Saturday morning dawned cold and snowy here in Idaho. A perfect day for hunting pheasants. I thought about ruffed grouse, but couldn’t pass up the opportunity to track wily roosters in the snow. As it turned out, the day warmed up and by early afternoon there wasn’t any snow to be found. The wind however, kept the birds flighty and made it challenging.
I have been working with a young Brittany and thought it was the perfect time to get him on wild birds. At times he ranged out farther than I wanted, and blew through several pheasants and a whole flock of huns, but by the end of the day he came through for me, producing a plump young rooster that held fairly well in a thick covert along a stream. We put a lot of miles on for that bird, but he was worth every bit of it.
