Final Hunting Day

We hunted SSE of Storm Lake today at 3 separate spots & finished the day with 3 birds. Each of us got 1 & Dan hit another that we weren't able to recover. Weather was a balmy (in comparison with yesterday) 36 degrees with light wind.
All 4 dogs were tired & we needed to pack to return home, so we didn't start our hunt until 11. All the spots we hit today were grassland fields with some wetland cover, nearby to harvested cornfields. After an hour, Lance had 1 bird & we moved on to another spot. That spot produced a couple hen flushes for us & a rooster that lost a few feathers to Lance's gun, but kept on flying. The final spot was a recommendation of a local passerby who talked to Dan. It produced 1 rooster flush event, but that was 5-6 roosters all getting up together! Winnie found them and held a great point. Jax moved up to join her, momentarily pointing too, then moving in to flush & start quite a melee'. I shot & killed 1 & missed another with my second barrel. Dan shot at the same bird I killed (just after I did), nailed a second bird, & then crippled a third bird. Jax retrieved my bird, Winnie retrieved Dan's killed bird, and all 3 dogs (Lance was hunting Sarge) tried to recover the wounded bird. We saw it running & Winnie was within a foot of it at one point, but it escaped into the thick grass/cattails never to be found. We hunted for another hour or so, flushing a few more hens, but no more roosters. We concluded the hunting around 3:30, all sufficiently tired. This was a good way to conclude our Iowa hunting - I'm sure we won't soon forget a 6-rooster flush!