Originally Posted By: PA24

Originally Posted By: AmarilloMike

It is especially handy when watering the dogs or messing with their boots or taking pictures of my shooting student Joe Wood missing birds.



Get rid of the dogs,.......... hunt in peace and quiet and offload the whistles and bags, water, food, saliva wipes and other doggie paraphenelia then you won't need a sling or swivels......and the associated ugliness it adds........you will also see a lot more game of all types...... smile.........just an opinion......


I grew up hunting bob white and pheasant without dogs. Then when I got out of college my Dad and I partnered on an English Pointer named ADAM-YOU-BASTARD. We bought him to up the body count. Dad and AYB both got too old to hunt at about the same time. But sometime during AYB's career with us it quit being about putting birds in the bag and became all about the dogs.

I don't hunt now. But I do take my dogs hunting. I drive for them and I boot them up and I pull cactus out of their butts and porcupine quills out of their noses and I gun for them and I carry their water and dead birds. I drive them to the vet when they get bitten by the rattlesnake and I nurse them through the recovery (or cry when they don't). But if it wasn't for them I wouldn't even go out in the field.

You are right. We got about the same amount of birds before we had bird dogs as we did after.

Best,

Mike

Last edited by AmarilloMike; 10/05/13 01:58 PM.

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