Gun Dog Forum

When the term "field trial dog" is used it seems like people are referring to a few different things. Either a dog bred from FT dogs, an out of control big running dog, or a fully broke AA dog. A "derby broke" dog is a field trial dog but in most cases not much different than a lot of steady "meat d...

Our birds flush 200 yards out when you close your gun. We hunt with some guys that have phenomenal dogs, they just don't work in this area. He praised how his dog can hold a bird and the first year here not one bird held. We drive down the road and pheasants flush up 300 yards away in a field. Spoo...

Among the reasoning I stated before about the lack of people actual hands on knowledge/experience with a good FT dog I think the other case would have to be the work involved. It takes constant pressure and discipline to keep a dog proper broke for FT that you really just don't NEED for typical hunt...

An early season pheasant find

Because of wives tales and second hand information. Someone said you can't hunt over a big running field trial dogs and it got repeated over and over. Most people don't realize that a good FT dogs checks in and cues off you and holds point until you catch up.

Housetraining like others have said is not a real issue just handle the same you would a puppy. But I have had outside dogs that just did not want to be house dogs. They'd come in for a few hours but anything more than that was too much. Now I've also had dogs that lived their lives on the chain or ...

Basically what jet is highlighting is the mistake so many sporting dog owners make which is looking too far back in their pedigree. 4 generations back is really all you need to look at. Because in 1 generation a line can be ruined and in 3 you can basically have another breed entirely. In your case ...

There's really nothing out there like the onX chip. hostile depot has a really nice collection of free maps you can load on your Garmin's sd card. These will mark public/private land and usfs roads. I got by with just these for years but you really get what you pay for with onX.

How big is that bitch?

RF1 or K9 Superfuel as far as supplements go. I also have used pure maltodextrin mixed in water.

There's really no beating the Onx chip as far as the up to date information it will give you for public and private land ownership but GPSFIleDepot has a nice collection of free maps that you can load on your gps.

In the Pacific Northwest recent transplant from the northeast. I hunt and trial a Flintlock/Sureshot bred GWP and a Llewellin. Also hunt with terriers and used to run beagles and walkers.

As far as Oregon goes from what I've noticed it's really the northwest Portland-area that are a different breed of people. Once you go further south you find people with much more sense.