That's what I'm talking about!

This afternoon, it was around 40° with a five mile-per-hour wind. We hunted at Lake Brekken, just North of the town of Turtle Lake. Because we were a little late getting out of the hotel and then we were putting in some time thanking landowners, we got a little over two hours of pheasant hunting in tonight.

During that two hours, we put up 15 birds, around half of which were roosters. We killed two of them and hit a third, but not hard enough to bring it down. There was a fourth that we both shot-at and missed cleanly. Additionally, Dan shot at and missed one more. Winnie registered 11 solid points. Of the 15 birds we put up, she found almost all of them. For the first hour, we hunted Winnie and Gunner together. For the second hour we hunted her with Jackson.

Dan said that without a doubt, today was the greatest performance of Winnie's  life, and I wholeheartedly agree! It was also very heartwarming and a little emotional to watch Gunner hunt as well, considering he's not even supposed to be here. Jackson did a good job too and registered his first point ever, and also got his first true flush on a wild bird that he worked all by himself!

As you can imagine, it was two hours of nonstop action. This is the type of pheasant hunting that we envisioned here and are willing to drive 1500 miles for! We don't know really what else to say other then we are f'ing psyched right now!