What would you do with it?

[Harold Pickens]

Daryl, I hope to be able to do this within a couple of years. I have been an optometrist for 30 years now. I will be 59 in April, and probably need to work a couple more years.
Thats a good looking lab in your Avatar. Although I am a setter man, a good lab is hard to beat especially on pheasants. My best friend had a lab, and we routinely hunted it with my setters on grouse and woodcock. It figured out real quick that when the beeper collar went off, ther was a bird in front of my dogs. On running and or crippled birds, especially pheasants, it excelled. Unfortunately, Cowboy has passed.

[Labowner]

Harold I will drive, have a suburban so all will be comfortable. I just bought a 32' tag along camper to hunt the North Maine woods as I am usually 2 hrs. from a gas pump when bird hunting Maine...little set back on camper had it two months...never used it and tree came down and totaled it...good thing is had insurance on it. New Brunswick has the highest bird numbers I ever seen the last few years and all the ground you could ever imgine to hunt.
Only seven months till Woodcock season in NB.

[Double Lab]

Harold;
Unfortunately , Parker, the lab in my Avatar has passed also. He was an incredible pointing lab that pointed as well as any pointer/setter I have ever hunted over. Sadly he died at 9 yrs of age. Nothing got away form him I am now blessed with 2 labs that were from a rescue that have performed as well as he did, one of them points and holds and just loves finding birds. He learned this (I think) from hunting with my buddy's GSP. He actually backed the GSP. These animals are truly amazing but I have yet to try them on grouse. Hunting woodcock was very easy for them but grouse will really put them to the test. All it takes is birds to make a birddog. Lots of them. I just turned 63 last week so I'll work as long as I can take but I'll but more and more long weekends until I hang it up. Next year maybe we can meet up in Channing and show Rich which end of the cigar to light first.

[C.O.B.]

Daryl you light the end thats NOT in your mouth

[John Davis]

I'd saddle up my Tenn. walker and run a brace of pointers (or setters) through the south Georgia piney woods and along the fence rows in between. From 9 am till about noon we'd find 10 or so bevy of quail. Wouldn't bother with the singles. After a nice bit of lunch and a snooze, I'd hit it again around 2 pm and hunt till dusk. Another 10 bevy and it would be time to kick my feet up and sip a little Makers Mark. That's what I'd do. John Davis

[Double Lab]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

Daryl you light the end thats NOT in your mouth

OH yeah, now you tell me.