First off, I have very much enjoyed your shows from several years back including different formats, but I have always enjoyed your laid back down home approach.

Now to the question, unlike you I hunt flushing dogs, but they are well trained and steady English Springer Spaniels. I also shoot, in training, at the club, and in South Dakota many birds a year, and see a lot of different options. However, when I hunt with multiple partners we decide who gets first shot and then alternate on who shoots first. This seems to eliminate many of the problems, but on occasion, the simultaneous shot still occurs. I do believe 9 times out of 10 there is a slight variation on the shot and I can tell who shot 1st, but I would never let “I got that one”, ruin a friendship or worse yet, cause hard feelings between family. “Great shot, you got him”, is usually my reply, on occasion I will get “you know you got that one”, or vise versa, but deep down usually the person responsible has a pretty good idea what actually happened. On those rare occasions when we really don’t know, again, we alternate on possession.

Good job, keep up the good work.