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Post by Dutch on Sept 10, 2012 20:04:57 GMT -5
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Post by rober on Sept 11, 2012 15:03:07 GMT -5
What about this!   |
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Post by Dutch on Sept 11, 2012 15:25:23 GMT -5
Oh man, that's gorgeous stuff!
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Post by richg on Sept 11, 2012 16:45:57 GMT -5
Nothin like watching a bird dog work.
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Post by Dutch on Sept 11, 2012 20:08:31 GMT -5
Nothin like watching a bird dog work. Unless it's watching YOU work. |
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Post by cornusracemosa on Sept 11, 2012 20:20:10 GMT -5
Too much hair on those things. ;D  |
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Post by Dutch on Sept 11, 2012 20:50:08 GMT -5
Oh gosh, one of those "hairless" dogs....... Do you put insulated coats on them and booties in the winter? LOL
Ya know I'm chust kidding Eric. Love that pic. Look forward to maybe hunting with you one day this winter.
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Post by Dutch on Sept 11, 2012 20:51:01 GMT -5
Maybe I should have named this thread "Show off yer dog"
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Post by rober on Sept 12, 2012 6:06:06 GMT -5
Too much hair on those things. ;D I hope to hunt behind Teddy this fall! I heard 4 different birds drumming on Sunday. Young males looking for new turf? |
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Post by Dutch on Sept 12, 2012 6:08:27 GMT -5
My biggest hunting regret is not having grouse hunted sooner.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2012 6:23:08 GMT -5
A couple two three photos from when I used to run setters, way back in the 1970s. The first is of Rebel. I sold Rebel as a pup and got him back a year later. The guy told me he was gun shy. I probably killed a hundred birds off his points. He was a natural retriever.  The second is of Rebel backing lady.  Two field trial setters we had, Duchess and Spot. Spot is backing Lady. Between the two of them they had nearly fifty field trial wins in horseback trials. I wrote a story about a time when Spot won an all-age stake in Virginia and was the only longhaired pointer in the stake.  |
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Post by Dutch on Sept 12, 2012 6:27:12 GMT -5
George, that last pic is amazing!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2012 6:57:43 GMT -5
It was taken at a field trial on SGL 169 near Newville, Brad. We had managed to get a newspaper reporter and photographer there and they did a full page story on the field trial (Chambersburg Public Opinion). Duchess won the Open Shooting Dog stake and Spot placed second, so the photographer (David Scott Smith) asked if we could pose the two dogs for a photograph. We put a bird out and cut Duchess loose and she immediately went on point. Spot was released and backed her, but at some distance too far for a photo. Wayne Scubelek picked spot up and moved him closer. Spot stayed rigid during the move. This photo ran with the story. I think I have the clipping somewhere. I will have to look and see if I can find it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2012 7:00:43 GMT -5
Those dogs are cool there sniffers exceed expectations
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Post by Dutch on Sept 12, 2012 7:14:29 GMT -5
She was so locked they picked her up? Never would have thought that.
Two years ago, my brother "lost" his setter. She had a bell on her and we totally lost her. He called for her, whistled, nothing. He was standing there in a thicket having a smoke, and just happened to hear her bell, barely. She was locked up on a woodcock not 15 yards from him the whole time. Must have been 15 minutes he said. She never went off point.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2012 7:50:25 GMT -5
Just one more very short dog story. This happened in 1968. A friend of mine, Terry Fox, went along with me hunting pheasants on Thanksgiving day. Nothing much unusual about that day except for one of Rebel's points. We were hunting along a woods edge when Rebel slammed into point. I kicked around in front of him and nothing flushed, so I went to him and tapped him on the ear to encourage him to relocate, but he didn't move, staying locked on point. Terry and I tried to find the bird that Rebel was convinced was there, but to no avail. When I went back to him to ask him to relocate again I noticed a pheasant tail feather sticking out from underneath him. He apparently ran right over the bird and locked up on top of it. By the way, when it flushed we both missed the bird (LOL).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2012 19:50:41 GMT -5
when I was a kid I was at a youth pheasant hunt the dog locked up and was pointing at nothing in the field the dogs owner said there was nothing there and tried to get the dog to move but it stayed locked next thing the dog pulled out this pheasant it was totally buried and you couldn't see it.
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