Had a few hours and decided it was time to get Goose quartering the wind for her first hunt.
Wasn’t expecting much do to her being a 9 month old pup and the fact that out side of busting up some coveys at 5 months this past summer she really has only been on pigeons out of launchers at Navhda events and with my buddies.
Needless to say goose has been progressing along as expected working on pointing, quartering and whoa training all of which she has done great at, I have noticed her point on pigeons on launchers has been lack luster over the past month or so and I think Iv figured out why, as of now I think she has gotten board…..
We get out the truck and I release her, she’s a hundred miles an hour as usual. 15 mins in to our gig and she’s runnin the thick cover to my left about 10 yards away and she stops abruptly, I can’t see her and I just listen, she creeps and I can hear it, all hell breaks loose and I don’t shoot. I’m not gonna reward the creep. They bust and fly to the next canyon. We continue on the gig to loop around back to the truck and get on some more birds.
about 5 mins later goose is quartering the wind at a good clip and she does a 180 about 30 yards from me and it’s the most intense point iv ever seen out of her. I walk up and stop 10 yards from her. She looks at me with look that says I’m snatching a hotdog off the table tonight like uncle Loyd ( @HATCHET1 ), you owe me and locks back in with that same intensity. I step in 2 steps and the flush happens, I spin the new Over Under and KaaaaPoooowwww, dropped a hen in a puff of feathers.
Send goose in and she grabs her out of the thick.
Could have smashed a double but I’m just more excited over the dog work. Something else boys when you put the work in and it happens. Super proud moment for goose.
She’s not gonna be a field trial dog but she’s finna be a savage upland dog.
Wasn’t expecting much do to her being a 9 month old pup and the fact that out side of busting up some coveys at 5 months this past summer she really has only been on pigeons out of launchers at Navhda events and with my buddies.
Needless to say goose has been progressing along as expected working on pointing, quartering and whoa training all of which she has done great at, I have noticed her point on pigeons on launchers has been lack luster over the past month or so and I think Iv figured out why, as of now I think she has gotten board…..
We get out the truck and I release her, she’s a hundred miles an hour as usual. 15 mins in to our gig and she’s runnin the thick cover to my left about 10 yards away and she stops abruptly, I can’t see her and I just listen, she creeps and I can hear it, all hell breaks loose and I don’t shoot. I’m not gonna reward the creep. They bust and fly to the next canyon. We continue on the gig to loop around back to the truck and get on some more birds.
about 5 mins later goose is quartering the wind at a good clip and she does a 180 about 30 yards from me and it’s the most intense point iv ever seen out of her. I walk up and stop 10 yards from her. She looks at me with look that says I’m snatching a hotdog off the table tonight like uncle Loyd ( @HATCHET1 ), you owe me and locks back in with that same intensity. I step in 2 steps and the flush happens, I spin the new Over Under and KaaaaPoooowwww, dropped a hen in a puff of feathers.
Send goose in and she grabs her out of the thick.
Could have smashed a double but I’m just more excited over the dog work. Something else boys when you put the work in and it happens. Super proud moment for goose.
She’s not gonna be a field trial dog but she’s finna be a savage upland dog.
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