Goose training

Just got the goose training dummy from GunDogSupply and trained with it this morning.  Argus had trouble at first finding where to hold it, but eventually got it.  We'll add this to our training regime.

Hunted last weekend with Chris Nadeau and his son William.  Argus did great and William really loved it.

Hunted this morning.

Got one mallard - Argus did retrieve.  It was a blind retrieve.  He had to go about 50 yards.  Handled him once, then he hunted it up on a small tuft of marsh grass.  Great job.

Hunted last weekend with Matt McManus who lives in Concord.  We met on Duck Hunting Chat for Massachusetts.  Matt shot a goose, it came down about 50 yards away - deep in the reeds.  We couldn't really mark it too well - the reeds are about 6 ft high.

We paddled over, marched around a while, but could find it.  After about 10 minutes, I was walking to a new area, calling Argus over, but he wouldn't come.  Looked back and he had his nose to the ground.  Right at the goose.  It was buried beneath some dead swamp plant with large leaves - I walked about two feet from it and never saw it.  Matt - the same thing about 10 feet away.  Thanks to Argus we got the goose.