Another first for me.

[Weimdogman]

Last year 2 things happened I hadn't seen before pheasant hunting. Dog is retrieving a bird and puts it down to get a better hold and it flew off. A shot bird crawled into a roll of old fencing -barb wire and woven wire.

Last Sunday our group was hunting a large crp , everyone was up by the vehicles but I walked out to the corner and was working back to them. My dog pointed a hen which flushed almost at my feet. Dog then continued to work the fence line acting very birdy. I hear the beep beep beep of my buddies dog on point. I had no idea where it was other then the sound was between me and the group. I yelled hey your dog is on point somewhere. Owner yells back well you know what to do. As I got close to the beep my dog goes on point. I walked in expecting multiple birds or at least a bird that had moved from the original point. Well one giant hen came out almost 1/2 way between the dogs. As birds often do it excreted and the wind gave me a whitewash. Told my friend his dog had set me up.

 

[Golden Hour]

That is hilarious!!! I have to imagine the birds have wanted to crap on us many times over the years and this one was able to make it happen.

 

[Lefty76]

I don't do well with poop! I feel for you, but better you than me!

I need to do a better job with my Gopro footage. Earlier this season Benny flushed a hen a few feet away from me. I watched the bird defacate and immediately thought there was no way Benny avoided that. Sure enough, he took the majority of the load to his forehead. Thank goodness Springers are self-cleaning dogs!

 

[A5 Sweet 16]

Pretty funny. I've never had #1 or #3 happen, thankfully. But yes on the pile/mess of wire, & it happened last season for me as well, out toward Oldham. Ace got quite a way in there, but I finally had to get him out, lest he get stuck. Somewhere in that pile of wire is a rooster skeleton. Were you able to recover yours, or not?

 

[Weimdogman]

Pretty funny. I've never had #1 or #3 happen, thankfully. But yes on the pile/mess of wire, & it happened last season for me as well, out toward Oldham. Ace got quite a way in there, but I finally had to get him out, lest he get stuck. Somewhere in that pile of wire is a rooster skeleton. Were you able to recover yours, or not?

Yes I recovered the bird but scratched the hell out of my arm in the process.

 

[Weimdogman]

Had another first yesterday. Shot a rooster that i believed i hit hard. It came down right along the edge of the picked cornfield and the slough grass. My 2 dogs were right after the retrieve and it looked to me as if they slightly overran it. Dogs ran back into the slough grass and a rooster hopped up then hopped up again and flew 5 yards into the field. Bird saw / heard me as I yelled fetch to fire up the dogs. Bird then flew off and i had my gun slung over my shoulder. So I walked up to where I thought my bird went down and called the dogs over and gave the fetch command again. Took about 30 seconds to make the retrieve.

 

[Limitless]

Had another first yesterday. Shot a rooster that i believed i hit hard. It came down right along the edge of the picked cornfield and the slough grass. My 2 dogs were right after the retrieve and it looked to me as if they slightly overran it. Dogs ran back into the slough grass and a rooster hopped up then hopped up again and flew 5 yards into the field. Bird saw / heard me as I yelled fetch to fire up the dogs. Bird then flew off and i had my gun slung over my shoulder. So I walked up to where I thought my bird went down and called the dogs over and gave the fetch command again. Took about 30 seconds to make the retrieve.

Trying to run interference for his buddy, not knowing he was down for the count -- for good.