Spring Training

Chukar12 · Post by **Chukar12** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:53 am

Post your spring training pictures...if you are getting any spring..

Chukar12 · Post by **Chukar12** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:54 am

Chukar12 · Post by **Chukar12** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:56 am

After the Flush Watching it Go

Chukar12 · Post by **Chukar12** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:58 am

Grousehunter123 · Post by **Grousehunter123** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:04 am

What's all that green and brown stuff in the pictures with than good looking Brittany?

Grange · Post by **Grange** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:52 pm

I posted this pictured in the general forum dogs on point thread as well. Spring hasn't arrived though it is 40+ degrees today. Still well more than a foot (probably at least 2 feet in the woods). I went to the game farm yesterday and took this picture. Break through the top layer of snow and you'll go down past your knee easily.

As I was taking the picture I saw the pheasant run down the sorghum. I put the phone away and relocated her. She relocated twice before it came up.

Post by **slistoe** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:00 pm

chukar12 - does that dog have Lobo's blood in him? He has to have.

Chukar12 · Post by **Chukar12** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:04 pm

Slistoe, There is actually two dogs there. The one in most the pics the smaller one has a ton of Lobo in him, the other dog is his Daddy and has it as well but its back aways...but Patch is doubled up on it.

Post by **slistoe** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:07 pm

Chukar12 wrote:
After the Flush Watching it Go

This dog.

Chukar12 · Post by **Chukar12** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:11 pm

Tons of Lobo...out of my Sonny dog and a bitch I own out of a dog owned by Al Ahston in Reno, Lobo's Rebel Dogg...full pedigree is at the bottom of my posts..I think, if i did the deal right.

SCT · Post by **SCT** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 5:24 pm

I watched them on the lek then after they dispersed naturally, I ran the dog and found a few.

Elkhunter · Post by **Elkhunter** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 10:30 pm

Gonna make me earn it I guess....

Was worth it.

roaniecowpony · Post by **roaniecowpony** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 11:51 pm

That first picture brought a chuckle. I have thousands of pictures from my horse days with the back of a horse head and the two pointy ears.

birddogger · Post by **birddogger** » Wed Mar 12, 2014 1:44 am

Always enjoy fantastic pictures!

Charlie

Ez4 · Post by **Ez4** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 3:14 pm

SCT, what kind of bird is that?

GrayGhost · Post by **GrayGhost** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 3:20 pm

Ez4 wrote:SCT, what kind of bird is that?

From the photo, it looks like a Sage Grouse. They're causing quite an uproar in Utah about wanting them to list them as endangered. Probably not a great idea to shoot them

. But that is a really great photo, I haven't ever seen one in the wild like that.

Ez4 · Post by **Ez4** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 3:22 pm

Thanks for the reply GrayGhost. Handsome bird, great photo.

DGFavor · Post by **DGFavor** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 9:33 pm

Fun stuff fellars!! I don't take a lot of training pics - my dogs have a knack for knowing when I'm screwing around, not paying close attention to them like I should be during training...if I want 'em to be any good anyway!

Well, take today for instance, I got the bright idea to throw my little Playsport vid cam in my pocket...had dogs and birds scattered all over the place:
http://www.vimeo.com/89068504

Chukar12 · Post by **Chukar12** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 9:41 pm

NICE SHOW PUG!

Great scenes as always..

DGFavor · Post by **DGFavor** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 11:24 pm

Chukar12 wrote:NICE SHOW PUG!

Great scenes as always..

C'mon now, maybe you couldn't get a feel for the pure power and speed of her - that's a full on performance bred pug!! Takes two scouts to round her up if she takes an edge!! Edge country AA pug!!

Post by **Sharon** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 2:17 pm

Wow. What a place to live and train dogs. I'm very jealous.

birddogger · Post by **birddogger** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 3:07 pm

Sharon wrote:Wow. What a place to live and train dogs. I'm very jealous.

That makes two of us Sharon! I so miss the way it was here years ago but the scenery wouldn't match what is shown here.

