We finished our hunt today at 4:30pm, with 9 birds. Dan finished with 4, Bill with 2, and Lance with 3. I cleanly killed Jax's 2nd bird flushed, redeeming myself from the earlier mentioned miss. However, I then failed to be ready when 3 roosters flushed all from the same spot (each following the one before it). I shot at the 2nd (missed cleanly) & then watched the 3rd to mark the landing. Jax & I hunted over to where he flushed it & I wounded it, landing it on the other side of the river. Dad saw where it went down, marked the spot and registered his first point of the trip. Dan directed Winnie to the area, where she also pointed it & retrieved it to Dan, after he put a shot in it to finish it. That's teamwork!
Overall for the day, Dan bagged 4 birds on 6 shots & also finished my cripple with a shot as it tried to flush a final time. I fired 4 shots and killed 1 bird and crippled a second one. Although we didn't hunt together at all (Dan & Dad were on the other side of the river from me), Dan reports that Winnie hunted very well & retrieved superbly, although her bird handling was a little rough (no explanation for that, as it is not typical)...
Good job. . . I like the "birdy" picture with those brown dogs!!
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