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The french ones wave a white flag when a cock gets aggressive.


Nice pics everybody. They are taking the corn off all around me now so the birds and the deer are starting to move as well.

My friend's griffon does not retrieve, just stays with the bird.

Does yours retrieve well?

Went for a quick walk after work yesterday. Didn't jump any cocks but ran into a few of these which is fairly rare for our neck of the woods.

Sam,

We had a late hatch, or maybe only the late-hatch birds survived right around here this year. Had an August hail storm in and around town that resulted in "drifts" a foot deep in some ditches, but areas 10 miles north and south were almost unhit.

A few days after the pheasant opener my Lab got birdy in a small patch of cover maybe 200 yards from the parking area on some public land. I suspect it was hen, but got ready anyway. A big "hen" got up in easy range, so I didn't even fully shoulder the gun--but then as it flew away the light-angle changed and I could see a little color, and then it started cackling. By that time, of course, it was out of range.

Got two roosters, however, in about an hour's hunting 15 miles south of there today, one a bird of the year but obviously born much earlier.

He's a pretty good dog,pointing and finding birds he's as good as any. A little weak on retrieving but he's excellent at tracking and finding dead birds but usually he lets you come get the bird or more often the drahthaar ends up doing all the retrieving.

His size holds him back in heavy cover where a lab or drahthaar would just push through.

Overall he does pretty good and at 10 years old he has incredible endurance and drive.

Sam,

Our sharptails look just like that. I prefer to ground pound them but you can knock four of them out of the tree pretty easy.




Travis

Does your bird vest have an internal frame?

JB, long tails flying all over the place today.

Luckily I just happened to find an old shotgun laying in an old truck!


No 401k and the pay sucks, but.......





Flave, you are not much of an elite snob.
(lifting pinky while sipping Coors Light.....)

At about 10 months she had some hiccups with full retrieves. She would drop about 10 feet away from me.

I went back to basics and reintroduced live birds and used praise and food as a reward and with in a week she again was loving to do retrieves


She loves to retrieve ducks, pheasants etc

she has done a few long distance retrieves on wounded ducks and on chukar. couldn't be happier with her

No.

But there is a frame under the bed of my truck.



Travis

After school special!

WTF is that?!


A tactical Franky?

Iowa's pheasant season is not open yet but spent Tuesday afternoon in east-central SD with some good company and their dogs. It was way too warm for my tastes and there is still a lot of crop in the fields and while I sensed there were fewer birds than the previous several years we did limit out in three, four hours.

And celebrated with a "low and slow" recipe the next evening:

That fuggin looks tasty

Nice

Do you ever work?

Nice

It's not "lay down friendly."




Dave

You'd have to define "work."

And "ever."




Travis

Force fetch cures all....

Used to force fetch train all my dogs and it does work

My last two dogs I opted not to due to their personalities and they were both great retrievers

I think depends on dog

I limit my formal training somewhat first 18 months and work on prey drive socialization and developing a bond with dog

Everyone of course has their own methods

Glad to read that!! Due to my schedule and location that's about all I have been able to accomplish in 12mos! Doing some more work with homers and a remote launcher to try to get the point better. Once he points he stays until the flush. Then he turns into a deaf, brown rocket!