Charlie

GrayGhost · Post by **GrayGhost** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 3:31 pm

Wasn't looking to go out for a formal training, really just needed to get and get some fresh air and get on the mountain. Once we got past the mountain bikers I let the dog go and came around a bend and found this that I snapped with my phone. Nothing better than spring coming and getting out and getting some exercise with the dogs.

Grange · Post by **Grange** » Sun Mar 16, 2014 9:27 am

Took the dogs out yesterday to see how much snow was still on the ground. We went to an area where we've had past success finding birds during this time of year. There was still a foot of snow on the grouse on the open ground and more in the woods.

The snow that was on the ground had a crust that made it difficult for walking or running in my dogs' case

Afterwords I asked asked the dogs if they liked the snow cover.

Summit

Tico

Fran Seagren · Post by **Fran Seagren** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 11:29 pm

Training yesterday at Joint Base Lewis McChord

DonF · Post by **DonF** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 8:55 am

God he's beautiful Fran. Stormy is still working on it but I'm not carrying a camera yet.

I can hear Breelie and Robert in the background, "That's my boy"!

Trekmoor · Post by **Trekmoor** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 9:20 am

Tri-colour Brittany on point .

Bill T.

Grange · Post by **Grange** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 10:11 am

I'm so jealous right now. We got another 2+ inches of snow yesterday. It's above freezing today so hopefully it's melting. At least I saw my first migration of robins this week. We'll head out again this weekend to see how the snow cover is doing.

Post by **slistoe** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 11:20 am

Snowing here today.

DonF · Post by **DonF** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 1:59 pm

Well nice day here so put off some stuff that probably needed doing and took out the dogs. Not carrying a camera with Stormy yet, still a lot of puppy in him. Planted a couple birds in my old creek bed for him. He went into it and out the other side, through the brush and fence, across the road and into the jungle on the other side. i got over there and walked the shoulder with him waiting to get close. Little snot has that figured out pretty good! Finally he came out ahead of me a bit, crossed the road and took off down the other side. Stood there and watched a bit then started backing to the house. he finally come's out of the sage and looks down at me and figures that's far enough. here he come running as fast as he could. Went right by me aiming for new grounds. Surprise, I stepped on his check cord and he gave it up! Little snot!! He is learning to walk on a leash pretty well now and he's still eating my pillows!

Oh well did get some shots of Squirt and Bodie today.

Squirt

DonF · Post by **DonF** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 2:03 pm

Squirt on point Bodie on back.

Squirt

DonF · Post by **DonF** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 2:05 pm

Bodie

Post by **Sharon** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 3:44 pm

Beautiful setters. Is that grass? I've forgotten what it looks like.

DonF · Post by **DonF** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 6:03 pm

Yep, grass! Warmed up and air dried out about a week ago. I can walk on one pain pill a day now!

Fran Seagren · Post by **Fran Seagren** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 9:57 pm

Those are great pics of your dogs, Don. Really nice. The quality of most of the pics people are posting is amazing!

Sounds like Stormy is being a little "red devil."

Once Stormy gets all that out of his puppy system, you'll probably be amazed at how nice he works for you. Robert is so much fun to hunt with - and to live with. Such a personality.

Love the training pics from everyone.

DonF · Post by **DonF** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 10:04 pm

Fran Seagren wrote:Those are great pics of your dogs, Don. Really nice. The quality of most of the pics people are posting is amazing!

Sounds like Stormy is being a little "red devil." Once Stormy gets all that out of his puppy system, you'll probably be amazed at how nice he works for you. Robert is so much fun to hunt with - and to live with. Such a personality.

Love the training pics from everyone.

He'll get it out, I'm not worried. I like pup's to get almost all of that out before I do to awful much. I love the little, well not so little guy anymore!

QuillGordon · Post by **QuillGordon** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 8:00 am

Mad Dawg

SCT · Post by **SCT** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 8:07 am

Ez4 wrote:SCT, what kind of bird is that?

Sorry, I missed this. Yeah, it's a boomer sage grouse. Their breeding season is peaking right now.

Ez4 · Post by **Ez4** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:04 pm

Beautiful bird. Shame I would have to drive awful far to find one.