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I have always used 20ga imp cyl with 7.5 shot on phez and quail and have never had a problem, but have no experience with skeet chokes. Thx for the replies.

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Looking at an old 20ga o/u that has fixed skeet chokes. Will this still work on quail hunting over pointing dogs?

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Does anyone have any experience with them? Seem like decently made Turkish guns, and the SVE model comes with ejectors. Not much info on their site and their customer svc isn't any better. In the market for something like this, but can't find one to handle. Can't even find what the actual weight of ...

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Just getting used to this new set up and it's taking me a while. Quick question on the collar, is there a way to tell battery life left on the tt-15 collar? I have only used it once in the field since I bought it and did the new full charge on it. My alpha controller still shows 78% battery life. Di...

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Been wanting to upgrade my collars from my Innotek 1600 to a GPS unit. I know the alpha is MAP priced at $799. I have an opportunity to buy one from a dealer at employee price which is more than a 10% discount. Will I find a better unit at a better price? Still struggling with the sticker shock of t...

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Very interested in this thread as it is about time to retire the old Innotek 1600 Track N Train. Have seen a new TEK 1.0 listed for $499. Curious if the TEK 2.0 and the Garmin, both of which are $799, are worth the extra coin.

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Thank you in advance. A little about me. I'm just a regular pheasant hunter. I go out almost every weekend of the season here in MN and spend 10 days every year in SD. I have some private land that I hunt here in MN but hunt a lot of Public land. My favorite time to hunt is after things have froze ...

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If I remember right, once you get logged into your account, you can either click on the id # to see the pedigree or you can click on the name to edit. Don't know that I have tried it, but I remember reading that.

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I am of the opinion that as long as a dog has room to climb in, turn around and lay down, he has plenty of room. Living in TN, I travel further than I used to with the dogs. They make the trip from TN to KS just fine. I try not to go more than 4 hrs before I let them out to stretch.

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The biggest GSP I had was about 65lbs and was a big framed dog. The holes in my trailer are 24"x24"x24". The holes in my 4 hole box for the back of my truck are 30"x15"x24" tall. I could probably get by with the boxes only being 20" tall too. The big dog fit comfortably in both. Dogs curl up with th...

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When you say field trial bred, what are you referring to? Those are good looking dogs. The dog on top's momma was an akc FC and grand daughter of rawhides clown. The middle dog (heidi),was out of the top dog and FC Burr Oaks Rock Pine (direct son of NFC Heides mighty city slicker). The bottom dog w...

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Here is 3 generations of b/w field trial bred gsp's.

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A lot of the big time players in the GSP trial world do a go job of breeding their CH females to the best males available (whether it be in house or not), and then keeping pups in their training /trialing program generation after generation. A couple examples come to mind: 1) Blue Dawn Kennels is th...

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My vote is the Charles Daly Field Hunter 20ga/26". I have 2 of the 20ga versions and my only 12ga shotgun is this model. Have never had any major problems with them. They are light, slim and fast with minimal kick. They have a factory recoil pad and a LOP of less then 14" (About 13.25-13.5" if I rem...

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There is a small vent cap on the end with the spout and I also can use the fill cap for one as well. That is specifically why I went with a fill cap that had a threaded lid. I had thought of that, and I have already tried it out to make sure it works. I will probably add some sort of shims underneat...

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Thx. Seems pretty logical to me, but just wanted to make sure I wasn't forgetting something before I drilled a hole in the storage box. I will have some room on all sides of the jug to insulate it for real hot/cold days.

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Years ago, when I built my dog trailer I did not put any kind of a water tank on/in it. All of the water tanks I see for sale are all metal/aluminum. With money and space an issue, I have decided to use a blue 6Gal jug from Wal-Mart. I will mount this inside the front storage box of my trailer, dril...

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Thx for all the compliments. I am not anywhere close to being a full time/professional breeder. To call me a hobby breeder would even be a stretch. The fact that it has taken me 10yrs to get to the 3rd generation is proof of that. It is very satisfying, though, to see the quality of pups that my bre...

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Here is my new female pup. She is a 3rd generation pup for my breeding program. The sire of the litter, Mick, was my pick out of my 2007 litter between NFC Chisholm Creek's Jax Orbetter and my Holly female. The "bleep", Mocha, is a female that I bought a couple of years ago specifically to breed to ...

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I bought mine about 12-15yrs ago, and it had only been on the market for maybe 6mos prior to that. My favorite shotgun in the safe, even more so than the Silver Pigeon 20ga 26". Back then, dealer cost on them was about $1,150 and retail would have been $1,300-$1,500 depending on how much mark up the...

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I have had 1 mix. Chubbs was half Elhew Pointer/ half GSP. I paid $35 for pick of the litter for him when I was in college. I got him to keep my setter company in the kennel. I just lost him last year at the age of 12. He lived longer and hunted just as good as any other dog I have every owned. My f...

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The guy was talking about two different litters he previously whelped. The litter with black roan puppies came from a l/w male and a b/w female. Don't know where he and I's confusion came from, but we got squared away now. He was surprised how little color the male threw as all pups from the litter ...

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Ok thx. Maybe he misspoke and meant to say the dam was black roan or maybe I misunderstood him. I have not seen the female, just a pic of the pups from last summer.

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Is this possible? Was talking to a guy that has a liver/white male gsp from one of my past litters (NFC Chisholm Creek's Jax Orbetter X daughter of CH/FC H's K-Man Guy). No black and white dogs in this male's pedigree anywhere. He said he bred him to a solid liver female, whom I would assume has at ...

