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I've been keeping my sessions as short as possible. I may be out for a few hours at the training grounds, but most of that time the dog is kenneled while I set up launchers, or the backer, or just take breaks. That seems to keep my dog focused. In that few hours, my dog may only be on the ground for...

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My lab will occasionally throw up do to excitement/activity within half day of eating, as well as other apparent causes. Regarding yogurt. .. I had read that dogs are lactose intolerant. So I use probiotics from Purina. I have also used probiotics from other makers, including human products. Wheneve...

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My 5 year old Snugtop has been a good topper. The Ainley drawers are about 6 years old. They work great to keep my vintage guns from getting all the things we take on hunt trips piled on top of them. Also, getting guns and ammo in and out is easy and quick. But I'm thinking of getting a new truck th...

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RayGubernat wrote: ... Conformation was only considered as it impacted on performance. ...

RayG

As it should be. Form follows function.

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Tipping "the genetic Petri dish" has gone on for as long as there have been dogs. That's how we got dogs and all these breeds. Mankind seems to have a fascination with breeding/crossbreeding animals. I lack that gene myself, although I've been to the barn to cover a mare or two during my horse days....

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Nice parts. Very nice.

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I had Ainley Kennels build a set of 2 aluminum drawers 48" x 5 1/2 ft x 10". I screwed a bed mat to the top and its been pretty nice. No dog box setup. Im about to buy a new truck and have been thinking about the the new topper that snugtop is offering with the double doors. Id like hinged side wind...

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Granted
what will be interesting is whether there will be more interest in setters and therefore more setters entered, as result of Bo.

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Yeah I bought a sixer of that stuff. It was just ok.

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Pups out of Bo are listed on Hickox's website.

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If you've ensured it's not a chronic symptom of something serious by consulting your vet, I'd start using a probiotic. It seems to be have a stabilizing effect on my dogs.

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I like to come to this forum, put on Joan Baez' version of Kumbaya in the background, and sit back and feel the love. Alright, I'z just kiddin 'bout the Joan Baez stuff. I can't stand her. I come to show off my puntshiashun. But I do feel the love. :D I'm right on most things. Sometimes toward the c...

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Hunt club pen birds are often blinded to prevent running. A true flight pen raised bird with minimal human contact (that hasn't been blinded) will be wary and run or fly easily according to my friend that raises thousands of pheasant every year.

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madmurph wrote:Roanie, Roanie

. Well, it's true. It's new.

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The video ive shot with a Contour HD mounted to my dogs was nearly unwatchable. Ha dheld video cameras are a dime a dozen on ebay or local classifieds.

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New bread

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Those two owner abusers in my avatars are:
Stonecreek Midnight Sky "Sky" - EP
My Emma's Jasmine "Jazz"- Lab

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Duane M wrote:All Pointers
Bubba, Belle, Lady, Lil Bit, Gus, Karat,Rex, Rebel, Heart, Poop, Maddie, Jack
The Dirty Dozen so to speak

I almost missed that.

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If pen raised birds are blinded to prevent running and their beaks cut, it's not likely they'll survive long. Other than that, I would think a bird raised in a large flight pen with minimal human contact, might do as well as a young wild bird in the same conditions. Of course, the wild bird's odds o...

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All the above pretty well covers options on what you can do. I can give another example of what NOT to do. I recently saw a guy with a young pup at the clays range. We had a friendly talk for a bit in the parking lot. It turned out the pup had never been exposed to gunfire and this was his plan to "...

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Don
my favorite quail gun is a 410 is a cylinder bore and mod sxs Ithaca NID ejector field grade. You'd be amazed at the pattern it throws at 25 yards.

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I was up at a hunt club Saturday and our whole group of 5 regulars were shooting .410. An 870, 3 model 42s, and my Parker Repro with Galazan barrels. I was shooting 3" #6s. One rooster volunteered and was out around 40 yards going straight away when I hit him. He folded and never wiggled after hitti...

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Even the South Dakota pheasant population has been declining over the past 25 years. State counts seem to defy hunter anecdotal accounts. This past few seasons have been the worst I've seen. The combination of weather, farming practices, and West Nile have put the hurt on the birds.

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That's really great. A month ago, I was down in the Sonoita area and a guy had pulled up in a motorhome at a NFS road turnout and lost his little 5 month old English Pointer pup. I saw the guy with the dog near the motorhome earlier. The next day, I heard the story from a deer hunter that stopped. I...

