OK This is via Facebook. Birch test: walk-up triple with a flyer shot second. Pheasants used...double blind and honor.
Diversion is thrown as a poison bird and you can pick up one or both blinds before retrieving the poison bird.
Flight D are the ones at Birch. By the way, there are no birch trees located on the site. The previous owners of that part of the land were named Birch(or maybe Burch) so Flint Oak named this area in their honor.
Just got a phone call from a friend running in Flight D (they haven't run themselves yet). Apparently the field is being pared down rather rapidly - tough series with not a lot of wind and plenty of handles.
Sending good thoughts to ALL dogs/handlers running in all series!
Call backs have been posted in the past, I think. The call back list should be found on the master national web page at some point after the first series is completed. Be patient since everyone is a volunteer and there are many things going on that may require their attention as well.
With that many dogs in each flight, I'm not looking to see call backs from the first series for a long time ....probably average 8 dogs per hour...do the math ...Steve S
Thanks, Tom, for the link to the blog. Of course, now that I've read about Flight D, I need an antacid and a stiff drink! Sounds like a tough test. Cleo is number 77 and will run tomorrow.
just an update. i dont know if this is normal but a buddy there said that all groups will face the same test each series. so like today all groups triple with flyer. rooster phesants. diversion poison bird with blind and honor. only thing different is the properties
hopefully this means all tests finish at the same time. C which is the on my buddy is in is on dog #29
I would be surprised if all flights finish at the same time. As I understand it, that was the reason for different tests last year....to move things along when one group finished earlier than another.
Flight B/3 Pond was direct and challenging..... #128 started this morning and #45 ended today out of 160 dogs. Taking about 10 minutes per dog. Still have little over
half of the dogs to run tomorrow......My Fire runs tomorrow. Good Luck to everyone.
None of the flights will finish before late today (sunday.) no partial call callbacks so info won't be available until likely late tonight or early AM. D finished last night at 715 PM w/ dog #42. Good solid test but difficult. I expect we'll lose 1/3 of the flight if things keep going as they did yesterday.
Flight D was pretty ugly to start. