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I like it. Handles well. Sounds like I can take the forearm off and determine what chokes it has. They’re fixed.

What do you have?

She’ll be 4 months on November 19th. She’s currently 21lbs and 17” top of shoulder. We feed her 3 cups a day of Eukanuba Puppy Large Breed. Not sure if she’s hungry, but she is a heavy counter and floor surfer, and we’ve been working through that. Chalk it up to being a puppy? But maybe we aren’t fe...

SKB couldn’t provide much info on this gun. They referred to it as a Crown Field version from 70’s-80’s. Serial number CF 565929. Anyone familiar with this model? Inherited from my dad.

Have you been doing anything to reduce noise sensitivity? It was about 4 months old that I started to slowing introduce my current dog to loud noises followed by primed shotgun hulls, .22 blanks and eventually gunfire over a period of a couple of weeks. You brought home a dead quail. Does this mean...

Had a thought last night in bed. Why not put a sleeped pigeon on top of something slightly elevated, small box, anything really. Attach to a pull cord to box. Dog scents bird, points, pull cord, jarring pigeon awake, pigeon flys. Never trained a dog with pigeons, but will be soon with my pup. Probab...

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Sun Dec 03, 2023 11:31 pm

You said she tried to eat it whole. Did she try to tear it apart? Was it squished when you got it back? Was she mouthing it to get a better grip?

Didn’t try and tear it apart, really hard mouthing it over and over.

Have a 4 month old GSP still working on the basics, still working on consistent recall, bumper retrieves, etc. Never been introduced to a bird, other than briefly by the breeder at around 8 weeks. Brought home a dead quail today to let her get the scent and handle it. I had her on a check cord and l...