Youth pheasant opener

The weekend before last was the youth pheasant opener.  I have permission on some property north of town that I have taken quite a few pheasants out of in the past.  We headed to this spot to see if Taylor could bag her first bird.  We covered quite a bit of ground and got some birds up but they were all out of range.  Without a good snow to hold them they were running for the hills.  The only shot that Taylor would have had on one was when we were almost back to the rig and she unloaded her gun.  I walked over to a lone sagebrush and a nice rooster gets up and flies dead away.  It was a fun hunt never the less and Taylor's first bird hunt with shotgun in hand.