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Great comments, I had big GSPs with huge feet. They had a lot of foot problems in lava chukar country with them even though one would go until he ran out of blood. He was my first dog and a warrior. I like smaller dogs for chukar country. They seem to hold up better. Did your last dog just not like ...

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IF the virus does not shut this down.??? Double / Double May 24-25-2020, Our regional trial is May 22-23. that is only for dogs that won a placement in the past year, and any past champions. 15650 Lockwood Valley rd, Frasier Park, CA. Dry camping at the grounds. Come out , get acquainted, and see wh...

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My old hunting partner was small in stature and always carried an 870 wingmaste 12 gar. To me it was heavy. I always carried a 5.5 lb 16 ga. He would on a regular basis shoot 98 or 99 in trap meets. He didn't even have the trigger assy upgrade. His cheek rest would be raised for trap meets using du...

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I hunted quail in heavy cover with a Britt. It would drive me nuts wondering where they were. Always calling and hacking begging them to check in. It was the only way to keep my sanity, was to run a bell. BUT,< today get a GPS even if you have to sell your shotgun. Best tool ever. Let that dog run a...

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The FF I watched on internet taught to increase the size of the object retrieved. Standing Stone Kennels. Did my first FF on my dog 5 years ago. She was a challenge. we spent 3 weeks with 3 sessions a day till she snapped. OH, that is what you want. We compete in NSTRA and her longest retrieve was o...

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I learned gun acclamation from perfect start. I thought it was pretty complete, but I have not seen the gun acclamation video. I bought my perfect start , perfect finish on this site, buy and sell section for $80.00

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I have a fairly big running dog. I used to direct her to where I wanted her. The exercise was frustrating. I bought a Garmin and just follow her. She has the nose. I DON'T. Her nose is much better now that I let her go to the birds she smells. I do reign her in at 200 yrds out with a vibration. She ...

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PETA got an item put on the California DFG advisory board agenda that stated: Dogs could not be used in taking of any game. They claimed they didn't mean bird dogs, but that is not what it said. It read " ANY GAME". How did it even get on the agenda? They day of the hearing which was heavily attende...

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I hauled my dog 12,000 miles on an Alaska trip. I built a wire cage out of stock panels that went from the cab to the 5th wheel hitch. It had a swing door by one side. Inside this cage I had her dog crate. I had a heavy tarp to put over just the top of the cage during bad weather. She did travel som...

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Exactly, Ray. I also agree. Jon at perfect start would also agree. My first dog ,I worked with a trainer that started pups on wing clipped birds. Only took a year to get her back to steady solid points.

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I use scotchgaurd before a wet event.Even do my boots.

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Can a Garmin 220 collar be tracked with a 320 receiver? Can a 220 receiver track a 320 collar?

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AZ holds their trials down near Sonita. Come by and give them a look.

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Sounds like you had a bad experience. I do NSTRA just for off season fun with my dog. She points a bird out of bounds, you just heel the dog away just like you would with a well trained dog in a AKC field trial. Our So Cal fields are 40 acres but AZ fields are 60 acres and are more fun to run. There...

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I have a Valmet Lion 16 ga that I have fired at least 20,000 rounds through. 5.5 lbs carries and points like a dream. Recently after I was bragging about this 72 year old gun, it broke a selector spring. None to be found. Made new one out of .015 feeler gauge stock .120 wide and about 1 inch long. S...

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Have an old Valmet Lion 16 skeet and skeet. Perfect for quail. I even use spreader loads on pen raised bobs in trials. Shot at least 20,000 rounds through it. 5.5 lbs, carry it all day.

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Everybody afraid to say Purina pro plan sport 30-20 ? All of our hard working dogs on it.

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Agree with gohuntin! My dog at 1 1/2 flat would not retrieve shot birds. She was to busy hunting. She does like treats. BUT she likes hunting more birds better. Force was the only way to convince her that it was her job to retrieve. After trained retrieve with treats, what do you do if she refuses t...

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What are your thoughts?? Their videos just give the anti crowd ammunition. And in slo motion. Some make me feel sick and I was butchering farm animals and hunting at 15.

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NAVHADA at Prado is a good choice. I have a friend, Ty Mitchel that helps out down there.He is a great guy and has some well trained dogs.

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In NSTRA where I compete, there are some well trained dogs that Bob has trained. Nice people. Kennel is super clean and I think they have a pick up and delivery service for dogs out of LA on a once a week basis. Google,, Sporting dogs B & B

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Bob and Beth at sporting dogs B & B are very good. They give the dogs a lot of personal attention. Their facility is immaculant, clean. Sometimes Dorian has so many dogs, i wonder how he gives any dog some personal attention. I don't know Dorians personally. If you are interested in being involved i...

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Thanks for the reply. I was told it didn't make a sound on point. That is good to know. I would hang mine like my astro 430 on my chest strap of my Bucks bags vest. Easy to feel the buzz.

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Congratulations on your recovery. My dog has been in SoCal NSTRA for 4 years now. She is what keeps me living. Getting out and training dogs and keeping active is the best thing there is. We ran in 8 trials this weekend and I semi reserved a new setter pup on a future breeding. Several older guys at...

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I don't want to walk around looking at the screen. Just a low buzz. If they can make it show a stop sign, they can make it buzz.

