Go Hunt Everywhere

Dad and I love hunting upland game birds over pointing dogs.  There isn't much that’s more beautiful than watching a ring-necked rooster take flight.  Dad’s dogs are Brittanys; mine are year-old German Shorthaired Pointers.  We get out to the field, get our gear, pick a direction, and let the dogs go.  We’ll talk later about getting the dogs to hunt where you want them to.  We tend to hunt toward a body of water because the birds will run or hunker down before they’ll jump into the air.  The pond or lake gives us a natural “backstop” where the birds will eventually be out of options and have to take flight.  You can do the same thing with a steep hill, but be prepared to climb it.  Just ask Storm, one of my “twins.”  On his first hunt when he was 6 months old, he and I chased a chukar Dad had shot up to the top of a hill.  Storm was ready to go at the top – I was winded.