mlmich@pldi.net
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Arrived at Drummond Flats around 8:30 am. Parked in the car lot, let the dog out (GSP) to do his business. He rides in the back seat of my station wagon. I was unzipping my shotgun case as well as getting water for the hunt. I thought it a little odd GunnR never returned to the car to wait on me. I got around and rolled out of the vehicle and started across the road still not seeing GunnR. I called, still no dog. As I was crossing the road to the field, I thought maybe he's behind the car out into an adjacent field. I stated back and as I was looking I spotted him on pointed about 30 ft from the vehicle. I moved in and no bird, they had run.
He started to work them and about 45 yds from his original point he locked, down & up came the first rooster and down he went. As GunnR moved in for the retrieve a second rooster flushed further out. I pulled on him but decided to hold off because the first rooster was slightly hit and probably a runner. I didn't want my GSP to pull up from the wounded one and the possibility of losing both. (One in the hand is better than two in the bush.) After the retrieve we continued hunting, w/one hen pointed and two others bumped.
Never had that happen in 60 yrs of pheasant hunting, including SD where I grew up hunting and go back hunting each year for 10 days.
He started to work them and about 45 yds from his original point he locked, down & up came the first rooster and down he went. As GunnR moved in for the retrieve a second rooster flushed further out. I pulled on him but decided to hold off because the first rooster was slightly hit and probably a runner. I didn't want my GSP to pull up from the wounded one and the possibility of losing both. (One in the hand is better than two in the bush.) After the retrieve we continued hunting, w/one hen pointed and two others bumped.
Never had that happen in 60 yrs of pheasant hunting, including SD where I grew up hunting and go back hunting each year for 10 days.
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