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Other Hunting => Waterfowl => Topic started by: nalley112 on January 22, 2012, 08:09:44 PM

Title: my new hunting partners
Post by: nalley112 on January 22, 2012, 08:09:44 PM
Got a couple labs for next year.. get tired of bringing a boat and having to fetch my own birds...lol
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: pjb3 on January 22, 2012, 08:17:44 PM
AWESOME!!! :tup:
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: Fowlweather25 on January 22, 2012, 08:18:05 PM
 :tup: best dogs in the world!
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: nalley112 on January 22, 2012, 08:20:27 PM
I love em... They love duck already even though the ducks are bigger...  :P. They're really smart.. I never had a lab before so this is gonna be fun.. 
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: PNWsportsman on January 22, 2012, 08:35:26 PM
Hunting will take on a whole new meaning from here on!  Congrats. 
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Post by: Kola16 on January 22, 2012, 08:36:35 PM
:tup: best dogs in the world!

 :yeah: No comparison
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: Jim Sr. on January 22, 2012, 08:54:26 PM
Nice looking pair ya got. I too got a lab for next year, cept she's a 4 month old Yellow lab & she is so smart & training me right!!! :chuckle:
Good luck with them.
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: nalley112 on January 22, 2012, 09:01:46 PM
Ya they are very smart.. they love bird scent and already fetch :) they are 9wks right now and already we have them sitting laying and shaking on comand.. I am very impressed with them  ;)
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: Jim Sr. on January 23, 2012, 10:07:16 AM
That's the way to do it, start out with the basics, make a routine & keep on em every day.
This is my first Lab also & am impressed by their determination.
The reason I picked mine (Ailah) was that she was the only pup (out of 4) that sniffed out the phesant trail (50 yds) & across a gravel driveway, she always has her nose to the ground & eyes to the sky.

Good luck with em.
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: JJB11B on January 23, 2012, 10:40:09 AM
 :tup: All these threads with puppy pictures is going to make me go do something I will regret. I dont have the $ or the time available to give a dog the draining and attention it deserves
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: Jim Sr. on January 23, 2012, 02:00:32 PM
I didn't either, after my wife's 14 yr old shih tzu had to be put down in 2010 we decided not to have any more animals but since I am recently retired & a diehard duck & goose hunter I felt that I owed it to myself to get a dog to retrieve my birds for me (I ain't gettin any younger).
Now may not be the time for you but believe me, there will be a time.
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: upwind on January 23, 2012, 02:04:22 PM
Lucky; nothen like haven two great hunting buds :tup:
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: 7mmfan on January 23, 2012, 03:36:51 PM
Hunting with dogs does bring a whole new meaning to it! I liked hunting ducks and upland but it wasn't a passion until I got my lab and realized what all I had been missing without a dog! They love it so much, my lab knows that when the alarm goes off at 4:30, we're going hunting and she can't get out the door fast enough. You will find yourself going out on days you wouldn't have originally and making time when there shouldn't be any, because the dog is so flipping excited to go... or maybe thats just me  :)
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: C-Money on January 23, 2012, 03:43:21 PM
Good looken' little buddys you have there! Congrats! They should be fun!
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: gasman on January 23, 2012, 04:03:02 PM
Nice looking pups you got there  :tup: but there arnt as smart you think. AS they get older the become "blockheads" and you wonder why they ever made it past the puppy stage   :chuckle:
I have 2 the chocolate is my humting buddy and was sitting in the snow with we o9ver the weekend hunting ducks. When I grab the shotgun to go, he starts jumping and knows its time to hunt. Now my yellow is a lover, not a hunter. She loves to be outside plaqying, camping, hig,etc. but she also luvs to just sit in your lap and lick the hell out you. She thinks she is still a lap dog. :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: Wtrfowlr62 on January 23, 2012, 09:52:39 PM
i just got a new red lab last spring looking at pictures makes me wanna buy more lol awesome puppies!
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: SurfingScooter on January 24, 2012, 09:39:41 AM
Congrats on the pups.  I need to get a dog myself, tend to lose 50% of the ducks I shot which is always frustrating.  epecially when you clip a wing and they can't fly, but you can't catch them.
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: nalley112 on January 24, 2012, 10:09:20 AM
Thanks guys....  ;) surfing.. that is the main reason we got them cause we were loosing birds... Everyone hates to see birds left but who is actually gonna get in the water and swim after them in this weather.. :o let's see everyones hunting dog. I love seeing everyone hunting partners...
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: gasman on January 24, 2012, 02:02:00 PM
Thanks guys....  ;) surfing.. that is the main reason we got them cause we were loosing birds... Everyone hates to see birds left but who is actually gonna get in the water and swim after them in this weather.. :o let's see everyones hunting dog. I love seeing everyone hunting partners...


check out the waterfowl or upland section, threre are threads ask ready started with showing your dog.
Title: Re: my new hunting partners
Post by: johnsc6 on January 24, 2012, 04:13:28 PM
you just doubled the pleasure of your hunts, twice! good luck.
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