It was fun, nice dog George. Well none are banished but I should be. I wanted a bird for my youngster who will go home with MattD next weekend. he is a soft dog and has been hunting well for me. I made the mistake of putting the collar on him by habit hunting, just never normally him. He shut down most of the time. It dawned on me when we were finishing that pass. I took it off and he started to open up right away. But we only had about 100 yards to the truck through where we already had been.
I did get home and took him out behind the house and ran him. And there you go. He did what he was supposed to. Hunted real nice and put up a hen. Lesson learned. He just will not run with a collar on.
Willow was great, dug a buried one out of the canary grass, made a nice retrieve. Also flushed a hen. And yes there was great team work on pointed birds. If you teach them to hup there should never be an issue.:thumbsup: I then broke out my one other young dog for the last bird, and we just got going and Ellie had one pinned down up ahead right away, so she never really got much work. I had the old man FC OD in the truck, but he never made it out of the crate. We were done. Guess next time it will be his turn LOL.