Backcountry bird hunt with rifle & dogs

[Roe]

I reckon this is a form of hunting you don't see too often (if at all) on your shores. I was unable to capture the dogwork properly, but the hiking, stalking and shooting should be clear enough.

 

[dolek]

That was great , thanks for sharing . Very unique way to hunt those birds ,really have to put some work into that . I was surprised the rifle barrel on the drilling was a 6.5 , I was guessing a 22caliber . Beautiful country you were hunting .

 

[Roe]

The barking "finnspets" dog has been an official race since 1890, allthough this form of hunting had existed since early 1800s.

I was always of the impression that drillings and kipplaufs would be an R version, with something like 5.6x50R for birds and 7x57R for deer and similar. Turns out I was wrong. I have been told that about 3/4 of the sales nowadays is with modern rifle calibers you'd expect to find in an ordinary bolt action.

 

[AWS]

Love your video's, you have to have a real love of hunting to hunt like that.

Drillings and combo guns have come a long way and are now more reliable with rimless cartridges, even more so when your paying the price of a new Blazer.

I use combos and drillings mainly for coyote hunting but have been known to swap out the BB's for small shot to take a pheasant or duck on the way back from a stand, my bird dog used to coyote hunt with me until WA banned them for coyote hunts.

Wilkes(1926) drilling 16ga/16ga/6.5x58R Sauer 94 yrs old and still shoots sub MOA groups at 200 yards

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Bernardelli comb gun 12ga/5.6x50R

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With the new format how do you post actual pictures from a hosting sight as I don't have these on the computer. All I've been able to figure out is how to post the link.

 

[RegionRat]

What a beautiful hunt.

How long/far is your hike?

 

[Roe]

@AWS that was a very cool use of the weapon type, talk about getting max use of your hunting day! It's a shame legislaters stops dogs being used, our hunting here very much exists around dogs being our partners. I guess it's part prejudice and ignorance of what a dog actually does (uses his superior senses to lead the hunter) versus what some believe (stressing and chasing animals indescriminately)

@RegionRat the distances are nothing remarkable. We break camp at around 9-10 in the morning and make a new camp around 17:00/ 5 in the afternoon. Both dogs are tired by then. The distance travelled greatly depends on what the dogs find. If the dog finds a bird, it can be a full hour getting that bird shot. A "hunting march" is sees us doing maybe 5 miles/day as the crow flies. When we're just in "transport mode" (dogs on a leash) we can do maybe 10. The trick is to use the rivers and lakes, that's by far the fastest way to travel into new areas.