Welcome to the

“Uncompahgre Hunt Club Newsletter”

Dear Members & Friends,

Wow, what a long cold winter! It reminds me of the winters we used to have growing up. I could have actually gone ice skating about any day I wanted to, but being the age I am and no ice skates, I guess I will just hunt,and it sure beats playing hockey with sticks and a rock puck. With only two more months in this season, we still have lots of pheasants, and a few quail & chukar.

Waterfowl: There have not been many waterfowl hunters. The geese were landing on the Shea place in December & January and on the cornfield on the Loveless place after New Year’s. The Gore place has had ducks and geese harvested.

	Member Steve Yates and his new pup named Spook, with their limit of geese by 8:30 at the Loveless cornfield on Jan. 19th.
	Members Mike McCormick and Justin McCormick on the ends, brought their friend Mitch on Jan.9th and harvested 17 out of 15 pheasants.

Minor Month: February is always minor month here at UHC. Bring someone under the age of 18 and get 10% off total bill.

European Style Hunts: With a lot of pheasants left, we will offer Euro hunts any Sunday in March. We need 4-6 guns & throw out 10 birds per gun for $175 per gun. These are always a good time for both the hunters and the throwers. You get shots at every bird and then you go hunt the ones you missed. Everyone really enjoys these! So call as soon as possible so we can accommodate anyone who wishes to do this.

We are down on hunter numbers by 20% this year. I hope it is just the economy!

Go Saints!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May 2010 be better than 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Larry

Past Newsletter Pictures Below -

Member Randy Sawyer had a great hunt on September 1st killing his limit of doves and got all five of the pheasants that he ordered. Of course he would not have had that good of hunt without those pretty yellow labs and he probably did not wake up grumpy on September 2nd!

Dan Liden with 4x4 on September 9th.

Member Andy Hartman, Amanda Wagner & Travis Lindahl zeroed in on 33 birds on their initial blast and got another 5 birds on the follow up hunt on March 21. 38 out of 40! GOOD JOB!	Member Steve Merrifield, Kyle Robbins, Kristina Merrifield pose while Sandy Merrifield took photo. They got 22 birds on the initial blast and got another 9 birds on the follow up hunt on March 22. Good job!

Member Steve Yates with guest Greg Crippin after a great hunt on Nov. 24th. 3 geese, 4 pheasant & 1 chukar.

Member Rob Martin with guest Patrick Lionberger with a very mixed bag on Dec. 6th. 2 geese, 4 ducks, 2 pheasant & 2 quail.

Member Andy Hartman brought Member Barry Lindahl, Amanda Wagner & Travis Lindahl, who took this picture for the March 29th Euro Hunt. They got 24 birds on their initial blast & got 5 more on the follow up hunt. Smiles on everyone!	Member Ronnie Benson brought Drew Hollen, Russ Henninger, Jake Stone and members Jason and Ron Kibler for the March 30th shoot. They blasted 29 birds on the initial go and harvested 20 more on the ensuing hunt. Just look at all those smiles.
Mike Utt has harvested 29 ducks so far.	Austin Hofer with lady friend Brooke
Jesse & Jacob Stone, Randy Watts & member Steve Stone harvested 16 pheasants, a chukar & a hun on 1-6-08.	Member Steve Yates, brought nephew Richy & brother Scott for a hunt on 1-19-08

Charlie with limit & dog Kate taken last year. No photo available this year.

Randy Sawyer with 9 doves,4 pheasants & dog Brooks. Randy hunted doves for two hours on September 5th & says he could have gotten more if he would have hunted longer. He says there were lots of doves and wondered why more people didn’t hunt them.
Randy offers this! Never wake up grouchy, just let her sleep.