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Judge Rip Shively's and Tom Quarles' second series was a mixed-bag land triple with walk-up and blind inside the marks. When the handlers reached the designated line, a gun station situated left and slightly back at 35 yards threw a pheasant to the right that landed at the crest of a hill. The flyer station was situated deep and in the middle of the test at approximately 100 yards and the mallard was shot to the right into a gully. The go bird was the right-hand bird and it was thrown to the left at approximately 85 yards landing near the crest of the hill.
The dogs we watched quickly picked up the go bird, but there was potential for the dogs to over run this bird, crest the hill and go out of sight. The walk up bird is also well placed at the crest of the hill, dogs that over ran this short bird quickly go out of sight. The flyer is excellently placed in the gully. From the dog's view, it is difficult because the field looks much flatter than it is. For the dogs whose flyer falls on the hill, they had a bit of an advantage.
The blind is approximately 100 yards from the line, to the left of the flyer station. The line to the blind is a bit tight, only about 20 yards to the right of past where the walk up bird landed. There is log 20 yards from the line on line to the blind giving some dogs trouble, if the dog goes right, it is on the line back to the flyer, if it goes left, it is close to the line of the walk up bird. Handlers needed to be very quick on the whistle to attempt to get the dog over the log.
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| Flight A - Test 2 |
FLIGHT B: Mon April 24 – Day 2 – Test 2 – Land Triple and Walk-up with a Blind
Judges Bill Cummings' and Tom Lehr's second series
is a land triple walk-up with a blind outside the marks. The left-hand walk up
bird was thrown to the right and landed 47 yards on the edge of a green grass
path. The next bird down, the flyer, was the right-hand bird shot to the right
with the area of the fall approximately 100 yards into calf-high cover. The
middle bird, go bird was also thrown right, landing 85 yards in the calf-high
cover. The blind was approximately 80 yards to the right of the flyer station
and located deeper at 110 yards.
Early in the day, the wind was out of the west. Later, it had shifted to the north west making the test more difficult due to the scent of the flyer affecting the other two marks. The dogs needing to be handled don't seem to be getting into trouble with one particular mark, but are over running either the middle bird or left bird and we observed several big hunts.
Early in the day, the wind was out of the west. Later, it had shifted to the north west making the test more difficult due to the scent of the flyer affecting the other two marks. The dogs needing to be handled don't seem to be getting into trouble with one particular mark, but are over running either the middle bird or left bird and we observed several big hunts.
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| Flight B - Test 2 |
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Judges Joe Escher's and Tim Landecker's second series is a mixed-bag land triple walk-up with a blind outside the marks. We arrived early morning to a cool 50 degrees with light wind out of the west. The handlers proceeded due north to a walk up with a rooster pheasant being thrown left landing at a tempting 37 yards in low cover. The left-hand flyer was a mallard shot angle back right with an area of the fall at about 100 yards from the line. The deepest mark thrown was the right-hand go bird at 128 yards thrown left into low cover in front of a row of young young pine trees in front of the woods.
Judges Joe Escher's and Tim Landecker's second series is a mixed-bag land triple walk-up with a blind outside the marks. We arrived early morning to a cool 50 degrees with light wind out of the west. The handlers proceeded due north to a walk up with a rooster pheasant being thrown left landing at a tempting 37 yards in low cover. The left-hand flyer was a mallard shot angle back right with an area of the fall at about 100 yards from the line. The deepest mark thrown was the right-hand go bird at 128 yards thrown left into low cover in front of a row of young young pine trees in front of the woods.
The blind was to the left and just deep of the flyer station, 111 yards from the line. This test was not a wide open triple, but it was also not a tight test. On the way to the go bird, the dogs did have to get through the scent of the short walk up bird and possibly scent from the flyer.
The line to the blind did have a dirt road the dogs needed to angle that pushed dogs to the right towards the flyer station, but most handlers we watched were able to keep the dogs left of the flyer station to pick up the bird.
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| Flight C - Test 2 |
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