Texas Hunting Traditions just waiting to be built. As for Jenny, one of my favorite memories came when she
The Boykin spaniel is named for 19thcentury trainer Whit Boykin.
retrieved six quail that I bagged literally without the use of a gun. Jenny was two
day to feed a half-dozen pen-raised quail I
years old when I went behind my barn one
kept in a cage. The cage’s door somehow
had become opened and the quail were gone. I ran to my bass boat to grab my fishlanding net, grabbed a feed sack from the barn and then let Jenny out of her kennel. Minutes later, Jenny was on point in a oneacre grassy field next to the barn yard. My plan worked perfectly. As soon as Jenny pointed a pen-raised quail, I slipped in front of her, spotted the bird in the grass, threw the net over it and then placed the quail in the feed bag. About the time I had five quail in the bag I sensed someone was watching me. I glanced toward the county road that ran beside my barnyard and saw a man standing beside his pickup 116 |
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