Harry’s first shooting trip – 25th February 2012

Well, Harry and I have finally been out together with the gun this afternoon. Time to move on from cold game birds to something freshly shot.

Took him over Begrums and we sat together for half an hour in the little copses around the dried pond. Couple of tellings off for making a noise, but otherwise he didn’t fidget too much. As the purpose was to give him a retrieve, I took a rather unsporting shot and dropped a Pigeon that had landed in the trees above us.

He was good and stayed until sent out, had a sniff and a half arsed attempt at picking a couple of times, then tried to have a little hunt around. Recalled him and tried again with the same result. So I brought the bird in, got him to “hold” it for a few seconds and then took bird back out again.

This time he went out and retrieved straight to my hand.

Very pleased with him; good boy.