I am very excited because this season my yellow lab female (Daisy) pup will be hunting with me. She turns 1yr old in November. I have been working on all her OB, retrieving with dead pheasants and such. Shot the gun around her and introduced her to some upland drills. The only thing I need to do this weekend is get a couple of live pigeons and throw them for her so she can get used to a live, blood flowing bird.
I am also working on her hold/force fetching. I am very excited because my old yellow lab male, Titan, is 13yrs old. He is the son of my first lab, GMHR Conan of Texas. I will take him out, however I won't work him to much. I have a 6 yr old chocolate female (Roxie) and she is pretty good, however I like to have two dogs at all times. I always have had two when I pheasant hunt. I feel like that way I can rest one if I need to plus if I am hunting by myself, two flushers cover more ground than just one and me.
Anyhow, here's too :cheers: all of our best friends that will be with us come opening weekend and the rest of the season. And just like every season that comes and goes, I will be thinking of my best hunting partners who are not with me, Conan and Ruby, we had some good times. :thumbsup:
Funny, I hunt alot of the same cover and grounds out in Kansas that when I first ever hunted out there I had Conan and Ruby with me. We, meaning Conan, Ruby and myself, kind of learned together how to try and hunt those wily cockbirds. Now when I go out there, I think of all the good times we had and birds I shot, the ones I missed and that they retrieved or tracked down.
I wouldnt' do it if it were not for my dogs....
Greg
I am also working on her hold/force fetching. I am very excited because my old yellow lab male, Titan, is 13yrs old. He is the son of my first lab, GMHR Conan of Texas. I will take him out, however I won't work him to much. I have a 6 yr old chocolate female (Roxie) and she is pretty good, however I like to have two dogs at all times. I always have had two when I pheasant hunt. I feel like that way I can rest one if I need to plus if I am hunting by myself, two flushers cover more ground than just one and me.
Anyhow, here's too :cheers: all of our best friends that will be with us come opening weekend and the rest of the season. And just like every season that comes and goes, I will be thinking of my best hunting partners who are not with me, Conan and Ruby, we had some good times. :thumbsup:
Funny, I hunt alot of the same cover and grounds out in Kansas that when I first ever hunted out there I had Conan and Ruby with me. We, meaning Conan, Ruby and myself, kind of learned together how to try and hunt those wily cockbirds. Now when I go out there, I think of all the good times we had and birds I shot, the ones I missed and that they retrieved or tracked down.
I wouldnt' do it if it were not for my dogs....Greg
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