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It depends. The best days with 2 hunters finding lots of birds the dogs put in the least mileage. 3 or more hunters, chasing quail, big country and decent bird populations you’re looking at 15+ A day. I run mine 4 days in a row.

Don’t want to take anything away from SD pheasant hunting, but you need to know they wild release tens to hundreds of thousands birds each year. I actually think with today’s science all these conservation departments should be exploring a way to seed populations to drive abundance populations...

I train at grounds where a NAVDA chapter has their Sat/Sun meet up training days almost every weekend. Way too much liberated bird work. Dogs are mechanical and obedient, but when the training grounds wild release pheasants they all struggle. They’re not needed beyond early breaking and...

A couple of thoughts. Dogs get their energy from fat. Move to a food that is above 20% fat and at least 30% protein. If you put your dogs on the ground day after day and for more than 3+ hours a day, they get depleted in a hurry. I run pointers and typically have them on the ground 4 days all...

Great post! I've hunted some of the same ground for years and the farms have all kinds of cover that used to hold 5-6 coveys and now have 2. cover matters, spring weather matters, but there is more in play here and it points to farming practices and chemical.

Spent the last 10 days hunting MO. Mostly private ground. Bird numbers are just not there compared to the last 2-3 years. Majority of the coveys were ~10 birds.

botton line, toppers only go so far. when you get below 40 degrees, do your buddy a favor and start to cover to varying degree the crate. They burn alot of energy generating heat thatonly takes aways from the energy needed in the field.

Never understood why you would need more than 3 shells at any one time for upland hunting. Unless a really delayed flush with multiple birds, which that is the exception, shot 4 or 5 success is such low probability from what I've observed from my hunting buddies. And if you're a cracker jack...

They're ground nesting and ground roosting birds. Will they fly into a tree, yes, but its the exception.

I think the number of dogs that tear a dew claw is so few. Can it happen yes. By removing do you eliminate a potential injury, yes. likehihood of that specific injury, low. remove them if you'd like. I personally don't.

so sorry

Hands down, Garmin Alpha 100/200 best track n' train in the marketplace, but its GPS not beeper.

Fly them out a day or two before

Pre-conditioning is the very best to develop tough feet. It requires them spending lots of time on the ground running, not in the backyard or walks through the neighborhood. When they do get sore feet during the season, epsom salt does wonders. Soaking them for 10 minutes of an evening once...

Rocky Outbacks. The real deal

Here, Whoa and Dead Bird

very nice setup. I just retooled, but I would be interested in in how you set your heating solution?

I've had to adjust my gun as I've aged. Drop, cast and pull. I've found trying to retrain something not natural, is hard to master especially when your instinctive when shooting. It's not hard to make the gun fit changes. There are kits for new guns our you can make your own from cardboard...

Take a look at the Gamehide brush buster. I've been pleasantly surprised. I had been an avid Columbia Briarshun user for years and stocked up several pair and use them today, but the Gamehide fronts are pretty darn good. I've stocked up on several pair as well. Now for the size, they make...

Shells, Gloves and Transmitter...that's it