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Thanks for the feedback. They are not "my" trips so I either go or don't go. The labs always vote YES. I may try to do a second public only trip on my own.

I've hunted in SD with several different groups through the years, public land, pay-to-play, and combinations. None were preserves. All were wild birds, but maybe with some supplemented. What is the current going rate for private land daily trespass/gun fee with and without a guide? Thanks, Tom

What great pictures. It is so cool that the family can hunt together.

I'm still using one I got from Lion Country Supply about 5 years ago for just over $200. It was about half the price of others. It goes through 9V batteries pretty quickly but otherwise no issues. I just used it yesterday with Brady and today with Tucker. It will fit a pheasant but I usually...

I've used Mendota Skid Plates, Sylmars, and Cabela's vests with my labs and despite modifications I still have issues sometimes with front leg-pit abrasions. I often resort back to the skid plate with a cut-off T-shirt underneath. I pick them up at the thrift store for a buck or two on Seniors'...

Of the 8 lab pups we have had, Tucker is the wildest. He is a handful but like your situation, he is starting to calm down some. It helps that he can now spend more time with us and the other two dogs in the rest of the house and bedroom without getting in too much trouble. We had a good day...

It's really fun to watch how they progress. I am in similar shoes with a 7 mo. yellow lab pup. It's been 8 years since I had my last pup and I'm hoping that Brady can help me train Tucker. Good luck with your pup training. Tom

I wish you the best Zeb and hope you can keep at it until you can't-for the dogs and grandson. I'll be 71 in December with an 8 yr old lab and a 7 mo old lab pup--the wildest of the 8 lab pups we have had. I just hope to continue to hunt for the dogs until I cannot. I try to live by that Toby...

Brady with his first bird of the CO 21/22 season last year. And only a few after that, not counting an early December SoDak trip. Hopefully he can help train Tucker this year.

Fantastic picture Gatzby.

Good luck with your pup prospect next spring. I was in that situation this past spring with a retired 12 yr old and "young" one approaching 9. I started the looking process, figuring it might take a year or more to find the right combination of availability and lineage. And then I lucked out...

My Pair-of-labs name should now be Tre-of-labs as I added pup Tucker to the crew in April. I'll be back to two on the hunting trip this season. Senior citizen Parker (12) retired before last season. Tom

The combination of good weather, good flyfishing with dry flies, total isolation at the lake, and no mosquitoes made it one of my top 3 backpacking trips ever. From the time we left the truck until the time we got back on the 5th day, the only person we saw (once) was a guy driving a logging...

Even at that altitude it was getting up to the mid-70s. Luckily the trout were very cooperative with dry flies. I's especially fun when you can sight-fish for them and watch their reactions to the fly.

Just got back from a 5 day backpacking/flyfishing trip in the Rawah Wilderness in NW Colorado. That's just south of where the BritChaser was going in WY. I'm trying to follow Clint Eastwood's saying, "Don't let the old man in". That was my second backpacking trip this summer and hope to continue...

Speaking of Hen, Hen. Two years ago I took one of my neighbors with me to eastern CO. He had hunted with me once before, about my age (70 now). He was to my right. A bird gets up between us and I yelled hen, hen! BOOM. He shoots and misses. I walk over and questioned why he shot. He said "I...

I missed the Colorado dove opener. I was flyfishing at a 10,700 ft lake on a 5 day backpacking trip.

My retired lab, Parker, had several water retrieves in ND and SD. Like Hunt1GSP said, lightly hit ones can really scoot through the water using their wings as paddlewheels.

That makes me thirsty for a beer just thinking about it.

As my picture and screen name show, I have been a two lab guy. Actually it is now 3 as my new 8 week old pup has aged to 6 months. My senior citizen, Parker the Bird Horse, is 12 and retired from hunting. I usually hunted Parker and Brady, now 8, as alternating in different fields when...