Pre-flight etiquette?

[marsh man]

What do annoy me is the guys who go together without a dog between them and when the flight is over the torches go on to look for any shot fowl , I accept not everyone can own a dog but I would dearly love to see at least one dog between a group of two or three fowlers shooting the evening flight , finding dead fowl is hard enough and looking for wounded fowl that might have been shot ten / fifteen minutes earlier with dykes and creeks running around the edge of virtually every marsh then you have got a job on your hands and a great deal of luck of finding wounded duck in the dark is needed .

[wildfowler.250]

1 hour ago, marsh man said:

What do annoy me is the guys who go together without a dog between them and when the flight is over the torches go on to look for any shot fowl , I accept not everyone can own a dog but I would dearly love to see at least one dog between a group of two or three fowlers shooting the evening flight , finding dead fowl is hard enough and looking for wounded fowl that might have been shot ten / fifteen minutes earlier with dykes and creeks running around the edge of virtually every marsh then you have got a job on your hands and a great deal of luck of finding wounded duck in the dark is needed .

I have to agree. I’d put a dog on a par with the gun to be honest. Been limited the last few years as the folks have kept my lab,(renting and no pets). I just won’t go out unless I can pinch her for the day.