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Heck yeah it'll work! All it needs now is a "The duck stops here" sign.

I gotta find one of those signs!
Its light enough for me to carry down to the river from the field and move it around if the spot isn't working. There is some brush and branches left laying around since the land owner cleared everything out.
There is no more willows, Russian Olives, or small trees left from the fields to the water.
So i got to thinking, and made a blind out of pvc tubing and camouflage pattern burlap.

Im gonna put it down there next week or so. That'll given things time to get used to it before the season starts.

Yeah baby!
Traps first hunting retrieve!
Alright he didn't see the dove go down, but i sent him in the field and lo and behold, he sniffed around and did fetch on the fetch command.
I am a proud dad right now.
I did find a good spot to put the blind too.

Huge grin! !!!!!!

Trap looks awfully proud in that pic and rightfully so. Ya know, With a good dog like Trap to pal around with You're gonna be getting a lot more fresh air and exercise.

Don't skimp on the exit slit from the blind or you'll all be in the water.

LoL!
Yeah, I can see yellow lab blowing out after a bird and not fitting too well! !

That would be priceless.

He's not smelled a dove before, so was new to him. I also gotta figure out how to get him to look up and watch birds. Maybe in time as he gets the idea of what's going on??

Maybe if he saw them fall out of the sky once in a while......

If he is like most Labs, soon he will be giving you a look of scorn when you shoot and nothing falls out of the sky...

Not that I would know anything about that... it is just what I have been told!

John

I had a Brittany that didnt know I could miss till she was two years old. And whenever I shot a rabbit ( I wuv wabbits....) she would look at me like I was the lowest form of white trash, and refuse to go near it, lest she be seen in its company...

We are gonna go down to the river tomorrow where we duck hunt and see if doves are flying about.
We'll see how it goes.
Why is it i can fling lead for doves but have to use steel for ducks in the same place? ?

No birds flying yet.
Trap out sniffing around. I made him sit for a pic.

Trap doing a dynamic entry at the lake off a houseboat in 130 feet of water.

My layout blind is supposed to be here tomorrow. Anyone camouflage a crate to use for your lab to use as a dog blind?
Was thinking it may work to help hide a dog in an open field.

Teach him to sit still and put a hollowed out decoy on his head. Works like a charm.

3 more days til goose season opens here!!!!
Been seeing some birds. Hope decoy bring them down to the place i hunt.

I demand pics!

Good luck to you and Trap! Hope he gets lots of feathers in his mouth opening day.

Me too. Thanks. He should do well.

I'll look for them...but they are all 35mm slides.