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You don't have to run in every trial in a dbl/dbl. With me it would be stamina with 2 dogs. It is not all about numbers but numbers do help. On your score, there is style and intensity. Every step after point is called costs 3 points. Mouthing the bird looses points when I am the judge. I will give ...

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Great pictures. I recognize the eastern Sierra. Only been in Chukars in those numbers once in my life but the country was straight up and down.

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I know in field trials and hunt tests it is maddening to be braced with an untrained dog. When I was running my pup in NSTRA, I kept her at the other end of the 40+ acres so she would not interfere. In the begining she did want to play on the break away. She would not back until this last season. Sh...

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I was 72 when I started in NSTRA and was not to shure how many years I had left. Most of my family has died of cancer suddenly. So I started my young pup in NSTRA and went against open dogs at under a year old. She got DQed some but we had fun. Grabbing up poor flying quail that set my training prog...

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Ok , new collar that fixes all the alpha problems. Quick change over and simple to use. NO TONE on point?? Why cant they put it all together?? Just bought an astro 430. Bought too soon. Waiting for all the features I need.

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I know a trainer that throws his excess chukar in his pigeon pen with no problems.

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Sporting dog B&B, Bob Worell near Gorman CA, does snake avoidance with real snakes.Google them. Mojave Green rattlers, the anti venom does not work for this snake. It is prominent in the high desert. I had 7 in my yard last year. My dog is completely trained. she scents them , moves off a way. gives...

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Dang, I thought dogs were getting sick from eating SPAM.

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I wouldn’t put too much faith in the dog food advisor’s rating. It’s fairly easy to put up a website and give yourself a title for a name. Amen Ezzy I don't discount that one bit. That is the reason I am posing the question in the first place. You can't trust everything you read on the internet! Do...

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Watch Standing Stone Kennels videos on u-tube "trained retrieve". Very good series.My dog would retrieve balls all day in the yard. Wild quail, nothing doing. To many more out there to point. YOU pick it up! FF for 4 weeks, 3 short sessions a day. Quite a bit of force at the end, and then she broke....

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About 6-7 years ago, they had a recall because of some product traced back to some other Diamond made products. My dog just stopped eating it at about the time the recall came out. But that was 6 yrs ago.

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I have a Brittany she runs big. No Huge,, in open terrain. But she is very intelligent. When hunting and she smells a covey of birds ahead she stops and looks back to me with a stance, almost a point that I know she has birds ahead. Chucker hunting in steep terrain, she knows to wait for me about e...

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DonF wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 08, 2019 10:47 am
Go to the NSTRA site and look up a club in your area. I just did. The region president is in Georgia and there's a phone number listed and address.

NSTRA.org search it. regions.

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Next trial April 6-7, 2019, socalnstra.org. If you have a disability, you may use a quad to run your dog in NSTRA. Getting old or disabled does not have to stop you from running your dog. You can also have a separate gunner if needed. Our March trial we had 2 older gentlemen and one 13 yr old get th...

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I have had birds out of bounds twice in my short time doing NSTRA. This year I think the snow gods are watching our schedule. Last month, the camp area was a mud bog. Had to have my rig towed in. Mud slop and snow both days. All month, fairly good weather. Last 2 days record rain fall and freezing s...

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does the bill have amendments that include pen raised game birds ?

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Chills, my memory must be failing. I recall my last trip to SD, out of state license was just for 3 days. I apologize. As I read this bill, it is any game birds, pen raised or wild. If it is just wild birds, why are we discussing it. NSTRA and AKC trials only use pen raised birds. The law the CA/ DF...

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On a positive note: I also don't like the photos of a pile of birds on a tailgate. Myself and 22 others in farm bureau went up against 2 cities that wanted to run their sewer plant in a way that would destroy or closed underground water aquifer. Their way was cheaper. The cities were growing and the...

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I think the 'climate' of the people in Oregon do not represent the majority of the folks in this country! Not that this is not of concern to us all, it is...but you have to consider the source, meaning the state of Oregon... The people of Portland don't even represent most of the people in Oregon. ...

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It would be fairly likely to pass. The gun lobbys don't care about hunters and the population is going more toward neutral on hunting. It is relatively easy for anti hunters to get the neutrals on their side. It would seem like it would be hard to pass in a state like Oregon. We give the anti hunte...

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nevermind wrote:What is a dbl/dbl trial?

A dbl/dbl is 2 trials going on at the same time Field A and Field B on 2 consecutive days. 4 trials on 2 days. Some guys run 3 dogs. That is pretty busy, 6, 1/2 hr runs a day. In NSTRA you are usually walking as fast as you can for the full 1/2 hr.

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March 9-10 dbl/dbl Is our next dbl/dbl trial. come out and enjoy working your dog off season. We just finished Feb 16-17 trial with chairman Bob Worrell doing a fantastic job. Weather made it a real trial with snow and 31 to 33 degree weather but we all endured and had a great time. Thank you to all...

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I am a novice at training to the level I have with this dog. My dog was to busy hunting to fetch wild birds. She is also to busy hunting to back another dog. She is getting better at backing at 5 yrs old. BUT, fetching, she was not going to do. I built a bench and worked her short time periods 3 tim...

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12-13 on open desert. that includes stalking and points.

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Properly bred and trained dogs never cheat. They may make a mistake but they don't purposely cheat when they know you aren't watching. Cj I call BS on that observation. I have seen dogs deliberately do things they knew full well that they were not supposed to do both when they thought I couldn't se...

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