Books - Wolters, Milner & Dokken - if you could pick 2?

[Scum Frog]

If you could pick 2 out of these three books, which two would it be?

Wolters - Game Dog
Milner - Retriver Training: A Back to Basics Approach
Dokken - Tom Dokken's Retriever Training: The Complete Guide to Developing Your Hunting Dog

I have trained a Labrador hunting companion in the past and I did a pretty good job if I do say so myself.
I'm older and hopfully wiser now just starting with my second Lab ( she is 7 weeks!)

[JTS]

Need more choices...........those aren't even on the LIST.

[Barry Ireland]

I would invest the money in Bill Hillmans Training a Retriever Puppy video. Couple of the books mentioned are antiquated and todays methods are much more productive. Just my opinion

[FOM]

None of the above.

I'd get Lardy's articles volumes 1-3 (http://www.totalretriever.com/index....d=98&Itemid=74)
I'd recommend the Hillman DVD

[Chris Atkinson]

I'd strongly suggest Mike Lardy's Volume I articles as one of your reading choices - available via the banner at the top of the page for Total Retriever.com

[dpate]

Several threads on training materials, just do a search. The most popular are Mike Lardy Total Retriever Training articles & DVDs (my personal choice), Evan Graham's Smartworks, and Rick Stawski's Fowl Dogs DVDs. These are geared more toward the hunt tester/field trailer but I wouldn't train any other way even if all I wanted was a hunting dog.

Out of the three you mentioned I am only familiar with Wolters and Milner's books. Both have their really good tidbits of information but Wolters is very outdated and perhaps the same can be said about Milner. I do like Milner's book. It is simple and it I think it will produce a fantastic hunting dog.

Why limit yourself to these three books though? There's a lot better material out there IMO. For puppy stuff I used Bill Hillmann's "Training a retriever puppy" and "Fetch Command" and for advanced stuff I have used Mike Lardy's TRT. Both of those are sponsors of RTF so just click on the ads at the top of the page. However, I tend to read everything I can get my hands on from Milner's current "positive only" stuff to old school training books.

[Dooley]

I would go with Milner, Wolters, and Dokken in that order.....all good books depending on what type of training you wish to do.....no e-collar to using e-collar, in order of the books I selected.

[Scum Frog]

Thanks for the feedback. Lardy seems to be a popular choice. I'll have to check him out.
I try to collect as much reading material as I can both hardcopy and softcopy to apply various techniques and points of view to my training.

[Ken Bora]

If you could pick 2 out of these three books, which two would it be?!

are you trying to level a coffee table?

Lainee nailed it, vol 1, 2, & 3 from Mike Lardy!

[outdoordave]

I like the Lardy articles along with this one by Cherylon Loveland: http://www.gundogsupply.com/bkk-0523.html.