Funny, how a new season can bring back old memories, these ones are not so distant.
Man, I miss hunting with my Suzy, my first ever bird dog. She was a great upland and waterfowl dog,
even retrieved a couple rabbits one year. She was quite and steady as a rock, we miss her!
Suzy and I ended up getting our HRCH and winning a All-age Field Trail as well!
I trained her myself with help from some buddies who have been training dogs for a long time. Man, did she
teach me a lot.
If her knee didn't let her down at 9, I have no doubt she would have won a National Amateur. Man she could mark!
Here is some of my favorite pics of her doing her thing!
In her hide waiting on birds, which we do a lot of in our public marshes
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A little summer training!
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Working the pheasant farm, wait for someone to hit one LOL!
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We got our own pheasants sometimes
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In this shot we were waiting on the ringnecks, not a great blind but man we had a 2 person
limit in just under 2 hours! This is one of my favorite pics of Suzy and I
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This was a great way to break in our new MoMarsh!
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Suzy and I finished our career with an All-age Amateur win!
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This is the 3rd hunting season, since we lost her and it's as hard as the first.
Hope your getting nothing but big greenheads up there Suz!!
Man, I miss hunting with my Suzy, my first ever bird dog. She was a great upland and waterfowl dog,
even retrieved a couple rabbits one year. She was quite and steady as a rock, we miss her!
Suzy and I ended up getting our HRCH and winning a All-age Field Trail as well!
I trained her myself with help from some buddies who have been training dogs for a long time. Man, did she
teach me a lot.
If her knee didn't let her down at 9, I have no doubt she would have won a National Amateur. Man she could mark!
Here is some of my favorite pics of her doing her thing!
In her hide waiting on birds, which we do a lot of in our public marshes
View attachment WP_20160925_003.jpg
A little summer training!
View attachment dsc01698 (1).jpg
Working the pheasant farm, wait for someone to hit one LOL!
View attachment WP_20131208_10_12_45_Pro (1).jpg
We got our own pheasants sometimes
View attachment Pheasant.jpg
In this shot we were waiting on the ringnecks, not a great blind but man we had a 2 person
limit in just under 2 hours! This is one of my favorite pics of Suzy and I
View attachment Sunrise.jpg
This was a great way to break in our new MoMarsh!
View attachment SuzyAndDucks.JPG
Suzy and I finished our career with an All-age Amateur win!
View attachment WP_20150731_13_56_11_Raw.jpg
This is the 3rd hunting season, since we lost her and it's as hard as the first.
Hope your getting nothing but big greenheads up there Suz!!