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tommyboy72

Unless you have a local provider the cell service is very poor especially between Hardesty, where Optima is located, up to about Ft. Supply or Woodward. Cell service is poor sometimes even if you do have local service.

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There was a trial here where I live last weekend and I believe he may have been here judging it. I did not get a chance to attend because I was working but I believe he was one of the judges.

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Thanks Casey I appreciate the invite and would love to come over and attend just to experience what a trial is all about. Topher once again you choose to glean from my comments what you want. For what it is worth I will explain this to you very slowly so you can understand it better. I do have exper...

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Tommyboy- Again spoken like someone that has never trialed and still has an opinion. You have right to post, although with limited knowledge only coming from what you read on the INTERNET or heard someone else say your right is an exercise in futility. Easy to armchair quarterback when you haven't ...

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"Since you start most of your posts with, I don't field trial but, why are you commenting on something you know admittingly nothing about?" First off Vagas I have just as much right to post on here as you. You post all the time on things you know nothing about and you seem to take particular pleasur...

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Sounds like a lot of the effort to covenience people is in order to convenience the judges. If you are judging a walking trial then walk, a HB trial then ride. I guess that is what happens when you allow judges to legislate the rules instead of just judging the handlers and their dogs and interpret...

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Casey we don't really consider you easterners over there part of Oklahoma anyway. We consider you city folks in the east to be from Arkansas. Oklahoma ends at I-35 for most of us out here.

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Sounds like a lot of the effort to covenience people is in order to convenience the judges. If you are judging a walking trial then walk, a HB trial then ride. You don't see NFL referees out there riding a Segway up and down the field, they run, jog, and walk just like the competitors. I guess that ...

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How do you guys think climate and demographics affect a dog's development and training? I was talking with a close friend of mine the other day about dogs and he thinks it is very important. This friend of mine is in his mid 60's and professionally field trialed coondogs from the late 60's up to the...

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I have read that breeding always leans toward average. What nobody ever explained to me is what is average? So this means if you breed an exceptional stud to an exceptional dam then even if you get pups that are average compared to their parents the progeny should still be good enough to beat most ...

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I use to draw I stopped. This is the last thing I did. I only see the mistakes. :oops: :oops: http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa136/frankverret/IMG_4466.jpg That is freaking amazing. Truely a work of art. You are very talented. I can't even draw a stick figure and make it look right. :D

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Some of you guys really need to find something better to do with your time. My dogs run through yucca, goatheads, prickly pear, and cactus with no dog boots. If they need dog boots I don't need them but I am not about to shuck my boots and run through that stuff to see how the dog perceives it. Gues...

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You too Mark and I will see you next week.

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Good idea Rhonda and I asked for the same thing for the Retriever folks on here not because I have Retrievers, I have Pointers, but in hopes of pulling in some more knowlegeable experts on Retrievers and to give them a place to discuss their particular issues. I was politely told that we all needed ...

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Thats what you get for trying to name a Pointer such a capricious name. A simple dog for simple people. Pointers are the good ole redneck boys of the dog world.

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Counties back east of the panhandle got a bit more rain this summer than us but are not normally noted for pheasant hunting. Beaver and Texas counties especially Texas county where I live are really noted for their pheasant numbers here in Oklahoma and even north of us 40 miles or so up in Morton co...

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I'd have to say these guys were a cross between the Buttry and Martinez clans.

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When I got there I handed them my resume (what's the point in a resume, by the way, when you've got to fill out an appication?) they kindly looked confused and handed it back to me with a packet - the application - that required everything from 15 years' work experience to an agreement to let them ...

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That it is Joe. Both Kona's momma and daddy on birds out here in the panhandle.

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http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp17/tornrnyboy72/hunting%20pics/DSCN1396.jpg http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp17/tornrnyboy72/hunting%20pics/DSCN1394.jpg Reb a couple weeks ago http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp17/tornrnyboy72/hunting%20pics/DSCN1397.jpg http://i393.photobucket.com/album...

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Her mother broke herself steady to the fall in her second season and her daddy is 2 and dead steady on wild pheasant and is progressing very well on wild quail. He still wants to crowd wild quail a bit but is mostly steady to the flush. Her momma is dead steady on any bird you want to hunt. Momma ru...

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Keith is out of Oklahoma but Pike came from a frozen semen breeding from Keith if I am correct. I also believe that maybe that My T Sharp Bayou dog came from Keith as well. The guy at Brigadoon purchased them from Keith. Keith does not have a website but you could give him a call. He has several bre...

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I think Keith Foreman has some frozen semen out of him. I know he has it out of several Fiddler dogs just not sure which ones. I know he has Pike Creek Mike frozen semen because he told me he did and there are frozen semen sons of Pike Creek Mike in North Carolina at Brigadoon Kennels. Here is the l...

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Spoken like true trialers.

Nothing against trialers though but sometimes too much dog may apply such as if a grouse and woodcock hunter were to want to run a Miller bred dog out of Texas in the north woods.

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I will vouche for the training equipment from Prairie Fire Pointers Supply. Jess is a personal friend, a stand up guy and the training equipment he sells is topnotch. I have one of his checkcords along with the Mendota collars, leather training collar, and Mendota Jaeger lead. All of it is excellent...

