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Birddogger, have you had any negative experiences when you've hunted your pointers with labs and if so what were they?

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Red Tibetan Mastiff puppy. Type in 1.5 Million dog in the google search and its all over. Bought by a Chinese coal tycoon. The pup is 11 months old and the stud fee is $15,300.

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I know that I can only speak for my dog and his training. If I do hunt with groups that allow their dogs to race to bird I do I allow my dog to do the same. I now with one blow from a whistle my dog is going to stop on a dime, every time. If my dog chased after I blew my whistle I would have to go b...

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We hunt with pointers and retrievers in the same field all the time. The pointers seam to go about their business and the flushers do their own thing. All the dogs seem to hunt well together, most of the guys I hunt with don't spend tons of time training so when a bird gets shot its anybody's bird. ...

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whats the price?

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I believe I read once that a know body had won a National trap or skeet event with a SxS in the last 50 years. If I'm wrong on this please call me on it. I've shot very few of them but when I did they felt a little awkward, probably because I didn't grow up on them.

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I think along with your question you should have asked if they trial their dogs also. I think you are going to find that some of the trialers are going to respond that they find it useful and people who only hunt are going to go the opposite way. I am only a hunter and I hunt wild pheasants, I want ...

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I think you can download some maps off of SD tourism web site. also check out this link it might help. http://gfp.sd.gov/hunting/small-game/pheasants.aspx Also in your question about the weather, what I do is go to Weather.com type in the zip for the location your going to and on that page you'll fi...

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I've always heard that you could kill Ptarmigan's with a sling shot.

No your thinking of the bird they call a Snow Cock, you can kill them with a sling shot or just stomp on them with your boot. There defense mechanism is to stick there head under a rock.

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IMO, Any place in the East half of South Dakota you will find pheasants. South Dakota has a book of all the walk-in areas in the state and its free, without a doubt I you should get it. The area I hunt doesn't have a public land and a most of the land owners want cash to hunt their land. If you skip...

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Only been to a game farm twice, will probably never go back. Even on wild pheasants my lab would catch them, especially early season.

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+1 on pheasants, but only the wild ones. Take a flusher to a game farm, and you can leave the gun at home while the dogs just catch them.

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I did some research last night found out they are tough to find. Most of the places that use to have them, no longer stock them. Some sell them only as eggs or adults.

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Anyone ever try raising Hungarian Partridge? Are they even available and if so at what price and where would I find them? They use to be quite common in my area thirty years ago, now I rarely see them. I have a young dog to train and if the price wasn't extremely high, I would think about raising so...

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Red, its in the by-laws when you registered. However you don't have to look at the setters.

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Do you want to explain how to resize them, I have never posted because of that exact problem. I know someone explained recently, but don't know where.

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I have a springer that's 7 months old and weighs 45#. I see that some of the dog foods bags say for 50# plus dogs. Is it going to make any difference if I feed the 50# plus food to the dog. Right now I'm feeding Diamond adult high energy, but because of gas I'm looking at making a change, maybe to I...

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I think everyone is over thinking this, when you start them young and introduce them to everything they learn quickly. I understand the slow intro to gun fire. For trucks, boats, tractors etc.., I thrown him in like everything else and never had a problem. I don't believe it takes a 12 step program ...

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PntrRookie, since not everyone knows all the fees associated with hiring a trainer, I thought the extra $200 might be of great interest to them. That trainer is expecting to be paid that, right...Fantasy or Reality? If you are going to assume the OP already knows everything about hiring a pro you co...

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I know that South Dakota has been using the third weekend in October for about the last 20 seasons, MN is usually the 2nd or 3rd Saturday in October. I don't know why Kansas in so late. I know that in Minnesota the DNR thinks about money, before they think about wildlife.

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PntrRookie wrote, You guys who are nit pickin about the price of a quail or two are missing the big picture IMO. Over the LIFE of a dog is an extra dollar per SHOT bird gonna kill you for a good trainer? Around WI I have seen it from $150-175/week plus birds killed. Give yourself $200/week and you s...

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I thought the same thing, birds could add up fast. I read his site, I guess was having a little trouble understanding his retrieving method.

