Thread: Game bird diary for all

Works been crazy lately so after work today went for a quick walk to keep the insanity at bay. Wasn't expecting much and took all the dogs for an "armed walk", normally only take 1 if serious

Wandered round and dogs got keen, trying to watch them all and young dog tracked off unseen, put up a rooster just over the ridge, bugger, Saw roughly where it landed, went over and old pointer put it up again but couldn't get a shot till it was at extreme range, had a stab in frustration (wouldn't have normally taken it), bird flew on and landed behind some trees somewhere roughly where I was headed. So I carried on, after a good 200m the pointers got keen so was waiting hopefully for a flush, then looked at the Lab X who normally stays close, he was very interested in a tussock, next thing I notice a tail feather sticking out,stoked. No idea where I hit it, only found a small bit of damage. Was very lucky to find it and will go back to only taking sure shots

Then I was fast tracking back to ute as getting late, young dog was running flat out on the dunes and suddenly locked up solid, I went over and she wasn't moving so I knew it was close, took a couple steps and up he went, this one was very well hit with a big cloud of feathers, got bugger all meat off it unfortunately,

So was a great team effort from the dogs and sanity is restored, well at least till the morning