donnie
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Post by donnie on Sept 2, 2006 9:55:03 GMT -5
Here's the latest update on Bills pup. Dove season opened here yesterdaqy so after I got off work yesterday I loaded Molly and Kate up and headed out for a little bird hunt. The doves aren't real plentiful here but we managed to grass a half dozen. Molly retrieved 4 of them with a little coaching. I was very pleased with how she put it together after the first bird. She had a bit of a hard time marking down birds in the tall grass with mixed dogwood stands but she stuck to it and innevitably came up with the bird. I pulled the plug early as the temps were starting to climb.
Today we got out a bit earlier and though we didn't have great quantities of birds we made the most of our opportunities. I was particularly pleased on two occasions..... Mollys' first solo retrieve in HEAVY cover on an unseen fall and the flushing of her first woodcock. My dog had flushed a big hen woodcock and I watched as she glided away into a copse of dogwoods a few hundred yards away. After shooting our doves this AM I decided to put the dogs down where I suspected the timberdoodle had gone, a mix of short birch and dogwood along an open edge. The dogs got birdy almost immediately so I stayed Kate and let Molly sort out the air currents to the bird which obliged us by holding right up till Mollys nose was inches from her hiding spot. WOW! what a surprise to her when that bird got up! (Amazing how even though I was looking directly at that bird I couldn't make her out against the fallen birch leaves until she burst into flight.) She really did a great job on that one and I can't think of a better way to end the day than swinging through that woodcock while Molly watched it fly off. In a few weeks when woodcock season opens we will pay her a visit!
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Post by Bill on Sept 4, 2006 18:23:26 GMT -5
Aww now you went and done it. I packed a shotgun all the way across Nebraska seeing doves everywhere only to find out that no one wanted to go dove hunting but wanted to take boat rides and 4 wheeler rids instead. Tried to talk some sense but got no where, So I brought gun home and an empty bag. Dang I miss that dog.
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Post by deputydon on Sept 4, 2006 20:55:10 GMT -5
I didn't get to dove hunt in McCook either after dragging my shotgun out the way out there but...........Bounce and I started this evening.
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donnie
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Post by donnie on Sept 4, 2006 21:04:33 GMT -5
AND? ?.......................................................
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Post by deputydon on Sept 4, 2006 21:09:17 GMT -5
See the upland bird post and wait till Bounce adds to it.
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Post by Bill on Sept 8, 2006 8:03:55 GMT -5
Well in roughly 30 days I go get Molly. ;D Sounds like she is almost ready for her first season of upland bird hunting. Donnie has her hunting the bird up, retriving it after its shot, delivering the bird to hand, and doing this while at heel. She also don't seem to mind retriving doves as some dogs do have a problem with this due to all the feathers. But all in all I think I'm going to be very happy with her. I'm counting the days down till I get to see her again. Tomarrow is 29
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Post by Bill on Sept 13, 2006 9:07:31 GMT -5
Donnie called me this morning. He had just brought Molly in from the field where she had been working. She had gotten up Woodcock, Pheasants and Quail. He said she had done an awsome job and described how well she had done. I don't know who was prouder. Him or me. ;D He also told me that she was doing as good as any pup he had ever trained. After all the discriptions of what they had done it was all I could do to keep myself from just hanging up the phone and telling the wife a second blow by blow description of how she was doing. ;D Let me tell you, right now I'm a pretty proud fella. Just had to share it with you all too. ;D
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Post by Bill on Sept 26, 2006 7:29:54 GMT -5
Just thought I would show you guys a pic Donnie sent me of his latest training trip to the woods with Kate and Molly my dog. This is a pretty awsome pic and is now my screensave. Donnie should be congradulated on his photography.
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Post by deputydon on Sept 26, 2006 7:36:41 GMT -5
All the pic's are GREAT!!!!!!
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Post by jabba on Sept 27, 2006 6:53:37 GMT -5
Nice.
Jabba
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Post by Bill on Sept 27, 2006 20:10:54 GMT -5
Only thing bad about the whole thing is it just makes me want to have her here with me to sit next to and tell her how great of a dog she is. That will come but I sure am missing her and those pics don't help much.
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Post by jimh on Sept 27, 2006 22:16:19 GMT -5
bill when do you head up there to finaly get your dog and spend some time in the field with old friends?
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Post by Bill on Sept 28, 2006 6:54:57 GMT -5
I leave here on Oct 8th after work and drive 480 miles NE to Center, NE to pick up Dep-Don in the morning of the 9th. We then head north to Souix Falls SD and then straight east to Baraboo WI and pick up Donnie. Then we head straight north up to the border of Wisconsin and the Michigan UP were we meet up with Bullseye and then head for camp. Boy talk about dogs with Big Wheels, I getting a lot of windshield time there but it will be worth it. I get back that next weekend and am home for a couple days and then Dep Don comes out with another litter of Yeller Lab pups to deliver to the broker. Now thats going to be hard not saying I will take that one Dep Don. This next litter is from his new dog and mollys mother and has even a lot more pointing lab in them. If they were from a differant breeding pair alltogether I might have to think real hard about it though. ;D
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Post by deputydon on Sept 28, 2006 7:53:50 GMT -5
I go Thur that w/ every litter........................"maybe I should keep that one" than BANG!! little mama pops me on the head & says "sale 'em"
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Post by Bill on Sept 28, 2006 10:01:40 GMT -5
So then maybe you need to get a football helmet to wear durring the period that your thinking about it. ;D Then it would just be THUMP instead of WHACK.
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