Keith, congratulations on another opener. I think I did indeed hear you "call" your pup, though, here in Missouri. It was in between my own "calls" for our first year pup. 
There is nothing quite like the optimism of starting a new puppy.
(How 'bout some pictures?!)
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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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