Well small game season opens next thursday for me! Plan on trying to get some rabbits and squirrels! I'm split though of whether to bring out my Ithaca or my new to me ruger 10/22 I got a few months back. Decisions, decisions.... I'm leaning towards the ruger only because I dont think partridge can be hunted..yet. Pheasent season opens in October from what I read and there arent any grouse in my area.

It should be a lot of fun though, I'm planning to meet up with a couple buddies of mine and have breakfast real early, then hunt til we got to leave for our college classes.

Sounds like a good time...post some pics of your kills when you return...!!

Indeed! I'm waiting for upland!

Good luck and good hunting, Pikeslayer5. Our squirrel and rabbit season opens on Oct. 1, and I don't know whether to take my 16 gauge Ithaca 37 or my 20 gauge Remington 11-87. I like the 37, but that 11-87 hammers the squirrels with 1 oz. of #5 and a Carlson's improved modified choke. Decisions, decisions!

The small game season in NH opens on 1 Oct, but the rabbit season is all but closed, thanks to the burgeoning coyote populations. Still some good pheasant hunting though. Most times I take a 20 gauge 37 that belonged to my dad. This year I might take my new 28 gauge.

Why thankyou everyone for the wishes, I hope all of us manage to get something. Thing is though public land is hunted REALLY hard. We'll see what happens.
I am real pumped up for the upland season, I got an Irish Setter pup last winter and I can't wait to hunt with him!

Yea good luck, especially on public land. Getting so you have to go farther and farther into the brush to get any hunting anymore.

Pikeslayer5 wrote:Why thankyou everyone for the wishes, I hope all of us manage to get something. Thing is though public land is hunted REALLY hard. We'll see what happens.
I am real pumped up for the upland season, I got an Irish Setter pup last winter and I can't wait to hunt with him!

Sweet! I have an English Pointer, just over a year old now!!! Shes only been in the field once, first time was last season! She was just several months old then. Not steady on the point. Still isnt. She still doesnt get that if she runs in, the birds fly and she cant get them! Darn her! Her point gives me about 2 seconds to react generally, though if she picks up on them far enough away, she'll point while she creeps in till she thinks shes close enough.

I've got more work I wanna do here, but like everything else, its dependent on my health holding up, which is sketchy at best.

I hear ya Teddy is just over a year old also. Hes getting big too, already over 60 lbs and I walk him 1-5 miles a day! He has a hard time trying to resist the urge to chase birds and especially cats. I have taught him pretty well to hold, he does that best. He is starting to learn the concept of my hand signals to go left or right. This is the first dog I've ever "trained" but I think I'm doing ok. Hes a hard headed dog, but I have a remote training collar and a bag of dog treats that makes a world of difference. I just take him out to the school play ground by my house and work with him. I play fetch with him where I get a baseball and a bat, hit it out a ways and make him fetch it back. Or just do some "hunting" around the fields.

Partridge (ruffed grouse) season opens in Nova Scotia on October 1st.The time is getting close.