The other guys get there and while we are talking at the truck, up goes a doodle from my friends GSP. . .time to hunt I guess? We worked another area that has been good and Skyler starts getting birdy again and I get ready this time. . . she locks up and I am thinking woodcock, well about 10 yards in front up jumps a grouse, I shoot and the thing flew into my shot.
Sky made a nice retrieve on it and didn't take the tail feathers this time.I will remember this one for Sky's first solid lock on a grouse and me being able to hit one in one shot.
We headed over to Clare afterwards and got some stuff done at the cabin and then headed back out and put up a doodle and four grouse, bagging one grouse. We got back to the cabin and were buzzed by three woodcock, they got the dogs a little amped.
Sunday, we slept in thanks to the lightning, so we skipped the duck hunt that morning. We put out 25 chuckar and 10 pheasant, I wanted to see what Sky has learned from those wild birds we have been after. . .well, she held point better than ever and worked the area great. We split up and somehow Skyler was the lone pointer as the others went the other way and we had a friends lab that doesn't bother her. She was ranging very nicely and even when the birds were moving she would not break point until I told her to find the bird.
For those that want a little better challenge with released birds, try great flying chuckar in the woods. About as close to grouse hunting as you can get. We are going to have some fun come December through April out there.
Next week. . .ducks, grouse, put n' take, and rifle season. . .not bad.