Labs. They truly are the most versatile dog. From the Canadian Border down Montana's coulees and watersheds, over her stubble fields and CRP, across the Dakotas and their Pot Hole lakes, cattail sloughs and shelter belts, into Nebraska and her corn fields and river bottoms and through Western Kansas big wheat fields, ground swells and drainage depressions, Prairie Grouse, pheasants, ducks or geese, the lab will find them all and bring them to bag.

Hardy, intelligent, kind and trusting dogs, they are. And it matters not how fancy or plain the shotgun you carry, just don't miss more than two in a row or the cold shoulder they will turn to you will freeze water.

Guns, well for forty years in was mostly British SxSs, but of late, I tote a wisp of a Lindner FW that is a quick as a ferret and deadly as a cobra. She is easy for these old legs to pack around and pretty to look at.

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