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Any idea what he is going to charge you per quail used? I'm guessing that could add up a lot, just curious. Looks like he's trained some nice dogs.

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October 8, however that's still tentative. Hopefully the snow will be melted by then.

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Is the dog in the little neon sweater on point or taking a dump?

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In a john boat and a canoe, when I have decoys with and space is an issue I want the dog to sit, standing wouldn't be an option. In a duck blind I want the dog to sit for the best line of sight, I don't want laying down so he couldn't see, however in some instances its allowed. I wouldn't have my do...

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I wasn't going to weigh in on this since I don't run pointers and wouldn't know when to teach sit. However as an avid waterfall hunter I find it VERY useful. I just made a switch from labs to a springer and find it difficult to switch from saying sit to hup.

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Very nice, I can't believe you got wood that nice in a kit.

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Great idea, I have thought about it myself, especially now that I have two young boys. I just had to poke a little fun at a few of the pointing guys.

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Very good. Thanks

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Ranger, When I looked at the tritronics collars, it seemed to me that everyplace sold the collars for at least 10% off list price. Evan the tritronics outlet gives you 10% off. So in reality the trade-in program is equivalent to 15% off, not 25%. If you order on-line from Cabela's you get coupons in...

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I don't run any steel through older shotguns that have been handed down to me, however have no problem running it through any of my post-1970's shotguns regardless of their choke.

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Two pups in one crate, good info. Whats the size limit on that?

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Ryman, Do you notice any problems with the glare from the stainless steel barrels? I do notice it sometimes on a blued barrel, thought the stainless might be way worse, but haven't seen them in the field. Nice thing about the Red Label is the frames are sized for the gauge.

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I misread it, then tried to delete my comment, however there was already a post below mine, so I edited it out.

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Use the E collar, thats what its there for.

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Can't go wrong with a Red Label, if it fits you, buy one.

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Wasn't trying to be harsh, purely in jest.

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I looked at it briefly, I believe it said 25% off REGULAR price. Most places I looked sold them for about 15% off list price. I always get coupons from Cabala's so I figure I could probably get a collar for 25% off list price without the trade-in. If I'm wrong on this let me know because I have thou...

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Brule, why do you want to downgrade? I know the economy is bad but seriously going from a lab to a GSP is like going from a corvette to a chevette.

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Actually for in North Dakota in Dec. you are looking ON AVERAGE at lows around 4 degrees and highs around 23. That is for Garrison, ND.

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Looking at his photo, I thought he was maybe in his early 80's. I looked at the weight of my son's 870 youth model shotgun, came in at right around 6lbs, his youth rossi 410, 3 lbs even. When I said it did quite well at clays with it, I was not talking about at a trap range, we have a mechanical thr...

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I started going along in duck and goose blinds at age 5 earned my first .22 at age 7 and 20 gauge at age 9 which is quite common for kids in my area. I passed on my knowledge to my boys, they are more safe than most adults and know that the slightest mistake means that the privilege will be taken aw...

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I did buy 9 year old a 20 gauge pump, he weighed about 50 lbs and it was much to heavy for him so I switched to a 410 single shot which fits him nicely and he can shoot clays remarkably well with it. The shells that I use mostly for the boys are the cheapest I can find, usually Rem., or Federal, bec...

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I've always been disappointed at the ammunition companies when it comes to the cost of 410 shell and somewhat on 20 gauge. I know that 12 gauge has a tremendous volume of sales which should lower the cost somewhat but a 12 gauge trap load should never cost 1/2 that of a 410 load. In a sport where we...

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I'm owned labs for almost 30 years and just got a springer a few months back. Avid pheasant, goose and duck hunter from MN. Not a whole lot of flushing guys on here, but a lot of good information regardless.

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I'm an avid duck hunter and live in Minnesota so I see a lot of cold weather. I've always hunted with labs, I just don't get the whole doggy vest thing. I guess you could convince me for some breeds, later in the season. When I go out on opening weekend during nice weather I see labs dressed in dog ...

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As long as there is groups like the American Bird Conservancy that oppose everything that involves hunting, and do so by filing law suits and funding politicians, I will support the NRA. These anti-hunting groups know that in some states they don't have the numbers to support their anti-hunting agen...

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