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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OkieJoe72" data-source="post: 3912670" data-attributes="member: 48447">A BIG FAT zero for the first two days of the season. The wind on opening day kept them in heavy cover, but we managed to flush a few birds (3 roosters and 2 hens). It was a lot of walking in heavy weeds/brush to get them up.  Towards the end of the day, I finally took one shot, and he took a nose dive in the milo field just outside of where we flushed him. By the time that I got out of the weeds, he apparently got up and ran back into cover.  We never found him after that. Day two started out with pretty good conditions. We were hunting south of Keyes, OK. Around 10:30, I noticed a dark looking wall cloud heading our way. Within a few minutes, the wind started picking up, and I caught one rooster heading back to cover.  I took a shot and knocked him down with eyes on him the whole time. The wall cloud of dust, dirt, and tumble weeds got to us right when I shot him. The wind was literally blowing 40 mph within a few seconds. That dang bird got up and ran into thick brush right by where he was laying. I never found him, but I tried for about 30 minutes while getting sand blasted and slapped by the tumble weeds. I’ve never experienced a true dust storm until yesterday. It was a wild experience. Visibility was only a few hundred feet at times. The pic doesn’t do it justice, but it somewhat shows the dust in the air.  Hopefully, I’ll head back in a couple of weeks and try again. [ATTACH=full]325292[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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