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A little throwback to a hunt with @cornerstonegundogs back when I was still in the Air Force. Mid-morning mallards coming back to the loaf pond are good for the soul!

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Isla girl was on one last night…

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From Scotland to America to Canada… Bro is always here for it.

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I reckon that's close enough 🤣

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I'm just a man trying give his dog the best life possible.

#retriever #huntingdogs #chocolatelab #thisismylife #retrieverphotography

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Week 51 with Adeline (13 months old): This week was all about the water. It started off extremely tough for us, and we had to battle through some confusion and find success wherever we could. This week, we introduced blinds in the water and pushing across the water. We started off doing some memories across the water onto land to try and build confidence, and she did just fine with these, but once we went to more true cold blinds, she struggled pretty badly the first couple days. She kept treating them as marks and wanting to look out into the water more and even went as far as diving under the water looking for the bumper. The harder I tried to push her, the harder she would hunt in the water. This was awesome to see from a hunting standpoint, but not for achieving our next step of growth. After about 3 days of just hammering out memories and some super simple blinds across the water, it finally clicked, and by the end of the week, she was absolutely killing it. This was the first battle we truly have had where I just felt lost. It was hard for me to see her trying and hunting so hard and just not understanding the objective of pushing further to the bank. I did my best to not get frustrated and keep her confidence up the best I could. It was frustrating because she is such a good marker, and on the memories, she was always able to push straight across onto the bank and make the retrieve, but it was not translating into blinds, as she couldn’t get her mind over the water. I feel like this will be something we are going to have to continue working on a lot, as in our hunting environments, we face these types of retrieves quite often. I definitely think it clicked at the end of the week, and I am very excited to see how it translates starting back up tomorrow. We went really hard and had some long sessions all week, so I let her have a good mental break this weekend. On top of the water work, we continued working T-drill both in the water and on land, hunt circle, all kinds of blinds, and angle backs. This was a tough week, but truly, to be in Week 51 and this be the first time I have felt this feeling is a testament to how awesome this dog is!

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Windy day on the river yesterday. Managed a couple birds right in the decoys.

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It’s our last week of phase 1 foundation training. We have started left, right, and back hand signals. We can’t wait to dive into phase 2; fetch!

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That reaction when you find that early season jingaling jingaling💎💎💎

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Ok. Let's talk Duck Harvest numbers because this dispells several of the misconceptions when it comes to duck numbers. First and foremost, the blue line is the USFWS duck breeding population survey count. Many people love to claim that this is inaccurate. Even the USFWS gives a Standard Error Rate(2nd photo) but for the most part, the other 2 measurabke factors still line up with it. May Pond Counts and Harvest Numbers. You can 100% see a minor dip in harvest when total population decreases. Look at the 2021 and 2022 numbers in red. We did see a disproportionate bounce back up the past 2 years as harvest rose faster than the population. Many factors can effect that though and is a good indicator that there are younger birds AKA: good hatches that don't get counted in the survey.

All this to say, if you are one of the conspiracy theorists that thinks all this data is just made up for "money" and we'll keep buying waterfowl stamps, too much of the information lines up for that to be the case.

Maybe the reason you aren't seeing as many ducks is because they've shifted due to changing weather patterns and agricultural practices🤷‍♂️

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Hard not to let thoughts drift to these days when we're gonna see lows in the 30s this weekend....

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Nala wants you to know that she got sprayed by a skunk today… 🦨

#duckhunting #hunting

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