cocker3 Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 (edited) well with the shooting season all but over i decided to take my young cocker ben out pigeon shooting in a hide today .he has been picking up with me all season and has done pritty well i have to say for a 18mth old dog so i new he could pick birds but could he sit in a hide. arrived at 8am to a spot i have been watching all season and now the game shooting is over i can go any where on the estate so i set up over looking a big gully that pigeons travel up and down to the repa fields .i set up the usual two magnets and 50 shells and 4 bounces and ben sat and took it all in . after 20 min birds started to come to the pattern and ben sat good as gold the whole time (lying with his head under the front of the hide so he could see the birds falling in the pattern )after 10 down i gave him afew retrieves he picked two straight away about 50 yards out past the pattern then got a bit to keen and came back with 2 half shells . at 1pm and32 birds the flight dryed up and i moved to another flight line about 1/4 of a mile away this proved a good move with hundreds of birds on the move the and ben still sat there watching everthing and only went out when he was told at 330pm i packed up with another 60 birds in the bag i spent 30min picking birds in the wood behind me with ben and only lost three so finnished with 92 and one happy dog and owner . bens the black dog on the left the brown one is bud my trusted hide dog only 60 birds in picture left the first flights in car and for got to add them in Edited January 30, 2011 by cocker3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrispti Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Excellent bag mate Lovely looking dogs too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 great bag and it sounds like the dogs a good one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoTshoT-16 Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 very nice dogs great shooting well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tis1979 Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Well done mate sounds like a good day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stubby Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 well done ben had often wondered how dogs distinguised between dead and shells, I suppose its just a learning curve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proTOM1 Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Nice 1 mate ,nice to hear your dog is doing well keep up the good work Got a good week planned shooting 6 days out of seven ,last 2 game shoots plus ducks tomorrow then 3 days pigeon shooting 1 days hare shooting and a roost shoot cant wait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomV Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocker3 Posted January 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Nice 1 mate ,nice to hear your dog is doing well keep up the good work Got a good week planned shooting 6 days out of seven ,last 2 game shoots plus ducks tomorrow then 3 days pigeon shooting 1 days hare shooting and a roost shoot cant wait thanks tom that sounds like sum week ur about to have best of luck buddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocker3 Posted January 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 well done ben had often wondered how dogs distinguised between dead and shells, I suppose its just a learning curve very big learning curve buddy took 6 mths to train the brown one to tell the diff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markbivvy Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Good man A, well done to you all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
left & right Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Good stuff mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr D Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 nice dogs. They look s like a mirror image of my own team - one black and one liver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verminator69 Posted February 1, 2011 Report Share Posted February 1, 2011 Gid darts gaj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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