This weekend my friend Brett Henke and his family came up from St. George for the weekend. It was fun to catch up on old times and let our kids play together. Brett just recently got into shotguns and skeet shooting. He purchased a Benelli Super Black Eagle II and has been enjoying shooting sporting clays with some friends from work. I arranged for him to go hunting pheasants with me and my dog Jake. Since Jake is a work in progress it was nice to focus on working with Jake while Brett did all the shooting. Jake ended up pointing 6 pheasant and my friend was able to shoot 3 of them. Jake is making some good progress and even retrieved all three birds to hand. He still chases tweety birds a bit and runs a little too far but for a one year old german shorthair he is doing pretty good considering his rookie dog trainer. A big thanks to Russ Peterson of Rooster Valley Pheasants for setting the birds out for us. He runs a first class operation and his pheasant are healthy and strong flyers.
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