We finally got some cooler weather and even though it had rained during the night and in the early morning I met a friend at the Haymarsh to run some of the summer off the dogs.
Daisy never missed a beat and did a wonderful job, Jamies setter Clara did well and made some nice points but still needs some retrieval work but Daisy always came to the rescue.
Daisy got into a bunch of Woodcock and as I'm not a shooter of these and it was hellishly wet and I had to cross a creek to get to her I leashed her and dragged here out to get back to the task before us which were the Pheasants.
The Grouse gun I used is a DH 16 with 26 inch Damascus barrels choked IC/F. With the typical early season's thick foliage it should prove useful next week in the Upper Peninsula.
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter...Earnest Hemingway
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