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Four of us headed West last Wednesday for our first and last trip of the year. We can't miss a year because of 50% less birds. My cousin had a limb break climbing to his treestand two weeks before and fell and broke his foot. That didn't stop him from going. He wanted his nine month old lab to hunt so bad he wouldn't think of staying home. Funny thing was he was the only one to shoot a bird while he was blocking. We had other chances, four to be exact. If you walk all day and finally get one to flush in range you won't be ready to shoot.
On the bright side: my new 11 month old chocolate worked extremely good as well as my 10 year old veteran chocolate who can always be trusted. The two nine month old labs the other guys brought did real well for their age. Enjoyed carrying my new PF 686. And, we gained some new land to hunt. We shot a coyote for about the fifth trip in a row.
On the bad side: seemed like we flushed 1/3 of the hens that we did last year, our motel now charges for dogs, the burs were bad, Montana Mikes sucked again, and lastly my cousin came down with a now confirmed case of Influenza A Saturday and we had to spend six hours in the truck with him to get home.
I'd have a better feeling about next year if we had seen more hens.
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On the bright side: my new 11 month old chocolate worked extremely good as well as my 10 year old veteran chocolate who can always be trusted. The two nine month old labs the other guys brought did real well for their age. Enjoyed carrying my new PF 686. And, we gained some new land to hunt. We shot a coyote for about the fifth trip in a row.
On the bad side: seemed like we flushed 1/3 of the hens that we did last year, our motel now charges for dogs, the burs were bad, Montana Mikes sucked again, and lastly my cousin came down with a now confirmed case of Influenza A Saturday and we had to spend six hours in the truck with him to get home.
I'd have a better feeling about next year if we had seen more hens.
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