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Monday, April 24, 2017

FLIGHT B: Mon April 24 - Day 2 - Test 3 - Land/Water Triple with a Water Blind and an Honor

The third series of Flight B at Whoa Nellie Farm was a land/water triple with blind and honor using a mixed bag of pheasants for land and mallards for water. The field had a upward slope with thin broom straw and low cover. The left-hand bird was first thrown to the right landing 74 yards from the line. The middle bird was second thrown left landing approximately 98 yards from the line. The area of the fall for the go bird flyer shot hard angle back left was 120 yards from the line.

The wind was to the handler's backs. Due to the flyer being shot hard angle back, the dogs we watched flared off the bird station to the left to make a quick hunt to retrieve the bird. Upon the return from the flyer, dogs primary selected and retrieved the right-hand bird, the wind did not seem to give either bird away and dogs marked these two birds well. The water blind was a square water entry with a 45 yard swim to a wide point where the bird was placed on the back side of the peninsula. 

 Flight B – Test 3 – #31