Roosters been dodging pushers and blockers longer than anyone of us have been alive.
Seems it's not how the majority of us like to hunt, but as long as your legal, to each his own.
We all know the real reason for the decline of bird populations, and it has nothing to do with harvest.
Unless a...
What are you trying to do? Expose him to birds or train recall? If you're training you should have a plan on what you are training for...every time you go out. There are many ways to train a bird dog, go spend $50 on Amazon and buy a couple of books, and start from the beginning.
If the dog...
You've established your dog has plenty of prey drive, quit throwing birds and put a check cord on him and let him POINT some birds. You don't need an e-collar to do this. I'm in quail country so I plant birds on an edge to get dogs used to hunting edges. I've never had an issue getting a dog...
Mines a '56, 16 ga, 26" mod, plain barrel, some deer hunter drilled 4 holes into the receiver for a scope mt, has the requisite cracks on forearm, bluing about 80%, bought it for $350 off the Cabela's used gun rack 20 years ago. Love that gun.
Okay, I get the props to the white dogs, but you got Stallion on top side, goes back to Rockacre Blackhawk, who goes back to one of my favorites, Fiddler. Dang I'm getting old. Very nice litter, good luck with them.
Look at how many views a thread gets when locations begin to be discussed. I'm not sure why people feel compelled to give out locations, maybe they get warm fuzzy's by documenting their successes and the where and when becomes a part of that.
For almost 10 years I hunted a particular county...
Me too. Like birds so much that wife and I ate 12 tasty KS dove Saturday evening. She paired it with a Columbia Valley Sauv Blanc, me a Pale Ale. I killed most of them, but happily shared with her.
https://www.rogerssportinggoods.com/Ammunition/Shotgun-Shells/cat-ammo-game-and-target-loads/gauge/16
I find 16ga loads all the time at the rural walmarts. Not so much the city ones.