I must confess that I have worked more than one dog while I left the gun in the truck. Truth is the dog and I both had about as good a time and the birds faired much better.
If I have to hear a gun go off and see birds die I can always go shoot a few rounds of skeet, sporting clays or trap.
If I want to be humble I go shoot a few teal or try pass shooting dove with a 30 mile per hour tail wind.
If I want to get serious about duck hunting I call up my old hunting partner who eats, sleep and dreams duck hunting at the least 50 weeks a year. Some of the rough hunts we have been on would make you wonder how or why we bothered to get an education. This is the same fellow who tied flies to look like fish food pellets so he could catch more released trout to re-release. Correctly pointed out that the trout though of pellets as normal food and bugs as snacks.
