Flight C's Series 5 was a land/water triple with a dry diversion shot and an honor using all mallard ducks. The handler is looking at a large pond with peninsulas and fingers. Directly in front, is a peninsula and across it to the far shore is a mushroom-shaped piece of land. The first bird thrown right, under the arc of the second bird landed in a pocket of a small bend in the mushroom 106 yards from the line. The second bird thrown right onto the peninsula landed 45 yards from the line. The third bird thrown left to the water's edge landed 42 yards from the line. The area all around the pond is nicely mowed with low to medium cover around the edges.
The line to the go bird is on land paralleling the shore with a slight angle to retrieve the bird at the water's edge. The line to the bird on the peninsula was a square water entry with a short swim and a square exit onto the peninsula to retrieve the bird. The direct line to the memory bird was a square water entry and exit over the peninsula taking a sliver of land to the pocket were the bird landed. Dogs that were trying to be good stayed in the water past the pocket to the left of the bird, then landed and hunted to the left towards the bird station, then working to the right to retrieve the bird. Dogs that landed to the right on the top of the mushroom quickly winded the bird. The honor was to the left of the working dog.
Flight C – Test 5 – #35
