Originally Posted By: pooch
....I'm not going to beat up preserve hunting or dogs that only had pen raised experience. You gotta do what you gotta do and it beats the hell out of golf. I've just had the good fortune of a life time of hunting wild birds with some really smart dogs and I miss it terribly.


Agreed, hunting to me means wild birds. How did your bird dogs get to be so good. Were they only trained on wild birds during hunting season, or maybe you got them started or trained. What do you do with a promising dog if bird counts scrape the bottom it's first two seasons, and now it's near three and never had a bird on point.