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volraider

If a breeding does not take place I will refund their deposits or put it on the next breeding, it's your choice. You should get your deposit back.

Brian

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northwind maps are great! Well worth the money.

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Sorry for your loss. I'm sure she was lucky to have an owner like you.

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Good job Brad!!! I look for big things out of Bella.

Brian

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It sounds to me like your training program is a big cluster. You need to pick one method and follow it thru from beginning to end. Mixing and matching methods causes confusion and having 2 different people do 2 different things is also adding to the confusion. Go visit the trainer and see exactly ho...

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Great accomplishment for you and the dog! Congrats.

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Great Job Brad! Bryant's a super nice dog.

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I think you have a very smart dog on your hands. She's figured out how close she can get on woodcock and with grouse she knows she can't get to close or she will bump them so she's stopping as soon as she hits scent. She's not staunch because she's not got enough scent but she's smart enough to know...

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I had the grouse boot and loved them. I bought the sharptail without looking at where they were made. The sharptails are a huge disappointment.

Brian

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My dog was gunshy at 6 months. Even the sight of a gun would send her bolting to the truck, or her kennel. the cure... PATIENCE! it works miracles. I started off leaving her in her kennel, and going as far as possible away from her, but close enough she could still see me, and i took another dog wi...

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I wouldn't be shooting skeet around your pup any more until she is gun broke like knine said. An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.

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The most important thing is DO NOT take them to shoot skeet. If it worked in the past then you were lucky. Gun shyness is man made.

Brian

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In the beginning stage the gun is fired just as the dog is about to catch a clipped wing bird.

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I'm the breeder of the litter that Jersey came from. I'm not blaming Ruth or Brian for what's going on. Sometimes dogs are just better off in different homes. I know they have worked hard on Jersey's training and looked forward to hunting with her. I would take Jersey in a minute and I have offered ...

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Sounds like he's trying to build desire in your pup. Hard to tell without seeing but that would be my guess.

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I understand your point and it's a valid one, however, by taking an ecollar off a dog, then putting it back on, a collar wise dog will be made. My dog's are NEVER run without a collar. I consider it the greatest safety device available for a hunting dog to man. It doesn't matter if the collar is th...

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You can put in the work to steady him right now and forgo a lot of hunting season and then have to connect the pigeon training to wild birds or you can let him learn to hunt and find wild birds and finish him after hunting season. The dog has already been allowed to chase birds so that behavior is a...

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Ezzy, With all due respect, I think that my excitement level is actually a good thing. I find it odd that you would discourage someone's excitement. I understand that I cant let me excitement make me skip steps in the development of the pup. However, I think that if the excitement is taken from it ...

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Wild birds. Let him hunt then break him this spring/summer. You don't want to start training and not finish it, this will confuse you dog, AND you wouldn't have time to finish before hunting season. Only shoot pointed birds.

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I always have the ecollar on the dog. Just because it's on doesn't mean you have to use it. The quickest way to get a dog collar wise is to take it off and on. My dogs love the ecollar, when I have an ecollar in my hand they know they are getting ready to have some fun. I put it on them as soon as t...

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Picked the dog you like the looks of then study the bloodlines. You can find smaller dogs in the shorthair world you just have to take time to study the different lines. Where do you live, climate may make a difference in breed.

BRIAN

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where you located?

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I'm by know means a pro trainer but for me the natural progression for a bird dog is to learn to come to you, learn to find birds, learn what's productive cover, and then learn to be steady on birds. Launchers are a very important part of training but they first have to learn to hunt for birds and i...

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This is her first hunting season so she needs to learn how to hunt and where to hunt to find wild birds. Wild birds will teach her to point, it may take 25 birds or it may take 100 just depends on pointing instinct but once she starts pointing then you will be ready for launcher work. I have worked ...

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you have an 8 month old puppy she's not probably not ready to break. Her time needs to be spent learning to hunt and find birds. If you did your homework and bought a pup from a good breeding then she will start pointing wild birds on her own.

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I would run her on wild birds this hunting season, no shooting birds unless she points them, then break her before next season. I would use pigeons and launchers to break her.

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If the dog will recall to you, then I would take the leash or checkcord off and let him run. The dog looks like he doesn't have much desire. If it were me I would start with another dog if possible if that's not an option then I would work to build desire. Sometimes new people and a new area will wo...

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PPP is tough to beat. People worry to much about dog food. If he looks good keep feeding it, if he doesn't switch to something else.

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Jeff, You know I'm with you on this. These birds live off the laural and they also live under it. I don't see any difference in late season grouse and early season grouse. The number one killer of early season birds are the beer drinking road hunters. Once the logging roads gates are shut the bird h...

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Where are you located? There's people from everywhere on this board and most are willing to help.

Brian

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The big oil companies are not the enemy, OPEC and foreign oil companies are the enemy’s. The more domestic oil we produce the cheaper it becomes. The current administration has cut thousands of jobs in the gulf with the oil drilling ban. There is a way drilling can be done in Anwar that could benefi...

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I don't know about Minn but the short answer is to stop punishing production (taxes).Other countries like China reward production. We need to ax the NAFTA and place tariffs on all countries without compariable labor laws. Cut medicare and other entitlements by drug testing. Last but not least guard ...

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I consider a good season one in which I move birds and the dogs get a lot of dog work. I killed one bird in Tn last year, but I had some really good dog work on a bunch of other days. I enjoy spending time in the woods and enjoying what the lord has given me. So to me a successful season is the one ...

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I hunted around wabeno area. Love it.

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I have hunted there a couple of times with some success.

Brian

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Ridgerunner, I am a member of the chapter in your area. I'm not as active as I would like to be but I enjoy being around the other members. We have a banquet and usually have a pretty good time. I think we get very little to nothing from the national org. I still pay dues because it's someone fighti...

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I'm not as worried about losing late season as I am losing the entire grouse season and that is something being mentioned.

Brian

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the difference is in Tn the tree huggers have stopped 99% of timbering. Our birds live in the mountian laural. WV, VA, Pa, have tons of habitat compared to us. I don't think hunters have much if any impact on the birds during late season. I hunted 30 plus days last year and only seen other grouse hu...

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Just curious but do you grouse hunt the east Tn?

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why do you consider it a bad idea to run dogs in late season?

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You always need a checkcord when working with planted birds.

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I wouldn't mind them cutting out the season if they would let you train thru April. I wouldn't mind them cutting out Jan if they would let you run your dogs thru April.

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I let and expect my dogs to hunt the cover. If the cover is 10 yards off the logging road or 100 yards on top of the ridge doesn't matter to me as long as they are in the cover. A dog that stays close is useless if it's not in the cover. We hunt where the bird numbers is slim to none so you must hav...

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Howie,

Who's the dog backing in the first photo?

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I would say even if he may not want to e-collar the dog, he should. Nail em if he wont come, and nail em if he starts at the birds again. I only say this because you say your friend cannot approach the dog. Could also try a pinch collar with a long checkcord and snap it everytime the dog runs from ...

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If you want to increase entries and grow the sport, then you should be having a hunting dog stake during each trial where judging stops with the flush of the bird. You would pick up a lot of entries and once people get a taste then they would eventually move on to broke dog stakes or at least you wo...

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I feed Diamond puppy from the time I breed to the puppys go home. My bitches have done great and the pups look great also.

Brian

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