This year I’m hunting alone, just the dog and myself. There won’t be a skirmish line.
No one taunting how ”the bird just flew into my pattern”.
This October I’ll put Anna on some good ground and trust her nose.
I hunted her three days.
The first day we flushed four grouse and six woodcock. I harvested one of the four grouse that flushed. Anna retrieved him kindly.
On the second day we flushed six grouse and six woodcock. This being the opener of woodcock season I limited with three timberdoodles. Anna retrieved the first two to hand and then decided to roll in the last one and call the job done.
On the third day we hunted specifically grouse and had ten flushes on ruffs and two woodcock. I dispatched a nice large adult grouse.
In the end, out of the 34 birds we flushed, Anna pointed 30. I only harvested five. Two of the birds taken were wild flushes I kicked up while moving to the dog.
I really don’t want to admit the total number of shots taken.
John L.
