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From: scott@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Larry Scott)
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Re: Hunting Stories
Message-ID: <1991May27.171404.29379@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 27 May 91 22:14:04 GMT
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	Here's my input for amusing hunting stories.
	Duck hunting with my friend and my young chocolate lab, Hershey.
>From noon on, it was extremely slow, but by the time we realized that it was
over, we decided to wait it out until the "evening flight". Our blinds were
makeshift shelters we built from 6 ft. rebar stakes and bulk camo material
we had clipped to the stakes. (Actually, it works REAL well!)
Finally, after not seeing a bird for over 2 hours, a nice flock of mallards
came in to our lake on the far side. A little coaxing on the duck call, and
they turned our way and started to come across. I anxiously called Hershey
into the blind and told him to lie down and "stay". He proceeds to flop over,
tummy-up, for a tummy scratch. As he does this, his body catches the slack
camo material, and, as he rolls, tears the camo all the way off of the rebar
stakes! Leaving me "naked" to the incoming mallards! Have you ever seen a
duck leave skid marks as he stops and turns so hard?! Had you offered me a
dime for that dog at that moment, I would have accepted it and given you
a nickel change! Actually, it's just as good that the ducks veered off, as
my buddy in his blind 20 yards away had watched this entire scenario and was
laughing so hard that there's no way he could have got a shot off!
	Well, a full season-and-a-half later, my 80-lb. Marsh-Monster is
doing real well and has saved me several birds that would have escaped without
him on the job. I love him.

	I really like this group, let's keep it going!

	keep huntin'

	Larry (and Hershey)