Dead bird cue...how and when to use it

[Ken Bora]

OK thanks, maybe I'll give it a try

now anyone can type LOL these days but Gosh Ed that what you have typed above has made my morning.

[Ken Bora]

Dog comes to line, looks in the field, no guns, at that point does the dog need a cue or a clue to tell it that this is a blind?

now in hindsight, this could be a trick question.
We need to know the color of your coat Ed.
are you ankle to earlobe in shadow grass
or in a crisp white coat with black gloves?
Did you just use your duck call to tell the judges you were all set?

[Wayne Nutt]

I'm going outside my area of knowledge. But for Dr. Ed, isn't it mainly in field trials that a blind is a separate series?
I know in HRC, that a blind is almost always incorporated into a series that includes both marks and blinds. And the gun stations for marks are hidden. Sometimes not as well as other times. Sometimes behind holding blinds, sometimes behind trees, brush piles, etc. Sometimes the blind is run first and sometimes last.

I guess Ken and I were typing at the same time. Same question but worded differently.

[hotel4dogs]

Depends....in HRC the guns can be extremely well hidden. The dog doesn't necessarily know if a mark or a blind is coming.

edit to add....Wayne and I must have been typing at the same time!

Dog comes to line, looks in the field, no guns, at that point does the dog need a cue or a clue to tell it that this is a blind?

[tejohns3]

FT can incorporate marks and blinds in the same series sometimes they do sometimes they dont

[EdA]

now in hindsight, this could be a trick question.
We need to know the color of your coat Ed.

I prefer mauve, taupe, and teal but sometimes navy or tan depending on pants color and accessories...

[Rainmaker]

ok thanks, maybe i'll give it a try

rofl.

[Bridget Bodine]

OK thanks, maybe I'll give it a try

I LOVE THIS PLACE!!!!! Thanks for the laugh

[Jacob Hawkes]

OK thanks, maybe I'll give it a try

Ahh. The Art of Sarcasm. Unfortunately everybody doesn't find it nearly as useful or witty as I do. It should come as a standard issue IMO.

[Ken Bora]

....and accessories...

puka shell necklace perhaps