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Yes indeed, well done!

I would confidently bet a C spot you are simply lifting your head, almost certainly trying to see if you hit the bird. You probably don't even notice it. I have never known a shotgunner who doesn't do this at one point or another during a season. Mine tend to be after a couple misses, and it...

Had a LH 11-87 a number of years ago. Nice shotgun with pretty wood, but heavy compared to my wife's Beretta A300 and my RH Winchester SX4. I eventually traded it in because after 5 decades of using right handed 870s for hunting & in my LE career (learned to operate the safety with the second...

What Brit said...

I concur...

Have never trained anything but labs so I don't rightly know how closely a retriever program mirrors a pointer program. That being said, for a point of comparison I prefer to get a pup from a late winter/early spring litter and take my pup from the litter at 7 weeks old, no sooner, no later...

Well worth it, Hoster...

When I was a kid in the early 60s, I would have probably gotten the belt if I breasted out a rooster. Pheasant roasted with the skin on & stuffed with sweet dressing, or fried and gravy made from the drippings. Man, I don't know if food gets better than that...

IMO Force Fetch/Collar Conditioning is essential, I won't have a dog that isn't FF/CC. It turns retrieving from a fun game the dog does when & as long as it feels like it, into a fun task to be done perfectly on command. As an aside, every dog I sent off for FF/CC came back with even more...

Over the years I've seen body hit birds that showed no sign of being hit fold in flight as well as the "death climb" thing (had one do this two weekends back). More often than not they are quite aways out when they go down. After all, how far can a rooster with it's afterburners lit fly in a...

You have to start at the beginning. The first question I ask is this; Does your dog have rock solid OB (Obedience, sit, stay, here, & heel)? OB is the foundation of all training and if your dog's isn't rock solid, trying to teach anything else is a waste of time & will ultimately fail. It is...

I seem to break through the ice once or twice a year. Most of the time it's only knee or thigh deep so uncomfortable but not a big deal. After the first big scare though, when hunting cattails after freeze up I usually wear chest waders, just in case. On a couple occasions I've had to...

Didn't say anything about hunters. The Left's current agenda and opinion about hunters & we who live in rural America speaks for itself...

The county & townships were broke from flood fighting & repair efforts. The Feds said they didn't have money, putting one in would require an environmental impact study, authorization, and sign off by all involved agencies, ect, ect. You name the excuse, we heard it... Took years to get them...

Go figure, but I vote for a lab... This is why I start a new lab when the oldest active member of the Wrecking Crew is 6 or 7. That youngest dog will be at the beginning of it's career when the oldest is starting to decline. Always had two, it wasn't a conscious decision to expand the Crew to...

Not enough space to go into our & many others experiences with the govt agencies during the Devils Lake flooding during the late 90's-early 2000's. Here's Just a taste my personal experiences. Many others, my old farming & ranching neighbors in particular, still haven't recovered... Because...

Color phase & cross species birds are interesting. Years ago hunting near our then farmstead NE of Devils Lake, we found ourselves under a mallard tornado (if you've never experienced this, it's one of the coolest hunting experiences there is). Of all those thousands of birds, this is the...

I apologize for being a bit... vehement. I worked with & around enough federal government LE and ag agencies to know how political, two faced, & self serving they are. I don't trust them as far as I can throw them, nor do I put anything past them...

Told Toni about this thread. Had to cover a shift for one of my guys out on Covid quarantine yesterday and when I got home last night, she surprised me with pheasant sausage and hash browns. Her version was spicy, more like chorizo than standard breakfast sausage. Man, it was good!

USFW, they have regional offices all across the states. I retired from nearly 40 years in LE a couple years ago and from working with them I can advise they would have no problem enforcing Something like that. Bear in mind these are the same guys who gleefully write up Spring Snow Goose...