Shawk
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...a few pics from this season. Hope everyone is doing well, getting their miles in and staying safe. 
The bird numbers seem to be somewhere in the neighborhood of last year (certainly not up). Some of my better hunting areas seem to be down a tad but on the bright side I've seen a bird or two in places I haven't seen them around in quite a while. My average hunt has been around 6-10 miles of walking. I typically take on the bigger plots solo, turn a dog loose and go for a walk. My shortest hunt this season was around 20-30 minutes to limit... my 2nd shortest day with a limit took probably 60ish minutes in the field with most other hunts being half to full days. I've been skunked once this season on a 2-3 hour hunt... and my pup was skunked once once literally a week ago. Unfortunately we were in such heavy cover I never saw the guy/gal who did it, so it survived for another day to be found.
Our longest drive of the year produced the shortest time in the field...
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... on the opposite end, the longest day of the year... Chloe logged 19 miles, Mia logged 18 and I logged 13.5.
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BUT the longest day did end producing this...
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and it also produced this that night at home...
The bird numbers seem to be somewhere in the neighborhood of last year (certainly not up). Some of my better hunting areas seem to be down a tad but on the bright side I've seen a bird or two in places I haven't seen them around in quite a while. My average hunt has been around 6-10 miles of walking. I typically take on the bigger plots solo, turn a dog loose and go for a walk. My shortest hunt this season was around 20-30 minutes to limit... my 2nd shortest day with a limit took probably 60ish minutes in the field with most other hunts being half to full days. I've been skunked once this season on a 2-3 hour hunt... and my pup was skunked once once literally a week ago. Unfortunately we were in such heavy cover I never saw the guy/gal who did it, so it survived for another day to be found.
Our longest drive of the year produced the shortest time in the field...
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... on the opposite end, the longest day of the year... Chloe logged 19 miles, Mia logged 18 and I logged 13.5.
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BUT the longest day did end producing this...
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and it also produced this that night at home...
