FLIGHT A: Wed April 26 - Day 4 - Test 5 - Water Triple with a Diversion Shot
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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.
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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.
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| Flight A - Test 5 |
FLIGHT B: Wed April 26 - Day 4 - Test 5 - Land/Water Triple with a Diversion Shot
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Flight B's Fifth Series is a land/water triple with diversion shot. The first bird thrown was on the right slight angle back to the left and landing 65 yards from the line into a small dip of low cover. The middle bird was second, thrown angle back to the right landing almost at the crest of a low knoll across the water 98 yards from the line. The final go bird was thrown right also across the pond landing in low cover with thin broom straw directly in front of a pine tree 86 yards from the line. Upon the return from the first retrieve is the dry diversion shot.
The line to the go bird is a slight angle entry into the water for a 60 yard swim then the dog angles out across the road to retrieve the bird. The line to the land bird parallels the shore in very low cover. The water to the left and a small grouping of pines to the right keeps the dogs on track for a quick retrieve. The line to the middle bird is square water entry across the pond with a slight angle out of the pond across the road up a small knoll to retrieve the bird.
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| Flight B - Test 5 |
FLIGHT C: Wed April 26 - Day 4 - Test 5 - Land/Water Triple with a Diversion Shot and Honor
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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.
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| Flight C - Test 5 |
