#ruff land

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Yellowstone Cowboys (Ruff as the Land)

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4 squirrels on this hunt. Flint did well, he had a lot of trees but most were nests or dens.

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Had a great hunt with Ember. It was in the low 50's and squirrels were moving. Knocked 4 out within an hour, took a little bit to find the 5th but we got it done. I really enjoy working with this weird dog.

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Four squirrels with Flint today.

We ran into a pair of grouse hunters with their Lab. The dogs were chill at first, until I caught up to the group and put my hand on Flint when the Lab came back for a second sniff. Flint decided one sniff was enough and snapped at the Lab. He completely ignored the hunters though.

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Flint did good on this hunt. He had a few den trees and one I missed that ran into a hole, and one that ticked me off when I walked across a swamp and he buggered off before I got there (I really hate swamps). But for the most part he did well and we came home with a limit.

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Had a good hunt with Ember this evening. Started out with a den, then a fox squirrel. Shortly after she found two layup greys. One of them fell onto a tangle and had to be blasted a few extra times to get it out (dog food lol).

There's been an increase in rabbits at this area this season, she busted off after those a few times. Ember ran out in a big loop and treed at 270 yards, I prefer my dogs stay closer but she was barking hard so I walked out there for a second fox squirrel that I shot. She messed around with some more rabbits, then treed the last grey when we were almost back to the truck.

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Three with Flint this evening.

Saw one of the cross country ski guys in the parking lot. Had a couple dens, then saw some people with at least four off leash dogs running all over the place. They came from the direction I was headed and gathered up the dogs and quickly turned around when they spotted me. That ruled out more than half the area I was going to hunt in. (Working dogs are allowed off leash, pets are not. The rules are posted at every parking lot but people regularly ignore them.)

A little while later Flint treed one fox squirrel I shot, made some more dens, then I heard another small game hunter shoot. Flint tried to run over there so I had to call him back. He treed again and as I stepped off the trail to go to him some other hunter sitting behind a tree whistled at me. Flint quit treeing so I didn't need to go that way anyways.

He treed at a short tree, I didn't think there was anything in it since it was so short. As I was looking I heard one in a different tree bail and run off. Flint chased that one for a bit then returned to his short tree. Turns out the black squirrel was in it. Shot that one, another den, then the grey right before the parking lot.