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padave

padave

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My 2yo lab is into his 2nd season ( first season away from game farm birds )
And where I mostly hunt in SGL it's the typical crop fields and thick thick thick hedge rows. He does just fine finding the birds, but where he is able to find an opening in the hedge he flushes the birds out but most of the time they fly off in the other direction. Is this a topic question for dog issue or is it a me issue. And also this is my first year hunting outside game farms when there are birds around. Just for the record I shot 4 pheasants and dirt has flushed over 15 I stopped counting.
 
You need to find a friend.:) It is a bird issue, not a dog issue. No matter where you hunt birds will always try to escape on the side nobody is present.
 
carptom1 said:
You need to find a friend.:) It is a bird issue, not a dog issue. No matter where you hunt birds will always try to escape on the side nobody is present.
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Got it! I just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing anything wrong that I wasn't seeing.
 
If you can figure that out lazer will make you king of uph for a day:). That is the question that has perplexed hunters forever.
 
carptom1 said:
If you can figure that out lazer will make you king of uph for a day:). That is the question that has perplexed hunters forever.
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Thats the truth! I've had days hunting quail alone where the dog has flushed hundreds of birds only to have me have a couple shots.:eek: It can get frustrating, a hunting partner solves the problem.
 
My remedy is to not hunt cover where the birds can back door you while hunting alone, you're just educating them at that point
 
You need a hunting partner, for sure. Hunted the weekend in Iowa. Monday when the others headed for home I hunted some by myself. Put up 5 roosters and didn't get a shot at any of them. Public land birds that have been chased around. Flushed way ahead, or went left of the willow thicket when I was going right. A partner along and we would have had good shooting opportunities on at least 2 of them.

Grouse are that way, too. They'll run into clumps of balsam fir to the far side and use it as escape cover. A good partner will know what you expect, pay attention to wind direction and the dog so you don't have to talk. A hand signal of "you go left, I'll go right" around that cover and one is likely to have a shot.

I've hunted with too many companions who will stop by the pointing dog and stand there, not aware enough [despite my telling them what to expect] to realize the bird is another 20 yards ahead in that clump of cover.
 
herding cats

ever tried it, just like herding pheasants, takes lots of beer but at the end of the day, at least you had a beer

cheers
 
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