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Quill Gordon

I'll accompany you Bruce. Word on the street is he leaves an unguarded back door. Bring Dollar witcha that ways when he catches you snoozin in his barn he might feel sorry enough for ya to loan out one of his prize hounds as Dollar and I will be long gone.

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Good advice. Maybe I just carry beer into field, that'll keep my mouth shut or full anyways, no speaky. I have three remote launchers. Tread and Tracks with an amazing range of a whole ten yds. They would be difficult to setup in this particular field. You are reading my mind however I was thinking ...

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with the reset and kicking around, though at that point if he held, you could have pitched a dead bird and blanked allowing for a retrieve and a good finish. Didn't even think of this, I have frozen birds too. I'll make a point to carry them along. Hard to avoid sumbeach though, he is everywhere. U...

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This is something that will require fixing in stages: (1) Go to your pij coop, open the door, flush the vermin outta there and board'r up (an alternative is to wrap your checkcord around it to lock'r up) (2) Grab your fly rod, flail in a back n forth fashion until September (3) September comes, go ...

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Wait till this feller gets a load of my french. 8) Checkcord attached. Envision if you will a row of phrags eight feet across that runs east to west about three hundred feet. On the west side of these phrags is an opening that appears to be where someone run a truck through. I'm headed north, hound ...

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You see this Sum b http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v380/QuillGordon/Wildlife/P1020950II.jpg He is continually tryin my patiences while interferrin with my trainin. I'm sure he would like to see me fail as I have motives of killin most his family. Well, will leave some for seed of course. Here's th...

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Style???

Howcome I take it you fellers don't drink enuf

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Oh the best swimming Labs will sometimes start out that way, it doesn't take long before they learn how to swim properly. Usually when they hold a retrieve (dummy) in there mouth it will help them realize that all that splashing is unnecessary. My nine month old GSP does the same. It hasn't been war...

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Ahhh so el cheapo will most likey not be able to handle. Good info gracias

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Good gawd man! Unbelievable carnage. All over are local news they say you need to be prepared for emergencies after showing the footage of these tornados. I don't have any idea how you would prepare for something like this. Hang in there our prayers are with ya

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I'm reading some of you fellers use the blanks for 22's you can purchase in the hardware store at reasonable prices. Nailguns blanks like a hundred for $6. Tell me more, is there certain ones that work or do they all work ok? I believe they had ratings last time I looked, like 1,2,3's

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It's not a beloved shotgun mawn, just a blank gun . Thanks but lets try and keep it real here. What do ya say

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Is it just me or does this thread smell of a$$?

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Okay how about this sumbeach? Thee 209's are louder no?

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Considering this one. Not a high dollar model. Just need somethin the boy can handle with my pup while he grows into handleling the shootgun for training purposes. Will it work?
Whats yer thoughts?

LCS Champ Blank Pistol

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Isn't Jon & Cindy Hann of Perfection Kennels from that area?

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I wear a pair of Tony Lama Cowboy boots............Everyday

My gawd, there is two of us

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I guess when thinking of hunting dogs the appeal of a dog that covers more ground, points and holds birds is much more appealing. I'm on the fence as I know the value of a good flushing Labrador. I decided to go a different route about eight months ago. I had the thrill of my life when it came to a ...

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Maybe a better question would be crack cocaine or wild birds.

Could be just me and my homies but were definately smokin somethin

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Eh amigo ju know what dey say when ju play with fire

Ju gonna get burned

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Learn yer place "Grazzhoppaa"

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I personally like to hit one or the other hard, can't seem to be able to focus on both in only a day

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Sorry man. Everything has it's place, time

I get anxious as much as the next guy to get out there, although the costs can be huge

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Ah yes October when the snake sleeps. This should help keep it in perspective, allow summer to have it's season.

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Thanks Ruth. That shot was done by my old Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ-18. I shoot primarily in manual mode & had an exceptional model at the time

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Wolters baseball is a real simple method for teaching hand signals. Game Dog also has the description. I found that back is the hardest hand signal to teach so we train on it the most

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Avoid vodka & skunks while training

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I'm not from your area but do have a suggestion, you could try using Google Earth to scan yer local area for ponds or canals and then pursue permission or what have you from there.

