Interesting thing happened today

airmedic1

airmedic1

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I was hunting some hailed wheat and when we got close to the corner a rooster flushed that I knocked down. As my GSP Sevee got close to where it went down a rooster flushed from right where the one I shot went down. I shot it and Sevee diverted to that one and retrieved it. I started to walk off but went back and there was the first one I shot laying dead in the snow.
I just assumed the second one that flew was the first one that i knocked down. Glad I went and looked!
 
I've had this happen over before also. Even worse are the times I remember walking to where a bird that I was sure folded, only to have a bird flush and hit/miss and didn't even look long for the first one because I was certain that must have been it.
Only takes one experience like yours to regret all the times I may have "assumed" incorrectly.
 
Back about 30 years ago I hunted with a man from Alaska named Tom. He was in his 70's, had no dog, and hunted by himself most of the time. I ran into him on his 3rd day in Kansas carrying his 3rd Kansas pheasant in 3 days off the hill. I invited him to hunt private ground I had permission on the next day which led to us hunting together a lot for the following 5 years. We were out hunting on this particular day and doing well. He had never taken a 4 bird limit and when he got his 3rd rooster I could tell he was really wanting to make that milestone. My Hawk dog went on point in front of him and I let him have the bird. He shot and dropped the bird. The dogs hit that spot and didn't come up with it immediately. It was only a short distance to the end of the CRP which ended with a green wheat field. Star pointed in the far end of the patch and I told him to go get his bird. The bird flushed and he downed it, supposedly again, with 1 shot. Star ran out and made the retrieve. We both looked up as the pointer he had borrowed loped into the wheat field with the first wounded rooster in his mouth. Tom didn't even stutter when he hollered "nice shot Troy". Things happen!
 
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Skadergen said:
I believe I would have assumed the same thing, what made you go back and look?
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I guess I replayed that shot in my mind and it seemed that I had really stoned that rooster and he came down with his head down. It didn’t seem that he could have came down that hard but then recover enough to fly away like he did.

I think the fact it was in a corner made it easier to find the spot than if it had been in the middle of a field where everything looks the same.
 
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