2015 Huntin’ Buddy photo contest

End to a perfect day with 2 yr old British lab Lucy Lou.

My hunting partner Winston at the end of another beautiful retrieve in NE Minnesota.

Early season drake wood duck, Winona, Mn.

With 3 hunting partners we work and play all year. Mady, Lucie & Kati are waiting in anticipation for me to throw the training dummie.

Piper the Gordon Setter on point while clearing the birds out of a local farm field.

British Lab pup and her first day training with birds

British Labrador pup on her first introduction to birds

British Labrador jumping into the water

Roz is my hunting buddy. This was taken outside our house in Park Rapids after we got back from grouse hunting. She is an excellent bird hunter!

Izzy with shed she found

Riley spotting early birds at Lake Kabetogama, MN

Maggie ready and waiting to go hunting

Chloe - November 2014 hunt in MN

My Chessy Ike with a early season Sask. Mallard

Hunting buddy waiting for ducks to fly

Grousin

Gunnar in the flowers

Just me and my dog out duck hunting near my parents farm. Action slowed down after sunrise on String Lake WMA. I'll always remember Gauge jumping in after a muskrat that swam by.

Our Gordon Setter, Piper, while we were out shed hunting this spring!

Our Gordon Setter Piper scanning the field for birds (and moths...)

This is my 7 year old lab oliver with a drake goldeneye I took on a November morning in Minnesota in 2014

Reba is a German Shorthaired Pointer

Rex with a rooster flushed from the snow covered cattails on the last day of the MN season.

Rex with 2 Drake Mallards he retrieved on an October morning in MN last fall.

GMHR Kate MH with a great Canvasback

Our boy, GMHR Atlas MH, with a dandy MN rooster pheasant

Our girl, Rayna, on a duck hunt in 2014

Wanting to go for walk

1 year old Moser pict. Son of famous dog T-bone of Holzinger Kennels stud

Tracked down a rooster

Looking for birds

Timber, 8 months old. first duck season, North Dakota

Buddy, 6 months old first duck season. North Dakota

This is my 7 year old lab Oliver with a opening weekend wood duck in Minnesota from 2014

Jade, a 5 year old British Labrador is taking cover in a duck pond within the Minnesota River Valley on a foggy 2013 duck opener.

Duck Marsh, Wyocena Township, Wisconsin

Shiloh caught this goose !

Shiloh's first bird

near Hutchinson, MN while rearranging decoys, Hunting with my father-in-law.

near Atwater, MN

Zeta retrieving an opening day mallard near Atwater, MN

Retrieving a mallard on waterfowl opener near Atwater, MN

10 yr old Ward with a rooster from spring training 2015.

Maggie pointed and recovered her first wild pheasant on public land in western Minnesota. She sustained a three inch gash on her chest from barbed wire that required four staples. She never complained once.

Shelby's (Golden Retriever) first field goose hunt in fall of 2014

Shelby's (Golden Retriever) first hunting water retrieve

Brandon and Hutch's Duck Hunting Trip

Annex, a German Wirehaired pointer poses with owner Leah's first pheasant in Stacy, Minnesota.

Retrieving the King of Waterfowl

Eyes on

Last fall Minnesota

Darby a young German Drahthaar playing in the field

Monty, an English Setter with a Rooster Pheasant

A German Drahthaar with a Drake Mallard in North Dakota

A German Drahthaar with a Drake Mallard

German Drahthaar with a Drake Pintail in North Dakota

Nika, A German Drahthaar with a Pintail in North Dakota

Nika a Drathaar with a Drake Pintail in North Dakota

German Drathaar retreiving a Widgeon

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