Covey Rise - Tulsa Bird Dog Association

Covey Rise
November 2011
A publication of the Tulsa Bird Dog Assn.
President’s Corner
With Doug Hardesty
Why have so many men loved shooting and guns and dogs?
Fascination with shooting has been a part of every generation
of men since gunpowder. I suspect it stirred in me on those
President
Doug Hardesty early mornings when I was got out of my crib to watch my
918-289-5642 father leave for a day’s shooting, and in the evenings on his
return, seeing and touching the quail he brought home. There
was a setter named Ted whose dark, soft eyes peered into
Secretary/Treas. mine and whose pink tongue washed my hands.
Roy Marshall
918-835-5016
It is things like these that mark us as shooting men years
before we are men. If I had grown to maturity without ever
having killed a bird I probably could not have brought myself
to do it. But how much poorer I would have been.
Vice Presidents
Keith Lindsey
918-251-0023 The non-shooter can’t know bobwhites or woodcock or
Bob Dorn
918-352-8888
Jeff Jones
918-510-3904
Shane Bevel
918-409-0604
Dennis
Drullinger
918-369-3195
Field Trial
Chairman
Keith Lindsay
Webmaster
Mike Hill
918-543-6357
www.tulsabirddogclub.org
pheasants like the man who shoots. And who can comprehend
a grouse who knows it only as the “large red-brown or graybrown chicken-like bird” of field guides, who has never in
recurrent dreams tried to swing a muzzle past a sailing grouse
only to tug helplessly on a flabby trigger that won’t discharge
the gun?
Pursuit of game birds link us with the past. The lines of an old
gun have character that can’t be approached by the automatic
plumbing that passes for a gun today. Names like Parker and
Fox and Ithaca evoke images of locks engraved with oldfashioned setters and pointers that look as dated as the birds.
We cherish blood in our gun dogs going back beyond what
many of us know of our own. And we cling to old-time hunters and what they can tell us of another age; it seems that to
have hunted in those days would have been ecstasy.
----From “By An Evening’s Fire”
By George Bird Evans
Meetings every fourth Tuesday at 7pm.
Next Meeting November 22, 2011
Zarrow Regional Library
2224 W. 51st Street, Tulsa Okla. 74107
Treasurer’s Report
With Roy Marshall
Cash balance at September 30, 2011
Income for October
Expenses for September Balance at September, 2011
Net Gain for September
$2206.38
2632.39
$1822.83
$3015.94
$808.56
Sale Barn
Brittany pups for sale!! Call Chuck Leaver at 918 906-4709
2 - Classic Insulated weather resistant Kennel covers size large for Port a Kennel or Vari Kennel
crates. Covers are new, have zippered windows and doors. List price $90, Sell for $50 each.
Contact Mark Randell @ 918-633-9554
I have pointer pups for sale. 2 males 1 female $100,
Contact Austin Graham at 918-791-5399 or [email protected]
TBDA Membership Application
Mail to: Roy Marshall - P.O. Box 2136 - Tulsa, OK, 74101-2136
Applicant’s Name: _______________________________________________________
Address: _______________________________________________________________
City:_________________________State:__________________Zip:________________
Phone:__________________________ Cell:___________________________________
Email Address:__________________________________________________________
Tulsa Bird Dog Association Annual Dues : $40.00
Notifications
PLEASE BE REMINDED THAT SMOKING IS NOT
ALLOWED AT ANY TIME ON OUR FIELD TRIAL
GROUNDS. With the current extremely dry weather
conditions, it is very dangerous and a violation of our
lease agreement.
