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    Training to retrieve fur?

    I have a three-going-on-four year old GSP who has no trouble returning a downed bird to hand but will not touch a shot rabbit. She will track them, point them, and I certainly don't mind shooting them but after the shot she just walks over to it and sniffs it. If i put it in her mouth she will...
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    Turkey hunting with a 3 year old

    LOVE IT! I remember following my dad around the woods while toting my very own bbgun. Fond memories. My first child is 1.5 right now and I can't wait to make these memories with him. If he will leave the headphones on, I might try hauling him around in the baby carrier for pheasant season this...
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    1 week for non hunting vacation

    In high school I went on an off shore fishing day trip in FL. It was $80 or something and on a big(ish) boat with other people on board. We went on a weekday so it wasn't too busy. It was a four hour day and caught lots of cool fish I'd never have caught in IL. It was pretty active fishing the...
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    Idaho Spring Bear

    I wouldn't say our difficulties came from competing with bait and hounds but rather the lack of any truly clear spots to glass into. Like I said, the clear cuts I had counted on were all overgrown with several years worth of brush, the other open hillsides just weren't productive, or a snow...
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    Idaho Spring Bear

    I went to 33 the spring before last around the 2nd-3rd week of April. We hunted around the the Garden Valley area and all the the clear cuts I had Escouted were all grown over with several feet of brush when we got there. Couldn't see anything in them. The snow was mostly all gone but there were...
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    Any other pilots?

    I am almost done with my instrument rating and working to make this a career. I'm in love with the PC-12, hopefully I can get some time in one in the next couple of years!
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    Help out a great dog...

    Located in Iowa. We will travel if it's right. Unfortunately, I need to find a new home for our boy, Champ. The ideal family would be an older family wanting a mild mannered companion pet (live indoors). We never wanted to do this but we believe it's what's best for everyone. We are praying...
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    Training a bird dog at 5?

    The key will be exposure to birds and gunfire. Don't screw up the gunfire part.....As for birds, I highly recommend homing pigeon's.
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    Training a bird dog at 5?

    You %100 can train her. Especially a retriever/flusher. You said she loves fetch so now you just need to transition that into loving to fetch feathered things and have decent obedience in the blind. For upland, All you need to do is get them excited about trying to jump on and catch birds and...
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    German Shorthaired Pointer

    Hahaha. Next time I will read more before I spend 15 minutes posting lol. Well, maybe it will help someone else haha.
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    German Shorthaired Pointer

    Really think about how you hunt and pick a breed, or breeder if you are certain of a GSP, that will fit your style of hunting. You see supercharged GSPs and English pointers tearing it up in field trials but recognize that is a SPORT and those dogs are bred for that SPORT. I you are a weekend...
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    Glock red dot.

    I'm interested in sigs new m17 optic. Currently only for the Army's m17 pistol but surely, they are going to make one for other guns.
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    Montana hunting dogs

    Their hairs are about a quarter inch long and when they shake you see a cloud of hair float off of them through the air. Right now I'm wearing a black sweatshirt and it is filled with these stupid little white hairs. It's terrible lol.
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    First Hunting Rifle--6.5PRC Long Term Plan

    For his distances and considering factory ammo, I think it would be hard to go wrong with a 308. Really cheap to shoot/practice and totally adequate for anything he is likely to do with it in the southeast or the west for that matter. Get a 270 win for flatter shots.
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    Montana hunting dogs

    I have a GSP and their hair is like glitter. It gets EVERYWHERE and is impossible to clean up. The stiff little hairs will poke through the fibers of all the fabric in your house and won't brush out. I love my GSP as a hunter but I won't get another one for that reason. I'll get either a picardy...
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