Missing

Goosemaster

Goosemaster

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I'm sure everyone can relate to missing shots. When my dog works her butt off to flush a bird, and I miss, I feel disgusted with myself. I'm glad I don't miss much because it's a personal thing with me. The hunter, and his dog, are a team, one cannot be successful without the other.
 
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I'm sure everyone can relate to missing shots. When my dog works her butt off to flush a bird, and I miss, I feel disgusted with myself. I'm glad I don't miss much because it's a personal thing with me. The hunter, and his dog, are a team, one cannot be successful without the other.
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Ditto. I don't need that pheasant. I've shot my share. But my dog works too hard for me to miss. He deserves every rooster within shotgun range. Nothing makes him prouder than retrieving one.

Edit/Addition: Late in the season on public land, hunting the trickiest, most pressured pheasants on the planet, some days Ace & I might hunt 3+ hours just to get 1 or 2 roosters to flush in range. When he's done 99% of the dirty work, busting snow & cattails as hard as he does, for a bird or 2, while I slowly lollygag along behind him, I better not miss a reasonable shot opportunity when he gives me one. We've all heard, "The dog doesn't care of you miss." And I guess I have no hard proof that he does. But I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he cares deeply when I hit it & he's got a rooster to fetch.
 
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Depends on the type of miss. A "gimme" frustrates me, no doubt about it. But missing one that's on the edge of range or quartering away or flushing fully away doesn't bother me as much.

Missing a rooster is one thing. You'll almost always get another chance. If you miss a stationary target like a deer or a turkey, you very likely aren't going to get another chance. Luckily, that's never happened to me...yet.
 
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