Hells Canyon/Snake River Chukar, Huns, and Quail-part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2021
- I head back out to the Hells Canyon/Snake River area in January 2021 to chase Chukar, Hungarian Partridge, and Valley Quail. It makes for a beautiful adventure!
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Think that's the best hunt video I've ever seen. Brilliant. Thanks.
Wow, thank you!
Yup I agree Eric nice work all the way around. Pretty cool to see you jazzed on the valley quail also.
Thanks. I haven’t met a quail yet that wasn’t a blast to hunt!
Eric - I don’t think anyone who hasn’t done this before can truly appreciate your opening “slog of a climb” up to your dog on point and the shear horror we feel when the GPS goes beep and points straight up hill. Listening to you breathe, watching you hold your hand up as if your trying to get the word “whoa” out under all the gasping and then seeing you go to your knees after the shots is what chukar hunting life is all about. I LOVE IT, you captured the true essence of what it really is like to hunt chukar out here in the west. It’s painful but the effort is worth it. Thanks again for taking us along. Our upland season wraps up this Monday here in Utah - it’s bitter sweet that it’s ending, but 6 months is a long season and me and my dogs need a short break. We’ll be ready for September to roll around again.
Thanks Jeff. Your reaction is what I hope for. Its cool that you totally understand what was going on in that situation. It’s impossible to capture the entire experience but i hope to at least give people a taste of it. Good luck with the rest of your season and thanks for the comment. 👊
I've always loved California Quail, but never had the chance to hunt them with a pointer till this year! A tight holding covey or single is one of the coolest experiences ever! Can't wait to get on some chukar next year!
Aint no party like a valley quail party! They're my personal fave by a pretty wide margin. Watching a patch of rosehips explode like a landmine when a flushing dog roots them out is a religious experience!
One day we were fortunate enough to harvest valley and mountain quail and chukar. We pan fried them all with equal seasoning and care. All were amazing, but the chukar on a blind taste test to 6 people came out on top.
Nice…sounds good!
Bonus points for the rock throw. Awesome sequence.
It's been almost 15 years since the first time I hunted Hell's Canyon but I still vividly remember the weekend. I too had a crazy mixed bag, shot my first mountain quail and ruffed grouse, along with chukar, huns and California quail all in one weekend. It's a stunning place. Great video Eric as always!
Wow, that must have been an amazing weekend! 🤘
Excellent, excellent video Eric!! Cannot wait for the next one!
Great country to visit. The strap mishap and the turkey surprise was great. I like how you leave it all in there..with a lesson. Great stuff, Mr. Forrester.
Thanks!👊
That was a trip of a lifetime! excellent work.
Great video, bucket list for 2021
Nice shooting man. Nice video thanks.
Great retrieve, Valley’s and briars, got to love ‘em...
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Those snake River blackberry bushes are the gnarliest for sure!! The quail love em though
They are nasty for sure.
Best video yet! Great dog work and great scenery. Hard to beat late season chukar country.
Thanks!
Awesome video Eric!
Thanks! 👊
Please keep your vids coming. Love your dogs ,love your experience .There is something about hunting wild places you just can't describe.
Thanks 👍
Awesome dogs!!!!! Fun video. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! 👍
Thanks for sharing Eric. Brilliant as always. Your videos are the next best thing to being there.
Thanks, I’m glad you think so!
What an amazing vidéo! Your dogs are fantastic! thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
25:45, man that sequence is awesome!!!! Awesome dog work!!!! Moxy and Tubbs rock!!!
Yeah they have become quite a team.
Nice! I am so ready for our birds to start making a comeback in Hells Canyon, I’m down lower toward HC Dam. To many hard winters, but we are starting to see more. Good luck!
Love this. You are an amazing story teller and you and your dogs are so much fun to watch work
Thank you!
Wow, great videos. Very professionally done. Gets me pumped for chukar season!
Thanks! 🤘
Chasing wild birds takes us to some amazingly wild places. Really enjoyed watching this whilst it is -28°C outside here in Calgary, Alberta.
Yes, getting me out to places like this is one of my favorite things about bird hunting. 👍
Beautiful footage and great shooting and gundog work!! Amazing 👏
Thanks! 👊
Another awesome video, the views, the dog's work, the hunt in general. I love it, too bad it is too far from Florida. Who knows, maybe one day.
Thanks for sharing your trip. What an awesome place. I hope to make/film a trip there some day! Some of those cliff faces looked intense!
Very intense! 🤘
Excellent! Nice dog work, nice shooting, great videography!
Thanks!
