Excellent stuff! I can think of nothing better than working a cocker in the beating line
it's really hard work at the beginning of the season with a keen young worker.....2 steps too many and about 30 go up in a second! really want to try him picking up too as he loves retrieving - he made me laff the other night tho - i carefully and tightly tied some pheasant wings on his gundog dummy the other night and hid it in the garden and sent him out to find it.
he was ages!!!! then he proudly came back wagging his back-end madly with 1 pheasant wing, gave it to me, returned to get the other wing, same thing ....then the gundog dummy, and then the string i tied it on with