Best retrieve you seen a dog make

One of my labs snuck across the motel parking lot and stoled a rooster out of some other guys rig..
 
my neighbor, who was along on the camper/pheasant hunt, and I would use that Britt dove hunting- well- he'd only retrieve to me

we were sitting on lawn chairs about 160 yards apart- doves were flying- we'd both done some shooting- I'd release that Britt when I'd drop one-

a lull in the shooting so I let him go wander- he cam back with a dove- went out again- brought me 5 doves- I got up as I had my limit- and went to see Tom-

story was- he'd shot a few doves and set them under his chair- my Britt came up- looked at him, looked at the doves- picked one up- yep- he retrieved all of his to me-

Tom said he'd just sit and not move, not say a word, still has good memories of that
 
if you think about it grouchy its kinda a good idea that you trained him to do that you save shells and still go home with your limit :D
 
A few years ago I was hunting A HOLE Its about 30 feet deeper than the farm grown next to it and filled with cattails it takes a hell of a dog just to get in it. I was hunting DOC a WESSLPOINTER and he was down in the cattails when a roster jumped wild. I shot "late season little chance of getting a point" the bird flew and drop dead on some RXR tracks about 100yds away. Doc who was down in the cattails could not have "Seen" the roster but "heard" the hit. I said S__ as it was A quarter mile walk to get back and over to the dead roster. But to my sheer amazement after 5 minutes up pops DOC he had swam a canal found a way under or thought a old wire sheep fence and went up a steep bank to the RXR and went right to the dead roster looked over to see where I was picked up the bird and started back with out a word from me! Though a wired sheep fence, swam the canal, thought a half acre of I mean Denice cattails and brought the bird to my hand!! I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!
 
14 months old

morgan has always been very good retriever land and water.on a combo hunt in ND we asked her to make a water retrieve on a tundra swan that was out about 40 yards.my son alex and i were walking back from the mornings goose hunt and three swans came by and sailed one of them in a nearby lake.so we went to the truck and drove down there and got my 14 month old morgan out of the truck and walked to the closest point and sat morgan down pointed to the swan and said fetch.morgan looked at me then the swan and started swimming out there.when she got there she swam around the 35 lbs of swan and started to push the swan in.you could not even see morgan on the retrieve .got to shore and got under it and finished the retrieve. she also got two big honkers that morning also.here is a pic.
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I was hunting in Iowa with my britt Butch it was going to be his last year hunting at 14 years me and a buddy were hunting a fence line went Butch went on point i told my buddy to take the shot and walk in on the point i flush the bird my friend shot it on the far side of the fence old Butch ran up and down the fence but could not find a hole to get thur he then climb the fence retrieve the bird and climb back over to hand had to put butch down a year later boy i loved that dog
 
My Lab Hauss cleared a fence to make a retrieve on a rooster. That dog could jumb!

Once a rooster came back to life in the back of the truck 1 1/2 hr. after we stopped hunting. I jumped in the back of the truck and made one heck of a retrieve:D:D --1pheas4
 
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