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Bird Dog Stunts 
By SENECA 
ICATTERED over 
an experience of 30 
years afield, with 
all sorts of bird 
dogs for compan- 
ions, there are 
many incidents of 
considerable inter- 
est to recall, and 
while none of these 
are perhaps unique, 
they doubtless embrace many incidents 
and experiences younger sportsmen 
have not had with the dogs, and may 
never have. To see all the good things 
bird dogs are capable of requires more 
than a lifetime and I shall relate only 
what I have seen happen myself. 
I have in mind a brainy little dog, 
who had the unusual faculty of mark- 
ing down birds that had been flushed 
to his points. In both the grouse and 
quail countries, he and I had many 
good hunts together and he would stand 
and watch flying birds with an inter- 
ested and knowing expression in his 
eyes, and when they would settle in 
their flights he would run swiftly and 
merrily away and on following him you 
would find him pointing. He did this 
with as much intelligence and precision 
as a Mississippi nigger I used to em- 
ploy to do the same thing for me. 
Ona trip Lf took withwarmparty so. 
gentlemen to Old Virginia one winter, 
we had in our string of dogs a great 
overgrown pup out on his first trip. His 
talent for retrieving was immense. In 
shooting over his covey points, fre- 
quently there were several gunners 
lined up to shoot, and after it was all 
over, there were three or four birds 
down and the big pup would go and 
gathering in his cavernous mouth the 
entire kill, bring them in at one opera- 
tion—a splendid labor-saving device. 
Pointing live birds, with a dead one 
in the mouth, is always rare enough to 
be interesting. I have seen it done by 
a few good old dogs and I once knew 
a little pointer who made this perform- 
ance an habitual practice. 

E retrieved well and on scattered 
birds he would deliberately search 
for other birds, with a dead one in his 
mouth, and on locating one, stand and 
point. All other dogs I have seen do 
this, did it incidentally, happening to 
catch the scent of the living bird in the 
grass as they came in with a dead one, 
but this pointer did it by design most 
every day you took him out. 
In the grouse country I became ac- 
quainted with two old and very expe- 
rienced dogs, who had developed an un- 
It will identify you. 
canny trait. Every grouse hunter of 
experience knows, that at times he has 
mortally wounded a bird and shot him 
through and through and yet he will 
not falter from his wounds, but will fly 
away and you may think that you made 
a clean miss. Such a wounded bird 
will fly till he is dead in the air and 
drop. On such birds as these, these 
two dogs had some way of telling they 
were hurt to the death and they al- 
ways took after a mortally wounded 
bird, and perhaps be gone ten or fifteen 
minutes and I never knew either one to 
come back and not have the bird. Here 
is a question I will ask, “How does a dog 
know a dead or wounded bird lying be- 
fore him in the cover, from an unin- 
jured bird?” In shooting you kill a 
number of birds or wound them, that 
fly and then drop beyond the ken of you 
or your dog. On going on, your dog 
scents the dead or wounded bird and 
momentarily comes to a point and then 
goes in and fetches the dead or wounded 
bird. You will have to ask your dog 
why he did not hold his point, but knew 
the bird was dead or wounded. 
[ HAVE in mind as sweet a little dog 
as I knew and the best dog to hunt 
to his master’s guns I ever saw. He 
was not a retriever and I never knew 
him to retrieve, only under the circum- 
stances of a bird being down a long 
ways off and he knew it, but his master 
did not, which frequently happens in 
grouse cover. Under such circum- 
stances I have known him to follow his 
master for long distances carrying the 
dead bird, and in fact until he would 
see the bird safely lodged in his mas- 
ter’s hunting coat. Nearby dead and 
wounded birds he would locate for you, 
but never could be induced to retrieve, 
but he always saw to it that you got 
your bird. He had another good trick. 
Someone might be foolish enough to call 
this act blinking and, if you must, call 
it that. As for me, I always called it 
reason and the highest type of hunting 
for the gun. He was a good ranger and 
not infrequently he would find birds and 
you would have trouble locating him in 
thick cover. After a time he would 
come looking for you, and when he was 
satisfied he had caught your eye, he 
would turn and come to a point, as if 
to say, “Come on, they are over here,” 
and when you got back of him he would 
go carefully as if he were roading birds, 
and with his tail stiff, and of course 
he was not then scenting the birds, but 
it was his way of telling you he knew 
where they were on ahead and he would 
go until he stood, and then you could 
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