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congrats, i am extremely jealous. my 8 year old will be running my BLF in an AKC junior hunt test the first weekend in April. i am hoping that the bug will catch him as well.

I am fixing to be in the same situation as you "71". My 8 year old is going to rule my 4 year old HR titled female in AKC Junior test and i am going to train "his" new male puppy. We will go as far...

Does anyone know what is the youngest age of a participant in a seasoned or senior hunt test? looking for some general information for future reference for my son. thanks

Is Stick to pile a necessary drill? Can it be skipped or replaced with an alternative drill?
Thanks

In Mike Lardy volume 1 there is an article that talks about pile work and one section it discusses one specific drill called stick to pile. I understand the basics of the drill but what confuses me...

boomer check your PM

thanks for the responses. it cleared up some mis-conceptions that i had. have a good day.

can the handler say "heel or here, good" to their dog at the line, lining her/him up for the blind? can you say "dead, back" when send her/him to the blind? thanks

been meeting to ask this question myself, thanks. i had the same problems, going to try these techniques the next time out.

I followed Smartworks this year and my lab earned her HR title after following his Transition DVDs and the Smartworks books. Her demeanor never changed, still happy, happy, happy.

@BJ, you get called on being a Smart alec and in typical retort, you respond with "tougher skin". so original... you mad bro?

I plan on staying with my training regime, and continuing to work on our issues from the spring test. I like the idea of using holding blinds during training sessions, and 3 peats for blinds. Read...

hypothetically speaking, if you have 4 weeks before a your second HRC seasoned test (your dog already has 1 pass), how would to approach training? what drills would you concentrate on leading up to...

I saw a sign for River Bottom Retrievers on the Foley Beach express when we left last saturday. I believe that he has done some hunt test over here in louisiana for the last couple of years.

after watching kwicklabs videos and reading his website, i implemented "send backs" in my training program. i do not have the luxury of having equipment or bird boy to throw all the time, so i...

its a torn labrium in the left shoulder, may have one in the right as well. I go Monday for the arthogram. I will not have surgery til after duck season. so it will occur in Feb. of course that...

i am going to have surgery some time this year, what limitations would i expect with my dog's training? i can think of is handling. can't back or over cast to that side.

thanks for the replies, will try these suggestions today.

what command do you give your dog for it to heel on the opposite side that he/she was initially trained for? for instance, my dog heels on my right (i shoot left handed), when i give a heel command...

I have done the drill without a blind for him to hide in and i got the same result, thought it might change the outcome. This dog has lined blinds before, never thought to put out white stakes and...

my lab will not run a straight line while running the blind portion of the drill. she is avoiding my son who is hiding behind a blind (throwing stations) who is throwing the bumper for the mark...

I went back to look at my drill logs, these are the things that we have done. She has been through force fetch, water force, swim by, doubles, Collar Conditioned, simple casting, no hands back, pile...

i don't know if this is what you are asking for, but these are the drills that we have been doing for 2 months or so...Tune up drills, KRD drills with marks thrown away from line and over the line,...

My dog has started to pop on her water blinds (cold). We are in transition, and have already passed our first HRC seasoned test. The last three times we have run cold blinds in the water she has...

Are the blinds "cold" or are they blinds that they have run before?