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Duane M

Never bothered to check, just as far as need be. These two pics are from where I parked yesterday morning and we hunted as far as you can see in them which is about three or four miles in the first pic and about two or so in the second. http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z268/dbubbadog1/100_0261.jpg...

Duane M

Hey Sprig ya wonder whats in it just call them. I wondered the same with Diamonds High Energy a few years back when i was feeding it and simply called them. A talk with the vet/nutritionist on staff revealed it was pork based meal, simple and painless. I started on the Black bag awhile back for the ...

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Queens Addition

Very nice animal in all attributes according the the man who bred her.

Duane M

Ross a good friend and Shag owner told em one time: "It's so that we kill some time with dogs by combing out those dam burrs since we find em so quick and get home before the ball game." I asked him when his dogs were gonna live up to his claims as they had yet to be sighted pointing anything outsid...

Duane M

Nah I could not go with considerable more intelligence, Lord knows I have seen some dumb as rocks good hunting dogs. Worked with several of em unfortunately. Your on the spot a good Ch could do em both and do em well. Bayou Elvis and Hammer Down both were such dogs I had the priveledge to see in per...

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Far as the wild Vs. Libs arguement I'll simply ask how many days a year do you hunt wild birds. Not prerealeased but truly wild. Answer to that is everyday we are in the field. I have never instructed the dogs to ignore either wild, pre-released, or planted as long as they aren't planted too deep. ...

Duane M

Nah I knew you was kiddin but forgot to add :lol: :lol: 8) those afterwards. Jack was misunderstood, he thought he was a coursing hound but everyone else disagreed. :wink: OK now come on Doodles are easy birds man, I love having a litter of pups when the flights come through gives em great practice....

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Congrat my little ones turned 6 weeks old today.

Duane M

Oh yeah the easiest to control dogs are by far the Miller and the Guard Rail. You must have mutants. :D Not at all. The Miller dogs I have raised have all been very easy to handle dogs, Ferrel valued that quality and bred for it. I have raised up three litters from his sires and every one was a ver...

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I agree but I am not sure it came just from trial dogs. For a matter of fact, I am sure it hasn't even though there is nothing wrong with them if that is the type of dog you want. Most of my dogs over the years has a sprinkleing of trial blood in them but it was normally several generations back. O...

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I put much more importance on brains and drive than nose. The best two pure wild birddogs of any breed I've ever hunted over had an average nose on planted birds. Both dogs knew where to go at a young age and did it with heart on wild birds, and would usually find four or five covies to one over so...

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The only one I have read and it was around three years back rated the best, in bird dogs, as the GWP, second was the Pointer and third was the Viz. I dont recall past those three actual rankings but know which ones were not in the top 10.

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Like I said greatness depends on what ya value most.

I think having the go-to wild bird dog also be a multi time champion is not a bad way to go personally!

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Yeah yeah brag it up.

Duane M

OK Ross I can see ya point, but as we all know who have ran trials, winners are in the judges eyes only when the chips are played. Unlike a human judge, birds don't play favorites, don't have handlers/owners in thier pocket, when the day starts the landowners dogs don't get the best draw and such. Y...

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Ross to play the devils advocate there are great trial dogs who aint never seen a wild bird, some maybe have never even had a bird shot over them. Should those dogs be considered better than the hunting dog who could very possibly whoop the trial dog in every aspect outside finish? I know I have sol...

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. I had a question though. Did Snakefoot quit at a OK Shooting Dog CH or was that a case of someone just jealous that spread a rumor? . Yes he did and those are NOT that tough of grounds up there, the grounds at Arnett where they run the Colorado Sd Ch are far tougher on a dog in many ways. Not a j...

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Willie Hunter wrote:What is the difference between a Llewellin and an English setter?

Bout 300 bucks

Duane M

I think we need more judges with extensive bird hunting experience and simple guidelines to put up the best bird dog. Been to too many weekend trials now where I hear one of the judges say "Well, we've got the three biggest running dogs. That's what this is all about". Would really like to see bird...

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Dave I wish I could say whether there is or not. The only experience I have to date is with some pups sired by a frozen Additions Go Boy sire. I am probably going to do an AI later this year with a dog I KNOW threw great pups on a consistent basis when he was alive.

Duane M

which level does the big D fit on I belive Eddy Smith from Texas won the NBHA open national one year with a daughter of Damascus. Bayou Country Bubba won an NBHA national title also, he was owned by Henry Truxillo who had a great deal of success in NBHA with Damascus/Bayou Teche Willie crossed dogs....

Duane M

Hey Birddog hows that female of your bred. Or what kennel did she come from. That head and tail spot sure looks like a pup we sold to another kennel a few years ago.

No matter looks like a good day, especially for where you are at.

Duane M

He is just a stunning animal. And no there is no Arab in that guy. QH maybe but Arab NO! Far from it actualy. How about some Running Quarter? (Arab in the back door) Tails to low and the head looks nothing like an Arabs. Maybe Saddlebred in there from the head but it does not even resemble an AraAp...

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I aslo think it is pretty sad that people can sit on here and bad mouth other peoples dong

Sorry could not resist that typo

Duane M

OK I gotta ask how did you come to ask if that animal was an Arabian, Prarie Dog?
Tim is not Chocolatey a 2X Ch? One of my exs was a big App breeder here in the state and we still talk some and she was mentioning she was looking to breed to him. Cheap stud fee at just 1500 if thats still the rate.

Duane M

Where were you hunting at

No habla.

