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Hunting
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“Billie” bird hunting about half a dozen times last month. In normal January weather, Mensh said he would have gone twice as much. “In this hot weather, you can’t run a dog all day,” said Mensh. "They get overheated.”
Billie’s job when hunting game is to sniff out the birds and retrieve them after they have been killed. “When it is warm outside, dogs are less capable of tracking scent because they are panting,” said Mensh.
Mensh’s favorite birds to hunt are grouse and geese. He has not been duck hunting this year. “I can’t imagine they have done well,” he said of local duck hunters.
When the weather changes, Mensh explained, lard patterns break up. If it is cold, the birds tend to congregate in certain areas, like open water, where they are easy to find. In warm weather, birds do not move as much. When birds arent flying, it is difficult to decoy a bird to a blind.
Die hards
Even when the birds aren’t flying and the deer nestle themselves in the brush, there are some hunters whose passion does not wane. Bobby Barr is what his fellow outdoorsmen call a “die hard.” Barr, who grew up in Warrenton, has hunted since he was 9 years old. Nearly every day of the season, Barr is out in the woods of a 2,500acre hunt club in Hume.
On Saturday, Barr left his house near Vint Hill at 4:30 a.m. He stopped at McDonalds in Marshall for a quick bite. By 5:30 a.m. he was in his deer stand. He didn’t leave until 6:15 p.m.
They day was long, but Barr didn’t mind. He snacked on an apple and some granola bars. “You nap every now and then,” he said.
Barr says his hunt club kills an average of about 20 doe a year. “We could have harvested more if the weather had been colder,” he said.
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