Gratuitous Bird and Dog Photos

My graceful setter must have hit a barbwire fence yesterday or something sharp. I noticed a wound and decided it was bad enough for stitches. Vet says she’s out of commission for two weeks. Ugh. Sidelining her during my Christmas vacation is going to kill me. I had planned to hunt birds every other day with her. My wife is in mother mode and has threatened consequences if I hurt her baby by not listening to the vet.

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It is not very often that I carry a camera, but here are a few from over the years.

Lola standing shraptails.

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Lola standing sharptails, with Sunny backing her.

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Rowdy in the foreground standing sharptails, Sunny in the distance standing her own sharptails.

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Sunny standing sharptails

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The girls are both 13 and lame. They’ll go till they drop but I keep their hunts to about 2 hours a couple days per week. We found a bunch of hens today and 1/2 dozen roosters. Their points, honoring and steady to wing and shot were solid. I was letting a buddy shoot and Molly finally barked at him for missing. I finally took this bird, Molly locked up on him in a cat tail patch about 30 yards out front. Sugar was a ways out, working a fence row so I called her in. She came on the run, circled into position and locked up about 10 feet behind Molly. As I walked up Molly’s nose moved ever so slightly to her left. I crossed behind her, to her left, took one more step and he launched. Gave a two Mississippi count and hit him with sixes.
There is nothing that compares to watching decent dogs, who love to hunt, doing what God intended them to do.
 

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Salmonchaser said:
The girls are both 13 and lame. They’ll go till they drop but I keep their hunts to about 2 hours a couple days per week. We found a bunch of hens today and 1/2 dozen roosters. Their points, honoring and steady to wing and shot were solid. I was letting a buddy shoot and Molly finally barked at him for missing. I finally took this bird, Molly locked up on him in a cat tail patch about 30 yards out front. Sugar was a ways out, working a fence row so I called her in. She came on the run, circled into position and locked up about 10 feet behind Molly. As I walked up Molly’s nose moved ever so slightly to her left. I crossed behind her, to her left, took one more step and he launched. Gave a two Mississippi count and hit him with sixes.
There is nothing that compares to watching decent dogs, who love to hunt, doing what God intended them to do.
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Gorgeous dogs! Hunt those ladies as long as they can!
 
Salmonchaser said:
The girls are both 13 and lame. They’ll go till they drop but I keep their hunts to about 2 hours a couple days per week. We found a bunch of hens today and 1/2 dozen roosters. Their points, honoring and steady to wing and shot were solid. I was letting a buddy shoot and Molly finally barked at him for missing. I finally took this bird, Molly locked up on him in a cat tail patch about 30 yards out front. Sugar was a ways out, working a fence row so I called her in. She came on the run, circled into position and locked up about 10 feet behind Molly. As I walked up Molly’s nose moved ever so slightly to her left. I crossed behind her, to her left, took one more step and he launched. Gave a two Mississippi count and hit him with sixes.
There is nothing that compares to watching decent dogs, who love to hunt, doing what God intended them to do.
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Sucks when they get old. I got one of my best dogs that I hunt only short periods when he feels up to it.
 
My nearly 11 year old Belle has been what drives me to continue to hunt. Will be picking up new lab puppy this coming Friday evening. This, to keep this old man in the field. Belle will mentor and with hope the three of us can get another few seasons under our belts.
Belle has been a true wonder dog. Have had many working dogs that are now but memories. Miss them all. New puppy will be spoiled terribly as all of our family pups have been. MTG
 

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Birdbander said:
Gorgeous dogs! Hunt those ladies as long as they can!
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Catherine and I have talked about that a lot. Molly severed a tendon connects her triceps to her shoulder blade several years ago. She is such a great hunter I invested a lot of money into a failed surgery. She’s hobbling around on three legs this afternoon, she’ll be favoring it tomorrow and Saturday or Sunday she will want to go again. One day I guess she won’t be ready to go again.
We’ve some of the best chukar hunting in the country just an hour away. First year since I was a kid I’m not hitting those hills hard. Too worried I’d have to carry one of them out of there.
Not sure I have another shorthair in me, Might have to go with a lab or a well bred Golden next. Just can’t bring myself to start another dog just yet, these two have been by far the best brace I’ve ever had.
 
MTGunner said:
My nearly 11 year old Belle has been what drives me to continue to hunt. Will be picking up new lab puppy this coming Friday evening. This, to keep this old man in the field. Belle will mentor and with hope the three of us can get another few seasons under our belts.
Belle has been a true wonder dog. Have had many working dogs that are now but memories. Miss them all. New puppy will be spoiled terribly as all of our family pups have been. MTG
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That is a stunning sketch.
 
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That is a stunning sketch.
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It’s a drawing that a friend sent. He knows about Belles age. We have hunted quail for years in SW New Mexico with his two English setters and of course Belle. We cherish our dogs, hunting companions and friends. The sketch embodies my feelings regarding my Belle and dogs that have gone to heaven. MTG
 
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