Andy, I've kept an upland shooting journal since 1988 (and I kept one for my bow hunts prior to that). My journals are some of my most treasured possessions, and I like to go back and compare notes from a given day over the years. It's like bringing one of my old dogs back, not to mention letting me see "who I was" at given points in my shooting life. It also helps when I try to gauge a particular dog's progress, because I can look at others at the same point in their development.
Continue keeping one. In a few years, you'll be glad you did.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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