Don’t do that. Exercise is good for your health Only found 2 today but the cameras are showing some of the nicer deer still holding both sides. I will post a group picture in a week or so with what we find. I should be around 50 by then....not kidding. So don’t update my contribution number yet.
don't worry i'll be putting on the miles when the snow melts. hey now, I found 5 last year. which was a bad year for me because I wasted a lot of time trying to find one in particular set of sheds. his dog is just amazing to watch.
Certainly a beautiful dog! Leo had circles ran around him by my buddies Weimaraner. Those dogs can move and they never run out of energy when they are looking for birds.
Thanks. I don't know if that's breed standard as I've only had the one but she was the same way. I took her mallard duck hunting once but only once. That short hair and cold water didn't mix and she was so in love with hunting and retrieving she would have killed herself. We knocked down a dozen birds at once and she wouldn't quit until she had them all. I had to pull off some of my outerwear and cover her up when she got out with the last one. To be honest I thought we'd get one or two and that would be that, just a short jaunt for her in the cold water. Scared the crap out of me with the last three or four birds. She wasn't in too bad a shape until she got out the last time. She was still ok but shivering badly, no bad effects post hunt or anything but I still felt bad. She was still young, like three or so. We went after teal a few times and that was ok being warmer weather. Just wasn't really my thing. She ran circles around several labs that we hunted with over the years. She had a much better nose than any of the labs we hunted with and she was a lot more careful. Labs would run right past a bird (pheasant or chuckar) and she'd lock up on them every time and point until I got there and either flushed it or told her to do it. She was amazing. We hunted with a couple of professionally trained pointers with a local trainer. He produces finished dogs from breeding to finished. She wasn't quite as crisp and clean as his but he was impressed with her. My training wasn't quite up to his level so the fault there was with me. Gives me chills to think what someone like that could do with a dog like her. I had quail get out of the pen a few times back when I was raising them. She brought two singles to the house....alive in her mouth (two trips). I put them back in the pen and they were fine, lol. We then went around the pen in concentric circles and she helped me herd every one of the rest of them through the door. Turned out someone else had been in the pen that night and left the door open. There were a few missing birds so I don't know if they were stolen or we just didn't find them...guessing stolen. Never happened again like that but she brought loose birds back several times that got out through mesh that was too course in the pen top net though. How in the world she caught them alive and had a soft enough mouth to get them to the house unharmed...I've never figured that out. She did the same thing with a big pheasant rooster once as well.
That's one helluva dog, Covey! It's like losing a family member. More painful most of the time. Sent from my SM-N900V using Bowhunting.com Forums mobile app
Yeah, everyone that likes dogs should get to experience a buddy like that at least once in their life time. My only complaint with her ever was she had no sense whatsoever of traffic. It wouldn't have taken much for her to get run over by a vehicle. I guess she thought she was the biggest thing on the planet, lol.
This one was so fresh it had good blood on it. Leo had it licked clean before I could get the pictures. I had pictures of the buck with both sides on January 29th.
A little of what we have been up to I have far surpassed my expectations for the season. We just got a bunch of snow so things could be slow for a bit.
64 total for me! Its been a crazy couple weeks boys! I figured now would be a great time for this bombshell. Its been snowing the last couple days so our legs will get a good weeks rest. The Garmen is at 123.7 miles and counting.
Those are mostly from 9 different farms where there is total 165 acres of standing crops. The deer yard up in these areas so its almost like picking fallin apples. I have found 9 or 10 in WI but with recent snow we will leave the fields alone for a bit. A lot left to find as cameras show. The worst is I can't hunt this area and the sheds are not mine to keep. I'm saving the farmers thousands in tire repairs. So in the years to come I'm hoping the hunting thing comes around.
