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I've always been happy to loan out my older dogs when I couldn't go. Glad for them and my buddies.

Don

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Long time ago pointer/lab cross named Megan,

Pointing Rattlesnakes her whole front half would be crouched down on the ground trying to lean/get away from the snake. I would sneak up behind her and grab her by the tail and pull her away.

Don

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First, congratulations on this rescue, sounds like you have both found new best buddies. Very good of you to take him in and give him a real home. Boy, where to start. Before taking a dog I don't know hunting, even one that you have heard is a good hunter, I would do some yard drills "Sit, Stay, and...

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http://www.retrievertraining.net/forums ... ab-Puppies

http://www.gundogsonline.com/hunting-dogs-for-sale/ is also a good source for litter information

Just a recommendation, be sure to check for health clearances.

Don

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Several good retriever clubs in your area, I'm sure you could find a good training group to join.

Don

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Mark Newman wrote:I wish I would have had friends or relatives to get me hooked 40 years ago! This !

Good that you saved it for now!

DSemple

Every litter has calmer puppies, ask your breeder to pick you out a calm one.

Don

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Going to be a long weekend for the judges and the help low of 5 tonight with a high of 20 tomorrow, and high of 23 on Sunday with 2 - 3" of snow expected.

Don

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PntrRookie wrote: FWIW I wouldn't call that a sickle tail, he is just "pulling it".

Ditto

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Don't make him walk on tile or hardwood floors. You could restrict him to areas with carpet, or if you don't have any pick up some those big room carpets on the cheap, 7 is awful young.

Diet and exercises can often help strengthen weak joints.

Good luck, always a very tough call.

Don

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Heard there are 4 braces yet to run tomorrow.

Going to try to make the 1st brace to watch Charlie - FC Odyssey's Perfect Traveler run.

Hope we don't get the 2 - 4" of rain tonight they are calling for.

Don

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I use beepers hunting deep pheasant cover. Set to beep every 10 seconds with hawk scream on point. Works very well.

Have never used GPS, would hate to have to wear reading glasses while hunting. Also, everybody hunting knows location of your dog with a beeper collar.

Don

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Our best dog has a litter of 2 week old pups, anxious to get her back in the field after the pups are weaned for some late season action. What is the best way to get her dried out and back in shape? How soon after weaning can I expect her to be ready to go? It's been 20 years since I had a litter so...

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Use to do real well hunting corners in center pivot country northwest of Dalhart. A lot of Mennonites up there would give a guy permission if you can get in good with them.

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Really depends on the type of cover your hunting, your dog, and the birds. I love a beeper collar in the really tough cover we hunt pheasants in, we'd never find our dogs without it. http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj72/DSemple/Hunting%20Pictures/DonLarry10-20-07.jpg When we are working shelter b...

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Jeffrey's Supper Club - Kratzburg, SD - Walleye & Prime Rib
The Drakes Inn - Watertown, SD - Walleye & Prime Rib

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As an X-Trialer, I’m of the opinion that we should be discouraging Field Trials for anybody under the age of say 40, and for those over 40 who can’t show appreciable levels of disposable income and time.

Trialing should come with a warning label like cigarettes.

DSemple

I don't know that area.

If you put a post on The Refuge Forum under the South Dakota Flyway section I bet somebody can give you good advice.

http://refugeforums.com/refuge/forumdis ... ysprune=14

Don

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My GSP avatar dog Millie is a retrieving fool.
Hasn't lost a bird in several years. Even dives after cripples.

Rusty's Blue Earth Rex granddaughter

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I did the math.

I reckon I’ve got enough land I could put on a 30 dog weekend walking trial in South Dakota for around $150.00 per entry. Handlers would also have to have South Dakota small game license.

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Don, the cabelas is waterproof and very durable, also works in snow although I must say you do need to clean the chamber out on occasion. I have had them for as long as I can remember, at least 9 years still have that one and works still to this day. I own two. Rick I need to buy another new beeper...

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We hunt pheasant in very heavy, tall and dense cover in SD. (20 second single beep, hawk call on point). The beeper may cause a few wild flushes a day for us, but we could never keep track of our dogs without them in the type of cover we hunt and I think we actually have fewer wild flushes because w...

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Don is that a Ruger x Dixie female you have and are you in Iowa? No Millie is out of Heath Koima's Angel bred to Ruger (FC K-Hawks Denver Angel) Heath lives north of Souix City, IA. I live south of Kansas City. Have you seen strong retrieving skills out of Cecil's descendents? We are looking to add...

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Thanks for the great posts Dave Quindt, very informative. Question: I have a Cecil grand daughter out of Ruger that is a relentless retriever. We shoot a couple of hundred wild pheasants over her every year in tremendously tough cover and she hasn't lost a single bird in I can't remember when. She j...

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Your hunting the wrong type of cover. You need to go where the cover is thicker, taller, wetter, and denser. Been following pointers in SD for a decade. Our dogs pretty routinely average 20 to 30 points a day each and late in the season it's not unusual to see a lot more than that.

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Take her. Get her used to the routine. Riding in a kennel, hearing shots, other dogs, etc. Take her out just you and the pup, no one else for an hour or so per day. If she points a bird, kill it. If she doesn't point, but chases and gets excited, don't scold the pup, encourage her. Get that hunting...

