My Duck Dog Training A to ?

Last night rather than train I went to Tiny Marsh to help erect the poles that will be used to house the Pheasant Pen - giving back a little for the use of the property.About 8:20 the bugs, mosquitoes and black flys came out so we called it a night. Greg Larden asked if I [...]

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I recruited Jenni tonight to throw for me - we ran both dogs at the Black’s pond.Artemis was first and we ran some of the de-cheating singles that she had run a couple days ago. I increased the distance to the water from the line and this increased the difficulty of the drill. She did [...]

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Today I recruited my son Andrew to gun for me and we headed to the ‘Black’ pond for some de-cheating work.Artemis once again showed that she had made progress and also that she understands the channel blind concept. There was more collar pressure used in this drill than she has previously encountered. She responded well [...]

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We trained at The Farm today with Anna, Eden, Martin Pinder and Bob Tolles.The set up was an over under mark with both birds thrown left to right and then a medium length gun station off to the left out of the picture.
Tucker ran the short over mark first and was sucked out to the [...]

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I had hoped to hook up with some trainers near Barrie while on a business trip down to the city but it didn’t happen. It was all for the best - seeing as it was my bride’s birthday and if I had trained I’d not have gotten back to the house before 11pm.I had both [...]

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Last night I slipped down to tiny marsh and The Farm to do some training. Although it was raining we managed to get in some good work.At Tiny Marsh I ran Artemis on two channel blinds. The first was a short 50yd swim run off of a point to the end of a bay. The [...]

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Sunday we attended the GBHRC fall meeting, discussion topics included our ‘08 hunt test wrap up and planning for ‘09.
 
Following the meeting we got out for a short training session.  The set up was three marks; left gun 70yds, right gun 90yds, middle gun 105yds.  All three were thrown into medium cover and both dogs [...]

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On Friday late afternoon I canoed across the river with Tucker to see if there were any ducks in our local pond to ‘jump shoot’ - there were none.
On Friday evening and again on Saturday, I managed to get a canoe paddle in to scout up the river for likely roosts - there were a [...]

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On Friday Tucker did not get to run but Artemis did some yard work with my.  It was day 4 of her collar conditioning.  Today she did well - again on the long line.  I increased the distance that I walked away from her.  A couple of times she got up and began to walk [...]

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 Today I needed to travel to Barrie for work.  I took Tucker along with me just in case I found the time to stop at The Farm.
As luck would have it, there was time to stop before I needed to get home.  Tucker was excited as we pulled into the driveway.  I wanted to take [...]

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