I love when things work out!

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as for the retriever my hunting buddy has one, a chocolate, but having a little girl and a wife at home both he and the dog are to damn domesticated! the dog most likely wont ever hunt. I dont have the time to train one right so thats that.
As for the field this weekend will probably be the last time i would hunt it all year. Right now i key in on river and farm pond birds and look for the dairy farmers who are chopping the first corn of the year. Later i can move north of home a little when the migrants come by the boat load and i can see hundreds a day without question. so i dont mind over doing the area, it was just a question of will they decoy. Another problem i had that i havent seen before was that given the wind direction the birds had to swing wide and fly over a tree line and then make a pretty fast drop to the decoys. they didnt seem to like the concept. i need to figure something out that the wind is right for them when they are locked up 300 yds out.
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