He is Gaylan's Give Me Liberty, better known as Gus. He was born on the 4th of July 2009, so about 2.5 yrs old right now. That bird is really all his. He told me he was going to flush it and he then he did. Rignt at our feet. I let it go a bit to avoid "overpenetration" if you know what I mean and then barely touched it with the first shot, missed with the second. We marked it several hundred yards out and Gus was on him in a heart beat. The grass was 7-8 ft tall and hard to see in and the bird ran across my left boot with Gus in pursuit. We tracked it another 100 yds and then Gus dove into a pile of grass and it was over. I reached in to grab it, got spurred but held on so Gus could back off enough to let the grass out of his mouth that made it impossible to back out with it. Live and kickin' but we bagged him.

Save an elk, shoot a cow.