2020 bird season

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How's everyone bird season coming along. Been getting into quite a few in Northern WI
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Yes she is a 4 year old GWP. 2nd year chasing grouse and woodcock and she has really started to figure it out. Has been a pheasant dog her whole life but want to get her as many birds as possible. Love the bearded girls

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huntineveryday

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Yep, Trigger is a 9 year old wirehair.

Nickziegler, she's a good looking dog! I love that 4th picture!
 
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Nickziegler
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Yep, Trigger is a 9 year old wirehair.

Nickziegler, she's a good looking dog! I love that 4th picture!
You have a very good looking dog as well. I have always been a lab guy and my wife and I were actually looking at different lab breeders until we met a couple that had a GWP with them at an outdoor bar. After talking with them for some time we decided to give the GWPs try. Will never have a different breed

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Little to no upland bird hunting in central MO where I live and only hunted teal opening day, shot 1. Doves have been plentiful, shot around 200 off of my sunflowers. Big duck season is a month away yet.
 

huntineveryday

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We found some more this weekend. I'm usually chasing ducks this time of year, but it's been dry and water's limited, so grouse it is. I hadn't really targeted prairie chickens much before, but it's been pretty fun. Learning a lot, getting the dog some work, and bringing home some birds...could be a lot worse!
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Nickziegler
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Lol that looks terrible to pick out. Nice work on the birds. Our WI pheasant opener opens up saturday. It is honestly a zoo around so I'll be sticking up north to chase grouse. I'll be hitting the pheasant fields after opening week and let the dog open up and do some big running

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Those are some beautiful dogs you’ll have. Makes me feel a bit bad for my WPG that she doesn’t get to hunt upland birds.
 

Jim1187

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Pretty good bird season here so far. October 1st was the opener for us, as is tradition I hunted waterfowl. Did well and got my yellow lab his first retrieve when he and I went solo for the evening. The pup is an excitable 90lber and still learning his canoe manners, so he has sat out a lot of my duck hunts because the water levels in my favorite early season marsh are too low for a larger boat and wind has made having him in a canoe a cold swim probable proposition.
Upland hunting, woodcock and grouse have been plentiful but foliage and the dog still learning the game has resulted in more unseen flushes than good shooting opportunities. Conditions aligned with a frosty morning and nearly no wind Monday and we had a great day, three ruffed grouse got invited to dinner and I should have had one more and a woodcock but it kept my truck as a back stop and replacing a window for a bird didn't seem like a fair trade off. Foliage is a little thick still and I was a little slow on some birds so didn't get a shot but the dog flushed 14 grouse and 5 wood cock so a great day for all.
 
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