HUGE FLUSH! Iowa Pheasant 

That was tough to watch. Since when does a dog on point take precedence over recovering a downed bird. When you thought that dog was on point and the bird was in the creek, you should have sacrificed that “point” and called in the dog to recourse rooster. Second, dog stopping and eating game instead of finding you and delivering? WOW! Then there’s Tubs the flusher, running in on birds whenever people or dogs get to close to “HIS” bird. Lastly, how was that creek gonna be to much for the old dog to handle. That was nothing. Another bird without even an attempted recovery. This is all very poor sportsmanship, dog handling/training and really, more about blasting birds than anything else.

so you shot and killed 4 birds and found all 4? You got the 2 in the truck, lost/gave up on the 1 in the river and the dog ate the other bird while you were gone? Seems like you were 1 over the limit for here in Iowa.

I hope you weren’t too hard on your pup for eating that rooster. My lab ate a whole Canada goose once. I wanted to shoot him right there. My wife saved his life that day. Glad she did.

I had a flush of close to 75 birds (30+ roosters) in Delaware county, Iowa, back in 1989 ! The birds actually came up in 3 different “waves” , and we dropped 7 roosters before they were all away. It was on opening weekend and we added two more to fill our limit for 3 hunters.. My cocker spaniel found 2 birds that had crawled into thick, heavy grass to hide, otherwise we marked and found the others. I can still picture that amazing flush yet today, and I never had another experience close to that in my hunting days. I am 74 years old and have bagged 649 roosters since I dropped my 1st bird in 1968. Keep a hunting diary if you have time - my diary of past hunts is priceless ! R. G. Hoekstra, Manchester, IA

That flush of all those birds is what I’m been chasing my whole life!

Something about watching a dog work to find birds to me is just absolutely amazing! As much as I loved small game hunting, almost more then deer hunting I’d be happy walking without a gun and watching the dogs work….

Love watching Tubs work, when he brings you the bird you pet him twice and his expression is like " Yaa yaa boss, ain't no big thing, let's get another". I've watched several of your videos and he's a fine hunting companion. True team player. I hope my next dog gets to his level. Your spirit with your dogs is infectious.

Every time you go out, it’s better than any day I’ve ever had.

Birds numbers are for sure up in Iowa but still not like what they were in the early 2000s before farmers started harvesting 2 feet from their fence lines lol. Did you guy pop up any quail? I Just saw my first Quail Covey in a long time last week out hunting western Iowa.

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What a flush it was. Respected for effort in the water.

Nice to see Iowa back in the pheasant game.

I was hunting Iowa and and had a similar flush. I shot twice, reloaded, and shot two more times, meanwhile a there is steady stream of birds flushing....that was an evening hunt. I went back to the same spot the next morning and no more than 100 yards from that exact location, I got the same type of flush again. It was awesome.

Man I really love your videos! The way you incorporate your dogs personalities in the videos and explain what happened makes them just awesome! I look forward to your videos keep making them man!

Finally!!! Can’t wait to watch!!!

Dude I miss this . My dad and I used to hunt these guys all the time ! Good job and excellent dog. I miss combining those fields .

LOVE your videos bud. Just phenomenal hunting, dog work, shooting and videography. Best channel out here man. Thanks for putting in the time to make these videos. AWESOME!!

Great video and dog work as usual! That "covey flush" was crazy and definitely worth every penny that out of state license cost!

Love the video and the dog work as always...had a nice talk with Tom in MT in Oct.

Awesome Hunting Eric