Recent content by gundogdixie

I suggest you do a little more research on 16 gauge before you relegate it to the fireplace. But do this only if you are interested in knowing the truth.

Here in Georgia I checked on the #5's in the new Federal pheasant load the other day. I found one local store that could order them for (drum roll please) $245 a flat. I'll be loading my own pheasant loads from now on.

Don't be hard on your dog. It takes ALOT of game birds to make a good dog. The more game birds your dog has contact with the less tweetys he will want to fool with. I don't think this the place to use your e-collar. patience and birds make for great bird dog.

Quail ar $4 each here. I use mostly pigeons that I raise in my barn. I then supplement with a few hundred quail I raise myself. Flying is the key.

Ihave a DT systems spt 7400. It is an older model but basically has everything there new 2400 has except the jump rise. It works great. I would like a smaller box on the collar for my next purchase. My GSP doesn't like the large DT systems box under her neck.

2 weeks in Dixie and I started roading in the National Battlefield here at home. We get time in the field everyday continue to work on her retrieveing. She brought the last quail of the season to me last year after a season of possesiveness ( she wasn't a year old yet). I hope the bell goes off...

Been hunting over dogs along time but no farming means no quail so now I have to travel to Kansas and SD to hunt wild birds. I keep my dog and gun in shape at Royal Flush Game Preserve in Pulaski TN. My GSP is 16 months old and I trained her my self. We took her first Pheasant last year when she...