Waterfowling without dogs

[JohnBT]

What's the old saying, "About as smart as standing in a cold shower tearing up $100 bills."

Dumb and expensive.

John

 

[Len S]

I should be more carefull if I say it is crazy they will say we need to be hospitalized for our own saftey and take away our guns.
True story. I came home from a COLD hunting trip. My son was starting to have resp. problems, it used to be every time he got a cold he got a lung infection. I gave mim a duck call at age 4 he learned to blow it and cough better, no more infections, anyway we called his doc who said to take him to ER resp rate was up to 32 albuterol did not work( I am a paramedic) so off to the er me still in some of my hunting stuff. A doc i know from taking people to his ER asked me why I was dressed like that I explained. He asked what waterfowling entailed. I told him. He said I should be carefull talking about it because standing in a river with ice flows in 10 degree weather was grounds to be commited. He went with me the next day

Len

 

[uk roe hunter]

len is right

I have sat on my marsh in weather so cold i thought i might die.... but i keep going back for more.

I have quite a strenous fitness regime..... for my dog. she goes from general retrieving work. to running beside the car for a mile or so, then plent of swimming then retrieving over marsh mud. By the time it comes to september 1st she has muscles like the guvnor of california! I shoot over the humber which is a big river with a heavy tidal flow, dogs get lost every year. i train mine hard and don't let her retrieve from really fast ebbing flows, she would end up in Denmark.

If any of you guys ever visit the uk PM me and i will take you on the marsh and we will do some wildfowling UK style.

Steve

 

[Crazy Uncle Al Gore]

I don't have a bird dog so I always wear swimming trunks under my camo. Retrieving the ducks yourself can be a challenge, but it's fun. That said, as soon as I can get a bird dog I will. Especially since I'm limited to hunting in warm weather.

 

[ABTOMAT]

For those who self-retrieve, how do you get all those feathers out of your mouth?

 

[Len S]

Lotsa floss


len

 

[schmidtbender]

Hunting without a dog is like "do it yourself sex" vs a loving skilled female partner. Of course the bar/food bill is lower with option 1.

 

[ABTOMAT]

If hunting with a dog is like sex with a women, you're either doing your hunting or your lovemaking in a very unusal way.