I brought Bella, a Ryman type Setter, home in September, 7 years ago. She stayed in the house throughout our grouse season until February the following year. She was 7 months old and never exposed to a bird of any type. I took her for a walk on a warm but snowy February afternoon. We crossed some grouse tracks, we both started to follow them. I saw the tracks lead into a dense blow down. I tried to call her over to hopefully have her first grouse contact, she wasn't there. I back tracked and found her on point about 20 yards uphill from the blow down. She had the grouse pinned against a tree trunk. I walked in and flushed it. The tracks went into the blow down then out the other side, up around to the tree. The natural ability of some dogs are amazing.
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