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What's the difference between "enhancing the natural retrieve" and FF training? Techniques employed. Both are training. One employs a highly controlled environment and no kidding direct pressure and the other seems lack specific definition, (depending on who you talk to) other than "not using pain" ...

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I recall buying a Garmin Astro 320 when they first hit the street. It worked for about one day before it went haywire. I had bought it from Gun Dog Supply and they promptly sent me another new unit and a return shipping label for the defective unit. When the Garmin Alpha came out, I bought one. A sh...

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Evan
when would you introduce the dog to public places like stores?

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Amazing thread. Maybe we should all abandon this forum, start a new one, and give it to the 2or 3 guys that always drag a thread down to personal denigration.

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I don't "blame the person " at all , but generally speaking , I do think words concerning training collars are very important., considering the calls for the banning of them in England and Scotland etc.. Even meeting the general public on a dog trail, I call it a locator collar- it does have a beep...

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slistoe wrote:.. There is nothing worse than an unmannerly dog in a duck blind.

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I thought there was nothing worse than BEING in a duck blind.

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Sorry guys. I can't figure that out. I'd even like it better if you could adjust the time duration that the stim screen popped up. I'd be ok with a 1-2 second pop up of the stim screen. But it lingers like 5-10 seconds.

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To me, watching an upland dog and hunter work well together is a beautiful thing regardless of whether it's one of those tail challenged breeds or one that everyone knows is the best at it.

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The program I'm familiar with uses a barrel and a steady board.

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Deke I saw some videos of Hickox's and Lardy's labs trained to sit on the flush. I got some counseling from Hickox on how to train for it and got my lab to sit when I launched a bird. But I couldn't get it fully done. I was almost there. The idea is that on multiple flushes and kills the dog will ma...

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Everyone has a particular idea of how they want to hunt. That may include only taking one or two birds out of a covey or only hunting certain birds in certain cover, always hunt alone, hunt with othe. dogs, etc.. Some people are happy with a dog that breaks on the flush and just happy the dog found ...

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....and peace once again returned to the land...

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Del Lolo wrote:Steady to Flush
Steady to Shot
Steady to Fall
Do not go until sent

This!

My understanding of the term steady to wing and shot is that the dog doesn't move until sent by the handler.

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To the shot. You'll be busy shooting. If there are birds in a covey that hold thru the first flush, you don't want your dog moving which would cause them to flush when you're gun is empty. This happens often with quail and chukar.

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I agree with that last statement of Ray's.

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My young pointer would sometimes go to barking when left in the truck. Sometimes I'd be caught without a barking collar and I'd take her ID collar, slide it up high and tighten it like the bark collar. She'd stop barking thinking i put the barking collar on her.

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My ol lab will lag on commands sometimes when not wearing an e-collar. She cleans up when the e-collar is on her neck. Like stated above, she needs a correction or two when she is not wearing the collar to get her attention. A loosely rolled newspaper smacked on the haunches works or the "bonker". A...

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ezzy333 wrote:I thought the unemployment had been made a lifetime thing.

You mean the unemployed can keep their current unemployment plan?

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..... We run a fleet of vehicles at our company ... . I hadn't heard many, if any, business owners support Obama and denigrate GWB. How's that medical plan working out in your part of the country? Over here, a lot of people lost their old plans, have to pay twice as much for medical now, or can't g...

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I watched a whole litter at 12 weeks get out with some quail. I think only one pup showed prey drive. One other was a follower. The rest didn't do much except play with each other. These were some pups out of National CH and HOF blood.

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Tooling it's an NID or New Ithaca Double which replaced the Flues model. It's a Grade 3 ejector, factory single selective trigger with the funky selector. The sliding safety on the tang is the barrel selector also. So, all the way forward selects firing the right barrel first, the middle position on...

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Frankug
just one more time on this again. You dont like these things? And you want everyone in the world that uses them to stop? Maybe you want a law prohibiting them too? Or is there some other point you have?

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I think a dog is such an adaptable animal that good owners that don't hunt would not be a disservice to the dog. But there are so many people that would want a well trained hunting dog to hunt with, why would it go anywhere else.

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The intolerance on this subject reminds me of anti hunting people vs hunting people. There's probably something to take away from that.

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Sharon wrote:
roaniecowpony wrote:"Why use an E-Collar at all?"

So you can enforce a command when the dog is more than the length of a check cord away from you.
Exactly - like 500 yards away giving you the finger.

Mine will usually moon me rather than give me the finger.

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