Friday, November 13, 2009

Will in Montana

Will Pennington with his pointers, Riley and Lizzie. 
My friend, Cmdr. Will Pennington, Spent a week with me in Montana. We found the bird populations down a bit from previous years, but we had plenty of dogwork, including a classic find by Will's young pointer, Lizzie, on a covey of Huns. Will collected a double on a perfectly handled find. Impressive.  

Unfortunately we had some very troubled weather the week Will was there - the Airstream froze while I was in Michigan and we had some work to do before it was fully habitable, and we had some very cold nights and rain/sleet that kept bird hunting more about hunting than birds.  Still, we did find enough birds to enjoy each day. I think Will had a good time - I enjoyed his visit and hope that we can repeat again in the future.

6 comments:

Will Pennington said...

Mike--

I had a great time -- you're a fabulous host. I hope the next adventure is sooner rather than later. Liz is back in bootcamp after a couple of quick hooks on bobbled finds at some local trials. We'll give it a try again next Sunday.

Hope all is well out there.

Will

Andrew Campbell said...

Geezum, looks like you've had quite the fall so far, Mike! And with good company and nice dogs!

best
Andrew

Mike Spies said...

Andrew. it is work, but I am persevering as best I can...

Peter Houser said...

Will, I hope I get a chance to hunt with you some time - we can trade stories about Mike as we follow our dogs.

Will Pennington said...

I'll look forward to it Pete but I suspect that next year I'll spend the majority of bird season underway...

hunshatt said...

Will, nice vest......LOL