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Grand Junction weather for the first week's running of the Championship Today Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts to near 30 mph. » ZIP Code Detail Tonight Breezy. Showers likely and a slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds 15...

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The 2009 National Bird Dog Championship started this morning at the Ames Plantation, Grand Junction, Tennessee. Fortyone pointing dogs were drawn to compete in the 3 hour finals. From the Jackson, TN paper... http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20090207/SPORTS/90207011 from the Knoxville, TN paper. Ar...

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Eldridge Hardie

http://www.eldridgehardie.com/eldridgeh ... llery=dogs

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I have a copy of it. I worked for Cov back int the 60's for a while. Send me a pm, I think I could loan my copy to you to read.

Bill

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Welding cable works great but it is pricey.

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I guess I'm kinda of confused on these monthly photo contests. Was there an original photo contest for December?.... Results? Is there a monthly theme or is it for photos of the dogs actually taken that month? Should we all start looking for Leprechaun costumes to be dressing the pups in? Maybe lapp...

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A Prairie Breeze (Breezy) on wild bobs.

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A certain following will celebrate the publication. Too bad Crazy Dog, Voutsi, Greg, Agious, Gregory, or what ever handle he goes by this week will not be part of the cheerleader squad here or the other forums he been kicked off of. Dave and Greg made a good tag team together. One was somewhat belie...

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Having read 'ol Dave and his biases over the years that he's posted on a number of the internet boards I would not recommend his new book to all. Dave's a bright man, extremely passionate about his own GSPs, but is very intolerant of other breeds, other GSP strains and field trials. He comes across ...

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Amo, IN. is a short drive west of Indy. This is where the whole NSTRA thing got started and where they still hold a number of trials and championships. Glenn Valley Conservation club is just off SR 37 not far south of Indy and they run NSTRA trials there as well as NAHVDA testing. Pike County Bird H...

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Cross posted... Mrs. Wilson (Polly) Dunn of Dunn's Gundog Supply Store, Grand Junction TN We were informed on Saturday morning that Polly Dunn had passed away at he age of 89. She will be eulogized and buried this morning at 11:00 AM in Rossville TN. I'm sure that Wilson Dunn would appreciate all of...

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Nathan or Gary Phillips are carrying some of the top Miller lines. They're in southwestern Indiana. Good folks!

http://www.phillipswhiteline.com/

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Years ago when I trained for the public it was not unusual to have a dog brought in for a gunshy cure. It seems that the dogs were fine in earlier hunts with his owner but after a hunt at the preserve with "several" of the buds shooting large bores or taken to the gun club to show the dog off, the a...

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I've used pelleted hog chow for years. No need to give grit, however you'll notice an increase in fecal matter. The best waterers for pigeons and gamebirds are waterers known as nipple waterers. They can be made from PVC pipe and the ss nipples available from Farmtech at approx 1.20 each. There is n...

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My Pointer male "Trueheart" aka "Big" on woodcock. Miller's White Cloud/ Guard Rail female breeding.

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I always considered this image of my pointer "Big" a good example of a pointing dog's intensity on point.

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National Championship videographer Brad Harter has posted a number of images of the dogs, personalities, landscapes and more from some of the trials taken this year from around the country in a slideshow format. Included are images from trials in California, North and South Dakota, and Carolina. Pic...

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The area around Bicknell was an early hotbed for bird dog and field trial activity. The Indiana Kennel Club held it's inaugural field trial there in 1887. Noted trainer of the U. R. Fishel's 1914 National Champion Comanche Frank, John A. (Jack) Gude resided and trained there on large populations of ...

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Being from Indiana and noting your interest in Llewellin setters you might be interested to know that the great Llewellin Setter icon, a pillar of the American Llewellin setter strain, won his very first field trial at Col. A. G. Sloo's farm near Vincennes, IN, in Nov. 1880. Col. Sloo's grandson, th...

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BirdDogDesire,

I just checked the Ruffed Grouse Society publication list. It shows that "A Guide to Capturing and Banding American Woodcock is still available. It's worth the $3.00 bucks.

http://www.ruffedgrousesociety.org/inde ... 20-1-1-4-s

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Don't know if they are still active at it, but the property manager and other pointing dog owners would assist woodcock banding efforts at the Wilbur Wright Fish and Wildlife Area near New Castle, IN. Many of those guys were field trialers with very steady dogs needed with the banding. The state has...

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I'm a little confused here. I read NSTRA's president Ted Dewey's letter to it's membership at the NSTRA site, made available on various bulletin boards and later published in the Field. In the letter it discusses an example of game conservation within NSTRA...Mr.Dewey wrote... " At any given NSTRA w...

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CherrystoneWeims wrote: "I had heard that the tri-color markings were because of some hound getting crossed in there." As pointed out in the links above tri-coloredness in pointers go back to the very foundation of the breed the color being noted in the earlier Spanish pointer. (before 1700) Yes, la...

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Tri colored pointers have a long, long history from today's well known pointer Strut to Herb Holme's Gunsmoke Kennel's top sire of 50 years's ago "Gunsmoke" to "Jingo" of nearly a century ago. Then jump the pond to early British foundation stock. Here's a bit of history of the tri colored pointer......

