Hunting with Dogs

IT was about 11 years ago when I first decided it was time to get my first hunting dog. I was hunting ducks throughout the Victorian duck season and then deer for the rest of the year so I really wanted a good retrieving dog that would also be of some assistance whilst hunting deer. I decided to buy a Black Labrador whose mother was a gun retriever and father being used somewhat on Sambar deer; we named him Disco.

Disco was a quick learner on retrieving ducks and extremely keen, just about every afternoon after work we would head out to the local swamp (Reedy Swamp, Vic) and Disco, a non-vocal dog, would start howling with excitement. Whilst on the heavy-timbered swamp I could watch his head to