Bob Peters
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The weather has been terrible but I went anyway. Took a looong walk to an old honey hole. Roxy is a golden retriever. When they boogie she stands on it and puts them in the air. When the bird freezes, she freezes. I think twice today she locked up on a bird and I didn't shoot because it's been really tough to pick out a young rooster from a hen. We also had a wise old bird hot walking well in advance of us. She trailed scent across the grass, along a slough edge, and he finally flushed wild at an old weeded over 2 track too far to shoot. Finally she flushed one on a field edge and I peppered him. I didn't feel good about the shot, but she dug him out of sasquatch's marsh. Good girl! We did some short walks later, but it was too hot for good hunting. So I took her swimming. Looking out over public land a red-tailed hawk was doing lazy circles and dips. A few minutes later I saw a rooster flying hell-bent for feather with the hawk right on his tail! But he was a big old pheasant and landed in his cattail fortress before the hawk could stoop and sink talons. I heart nature.
