First Pheasant Hunt

[PHESNTHNTR]

Just my two pennies :

First EMT gel is in my jacket pocket all the time, it stops bleeding fast. In my Suburban I keep other items on the lists that the others created, all good things to have, just in case. I also keep a spray bottle of skunk-off, just in case we find one of them striped things.

I must say I'm with JDM on the dogs. If I tell my dogs to sit, I want them to sit until I tell them to do something else. Both of my labs are collar conditioned. They were taught sit, here, heal, along with whistle and hand signals. In the field if my dogs are to far out, a tweet on the whistle they are to start coming back to me, if they don't then I try again with a little electricity to remind them.

[Dahitman44]

The ND trip was fun. We took home 9 birds and head a great time. I can see why people say Pheasant is their favorite type of hunting.

[gonefishin11]

How did Copper do? He flush and retrieve birds for you? Stay close? I am curious to see how his first pheasant hunt went?

[jigging-matt]

Digger made his first hunt this weekend. Couldn't be prouder. Found a lot of birds made some nice points, and even found a couple of downed but still running birds. Wasn't sure on the retrieves yet, but would immediately go to the bird and pin it so it couldn't run. here is a pick from the second day.

[Dahitman44]

GF --

Thanks for asking.

Copper did a GREAT job. You could tell that when he was on birds he went after them hard. He zipped around after them and did a fantastic job flushing them. He was very into it. I could tell that he was having the most fun he has ever had. He likes duck hunting, but really loves pheasant.

When we dropped a bird he always found it -- very impressive.

The buddy I was hunting with his pup is Copper's sister and she stayed closer to him but did not figured out the scent thing, but he never worked with her wither so she did not know what to look for.

No fights and the two dogs did very well together.

It was really fun to see what Copper can do. I did have a tough time keeping him close -- his collar was not working right and I will be returning it. My buddy bought a collar for his dog and that worked well for her so I tried it on Copper and wow what a difference.