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If you just want to shoot and hunt give it a whirl, but most bird dogs have prey drive and that's what get's them thru the training to be a hunting partner. I'm guessing if you started training your boxer to do stuff by command instead of want too then he would quit. In other words if you made him s...

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Glock 27 worn on the hip will take care of most problems. Make sure it can be seen..

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Dogs?

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There's a ton of National Forest around you within 30 mins or so..

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buy the book "Training with Mo". There's also some dvd's out there about the "West Method". I

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Welcome, I don't know you Dan but I have heard Ross bragg on Woodlands Lord Hanschen a lot.

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I agree with every word you said! Main streaming kids is a huge cost. I'm for choice and I think choice would improve both school systems.

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My dogs have done well on sportmix. They did great on pro plan performance, but it's not worth twice the price.

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Congratulation! A big slap on the back for Bruce too.

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Goatkisser, What bothered me the most about the whole article was the school district that ranked in the top half of the state just hired the superintendent from the district that was 2nd from last. This is good old politics as usual that needs to change. Unless the Franklin district has made stride...

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I believe your confusing vouchers with merit pay which are two totatlly different topics. No I'm talking about competition. When schools start competing for the good students they will want to hire and retain the best teachers possible. In a open market the good teachers will be the same as any oth...

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Public schools would lose money but they would also lose students so they wouldn’t need as much money. They could get rid of problem kids today, they have alternative schools set up just for troubled kids. They will not though because they lose the money that is attached to that kid. It’s also polit...

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Private schools have the option of not taking the children with discipline problems and not taking the children with low test scores, thus the difference in price and test scores. I am completely against a voucher system unless private schools play by the exact same rules as the public system, whic...

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Throw a ball down the hallway and tell the puppy "fetch" as he's running to it. When he's on his way back I tell him "here". This has always worked at laying a good foundation for me.

BRIAN

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DonF is right on the money. Start popping birds when he is close to birds whether upwind or downwind, pop the bird and make him stop. This is stop to flush training. You don't have to get every bird pointed to have a good training day.

Brian

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I send my kids to a Christian school because I like the learning environment they have. I also believe the number one problem with our school systems is bad parenting and the lack of 2 parent households. Good parents will see that their kids are good students. The second biggest problem is lack of d...

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http://www.gundogmag.com/2010/09/23/tra ... t_staunch/

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Super nice dogs. What's their pedigrees look like?

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Tell him you have a head ache, works at my house.

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If you buy danner get the ones made in the USA don't buy the cheap ones from china. I have a pair of grouse boots that I love and a pair of sharptails that are not so good.

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How much does it come out too a bag?

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Would you say a NSTRA dog needed a better nose than a broke trial dog? There would have to be a ton of scent in a field with all the killing on coarse.

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You guys need to read the post on Ivomectin. The stuff works for ticks and fleas plus it guards against heart worms. $32 for a bottle that will last you 3 or 4 years.

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If you study bloodlines then look for a breeding to match. You can find some good deals.

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congrats! Zero is a nice dog! Good handler also!!!

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Did you do a lot of "Wing on a String" training? Something I would do is try planting birds in very light cover or short grass where the bird can see the dog coming and I would do away with the launchers until she is using her nose.

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If you havn't ridden every brace how would you know what anybody did!!!! You can't judge a trial on the internet. I for one appreciate what the judges have gone thru the last tweleve days in order to arrive at the final 12 dogs. My hats of to those three well qualified gentlemen.myerstenn I can rea...

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Jeff, they SHOULD have bird work to be called back. You could run grey hounds with the same results without the bird work. When you talk about the best of the best they should have bird work to even be considered.

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Out of the 6 that went birdless how many had unproductives? Is there to much emphasis on run and not enough on bird finding ability. I know it's a trail but a dog should have bird work to be called back.

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I think the one in Iowa had dogs from 13 states with 26 out of 30 going clean with birds shot on coarse . I imagine this trial will be about the same. Looking forward to coming up.

That's pretty tough! I would like to see all retrieving trials ran with first bird on course shot.

Brian

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I have never ran a wild bird trial but it sounds like the dogs and the handlers just don't know how to handle wild birds. My dogs are trained on pen raised birds and we usually do some refresh work during the summer. When we get in the grouse woods it takes a few bird contacts for them to start hand...

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BTW a dog can point a grouse and they will still be pointing it when it lands 20 feet up in the tree... Not too hard. I don't know where you are hunting but our ruffs don't do that. I also don't understand why they ran back to back with the field guys. 3 hours and 5 finds doesn't sound to impressiv...

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You would think these dogs could relocate and find the birds if the birds ran out from under them. If these dogs can't pen a covey of quail they would go crazy on the grouse up here in east TN, Roadrunner has nothing on these grouse. Maybe the AKC needs to dump about 500 birds out the weekend before...

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What do you guys think is going on at Ames with all the unproductive points (false points). Do you think we are breeding dogs with not enough nose or is our training methods not allowing dogs to learn how to point birds not just scent? The national had some dogs with 5 or 6 finds but the AKC event h...

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Is it true they had to put out 500 quail a couple days before the running? I can't understand why birds will not take hold at Ames.

BRIAN

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Hunted 3 days this week. Moved 4 Monday, 2 Tues, and 5 today. Seems to be a lot of 1st year birds around but I did see a giant tail fan today.

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If you have to whoa him on point to keep him steady then he isn't broke.

I don't train for whoa. I use the west method.

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It's a sign of pressure from the trainer. Guess what's going to happen when he points a bird and you walk up and say Whoa!

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When I have a litter I will take feathers from a quail and throw on the ground, then bring the pups in and see if what they do with the feathers. I will then put down a live quail and see what happens. When the pups are together even the softest pup in the litter will be bold enough to explore and p...

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One day future generations will benefit from un-managed forests. In our lifetime, benefit from these wilderness zones will be null, or even, as you fear, seem to be doing more bad than good. The truth of the matter, however, is that if these areas are left un-managed for the next 300-400 years, old...

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This is what's happening to our grouse habitat. The Tennessee Wildlife Act is converting 20,000 more acres to wilderness. This means no management of these areas. We need to all send a letter to Alexander, Corker, and Roe to withdraw their support for the Act. Here's the letter I sent. It takes just...

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I didn't have a wing so I tied a sock to my fishing pole and my pup pointed the sock. What does that mean?

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I usually hunt with 24 to 26 inch barrels and a 5 -6 lb gun.

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Where in tn are you?

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I have never seen too much dog, BUT I have seen not enough handler!!! All joking aside there is certian lines of dogs that increase your chances of making the type of dog you want. People that have to see their dog the whole time would be wise not to by one out of a all-age stock.

BRIAN

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I've heard more than one field trialer comment on how a dog has to good of nose. A dog that points it's birds aways off makes it harder on the handler to produce a bird. For those of us who love to play games but are hunters first, we want the full choke noses. IMO because of the bird numbers, SOME ...

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Congrats Brenda. I really like the looks of Sam.

Brian

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This is going to be just my HIGHLY subjective opinion, but I would expect the most competitive dogs to range in the neighborhood of 100-300 yards. That is not to say a 75 yard dog that is producing lots of good bird work is not going to Win. Quite the contrary, if the 75 yarder is producing lots of...

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Bruce, It was good to finally meet you this weekend. You have some nice dogs.

Brian

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Very impressed with Dez!! Great run and you have a really good handler. Good job and great dog.

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