I did not doubt you, I doubted myself
I don't normally bother bird hunting, much to the chagrin of my dog. I used to, but it's really not all that enjoyable. There's not enough reward vs. the effort involved. In a few hours, I can bag my deer, have it weighed, and dropped off for processing. I end up with 140 pounds of meat.
I do like a duck here and there, but they have ducks on the farm.
I used to go duck and goose hunting quite a bit when I was able to. Did a lot of pheasant and quail hunting too. One of my good buddies had a chocolate lab that would bring the carcasses to us. It was fun.
Yeah, my dog retrieves game, but I generally only have him bring back rabbits that I shoot from my porch. It keeps his training up, but he's gotten pretty lazy in his elder years. I was going to have him train a puppy, but the bitch wasn't in heat and the puppy has to be the same lineage.
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