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Thats what I'm thinking "stop to cast, stand no sit". I too hunt mostly alone, in the old days it was almost 95% of the time. Now a days it's more like 70%. When I do hunt with someone else we usually split up and go in two different directions. No trials http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v380/Quill...

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Excellent perspectives. Thank you. I don't think it would be used much after the intial training when implied for holding steady but I think stopping the hound like a retriever with sit with a one whistle blast could potentially have some benefits. Attention grabber for giving hand signals to fallen...

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Ideally

Yet the whoa command is meant as a obedience command and has nothing to do with birds.

Interesting

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Contemplating using a one whistle blast for whoa. What would be the down side? I'm an old Lab guy and the whistle has always been part of our training. For one it's easily heard over a distance & gets the hounds attention. I was just thinking that a one whistle blast for whoa might work better at a ...

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Perfection Kennels, Perfect Start & Finish series. A use of a variety of hounds in realistic settings and situations, easy to follow for the first timer Training Your Pointing Dog For Hunting & Home, Richard Weaver. With this book it does help to have some hound training sense due to it being a no n...

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The crux of the situation is this... Where you wannabe is where some are and where some have been. The problem is that sometimes, once you get where you think you wannabe, you discover that you wannabe justa little further along. A wise man never knows all, it's only the fool who know's everything

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Yeah we's still going to be "bleep" around

Maybe not tommorrow but...

I gets the feelin some ole boys just don't appreciate what it takes to get a pup on wild Chuks
Hows that?

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Quill, Sounds like you’re off to a good start. I think you just took too large of a step for your pup to handle at that stage. You went from captive pigeons in a launcher (low level of temptation) to wild chukar (extremely high level of temptation), with no conditioning steps in between. Steadiness...

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My point here is he chases because he can. Remember that whatever you let your dog do you are training the dog to do. Every time the dog has a repetition of the wrong thing it is something learned the dog will have to unlearn . This will require pressure. If you are going to use a certain plan stic...

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The dog learned the difference between birds in the launchers and wild birds because you were "bleep" around from one idea to the other without a consistent application of method I gots to call BS, we were consistant with both. What you have stated has already been established by myself with a plan...

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A review system like they use with products on the internet could be helpful. Rate trainers or posters with their experience level and advice given. A tough gig. Also I look at the location of the advicey to see what part of the country they are from. Myself I have 27yrs running flushing Labradors o...

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Oh I don't know that running a pup on wild birds while steadying him on pigeons in remote launchers is all over the map. He!! if we were having trials with nothing but pigeons he'd be in the winner circle. :lol: Were not talking trials here though, it's the real deal, not some game man made up. Wild...

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However, I was under the impression your dog was staunch on point with pigeons, but just not on wild chukar. Now, I get the impression you have not worked on getting him to remain staunch on point if he sees a bird on the ground moving. Have you ever had a pigeon, or other bird, on the ground walki...

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start shooting some of those pigeons and the intensity level will go up

Yeah we pop'em when all goes well which is most the time. My inventory is getting low

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4dabirds wrote:why does he chase?

He wants to catch would be my guess

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He'll point Chuks if they hold but if they start to move it's adios muchachos You must also demand he remain steady on your initial contacts with wild birds Not sure what you mean by that, we let the hound run free to figure it out for himself. I just keep my mouth shut and observe for the most part...

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4dabirds method sounds a lot like Perfection Kennels method, yea or nay?

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Ba ha ha ha ha hah gag cough choke spew.
Hound steady to pigeon in launcher but wants to chase wild Chukar.
I now need to tame wild Chukar

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slistoe wrote:
Quill Gordon wrote:
Pointers have been bread soo much with GSP's the only difference is the colors
Thats a shame
Yeah, I liked it better when Pointers looked like Pointers and not like GSP's.

Okay, I guess it goes both ways

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The converse is also true. Different breeds of dogs, if systematically selected and trained for a certain type of performance will often perform ad even behave very similarly to dogs from other breeds that are selected and trained for the same tasks. RayG Very true. I have noticed this with trainin...

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Pointers have been bread soo much with GSP's the only difference is the colors

Thats a shame

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Excellent show Doc

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