Dean, she is just 2 now, so she's not a new pup, and has two seasons under her. The first, she was six months old and following Shortstop and pointing when he did and working back when he did and getting snarled at when she busted birds. The second and last fall, Shortstop could no longer hunt hard and keep up the pace, so she was primary and Shortstop did hunt and sat down or laid down when we stopped in the field, and Triple would not stop hunting, even when I was tuckered. When Charlie and I went on our grand adventure to western North Dakota and hunted sharptails in those absolutely rugged and beautiful Little Missouri Badlands, Teddy Rooseveldt country, we didn't even take Shortstop and took only her. I posted a lot of photos here about that hunt and they turned out to be immensely popular. I sure advise people who can walk hard and who have dogs and feet that can stand it, to go out to Medora, Rough Rider country, and have the trip of a lifetime.
John Dunkle hunted over her on her first season and wanted to drive home with her and a little D 20ga that I have , he didn't mention when he would bring them back.
( I say unloved about Charlie's dogs, but Charlie is right now a couple hundred miles from me picking up his two who have been at doggie charm school the last couple months. Charlie can hardly wait to see them and see what they have learned. He talks to them and believes they can actually understand what he is saying. I understand Dave Weber, a buddy of Charlies from Ste. Gen and another Parker guy, bought a set of pink doggie thorn booties for one of them for our SW trip. )
So, Charlie and I are planning a Jan or Feb trip to the southwest for a couple weeks, AZ or NM and walk the hills, draws and plains, eat enchiladas, drink margaritas, and shoot quail. I'll have Triple for that and between her and Charlie's two setters, we should have plenty of dog power. Triple likes to curl up against me, but that darn Charlie, he won't even allow his two unloved and uncared for setters in bed with him. All these setters are Llewellins, the little, fast setters that seem to do better out here in big country than the bigger, blocky, grouse dog setters of the east.
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