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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

FLIGHT A: Wed April 26 - Day 4 - Test 5 - Water Triple with a Diversion Shot

The Fifth Series for Flight A is a water triple with a dry diversion shot. The handler is overlooking a small corner of a well-designed large technical pond. The first bird was the middle bird and was thrown to the right onto the bank on the other side of a peninsula and lands 140 yards from the line. The second bird down was the left-hand bird, also thrown to the right on land at 55 yards. The go bird also thrown right and in, lands behind a large clump of grass in the water with a splash just 33 yards from the line. 

The line to the go bird is down a small peninsula with a square water entry either through or around the grass clump to retrieve the bird. Mid-way back, a diversion shot is fired. The right-hand line is an angle entry into the first piece of water, a 42 yard swim, angle exit up onto shore to retrieve the bird. If the dogs exited the water early, a group of pines to the left shore helped the dogs from hunting left. Alternately, there was an opportunity to hunt deep if the dog exited past the bird. The line to the middle memory bird was an angle entry into the first piece of water, an angle out across the causeway and an angle entry into the second piece of water ending in a swim 50 yards down the shore to the bird. Dogs that did not get in the second piece of water hunted to the left and deep behind  the bird station eventually working down to the shore to retrieve the bird.    



Flight A – Test 5 – #21