Welcome to the

“Uncompahgre Hunt Club Newsletter”

Dear Members & Friends,

Hello everyone! As the start of summer is approaching, we have all our hay on the ground and it has rained on it the last three days, which is why I have the time to write this. People used to tell me when we had the dairy that they would cut their hay a week after we did, because it always rained on ours. Some things never change. We did not plant any corn on the Lindsey or Loveless places. In those two fields we planted alfalfa with an oat hay cover. I see Steve has planted lots of corn on the Shea place. How much will be picked & how much will be used for silage remains to be seen. The Gore place, well, is the Gore place.

We will be getting our pheasants and chukar from Hatt's Ranch once again. We found a new supplier for our bobwhites. All birds will cost less this upcoming season. You read this correctly. Prices will be as follows:

Pheasants-------------------------------$22
Chukar---------------------------------$18
Quail-----------------------------------
                                                              $10(September)
                                                              $11 (October)
                                                              $12 (November)
                                                              $13 (December On)

09-10 Stats: The harvest of pheasants was up slightly at 76%. Harvest of chukar & quail was 72% and 69% respectively. Like a broken record, Ronnie Benson harvested 150% of birds planted for him. Scott Wederquist recorded 12 hunting trips while Dave Parker had the most at 13 trips. Thanks fellas!

Euro Hunts: With hunter numbers and birds ordered down this past season, we would like to thank everyone who came on these European style hunts as it helps to get rid of the leftover birds. Steve Merrifield brought a crew on March 13th and again on March 21st. Out of 99 birds, they harvested 76 on the initial blast and ended up with 99.(See photo on other side) Mike McCormick brought a crew on March 28th and out of 82 birds ended up with 67.
( no photo available) RMTV has video of Steve's hunt and should be able to be viewed in the Gunnison & Crested Butte areas.

Dues: All dues will remain the same. If your member number is 99 or less you pay $150 and get 5 birds. If your number is 100 or above you pay $500 and get 10 birds.

Kat from RMTV, Kyle Robbins, Kristina, Sandy & Steve Merrifield and Dean Solem

Hope to see you in September and good luck big game hunting.

Larry

 

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Past Newsletter Pictures Below -

	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.

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.