A little brag.....

12 Volt Man · Post by **12 Volt Man** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:42 pm

I ran Cooper in a NSTRA trial last weekend. One of the fields we went 5, 4. I missed the shot on that last bird. I ended up only 30 points away from taking first place. Ended up 4th.

Man it sucks when the dog does everything right and I screw up.

He's really getting there. I imagine I'll report in some time soon that we made a win.

Wagonmaster · Post by **Wagonmaster** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:10 pm

Congratulations, get em next time. And good to hear from you jumper cable guy.

Sonny Hawkins · Post by **Sonny Hawkins** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:20 pm

Congrats to COOPER, Hey, Five Birds, good but you got to have those retreives, Been there done that. Sounds like you have the right breeding.---------SONNY

Post by **kninebirddog** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:35 pm

Wow sounds like a close day on points from 1st to 4th by only 30 points....Sounds like you had some good bird work going...
Hate those misses...

Sonny Hawkins · Post by **Sonny Hawkins** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:48 pm

Hey kninebirddog, Good to see you posting . Sorry about my past comments. Iam really a nice guy. If you like BIRD DOGS then I like you. -------Friend SONNY

Post by **kninebirddog** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:01 pm

I would like to Apologize also

Sonny Hawkins wrote:Hey kninebirddog, Good to see you posting . Sorry about my past comments. Iam really a nice guy. If you like BIRD DOGS then I like you. -------Friend SONNY

and even if the bird dog I like are BRATS

Sonny Hawkins · Post by **Sonny Hawkins** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:27 pm

Hey kninebirddog. I like them pups in the tub. If a dog will find point and retreive , back, and mind Thats my kind of dog. Friend SONNY

Post by **pear** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:36 am

Don't ya just hate it when the dog did good and you let them down??.... I guess that is the way it goes but still seems wrong. Been there and done that way to many times. ..."pear"

Don · Post by **Don** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:30 pm

I was in NSTRA years ago and used to have guy's that couldn't shoot well try to flush the bird's into safty zones. At another handler, the judge, the gallery. Saw a guy flush one into a gut wagon once. He got his safty! Saw another guy shoot twice and miss at which time the bird veered off toward the other handler and he called a safty. What are ya gonna do?

Post by **kninebirddog** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:14 pm

Safeties you still get a score..you get an average of your retrieves

a miss where your dog looses the bird is a slash and you get no score ...which on average is about 75-85 points

Don · Post by **Don** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:56 pm

It's been a long time but as I recall, a safty was 75 or the average of the rest of the retrieves.

Yawallac · Post by **Yawallac** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:22 pm

Hey 12 Volt,

How do you keep that Snakefoot bred dog in a field the size of a postage stamp!?!?

Nice job and congrats! Hint: Next time, keep your head down!

12 Volt Man · Post by **12 Volt Man** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:31 pm

Yawallac wrote:Hey 12 Volt,

How do you keep that Snakefoot bred dog in a field the size of a postage stamp!?!?

Nice job and congrats! Hint: Next time, keep your head down!

Believe it or not, I can turn him on a whistle. I have never had a problem keeping that dog in the field.

Yawallac · Post by **Yawallac** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:23 am

12 Volt,

You're lucky, mine just looks at me and laughs!

I have run him in a couple of NBHA Gun Dog stakes. They either use a course (which is better for him) or a bird field very much like NSTRA. He handles fine once the brace is almost over!