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Thanks for all the nice responses. Going to be hard leaving old Liz home after following her what seems like a brazillion miles. I did send a PM to Robbi and I want all of you Trialers, NASTRA and hunt testers to know that us guys that are just hunters, appreciate that your willing to sell us pups o...

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Picture from Liz's last hunt at 13 1/2 this last Sunday in South Dakota. http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj72/DSemple/6140ac93-1.jpg A couple of pictures from years past http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj72/DSemple/Hunting%20Pictures/RamonLarryLizDec2006.jpg http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/...

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Simple Let your wife pick. That way when the pup pees on the carpet you hear "oh look how cute". Pup chews up her purse "it's ok he will grow out of it, don't you dare spank him". Pup wants to sleep in the house because he thinks it's cold outside "Oh let him crawl in bed for a change, it won't hurt...

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I'm just a hunter and I paid $750.00 for a FC x FC pup 3 years ago that we have shot over 500 pheasants over already. She pretty routinely has 30 to 50 finds a day and is a retrieving fool both on land and in water. Best $750 bucks I ever spent!

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I had a Lab x English Pointer cross from an accidental breeding of two nice hunting parents. I was hoping I would get the brains of a Lab and the nose of a Pointer when I took the free pup. Instead she ended up with the brains of a Pointer and the nose of a Lab.

....Don

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About 5 years ago, hunting with my son, we had a cripple pheasant run down a badger hole. I didn’t believe it when my son told me what happened, but when I had him show me the location sure enough our dog Liz comes right back on point looking straight down the hole. Leery about sticking my arm down ...

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I was wondering if anyone hunts their field trial pointing dogs? The primary bird we hunt a pheasants and with the dogs range, when we hear the collars and the time it takes for us to get to the dog, the bird has either ran off or flushed wild. I am convinced pheasant hunting with trial dogs is a l...

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Going after late season Pheasants next weekend in South Dakota and I think we will need them where we are going. The snow is generally crusted over enough this time of the year to support the dogs, but not us. Anybody ever upland hunt with snow shoes on, I've never tried them? Brands or type you wou...

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Book matches for the one bathroom
Good single malt scotch.
Cigars (Try Punch Rare Corojos in the Double Corona Size)
Singles for stripper bar.
Bail Money

....Don

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Shhhhhh, I'll tell you a secret if you don't spread it around. Pheasants will hold very well for a pointing dog if the cover is dense enough. Where I hunt its very common for my dog to have 30 to 50 points a day and I have seen days when she had over 80 finds. You need to hunt Pheasants were it is w...

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Stash hole money. During the year you build up 1500 - 2000 bucks your wife doesn't know about.

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Just a couple of possible site ideas: There is a small farm that has been turned into a wildlife area just south of Louisburg, KS. About 25 miles south of your home called Rutlander Wildlife Area. It looks like great quail habitat, but I've trained my dogs there and only have found one small covey. ...

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Why I fired my Secretary. Last week was my birthday and I didn't feel very well waking up on that morning. I went downstairs for breakfast hoping my wife would be pleasant and say, "Happy Birthday!", and possibly have a small present for me. As it turned out, she barely said good morning, let alone ...

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Ahhhhhhhh - Roses & Pigeons

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I have a very fine 10 year old in bitch (GSP) in great health and shape who has never been bred. (We never wanted to slow her down for hunting.) She still has normal heat cycles. She has been a fabulous hunting dog and pet and has a great field trail pedigree and I am wishing I had one of her pups. ...

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BANG-BANG wrote:Can I have the best of both world : best hunting dog that still do well in competion.

What type of dog you have and what do you like to hunt?

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I have a Cecil granddaughter out of Ruger that just tore it up in her 1st season Pheasant hunting at the ripe old age of 9 to 11 months. Probably had 250 points and 70 retrieves her 1st season on wild Pheasants. (She is pictured to the left) Tackles the heavy cover, very solid water dog, good thick ...

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Ok, all kidding aside. For upland game Kansas has Quail, Pheasants, Prairie Chickens, and Turkeys. From Lawrence you have to drive at least an hour to get into decent Quail Hunting, 3 hours to get to decent Pheasant Country, and 2 hours to get into Prairie Chickens (and they are few and far between)...

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I forgot they do have this big dumb bird out there that’s fun to hunt and pretty easy to take a shot at, but hard to kill. It’s blue with a big yellow beak and a red head. West of Lawrence and in Missouri they call it a “Chicken Hawk”. Between Lawrence and Kansas City they have some other name for i...

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If your looking to bag a liberal it's a great palce to go.

Also, my two nephews that go to KU there in Lawrence report that the two-legged split tail dear hunting is also pretty good.

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Couldn't hunt South Dakota Pheasants with out a beeper collar.
Single Beep every 20 seconds, Hawk call on point.

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A TRUE HUNTER Two deer hunters were standing on a ridge near a highway in rural south Mississippi on the opening day of deer season. They both saw a trophy-class buck meandering towards them. As the one hunter raised his gun to shoot, a funeral procession came slowly by. The hunter lowered his gun, ...

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They work good, but watch your ears. Something about the way they are configured really makes the gun shot noise carry backwards.

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On adjusting your dogs range. My buddies and I hunt a lot of tough thick heavy cover for pheasants. We have to use beeper collars because you can’t find a dog on point if they are more then 10 yards away in the type of cover we hunt. On top of that the wind really can blow where we hunt in South Dak...

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