Got into labs in 1982, and had to put my last one down in 2007. Sure do miss those dogs" Buddies"!
I had several labs during that time period. Everyone of them turned out to be a good hunting partner.
Most of the time I hunted at least two together sometimes three. One pair that I hunted was exceptionally intune with each other out in the field.
One day on a pheasant hunt, the little chocolate female and her bracemate a yellow female got on the scent of pheasants. I was behind the dogs when they first hit the scent, they both had noses to the ground and were tracking the birds at a pretty good pace. All of a sudden the yellow lab broke off of the trail and went 90 degrees of the trail for about 15 yards and then turned parallel to the original
trail that the chocolate was still on. The yellow lab took off at "mach 1" and went about 60 yards past the chocolate lab and then turned back another 90 degrees to her right and then turned towards the direction that the chocolate was coming . All of this time I am on the whistle and yelling at the yellow lab to come back to me because I thought she was going to flush the birds! My partner was on up the
trail and saw the yellow lab cut back in and yelled back to me that that there were two roosters in between the dogs. The dogs had the birds in a pincer situation! Well by this time I had hot footed towards the chocolate and the two birds flushed! My partner fired twice and missed! I saw the first bird just reaching a tree top and I busted that one and the second bird came right over me and luckiliy I got him too! From then on I never questioned that pair when we were out hunting.
This was not the firstime or the last time that this type of situation occured.
Anybody else have similiar experience?
