I have not had a chance to get the dog out at all this fall . So today I told myself I need to do everything in my power to get my dog on a bird .. I went to a pretty good size Alder patch where I have jumped grouse all bow season . We did not hunt long before I see him get all birdy ..Tail is doing circles and he is hunting hard to find it . Once he headed into a clump of ferns all hell broke loose .. I have not hunted grouse over a dog since I had my shorthair ..A lot different than shooting them from the road
Anyway the bird flushes and I pull up and Pooow ..Birds folds like a bag of rocks ..Warden takes after it and now I am wondering what he is doing since this is the 1st bird shot over him and now he is off to retrieve it ..Not more than a minute later here he comes with it in his mouth
He brings it to me and drops it but then crabs it again ..Nothing major for his 1st flush and retrieve ..I need to get out a lot more once I get him trained up ..I guess he is trained up since this was his 1st day ever out hunting and got his 1st bird
