Another first for me.

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Weimdogman

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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.
 
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.
 
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!
 
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?
 
A5 Sweet 16 said:
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?
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Yes I recovered the bird but scratched the hell out of my arm in the process.
 
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.
 
Weimdogman said:
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.
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Trying to run interference for his buddy, not knowing he was down for the count -- for good. :LOL:
 
Hunting a waterway that runs along a small picked cornfield and grazed pasture. We knew there would be birds as we often saw them when driving by. Called the landowner and he said go ahead. Anyways there were about 300 Starlings flying around in and out of the willows. About 6 pheasants flushed in front of my friend but the Starlings kept him from being able to pick out a rooster.
 
I once had a wounded rooster run into the gap between round bales with my GSP Gibby hot on his tail. There were about 50 bales in each row and the gap between them wasn't very big and Gibby was 60 pounds.

I was getting damn scared before she finally was able to back out with that rooster in her mouth. I don't know what I would have done had she not been able to get out on her own. I was in Kansas, didn't know another soul and there wasn't a farm house for miles.
 
airmedic1 said:
I once had a wounded rooster run into the gap between round bales with my GSP Gibby hot on his tail. There were about 50 bales in each row and the gap between them wasn't very big and Gibby was 60 pounds.

I was getting damn scared before she finally was able to back out with that rooster in her mouth. I don't know what I would have done had she not been able to get out on her own. I was in Kansas, didn't know another soul and there wasn't a farm house for miles.
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Had that happen, also worried about dog getting stuck!!! Didn’t get the bird…
 
I was hunting a small thick CRP field and shot my third rooster of the day. It came down about 35-40 yards from me with its head down so I was pretty sure it was dead. I marked it the best I could and waded over to where I was sure it had gone down. The three shorthairs were hunting around the area but soon lost patience and took off but my old Welshie Morgan kept moving around in the area. Finally she stuck her head in a badger hole and began trying to dig the frozen ground. I couldn't get her to leave, she just kept trying to get in that hole.
Now I'm strongly adverse to sticking my arm in a badger hole since I've seen how nasty they can be but I really wanted that pheasant to finish my limit. I laid down on the ground, pulled Morgan out of the hole and reached it. I felt tail feathers and began to pull until I could grab his legs and pull him out.
There was snow on the ground and I didn't see any sign of the badger but that's not saying there wasn't one in there!
It also taught me how tenacious wild roosters can be, they will do anything they can to escape!
 
airmedic1 said:
I was hunting a small thick CRP field and shot my third rooster of the day. It came down about 35-40 yards from me with its head down so I was pretty sure it was dead. I marked it the best I could and waded over to where I was sure it had gone down. The three shorthairs were hunting around the area but soon lost patience and took off but my old Welshie Morgan kept moving around in the area. Finally she stuck her head in a badger hole and began trying to dig the frozen ground. I couldn't get her to leave, she just kept trying to get in that hole.
Now I'm strongly adverse to sticking my arm in a badger hole since I've seen how nasty they can be but I really wanted that pheasant to finish my limit. I laid down on the ground, pulled Morgan out of the hole and reached it. I felt tail feathers and began to pull until I could grab his legs and pull him out.
There was snow on the ground and I didn't see any sign of the badger but that's not saying there wasn't one in there!
It also taught me how tenacious wild roosters can be, they will do anything they can to escape!
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My pup pulled a hun out of a badger hole in ND in September…she kept sticking her head in holes that trip..,🤓
 
I was at a navhda test and my dog was.on point but I couldn't find a bird. Judge says just pull him off last dog was pointing here also and no bird. Just then I noticed a hole which I pointed out to the judge. He said well now we know where the bird is.
 
Had a downed rooster run into a huge pile of tangled up wire (like several feet in diameter & a few feet high). Of course it'd been there awhile & had grass/weeds grown up in & around it. Ace found a hole & got about 3/4 of the way in there, before I decided that rooster wasn't worth it, grabbed him by the hind legs, & pulled him out. The bird obviously hadn't been hit hard. Would be interesting to know how things turned out for him.
 
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