{"id":11632,"date":"2014-02-19T22:40:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T22:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccomfort.com\/family\/?p=11632"},"modified":"2014-02-21T02:53:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T02:53:27","slug":"chriss-first-time-quail-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ccomfort.com\/family\/?p=11632","title":{"rendered":"Chris’s first time quail hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"

While we were in Florida, I received a invitation to go quail hunting with a vendor. \u00a0My original answer was no since we were driving nearly 14 hours the day before. \u00a0However, after some texts from those hunting I changed my mind and headed there on Tuesday around noon (3.5 hours after driving 14 hours on Monday). \u00a0I arrived around 4:30pm at Gillionville Plantation<\/a> just before the groups returned from the afternoon hunt. \u00a0Great company, food, and spirits.<\/p>\n

I have never hunted; anything. \u00a0I grew up fishing but this was the first time hunting. \u00a0I have shot skeet over the years though the last time I fired a gun was over six years ago so I was nervous about the probably of hitting anything in the morning.<\/p>\n

Wednesday morning before the hunt a few of us headed over to warm up by shoot skeet. \u00a0My first attempt the clay came out, I tracked it, and then pulled the trigger and NOTHING. \u00a0That’s right I still had the safety on. \u00a0So I pushed the safety up and said “pull” for the next clay which I tracked and pulled the trigger and NOTHING. \u00a0That’s right two times in a row with the safety on. \u00a0Surely I cannot do that a third time; of course the third time still did not successfully disengage the safety. \u00a0After help from the guide I was ready and actually hit the first clay after that.<\/p>\n

I felt comfortable with the shotgun, a 20 gauge and was ready for the hunt. \u00a0A wagon drawn by two mules, six pointers, and a cocker spaniel along with guides on horse back arrived and it was time to head off. \u00a0Jumped on the wagon and we headed out in search of our first covey. \u00a015 minutes after leaving the dogs were released to find the birds and soon were pointing into the high brush.<\/p>\n

Tarun and I got down and headed up to the guide and he positioned use on each side; I got briefed on what to expect, where it was acceptable to shoot and we started walking with guide in the middle. \u00a0Quickly the first quail flew out of the brush and … check out the video below:<\/p>\n

\nhttp:\/\/ccomfort.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/qual_finished.m4v<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n

Link directly to the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed the experience very much. \u00a0I missed a lot of shots but in the end downed 12 of the 29 birds we shot in the morning hunt. \u00a0My last covey I even had a double!<\/p>\n

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While we were in Florida, I received a invitation to go quail hunting with a vendor. \u00a0My original answer was no since we were driving nearly 14 hours the day before. \u00a0However, after some texts from those hunting I changed my mind and headed there on Tuesday around noon (3.5 hours after driving 14 hours… Continue reading Chris’s first time quail hunting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jaHz-31C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccomfort.com\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11632"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccomfort.com\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccomfort.com\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccomfort.com\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccomfort.com\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11632"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/ccomfort.com\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11642,"href":"http:\/\/ccomfort.com\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11632\/revisions\/11642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccomfort.com\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccomfort.com\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccomfort.com\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}