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Monday, November 12, 2007

Third Series - Land/Water Triple with Two Retired Guns and a Mixed Bag

Test three is set in a picturesque bowl with two ponds of water lying strategically on line to the test's retired birds. Up the middle with a true line past the left-hand pond and through the second pond is a dead duck at 240 yards thrown from right to left and down on the front side of the pond dike/embankment. Shot and thrown second is a hen pheasant on the left with the guns standing on the front side of a winding ditch at 185 yards, with the bird thrown left to right in the ditch. Finally, the duck flyer is over on the right of the test, shot at 155 yards from right to left at an angle back.

In the first 15 dogs there have been 9 handles including 3 double handles. Many dogs drive through the ditch on the left-hand bird and climb the hill on the otherside. A few hunted short of the ditch on the flat. On the long middle bird, many dogs avoid the en route water, some have recovered while others end up in no-man's land. Video Clips:
You will need to download the flash player to view the clips. Click on image for caption and larger view. Photos by Robert Young/AKC Web Photographer.
       

Sunday, November 11, 2007

First and Second Series

Tests one and two consist of a land double and land blind. On the right, a set of guns stands on the slope of a hill and throws right to left into a rocky ditch area formed from run-off coming from the hills above. This is a hen pheasant at 225 yards. The flyer is on the left, shot to the left on a sparsely grassed slope. After these birds were retrieved, the land blind was planted. It was located with the line to the bird behind the flyer guns and then up the steep hillside at an angle to the left of the runoff ditch. The bird was planted at the left base of a large rock just underneath/to the left of a California oak.