Quit hunting when I went into the Army in 1980. This was a great video. Grew up in the midwest hunting Pheasants and Quail. Nothing like hunting over a good dog, in your case some great dogs. Riding my motorcycle out there this year and looking forward to the scenery.
Excellent hunting, dog work at the highest level. Very beautiful places!
Thanks!
Eric, this video is one of the best that really shows all the different landscapes and pitches that these birds inhabit. What is really impressive is how well both you and your dogs, as flat landers really adapt quickly and successfully hunt these birds. That last area had it all in my mind. Plenty of mature cheat grass, with greenup undeneath and a lot of bunchgrass too. Couple that with all the cliffs and loose rock and that is ideal chukar turf. As you gain confidence in your dogs I hope to see you circle as far around as you need to so you can get below their points. This will help you get the birds to fly around you and with how good of a shot you are, you will get a lot more birds. It sure has helped me a lot these past couple of seasons. I am looking forward to Part II!
Thanks Ben. Yeah, taking time to approach birds strategically is something I’m getting more used to. You are are absolutely right, it makes a big difference in the quality of your shots.
Absolutely amazing stuff man. Incredible dog work. Fantastic shooting. Mind blowing country! I’ve never hunted Hell’s Canyon but will make it up there sometime. Congratulations on a terrific hunt. Thank you for sharing. I very much enjoyed the video.
Take care.
Bryce
Thanks! 👊
As always another great video. Just got my first GWP last October. So far I like him a lot. Tubs is looking really good this year.
Thanks! Good luck with your pup!
Great hunt Eric 😘
Nice scenery best terrain
Great working dogs
& Above all the way you explain things marvelously
Thumbs up man 👍
Thank you! I’m glad you liked it. 👍
Thank you for the content!
You are welcome!
You know looking at the back ground you would not think there would be a bird any where.........that was a cool video showing just how it is in real life hunting those things with your dogs. Thumbs up. :)
Thanks! 👊
Terrific video and amazing country! I was shocked you found a turkey in that country. Thanks for your videos!
Thanks!
That's funny...I'm glad I'm not the only one that has the sling block his shot. It literally happened to me about 6 times this year, I finally took it off the last weekend. Nice country, I will need to hit the gym this summer if I ever want to do it.
Yeah I finally learned to hold the slack in my left hand so it wouldn’t do that.
I’ve been debating getting a sling but I’ve made it this far and seeing this has me thinking I don’t need it.
@@benwarner8995 a sling still comes in handy on those long walks, but for whatever reason there is a chance for it to flip over the barrel.
Yeah I’m going to keep using it. It never happened after I started holding on to the slack and I’ve had some climbs and descents that made it almost essential.
Τέλεια βίντεο! Να είσαι καλά φίλε μου εσύ και τα σκυλάκια σου!
σας ευχαριστώ
Eric your videos are amazing! Really enjoy watching them. I've hunted eastern Oregon and some of the deep canyons look similar to Hell's Canyon. My vizsla is now 2 and she's probably pointed 100 ruffed grouse this fall. Really coming into her own. Retrieving to hand now as well.
Thanks. It’s always fun to watch a young dog develop. Congrats 👍
Good shoot
Wow! I really hope i will experience that kind of hunt in such beautiful landscape sometime! 😍 New on hunting here in Sweden!
This is home for me. Lots of room out there. I’m a little spoiled by all the government land. Thanks for makin’ another fun video, man!
Lucky you!
Tubbs is a machine!
He really is. 💪
I am glad you are sharing with us. If I had the money I was going to get to an airplane with my 2 pointers and go hunting to this place.
A fly-in hunt would be awesome! 👍
Heck of an idea, tossing the rock to flush the bird that’s uphill!
Enjoyed hearing you on Tim Brown’s podcast. Didn’t realize you lived in Indiana - I’m not too far away, over in Ohio. I go out around Hell’s Canyon almost every year myself
That's a fine pair of companions you have their sir 👍🏼
Thanks!
Love it.
Yet another great video Eric . We do not have public land in the UK but I am lucky enough to have permission to hunt red grouse for a couple of days each season.Its not easy as 6/7 hours of hard walking usually brings about 6 birds.I shoot an under and over and when grouse shooting the gun stays in its case until my Vizsla locks on point.There is then a bit of a scramble to get loaded ready for the bird. I do lose out on the odd chance hunting this way but I prefer to do this rather than dealing with a strap. After grouse the pheasant season kicks in although covid19 restrictions pretty well destroyed the pheasant season this time around.