Duane M

Hey Mia that Oldenburg of yours should meet my buddy Gregs TWH. Those two could be twins including the blue eyes, thier heads are even nearly identically masked. Kinda odd to be honest as I though Greg was the only one who had a horse with those freaky blue eyes, neat as heck but man those eyes get ...

Duane M

I dont know about the rest of you Oklahoma hunters but this is ridiculous weather we are having. Not to make you folks snowed in fell like strangling me or anything but these 75 degree days with 20-30MPH winds are getting old. Just in from a pretty decent hunt conditions considered and I'll say this...

Duane M

Thats a negative I'll be at Sanders this weekend though.

Duane M

Sound's like a good time dispite the wind; I thought they said Quail were down in Oklahoma this year; I guess you were hunting private property. Nope I hunt public lands probably 90% of the time. I aint got the moeny it takes to lease or join one of the so called sportsmans clubs and much of the pr...

Duane M

Hey man just in myself from a day and a half of hunting out west. Was not yesterday the bad with those winds, we had some out there over 40 they said. The 74 degrees by noon was no help either. But had a great time moving a combined 17 coveys and twice that many singles contacts to boot. I brought h...

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Ya hunt em like this silly: You let the dog out, the dog finds the bird, ya shoot the bird, ya take a pic of the dog with the bird(s): http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z268/dbubbadog1/100_0216.jpg Then ya eat the bird. That girl is bred Doublecross Slim and Rebel Wrangler BTW and she does just fin...

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Anyone else smell Troll???

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Scott I kinda wondered about that post of yours, I thought you were more the wear out a pair of boots by the first half of season. Your pics proved me right and I understand your post now. Gots to run now folks I got fresh quail and taters in the skillet, I'm typin this on my new laptop from the fie...

Duane M

I recently bred my double Guard Rail bitch to our great sire Top Hat not because she was the best trial dog ever, even though she did place in every stake she was entered in. I bred her because she has heart, drive and showed the intelligence that makes a real bird dog. A double Guard Rail bred bit...

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Please define "real hunting" Pursuing birds planted by the hands and whims of Mother Nature. Using your own experience, skill and knowledge to turn your dog loose at the likely places then allowing your dog to utilize it's generations of honed instincts, miles and hours of experience, physical gift...

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Doug the issue of wild birds has been proven recently when a big player in the planted only game tried to go horseback and failed miserably. The dogs he bred were great at libbys but he nor his dogs were wild bird hunters. That is not at all to say the guy won't bounce back but it had to be a rude a...

Duane M

Rufs dam is bred double Bull (HTA). His sire is bred Elhew X Hammer Down. It is the Fiddler blood that caused it, Scott Miller had it often enough he learned to do it himself. That why I made the comment about style be "bleep" earlier.

Duane M

Well Duane I respect your opinion. I have respect for all champions as well. I was nearly stating to make a blanket statement like it couldn't happen because of NSTRA breeding is ridicul Rockhard my post was a demonstration that despite this bit of wisdom: I will also say I don't think you will take...

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With all due respect I find your post confusing. i could not be reading it correctly. Apart from the breeding scenario, how could a big running pointer, hunting out there 1/4 to 1/2 a mile , compete in NASTRA? His breeding is to run big. It's called handling or in this case hacking. :lol: Mind you ...

Duane M

I've been using an Olympic 209 blank pistol http://www.dogsafield.com/prodinfo.asp?number=R089-005P for I don't know how many years and only God knows how many rounds with nary a hitch. The guy I bought it from used had it for many years before me he said but wanted just a .32 for everything. Not th...

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Yep he had it in both eyes which I have found is most often times the case. Even if it was in just a single eye I would still have both done. Most times it seems that one eye happens then the other shortly after, Rufs popped up within two days of each other. Never have seen one that popped in and ou...

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Welp Rufus' went very well and he is happy and running the kennel like a mad dog again

. Give him a week to get all healed up and he will be back hittin the fields again like a happy 5 month old should be.

Duane M

Don't buy that line and never will. I've worked with a bunch of pointing dogs that would point birds, but had no interest in retrieving them. They had to be forced and were never good retrievers. Why? People didn't have access to, or were afraid to let them retrieve birds. They were afraid they woul...

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I have seen the issue in some but not all that are taught to sit before they have been brought in, a couple of breeds it is worse than others it seems but that could be due to how the owners taught it. I started teach mine sit at the feed bowl last year as puppys, little puppys, and don't see it in ...

Duane M

I do feel kinda guilty but it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to transport all 13 at one time. :D Most times 6-8 will get to hutin over a weekends space then they get rotated only have two who aint made it out this season and they go next weekend. But even those two have got to do work on my release coveys on ...

Duane M

Oh now ya gone and done it!!!!

Duane M

Bottom line, from my perspective, people win friends and influence people with honey, not with vinegar. We, in the field sports, need friends and "unit cohesion", not dissension and outright internal strife. Exactly Greg but everywhere this little nugget has been posted the result, whether intended ...

Duane M

Much agreed Arlette but what you said needs to be remembered by some who do take jabs at traditional trials on these websites at any oppurtunity. Ya know it goes on in several forms from the judging to the run to the lack of retrieve. I am still curious what the reason was this article was posted on...

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The real kicker is that had this not been trotted out NO ONE outside AF subscribers would have ever seen it. Reason is because unlike some who said they sent emails stating such the Field is not sold on news stands or book stores, only by subscription. Seems to me the ones who started these threads ...

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