Califelkslayer
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Tons of birds, lots of young (dumb) ones.
Opening day was too easy. Spent more time getting to the spot then hunting. Sunday was more challenging. Took the 7.5 month old pup only. Got limits and she showed potential. Friends 1.5 year old pup really helped me, retrieved 5 of my birds. My pup is intimidated by the gun fire. Not what I'd call gun shy. She comes back to me and stays at heel for 5-10 minutes with her tail down. Then she hunts again. Tomorrow she'll hunt with my male. She mimicks him sometimes. Thinking that'll work. She did get birdy on 3 seperate occasions after birds either left the area or ran past where we were.
Watch out for snakes!!!!! Saw 2 sunning themselves as I drove out Sat and another one Sunday driving out. Only one was a rattler but beware, although we had frost on the ground at daylight, they were out in the afternoon.
Opening day was too easy. Spent more time getting to the spot then hunting. Sunday was more challenging. Took the 7.5 month old pup only. Got limits and she showed potential. Friends 1.5 year old pup really helped me, retrieved 5 of my birds. My pup is intimidated by the gun fire. Not what I'd call gun shy. She comes back to me and stays at heel for 5-10 minutes with her tail down. Then she hunts again. Tomorrow she'll hunt with my male. She mimicks him sometimes. Thinking that'll work. She did get birdy on 3 seperate occasions after birds either left the area or ran past where we were.
Watch out for snakes!!!!! Saw 2 sunning themselves as I drove out Sat and another one Sunday driving out. Only one was a rattler but beware, although we had frost on the ground at daylight, they were out in the afternoon.