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Monday, April 24, 2017

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 is thrown to the right landing 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 is also thrown right, landing 85 yards in the calf-high cover. The blind is 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.



Flight B – Land Blind – #18


Flight B – Test 2 – #27