Unconventional Water Blind

[AlaskaHunter]

Shot a double here in MT with 9-month old pup. She retrieved the first mallard,
so I figure I would send her on the second she did not see fall for her first water blind.

Square entry, easy open water swim, what could go wrong?

Fortunately pup learned the value of persistence and after about 10 minutes
came up with the mallard.

 

[AlaskaHunter]

Pup also caught 2 birds...very strange since each flew about 200 yards first.

First was a hun that flushed and flew low in front of her so I could not shoot safely.
I think it was a late hatch bird as the area I hunt does not get much hunting pressure.
Hun flew low a couple hundred yards and landed in windrow.
Pup eventually hunted it up and caught it buried in a brush pile.


The next day hunting MT huns along a spring creek we flushed a mallard out of range.
The mallard flew about 200 yards and landed back in the spring creek.
As we walked over, I whistled pup in from quartering and snuck in on the cut bank.
Mallard refused to flush...I think either it saw a hawk or thought the whistle was a hawk call.
So mallard dove in a small pool with riffle upstream and riffle downstream.
Pup also dove in and caught the mallard.

 

[Salmonchaser]

Sounds like your pup has a lot of drive. I’d call that a good day.