We soon came upon a couple of rabbit hunters who were hunting the cover that I had intended to hunt so we changed our direction. We found a large number of recently stocked pheasants who ran ahead of Emma's points and mostly flushed wild. After a large circle we returned to the cover that I had intended to hunt and started to find some woodcock. Russell put his grandfather's Model 12 16 gauge to good use dropping this bird that eluded me, with Emma making a nice retrieve.
Russell and the old Model 12 proved to be deadly this day and he dropped another bird over Emma's point. Emma found and retrieved the bird no where near where we had thought it had dropped. Without her the bird would have surely been lost.
Emma found us a few more birds, but our shooting skills left us and we made it back to the truck with no more birds in the bag, but with some wonderful memories of a memorable day afield.
On Friday Thicket and I made the long trip north to the Muth Covert.
We only found 2 local birds with Thicket pointing one of them and I making the too close, too well centered shot.
We tried a couple of "marginal" covers but no birds were found so with the temps rising we called it a day.
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