I've owned bird dogs for over 30 years, and after training several of my own dogs, I started training dogs for the public on a part-time basis. Today I continue to take a very limited number of dogs for training where I prefer trained retrieve work (FF) and starting dogs with both bird and gun intro. Most weekends from Oct through Feb/Mar, I can normally be found running my dogs on wild birds where I usually carry just an I-phone or GoPro but I do shoot a few birds from time to time.