Christian and chucker

Good friend Christian Quested reflects on growing up and becoming a hunter. I moved here when I was five years old. My dad originally was from Montana. His dad was a wonderful fly fisher, and they hunted a little bit, mainly for food. They weren't very well off when we moved here. My dad really got involved, especially with upland game birds. And back in the 80s, you could find a pheasant anywhere in this valley. So we hunted a lot for Boise area. Emmet and the orchards some places in the foothills, even because it was really an abundance of pheasants, hunts and trucker. So probably the first farm as old as I was able to walk. And eventually my dad made me carry an empty gun, and then I probably started hunting a little sooner than I should have. But he had us out hunting birds for a long time, and I really fell in love with that. Then I mean, just shooting and bird hunting in general is such a sport. If you do it right, there's a lot of action. It's fun to work with the dog and you just get out and see good things. And they're wonderful to eat, obviously, too. So do you do you if you get a chucker? I mean, you take that home and you're going to fix it up and. Oh, absolutely. And you know, I mean, it's pretty quick when he just brought him out. I mean, if you think I've probably done 10000 of them in my lifetime, that's a lot of chucker.