Bronco Sue, Ranger and I, along with a couple of friends and their dogs went on an excursion deep into the bootheel of New Mexico looking for quail. Sadly, the birds were in short supply, but the scenery was great and it was a nice day out with the dogs anyway. This part of the country is quite close to the border with Mexico and is frequented by smugglers. However, the only other folks we saw were in Border Patrol vehicles. A BP helicopter even swooped down behind the truck as we were driving to check out our license plate.
I'm proud to say that out of the four hunting dogs on the trip it was the Tollers who found the only covey, a small one of about twenty Gambles, on our trip. We did quite a bit of scrambling up and down canyons and through washes, but the birds were holding tight in the wind and we didn't get any.
The German Shorthair, did manage to point and then provoke a skunk, much to our dismay, but that's why we have a topper on the pickup.
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