Great content right here... As for slings you might try the Browning all season web sling. The length is easily adjustable which makes is easy to have less length to flop around and jam you up. I have one on my ethos Cordoba after using several of these same slings over the years on my duck guns. They used to make them with a plastic length adjuster piece that was really handy, and now they are metal adjusters, but you can still use the sling in a backpack style which might come in handy in that steep chuckar country... The slings are definitely nice for dog handling with autoloaders... Anyways just thought I would share, keep up the good work!
Эрик, браво )) ! Собаки работают отлично!!
Great video in a spectacular place to hunt. I enjoyed your narrations and willingness to show the highs and lows. You're managing dueling dogs awesome. If you range north of Brownlee for a hunt, drop me a line.
Will do, thanks!
Appreciate your activity and skills from nz
Thank you!
You’re a good shot. I like to see those one shot, one kill.
Very well done! Surprised we haven’t crossed paths yet. We hunt very similar places. Great video
Thanks. Maybe one of these days!
@@ericforrester1 quite likely since the only state difference I have seen this year was n Dakota vs s Dakota. I hunt Gsp s from a rig nearly identical to yours, and camp til it makes no sense to camp
you had a beautiful place to hunt/camp there!!! it didnt appear that you had any other hunters to worry bout either!! LOL those cliffs looked dangerous with a little snow/ice on them!! & the camera doesnt do justice to how steep the hills are there!!!
Yes, beautiful and dangerous!
@@ericforrester1 like most of the women I have allowed in my life 😂
Unreal love to make it there one day!
We would throw rocks into brush to flush quail when I was 14 because we didn't have a dog. Brings back memories
Very great work overall. I would be eager to see a bit of a search for your dogs in the videos. It would be great to see how they search and run in those great terrains.
Thanks. The challenge is GoPro cameras are great for close up but dogs in the distance can be difficult to see.
@@ericforrester1 That is how it is. I myself have that 7 black and at least I get to zoom in a bit forward and I’ve noticed that the bird and dog search looks a little better. Do you use it to shoot yourself?
Yes, I use a Hero 8 but I haven’t used the zoom.
Love it been doing a little binge watching on your vids. Was just blessed by my daughter and wife with a new wired hair pointing griffon. It’s been years since I’ve been out doing any bird hunting. Now I need to get some equipment. What collar are you using that and vest. I have all that stuff but pretty out dated I’m assuming.
Collar is alpha 100. Vest by Final Rise.
What is it about the difficulty of chukar hunting that makes it so satisfying?
Great video. Thank you.
You can tell a guy that hunts “The Legged Devil “ by his giant legs and small head.
Sometimes confused with elk hunters.
The dogs are the key ingredient
Absolutely!
Hey Eric, I am a huge fan of you, your dogs, and your videos. Can you give me some information about this hunting land ? Is it public land?
Public 👍
Hey awesome video man, i was wondering if you could share your video settings on your GoPro?
Bravo 🇹🇷💪👍King kurzhaar, drahtaar
Amazing video. I would love to hunt that area some day, I purchased my Brittany out of a breeder who hunts those grounds as his backyard. Any recommendations on books or methods on training a bird dog? I am about to embark on the journey now that my pup is a bit older.
I learned to train through the Perfection Kennels system. Great stuff.
Mongolian blackberries are impenetrable. Quail know it. As your video shows chukar use rocky cliffs for escape cover. Really dangerous for young and aggressive dogs: I watched one of mine fall off a fifty foot cliff. She thankfully fell into heavy brush. No doubt Tubby is a real chukar dog!
Thanks for the ID of the blackberries. I had heard of them but I wasn’t sure that’s what they were.
Yes, some of those cliffs made me really nervous. The dogs handled them well but still sketchy.
Okay...who's here to make sure Eric picks up all of these spent shells? :>) (inside joke)
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Outstanding Eric. I am new to Chukars and hunting with a dog...it’s so much fun. Seems like some of these shots are at birds at quite a distance....what do you think your range is?
I try not to shoot over 35 yards or so, especially if the bird is going away.
Hey man, enjoying your videos. Amazing. What electronic device do you use? Colar? TIA 🙋🏼♂️
Garmin alpha 100
Anyone know what part of WY this is? Seems google turns up nothing I see matching
I've always wanted to try a hunt like this. I've got lots of relatives in Idaho I'd like to hunt with. I'd be petrified that my dog would run off a cliff. We're used to prairies, grasslands and marshes.
Did you have to train them? Or is it just a matter of exposure and experience?
Mostly exposure but I’m sure some dogs would be riskier than others.
I advise you to add shotkam or some like device this will enhance the content even more
Great video, how old are your pups? And who trained them? They did outstanding!
