, molasses, and catfish guts. I eventually traded him for a cast iron smoker pit on wheels.