FLIGHT B: Thurs April 27 – Day 5 – Test 6 – Water Triple with a Double Blind
The Sixth Series for Flight B was back at Ken and Brenda Neil's Whoa Nelli Farm overlooking a very large piece of water with a few peninsulas, islands and points. This land/water triple with a double blind was taking approximately 9 minutes per dog to complete. This was a very wide test at more than 180°. The handler must make a wide swing to the right for the first bird of this test. The flyer was shot to the left, landing on a gently sloping hillside in medium cover at 100 yards. The second middle bird was a dead duck thrown to the left at 60 yards landing on the point of the peninsula in the pond. The last bird is the left-hand dead duck thrown to the right, landing on the point in short cover at 61 yards. After the dog retrieves the marks, he must run the 75 yard water blind the line of which goes under the arc of the second middle bird. The 90 yard land blind is to the right up in the field where the flyer was shot.
The dogs went to retrieve the left hand peninsula bird first, swimming across a corner of this large pond. Next they had a large swing round to the right where they were sent to get their land bird – the flyer. The third bird to be picked up was the middle peninsula bird. This involved a swim across the pond onto land to get the bird. The water blind was to the right of this bird and the on the far shore of the peninsula. The direct line to it was under the arc of the middle bird. The final retrieve for the 2017 MAI was the land blind, to the far right of the line on very gently sloping hillside with short to medium cover.