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If you want to keep the same gun, I would buy a .357 sig barrel for your glock. Will drop into your gun and use the same mags. Will give you a little more piece of mind if you have to dispatch a large animal. There is a reason more and more wildlife officers that have alligators/bears in their juris...

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Those look almost exactly like the ones I made years ago. I thought the pvc would hold up better than anything else. Boy was I wrong. Even after securing the barrel to the pvc and the barrel to the back wall of the kennel, the dogs were still able to tear them apart. Even used F-26 adhesive to attac...

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Finally had a chance to get my 8mos old pup Katie on some pigeons. Been yard breaking for the last couple weeks so I am sure this was a nice change of pace for her. She had never seen or smelled a planted bird before so I check corded her into the first one and she bumped it. She gave chase and was ...

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I am reloading .223/5.56 for $.29 per round now. That is considering that I am re-using brass, and already consider it paid for. $.29 includes bullet, primer and powder. Once you have the brass and equipment, it is still about half the cost of buying loaded ammo. I would try to continue to buy loade...

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After seeing the pics they were Gambel's. That makes sense that they are more tame around the humans at the golf courses. They acted like pen raised bobs that I have seen. They don't walk right up to you, but don't scatter like wild birds that you come across. Either way, they look like a blast to c...

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I was in Phoenix, AZ last week on business and spent some time at the golf courses around town. Managed to see several pairs of mountain quail around the courses and wondered how you guys hunted them. I am assuming they were in pairs for breeding season, but I could be wrong. I did see a pair of adu...

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Very nice looking pup.

And Coop, very nice Super Troopers quote!

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Hypothetical question--you do an ai breeding and whelped a successful litter. Filled out the litter registration paperwork with the dam's info and the vets' info that performed the ai. Dam's owner mailed all that info off to the owner of the stud dog and straw for him to sign and mail off to the akc...

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Gotpointers--I have handled one before. The pistol was huge and I have pretty big hands. I haven't heard much about them either way. I don't think it is quite the manstopper that most people thought it would be. I know a bank robber got stitched up by one in the Kansas City area about 10yrs ago and ...

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My old dog Chubbs turned 12 yesterday. Doesn't seem that long ago that I was taking him home from the breeder as an 8 week old pup. He has been my hunting buddy and my go to guide dog for years. I could not even begin to count the number of birds that were shot over his points. He can't get after it...

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I don't know how you could say one was more of a real hero than the other. Mikey Monsoor had the opportunity to do the ultimate act in selflessness and paid the ultimate price. He was awarded the CMH because of it. If you read Chief Kyle's book you would know that he spent a lot of time not sniping ...

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I know I probably shouldn't be asking this on a gun dog forum, but does anyone know if S&W changed their factory trigger group in the M&P? Before I left the police dept a couple years ago, I remember the LAPD banning its officers from carrying the M&P on duty or off because they had multiple fail to...

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Left his kennel in sw missouri a couple yrs ago and moved to Neb. Don't know if he is back into dogs again.

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Being a former police officer, I have shot, carried or owned almost every popular make of hand guns on the market. For someone that is not a pistol shooter and wants one for home protection and hunting protection, I would recommend a revolver in .357 magnum. Taurus makes a fine weapon and is usually...

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I would try getting ahold of some of the southern plantation quail hunting outfitters. A lot of the ones I have seen on TV train their dogs to flush on command to get the pen raised quail to fly. Makes it kinda resemble a wild quail flush and makes it pretty safe.

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Is your remote a Command series e-collar remote, or is it the 4 button remote used strickly for launchers? All of the old Innotek e-collar remotes that had launcher controls all had a diagram on the back of the remote for steps to follow. I know when I have to change batteries on my launchers, i hav...

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I got mine from BDK also. I had 1st pick of the females. I think I sold her when she was a 1.5yrs old. Like I said before, serious bird dog with lots of run. She had so much drive to smell birds she would not back on her own. She had a slight underbite so I was never going to breed her. Not sure who...

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It's been my experience, and I am no expert, that people will choose a bloodline of dog depending on what venue they partake in. I have been around "Slick" dogs for the better part of the last 10yrs. In what little NSTRA trialing I did, I never saw anyone else with a "Slick" bred GSP. It seemed like...

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Yeah, Daly was always one of my favorites growing up. I used to play competitive through school, but men's club is about as competitive as I get now. I am a lefty so besides Big John and Freddie, I don't have to tell you who my favorites are. Daly had a good week last week and has been playing quite...

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Did anyone in your pool have John Daly? Is that what's called a long shot?

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Don't know the exact link, but google Dr. Law in Abilene Ks. He has a list on his site of all dogs he stores collections on.

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I just moved to Nashville, but am setting up my kennel at the family farm near Bowling Green.

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Another one a little closer to home is ch/ru ch du more gigolo Cruz.
He is out of ch honky tonk gigolo and du more additions holli.

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Ed Cooley down in Alabama has a black and white dog named elhew pinnacle. He is out of ch shadow's attitude and snakes elhew misty who is a daughter of snakefoot.

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Jess, I didn't realize you guys had one that close. I was in Tennessee when they hit and all the weather channel was talking about was the 1 that hit the farm in Conway Springs and went south of the airport to Oaklawn.

Glad you guys are alright.

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