I love bird hunting but more than that I love to watch my dogs hunt. We have two awesome female Vizslas who live to hunt. Watching them work is amazing. It is so enjoyable I would do it without a gun. But my "girls" would be disappointed if I didn't shoot them. They know their job and they know mine. I've gotten a cross look from them more than once when the bird got away.
Pheasant is my preference. We've hunted farm raised here in Missouri but wild ones in Iowa.
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