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    Colorado Grouse 2025

    Only so many youth days in their (and your) lives... make them clean all the toliets everyday for a month and scrub your truck floorboards with their old toothbrushes instead to give em' a good "learning"... but DONT miss a chance to sit in a blind with them on a day without the hordes of folks...
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    RX Shooting glasses?

    Does anyone have an excellent recommendation for prescription shooting glasses.. I've always used just my regular daily prescription sunglasses. But now my right eye is getting blurry spots (my nephew calls it "old man eyes") and I want a lens that helps sharpen definition. Dr. says it's nothing...
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    Slowing your dog

    I had a very well respected trainer tell me that almost any problem (emphasis on almost) in the field can be addressed with going back and reinforcing basic obedience. Don't be fooled, obediance slips with all of us who love our dogs. Every time I'm getting frustrated, I remember that advice and...
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    Slowing your dog

    Revisit basic obedience every day, sit, heal, stay. Sit on whistle. Sit on whistle with collar. 5min, that's all it takes. But do it in different settings (ie when going on walks, unleashed walks, prior to training). Dogs should always sit immediately after unloading for their safety, those...
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    Vest suggestions

    Good point. I have one of the traditional Browning vests, don't like it much as I have to keep it loose so the buckles don't get in my way. I start hunting Sept grouse where I most often find adequate water sources for the dog, then through Montana, KS and CO pheasants where I'm often needing 2...
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    Vest suggestions

    I recently lost my hip belt with snare pliers, dog bowl etc somewhere along a 3 mile WPA loop. I'vebeen wanting a vest but I absolutely hate have a strap under my gun stock effecting the pull. I have had a couple iver the years but can't get over that feeling, hence the hip belt. However...
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    Count the ways ya can screw up

    Just got off the phone with mine.... she paused a bit too long when I said that I'd be home by Dec 6th.... "really?" was her reply. I've only been gone since the 19th 🤔😆 All good, she hung up after a "love ya babe" 👍
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    Unbelievable

    Very impressed with the numbers of birds still out there on public land. I haven't walked a field without seeing at least a couple, not always getting shots but that's a work in progress with a very enthusiastic young lab. Staying in smaller areas where 1 guy and his 2 year old, who keeps...
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    Count the ways ya can screw up

    How many ways can you screw up in one field?? So my first walk was a 3.6 miler around a WPA. Kali got birdy right away and I stupidly didn't go with it as I thought the birds would be on the side of the pond further away from the truck where the thick grass met corn. Instead, we got to the...
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    Myd

    Once a "mud eater" always a mud eater. Last 2 labs sneak(ed) a bite whenever they could. But past age 2 they do it much much less... the collar helped with my current lab
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    The music of camping out

    I'll usually camp through the last of Nov/ first week of December, although every 5th night I call it a day early and sleep in the next morning while giving my dog and I both a rest in a Motel. If snow AND wind, I'm moteling it for sure😉
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    Popcorn roosters?

    They are fighting. They jump in order to spur each other... Mean little f'ers to each other. 😉
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    The music of camping out

    So I've been hunting far from home in multiple states the last few years. Small truck, one dog, not a lot of gear. I try to find out of the way places to hunt, and quietly, legally and cleanly, to camp. Never have seen an ugly sunset (or sunrise) on the prairie, and falling asleep before 8:30...
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    Rain

    Hunted Sunday thru Tuesday, letting the roads firm up a bit. Did very well on public, pretty good on private. 2 guys, 2 dogs a few misses and 15 roosters in the bag. Fields with waste high grass, mostly bordering grain but even if next to winter wheat, had birds. Had to know where those were...
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    Purpose of Force-Fetch?

    This is 100% spot on!
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