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Good looking pup. Welcome!

They are good folks. I had the opportunity to use their satisfaction guarantee on a collar I bought earlier this year. They were very happy to swap it out. I’m very happy with their service.

Nice bunch of pictures. It looks like nice country over there. Thanks for sharing.

I have been all over the place on feed because of my new pup. He seems to react badly to chicken, although we haven’t done extensive diet testing to confirm. This meant we had to move away from Fromm Gold Large Breed Puppy. Anything with chicken in it gives him the runs. My vet does not recommend Pu...

My vision sometimes is off, and the walk had me gassed. Thinking back, I did not process "rooster" when the bird jumped. The glare from the sun had me pause. That allowed him to get a few wing beats in. Then the wind moved him fast. My first shot was 2 feet behind him. After that it was pointless. ...

I didn’t mean to imply that you were slow or old (I’m quickly getting to be both, myself!). I just meant that bird caught the wind and was out of sight in a hurry.

I was thinking the same thing as I read it, but I am a brand new trainer with my first hunting dog. I’ll share my approach, and maybe as more experienced people point out mistakes, it’ll help guide you. I have read the 10 minute retriever several times. I’m reading here and on the golden retriever f...

It always amazes me how quickly these birds fly! It looks like he went with the wind and I’d guess he was 30 yards out before you even fired a shot. Neat video!

I will definitely be praying for this drought to end. I hope you had a good season. Thanks for the video!

Thanks for that! My 14wk old pup was a demon all day today. I keep reminding myself to play the long game.

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Good folks. Thanks for what you do.

Welcome, Tim!

Thank you, both. I’m still open for input if anyone else has recommendations.

I am located in the Colorado front range, between Denver and Loveland. I am looking for a field trainer to work with. I may also want to have the trainer do force fetch for me.

Has anyone used a trainer in the area they would recommend?

Good for you! I hope the right one comes along for you. I do miss whitetail hunting.


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Thanks for posting a better link. We're on a 28 day complete lockdown here as of Dec 26 , :roll: so I'll be doing a lot of reading and running the dog (allowed). You’re welcome. Thank you for all of the help you have given me. Merry Christmas and good health to you! While most of the Colorado front...

Thanks for your details on the Tapatalk PM button issue. <snip> Otherwise maybe try a reboot of your phone and see if that works? Keep us posted! Thank you for double checking. A reboot of the phone did not solve the issue. I deleted the app, which also deletes all local data. I reinstalled from th...

Thanks, Sharon! I am all fixed up now. I still can’t PM here using Tapatalk, but I can work around that. No worries on that part. I just wanted to share this in case it helps someone after me.

I’ll await your invoice [emoji6]

And one last bit of information for admin. This is what happens when I try to send a new PM instead of a reply.

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Well, hey! My last post went through without any errors in Tapatalk!

For reference, this is the reply button I should be able to see when reading my inbox (pic from another forum).

$30/hr is a bargain! Thanks for the help. I was able to send you a reply PM using the website. There are some problems using Tapatalk to post and message. Since admin offered to continue looking into it, here is a screenshot of the private message interface here. No option to reply. [IMG]https://upl...

Sharon wrote:Fixed by the administrator's assistant. Should be fine now. Let me know if it isn't.

Thanks for the update. Testing now.

I still don’t have a reply button for PMs.

When I hunted back east, I was never much of a scent user. Sorry I can’t help with that. I always liked sitting travel corridors and edges during muzzleloader. Unfortunately, mz was always January in Ohio and it was seriously cold to sit still for long. Hunting the west has made me much more comfort...

Hi Sharon, thank you for your help. It appears that I will also need some admin assistance to allow private messaging.

Merry Christmas to you, too!

Here’s the photo for those without fb.

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Hi, thanks for your input! I have hunted for many years, but my shots on birds have always been few and far between. It was definitely me rushing in excitement. I’m OK that the rooster lived to fly another day.

Thank you, Sharon! I would have replied in the PM, but I don’t have the option.

I’m having some trouble also. Every time I post from Tapatalk, I get an error that the thread doesn’t exist. If I tap “reply” again, it says I can’t post again so soon. If I cancel out, sometimes my post appears. Sometimes it doesn’t. When it does appear, it is usually hours later and it says it nee...

Howdy, new member here and I hunt. I’m looking forward to training my first hunting dog. My latest trial was just poor shooting on my part. I was working the northeast corner of a pivot irrigation field with some fresh snow on the ground. My dog is over to my right and I see rooster tracks in the sn...

Hello, I’m new around here and joining to read more about dog training and to enjoy pictures from the field. I have been a hunter for 40 years from Ohio to the south to the west. I live in Colorado and hunt here and nearby states. I have always hunted upland game and in the past decade I have been b...

Your girl is a looking dog. Echo and I are same. We are so close that I feel bad for Josey. Look up Standing Stone Kennels on YouTube. They are responsive to questions. I will hunt near Nebraska tomorrow. Hopefully, cows have not been let into the corners yet. I hope we can scratch up a limit. Not ...

Great pictures and congrats on the puppy! We have a 17 month old that I am not going to hunt this season. She and I need to work some more before we get her on wild birds. I agree with all of your thoughts. I am disappointed to hear about Kansas as I was going to give it a go in January. Bummer. I ...

Hi folks, I’ve been lurking for some time. I have been hunting for almost 40 years. I have never had bird dogs, but I have hunted with them. My golden retriever enjoys hiking with me, but she isn’t really hunting or retrieving. I have a new pup that I will be training to hunt.

I’ve been seeing the same thing in Colorado. The past couple years have been very sparse. Spring hail storms, yet not enough rain to produce good grass. For what it’s worth, western Kansas seems the same this year. We have been hunting irrigated corners. Lucky to bring home 1 bird also. https://uplo...