Thanks. They are 8, 3, and 1.
Cool hunt and video. How did the dogs feet hold up in that rocky terrain? What month of the year was your hunt?
2 didn’t get a scratch, 1 blew out a pad.
I saw in your Part 2 video in the comments that you use an IC choke and 7 1/2 size shot shells. Here's a suggestion from a 30 year Chukar hunter that will help you drop the birds DOA. I use a Modified Choke with Heavy field loads of 1 3/8 oz #5s over 90 percent of my birds are dead when they hit the ground. The #5 shot will penetrate way deeper than 7 1/2s by a huge margin resulting in downed birds. The load will not tear up the birds at all plus you can make 60 yard kills all day long provided you can hit them. Once you try them I don't think you'll go back to small shot. Great video's.
Thanks for the advice, I think you make a good point. That video is from last year and I have since switched to a modified choke and #6 shot. I feel like I had better results. I will have to try #5 next year👍
@@ericforrester1 Tried the #6 shot in the heavy field loads (I reload) and wasn't happy with the 6s. Still had about a 50 to 60 percent DOA with the 6s but when I went to the 5s it was 90+ percent DOA. As you painfully know a bird can sail 200 to 400 foot in elevation (always down) that you or your dogs have to hike. Better they bounce once or twice when they hit the ground and stick there. Try a box of each and make your own conclusion to the better choice. Good Luck.
I’ll definitely give it a try, thanks!
@@ericforrester1 Your Welcome.
Buenos días con q cartuchos tiras
Greetings Eric. What editing software do you use? I recorded my 2020 fly fishing/bird hunting season on my GoPro and need to start putting it together. Thanks!
I use iMovie 👍
@@ericforrester1 I'll check it out. Thanks.
How do you like the fiber optic sight? Would you recommend? Brand?
It helps with my cross eye dominance on certain shots. Sorry I can’t remember the brand.
How can I hunt in this area? Any organized hunting trips?
Hi from Turkey 👋🏻. Which boots do you wear on these hunts? I also hunt partridges. Your mountains are very similar to the mountains I hunted. sorry my english is bad. I'll buy boots for hunting.
I have a couple boots I wear. Lowa Renegade and Salewa
@@ericforrester1 thanks for the answer. Great hunts. I follow you👋🏻
Did you camp at the camp site and just ride around and parking off to the side and go hunting because I would like to plan a Trip here in a couple years
Yes, I camped and hunted from the truck.
@@ericforrester1 another question did you hunt on the Idaho side
What choke are you using? Great video!
Modified 👍
Hell''s Canyon, where standing and laying down are only separated by 3 degrees..
😆 so true! 👊
@@ericforrester1 I hunted the Steck Park area back in the 70s, no dog, usually jump 2-300 birds a day. On a week long trip we would take the reloader and a sack of shot, wads, powder and primers and load shells each night. It was epic.
Wow...I can’t imagine.
What collars do you use on your dogs? Seems like there are a lot of them out there and I’m not sure what to look for.
I use a Garmin 300i and TT 25 collars. Garmin makes great stuff and has many choices. Just depends on how many features you want.
That’s helpful thank you. Also, I submitted a request for more info on getting a pup from you all on your website.
Yep, I replied to your email. Thanks!
What type of e collar do you use
Garmin Alpha 100
Is there a part 2?
Yes...in a week or so.
Is this In Idaho
We're you just using a gopro?
Yep
Random question: do you use the TT15 or the TT15 mini collars?
TT15
Eric Forrester do you find them to be a little on the large size for your dogs or not too bad?
They are fine for my dogs but I have a small female(about 35lbs) and if she was any smaller I would get her a mini.
Sorry what happened to cici?
What kind of shotgun and choke are you shooting.
Benelli Ethos 20. Modified
@@ericforrester1 And what shells were bringing down all those birds? Really awesome vid, I've hunted upland with a waterfowl lab for the last 8 years and these pointing dogs are awesome to watch in comparison. Mine just flushes everything lol :)
#6 shot. 👍
Where is cici?
If your going to keep coming back every year. Drop tubbs of at my house and I’ll keep him for ya so you can use him when you come back. Thank me later. 😆
😆 he was a beast this year.
And while he is at it I can meet him at sharptail camp this next season and he can let me take Moxie back to OR for chukar camp and she’ll be dialed in by the time he gets out here for the late season!
Chukar hunting, first time for FUN after that for REVENGE!!
A freaking turkey??? Really?!?!
Yeah…he seemed lost to me 😁
Idaho hunting sucks. ..tell everyone
Everything great but the dirty language, not adult.