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Traditional pointing dog field trials.

Amateur Field Trial Clubs of America
aftca.org

Amecian Field / Field Dog Stud Book
americanfield.com

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Here's a good place to start. Be sure to go back through all the pages as there are a number of excellent threads on the topic.
http://www.thatquailplace.com/smf/index.php?board=13.0

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I've tried calling Garmin but I can't wait on the phone 45 minutes for a rep. Their support email "drops" my emailing. Don't know why it doesn't work. I'll try the land line phone again and hope the wait is still not the 45 minutes. I also emailed Lion County Supply where I purchased the unit, but h...

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Correct, no peanut butter or jelly. Bread only. I believe it was taxidermist Fred Lucas of near Morgantown, IN that suggested using Wonderbread to me years ago. Fred is recognized as one of the top of his trade. He does everything from game birds, waterfowl to big game, but it's his birds that I rea...

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I'm with Wildweeds. Wonderbread works great.

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BDBUzi,

Thanks for the response.
Yes, I hold the unit parallel to the ground, antennae straight forward from chest level.
Do you know about the differences in the North settings menu?

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I purchased a Garmin Astro unit recently but I don't think it's functioning as it should. The main issue is on the dog compass screen. I calibrate the compass at the beginning of each use. The compass never seems to point where I think North or the other direction are. I live on a north/south road a...

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Lvrgsp, Yes, I have "Cov." I trained for Leon (Cov) Covington at Caddo, OK and Mortlach, Saskatchewan back in the '60's. He was quite a character and story teller. Some folks may remember his 1955 National Champion and Hall of Fame Dog, Lone Survivor. Other major circuit bird dog trainers that wrote...

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These titles might hold you for a day or two. Let me know when you're finished with these I'll suggest another one or two or dozen. The Bird Dog Book, George Bird Evans Men Who Shot, George Bird Evans The Upland Gunners Book, George Bird Evans Fields of Glory, Everitt Skehan Field Trials, History, M...

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Nor do I. Merry Christmas.

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Beautiful photograpy Doug. Do you dial in extra exposure compensation before shooting to get the snow white?

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Bootleather wrote: "All that was meant was that by basing breeding soley of NSTRA events, there are qualities that I would like to see when looking at a dog that might not always get proven in this venue, same as in a AF trial retrieving isn't proven." I was thinking of the number of pointing dog tr...

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Living nearby the birthplace and hotbed of current NSTRA activity, knowing most of the original founders and having trained and sold dogs to compete in these competitions I'll share some thoughts that come to mind. The immediate differences between the two venues is very apparent to a wild bird hunt...

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You need to re-read the article. He described the one caller, and most of us that have read this thread know who that caller was. That poster has a long past of posting here and on other sites where one doesn't need to read very far into his posts to understand what McKenzie was driving at in the fi...

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Of interest to this thread and some of the postings within is that the Field has published in it's issue of December 13 a two page response from Mr. McKenzie, and a sidebar entitled The Real Purpose of Field Trials originally written by the late William Brown in his "Field Trials-History, Management...

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Romeo wrote: " I let them know I will never subscribe or buy off the news rack and will do everything I can to dissuade others from doing so for letting such trash get published." You should surely know that the Field is sold by subscription only, never at a newsstand or bookstore Ezzy wrote: " when...

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Mr. Townsend there's always two sides of a story. Those of us reading your interpretation were not privy to the actual phone conversation. Funny though how one can usually sum up a callers intent. I'll ask Mr. McKenzie what his thoughts were regarding the conversation the next time I see him. I thin...

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Thanks for posting the article. It was not written by the editor or staff of the American Field, the Field Dog Stud Book, nor a representative of the Amateur Field Trial Clubs of America, but by an individual thats been around the sport for a considerable amount of time as a breeder, amateur handler...

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Why don't you post the part of the article that you find so offensive.

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I inherited a DT Systems bird launcher and have attempted to program it per online instructions. It's not cooperating. I can hold down the launchers's red button through the programming drill, up until I'm waiting for the LED to signal 5 blinks or 5 vibrations on the transmitter. Which doesn't occur...

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I guess my own thread on a small JH was dropped from the links I posted above. This 4x4x6' johnny house holds 30 bobs. The design flight conditions and promotes vertical flight daily as the birds must fly upward to the light, ledge and loafing catch pen/veranda. The JH itself is of a pretty basic de...

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Re: Quail Pen Plan There's much to glean from the following articles... http://fieldtrialpointers.net/recent%20lessons.html http://fieldtrialpointers.net/update2006.html http://www.uplandbirddog.com/davis/index.html http://members3.boardhost.com/coverdog/msg/1198765547.html http://www.uplandbirddog....

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I'd be interested if anyone would share any of their tips on using their Astro GPS? There are a lot of whistle and bells on this unit, do you use anymore than just the dog finding compass, etc..

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Any pictures Neil?

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Born a Hoosier, but generations of family from Capac, Bad Axe, and Grindstone City from way before the Civil War and the Michigan fires.
I love my Michigan roots.

Bill

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