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This was a rooster from my first trip to South Dakota last fall. I'm really pleased with how it turned out.
Here's the story...it was a warmer, sunny day last October. I was hunting by myself with just my younger Golden (she was 3 then). Keep in mind this was my first trip to South Dakota, and I'm used to hunting hours around here in Wisconsin for State stocked birds on public grounds so hunting truly wild birds out there was an eye opener.
Hunting along, we came to a tree that apparently provided good shade and Sage got birdy. Roosters started busting out one after another. I was surprised, startled, etc. and was having real trouble picking out a bird because as I picked one, another would jump out. Well, this was literally rooster #9 that came out from under that tree. And he was the last bird in there under that tree.
He flew out, I shot, and he dropped in a cut corn field and immediately took off running. Sage went after him and got a ways out so I called her back. I went with her more slowly after the bird. She was working well row to row. She runs past a clump of stalks and does a solid stop and spins 180 degrees and sticks her head into the clump. The rooster was in there and jumped in the air and tried to spur her. She literally jumped and grabbed him out of the air and held him. It was spectacular.
The whole story was so neat that I needed to make that memory a permanent one, right down to having him mounted on a simulated corn field. The base measures 24 x 36 and sets nice on a table top. Here he is...
Here's the story...it was a warmer, sunny day last October. I was hunting by myself with just my younger Golden (she was 3 then). Keep in mind this was my first trip to South Dakota, and I'm used to hunting hours around here in Wisconsin for State stocked birds on public grounds so hunting truly wild birds out there was an eye opener.
Hunting along, we came to a tree that apparently provided good shade and Sage got birdy. Roosters started busting out one after another. I was surprised, startled, etc. and was having real trouble picking out a bird because as I picked one, another would jump out. Well, this was literally rooster #9 that came out from under that tree. And he was the last bird in there under that tree.
He flew out, I shot, and he dropped in a cut corn field and immediately took off running. Sage went after him and got a ways out so I called her back. I went with her more slowly after the bird. She was working well row to row. She runs past a clump of stalks and does a solid stop and spins 180 degrees and sticks her head into the clump. The rooster was in there and jumped in the air and tried to spur her. She literally jumped and grabbed him out of the air and held him. It was spectacular.
The whole story was so neat that I needed to make that memory a permanent one, right down to having him mounted on a simulated corn field. The base measures 24 x 36 and sets nice on a table top. Here he is...