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Sucks here this year. I think the pheasant are worse off than the quail. I run the dogs about once a week just to get them out but it is useless to expect to find any birds. Drought really kicked their asses this year. Good luck though. If you would like to get together and run dogs I am more than w...

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Why the heck would you ever breed a GSP into Pointer blood and call it a Pointer. That would be breeding down, wouldn't it?

Kinda like breeding one of the Kardashian sisters to one of the guys from the series Moonshiners or Big Shrimping.

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I say go today. While quail will be coveyed up and sit good in a snow storm, remember it is not good to break up a covey during a snow storm or ice storm because they are coveyed up for warmth. You break them up and keep them broke up too long and they will freeze to death. Good luck.

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First and foremost I am a Pointer owner and diehard fan who will never own any other type of hunting dog. I would, however, like to state that I have no problems with someone legitimately attempting to create another breed of dog as long as they do their homework, start with proven parents, do the w...

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I think vet prices depend upon the part of the country you live in as well. Where I live my vet charges $25 for an office visit, $8 rabies shots, only $75 for after hours or weekend emergency visits, $100 for a spay. She is very reasonable on her prices, very understanding when it comes to hunting d...

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Glad to hear somewhere in this area has birds. It is horrible here. No birds whatsoever.

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My male is Fiddler/Miller/Go Boy and he is about the most laid back dog you could ask for in the yard and house and loves my little hoodlum 4 yo and 2 yo boys. He just lays down and lets them wrestle all over him and he is about a 60-65 lb. dog. Get him out in the field and he will run as big as you...

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This summer I talked to some farmer/ranchers from my area, they are roughly my dad's age in their 60's, they stated to me it was the driest and hottest they had ever seen it and they were born and raised here and had been here their whole lives. Just a real bad year for birds and it is going to take...

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It sucks out here. No quail or pheasant this year. Horrible, worst I have seen it and I have lived here for about 25 years.

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All my dogs always have free range of the yard. Never had one climb the chain link fence but have had some dig out until I put in a hotwire fence in that was around 5000 volts. Tried a thousand volt fence at first but that didn't phase them so I upgraded. All of mine are house trained as well and co...

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As far as the M Doggie launchers it was a 4 button transmitter that was similar to a garage door opener. You could operate 3 launchers and a tone for finding the launcher all off the same transmitter. The receiver was self contained on the electronics board and you had switches that you moved from o...

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Check out some of the English Setters and the variances between lines like Tekoa Mountain Sunrise and the Laverack setters. Lines from the northeastern part of the country seem to be a little bigger, heavier, taller and have more hair than lines from the midwest and west.

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Seems like different bloodlines seem to throw different size dogs just as heads, tails, eye shape, chest depth, even animation seem to vary among different lines in Pointers. Some bloodlines have a sleeker more elongated head and other lines have a shorter blockier type head, some lines have almond ...

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I bought an M Doggies remote launcher and replaced the computer board, wiring harness, and battery on it before finding out from my local electronics store that the battery that came in it was so low it did not want to charge and the battery I replaced it with was bad as well. I had the electronics ...

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Shouldn't be too hard to turn a manual launcher into a remote launcher by using the kits for turning manual car door locks into power locks either. I have been thinking about a project like this but just haven't broken down and tried it yet. Power door lock kits come with the remote, 4 electronic ac...

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the dog made it home and the employee was canned and you still want to sue someone? who's overreacting now? people make mistakes and companies make mistakes why/how is a lawsuit the answer? I bet you wouldn't have that mindset if it were your dog, would you? I would never abdicate suing anyone but ...

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The whole reason some people don't run broke dogs is for situations where a bird goes down wounded. You let the "bleep" dog fetch the wounded bird not shoot it on the ground. I am sorry for your buddy's loss Joe. Someone would have gotten an "bleep" whippin out of that if it would have been one of m...

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I went out yesterday and walked 2 huge CRP fields for pheasant and only saw one hen where I usually see at least 20 or more birds between the 2 fields and then went quail hunting where I usually get into a least a covey of bobs and a couple coveys of blues and saw absolutely no quail.

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Good luck fellas. I live in Texhoma about 100 miles north of Amarillo. I have been running dogs all summer here in the Oklahoma panhandle around Goodwell and Texhoma and have seen very very few pheasant and even fewer quail.

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http://prairiefirepointersupply.com/page2

Scroll down to the pic 4th from the bottom. The leather training collar. My buddy sells that at PFP Supply. They work fantastic and Jess is a standup guy. Just like a choke collar but less likely to pinch than a chain.

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asc wrote:lost my temper, got arrested for battery and aggravated assault.

+2 and might have even shot back.

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If you folks want ethics...How about situational ethics? My dogs are far, far, FAR more valuable to me than the vast majority of humanity simply because they are MY dogs. If one of my dogs gets injured or killed ...that affects me in a very personal way. There are literally millions of human beings...

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I guess it depends on what type of English Pointer you are looking for. What bloodline, big running AA American dogs, tight hunting grouse and woodcock type dogs, European dogs that hunt feather and fur. In the U.S. Pointers are specialized and hunt only upland game. Where I live in the Oklahoma, Te...

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If it were my dog it would go to another home, with full disclosure on what had happened. I could not live with myself if something happened after I knew the risk. That is just me, and doesn't mean it is the only right answer. I don't envy your decision. That's the scary part of kids getting bit es...

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She's starting to look good Joe.

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