0'fer on pheasants

We hunted a few spots that were recommended to us by a PF contact out here but had no luck tonight with pheasants. Both dogs hundred very well with Jackson starting to quarter across all 3 of us as opposed to hunting only for Bill like he has wanted to do in past years. The experience he is gaining each day is noticeable and fun to watch him learn and progress. The only criticism that I have of him is that his owner failed to properly condition him, so there were quite a few times that he got tired and decided to put himself "at heel" and walk with Bill instead of hunting. In his defense, it was over 70° today (far from optimal weather) for hunting. Both dogs got birdy a couple times and Winnie had 1 point at 1 minute after the last legal shooting time, so (to be legal) we called her off of it and headed home. While that would have been very sporting of us, what really happened was the bird was in some REALLY thick brush and after pointing it 2-3 times in there over the course of about 5 minutes, they still couldn't get it to flush and we had to give up on it.

 Tomorrow we intend to hunt  pheasants farther to the west (in the Route 37 corridor) between the towns of Conde and Groton.  It will cause us more driving time, but there are higher concentrations of birds the further West of Lily that we go.

 We also scouted a couple more duck spots this afternoon and found another spot or 2, so we're starting to get more comfortable with our surroundings in that realm.

Both dogs are already happy to be home and comfy, as you can see...