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Hey Dave, eight months later the email finally works again. I wanted to send you some pictures for your friends of the kennel section of your site if you wanted to use them. The first one is Ember pointing a woodcock wing at two months of age. She retrieved the first one I shot for her five months later. The other pictures are from a short training session this morning.
Our most exciting hunt of the season...
I was hunting with my assistant coach on his family
farm, pasture that hadn't see a cow for five or six years. We no sooner
let Ember out of the truck and she locked up about 25 yards out in a
waist high weed patch, we waded in towards the beeper and up came a
cackling mess of colorful rooster. Jake missed twice after I was nice
enough to let him have first shots. I gave the rooster a load of 4's
from my full choke barrel and down he came...feet first. Ember didn't
see him fall or I'm sure she would have been on him, so we went to
where he fell and had her hunt "dead". She didn't seem to be having any
luck and went back where she pointed first, and flushed two hens in her
search. I called her back to where the bird fell, starting to feel a
little sick about risking that long of a shot when she started getting a
little birdy. Next thing I know she puts her nose to the ground and
starts tracking. 100 yards later through a swampy cattail mess she
froze again. When I walked in to flush the bird it literally ran over
the top of my boot. Ember caught him running and brought him back. A
seven month old pup dragging a rooster that is more alive than dead back
to you will make your heart swell with pride, I know that one for a
fact. Not all our days were like that one, you know how puppies
are, but it was a fun first season with her.
I was wondering how the other pups out of the
litter were doing, I lost Tom's number. I was also wondering if you
might be able to give me some info on open dates for your guide service
for next season, I think I'd like to come out and hunt if I can.
Hope you had a good season, Jason.
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