16 Slam Completed

[Gary Laudermilch]

My oldest setter(13) has no hair on the tip of his tail after years and years of grouse cover. Multiflora rose is tough on a dog. A friend of mine clips the hair on his setter's tail tip, then slips the plastic tube from a 12 ga. shell over the tip fastened with duct tape at the bottom. It solved his problem with a bloody tail.

At least in my part of northcentral PA the grouse hunting last year was the worst I have ever experienced in many decades of chasing birds. This year is slightly better but still far from good. Only six years ago when my middle dog was a pup I had 154 grouse points with over 300 flushes. This year I have only 22 points and 26 flushes total thus far. It can only get better. Cannot get much worse. Waiting for deer season to end so we can get back to bustin' brush.