Membership dues are due and payable
on August 1, 2011
Gun Dog Trial Results
Place
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
Dog’s Name Pal
Reba Gunny
Snoop Brandy Max Place
1st
2nd
3rd
Dog’s Name
Bullet
Jasper
Gunner Place
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
Place
1st
2nd
3rd
October 22, 2011 Field Trial Results
Open Category
Breed Sex Owner\Handler
E Setter M
Tom Krause
Brittany F Vernon Seaman
GSP
M
Doug Hardesty
Pointer M Austin Graham
Brittany F Vernon Seaman
Brittany M Tom Alexander
Puppy Category
Breed Sex Owner\Handler
Brittany M
Doug Hardesty
Pointer M
Tom Krause
Pointer M Bill Whitley
NOVEMBER 5, 2011 Trial Results
Open Category
Dog’s Name Breed Sex Alice GSP F
Brandy Brittany F Reba Brittany F Schlitz GSP M
Ms Chili Palmer GSP F
Smoke Pointer M Puppy Category
Dog’s Name
Kota Joe
Bullett Breed Sex Brittany M Brittany M
Brittany M Owner\Handler
Keith Lindsay
Vernon Seaman
Vernon Seaman
Roy Marshall
Curtis Hinex
Tom Alexander
Owner\Handler
Vernon Seaman
Zac Henderson
Doug Hardesty
Rattlesnake Vaccine Available
A Point in the Bog
By Shane Bevel
T
he trail descends steeply through the popples winding its way down through the
forest to damper climes. The setter rushes ahead, quartering left, then right. Searching
desperately for the scent of the grouse flushed just minutes earlier at the crest of the hill.
Behind, the hunter struggles to keep up, the barrels of his double gun still warm. The
ring of the bell guides him, crashing and tearing through the brambles, hoping for yet
another shot at the elusive grouse.
As he arrives at the edge of the bog, the setter seems confused by the new terrain.
Labrador tea and delicate late season flowers burst up through the bottomless peat bog.
The temperature is slightly warmer. Tall evergreens cast a dark shade on the world. The
air falls strangely silent as his boots seem to float across the giant sponge of vegetation
and rot, a drastic difference from the crunch and crack of the newly fallen leaves of the
autumn forest.
Moving slower now, the setter crosses the bog, no larger than a small pond, from edge
to edge. The peat still silent below the pads of his feet. Suddenly the perpetual motion
of the dog stops staunch, a small evergreen at the tip of his flared nose. A moment passes and as the hunter approaches, the grouse flushes with the sound of distant thunder, a
brownish blur through the forest.
The gun ascends to the shoulder, the finger pulls the front trigger, and with a cloud
of feathers, the bird folds and falls, landing softly in the peat. The hunter and the dog
retrieve the soft feathered bird and with a word of praise, move on. The small bog is
silent again.
Tulsa Bird Dog Club’s 2011 Dog of the Year
and Team Championship Standings
DOGS NAME
MAR 5,11 MAR 26,119-Apr-11 OCT 8,11 OCT 22,11 NOV 5,11
TULSA BIRD DOG CLUB 2011 GUN DOG OF THE YEAR & STANDING
REBA
4
5
5
4
ALICE
6
6
BRANDY
4
2
5
SNOOP
2
5
3
JOHN COFFEE
6
3
SHELLY
2
6
SMOKE
5
2
1
HOSS
4
3
SCHLITZ
4
3
JILL
6
MAGIC
3
3
PAL
6
BART
5
GUNNY
1
4
SONJA
1
1
RED
2
CHILLI PALMER
2
AVIS
1
MAX
1
TULSA BIRD DOG CLUB 2011 PUPPY GUN DOG OF THE YEAR & STANDING
BULLET
2
3
3
3
3
1
MARLEY
3
2
2
KOTA
3
JASPER/TA
2
2
JASPER/TK
2
2
JOE
2
MAGGY
1
WILLY
1
GUNNER
1
TULSA BIRD DOG CLUB’S 2011 HANDLER OF THE YEAR & STANDING
VERNON SEAMAN 3
7
5
4
7
12
DOUG HARDESTY 2
4
3
3
7
1
CURTIS HINEX
5
6
3
2
TOM ALEXANDER 3
7
2
2
1
1
AUSTIN GRAHAM 1
2
3
5
3
KEITH LINDSAY
7
1
6
TOM KRAUSE
6
8
BEN FAULKNER
2
6
LARRY MOORE
4
3
ROY MARSHALL
4
3
7
BILL LACK
2
MIKE HILL
1
TOTAL
18
12
11
10
9
8
8
7
7
6
6
6
5
5
2
2
2
1
1
15
7
3
2
1
1
1
38
20
16
16
14
14
14
8
7
2
1
Tulsa Bird Dog Club’s 2010 Dog of the Year
Snoop, Austin Graham Owner/Handler
Tulsa Bird Dog Assn.
P.O. Box 2136
Tulsa, OK 74101-2136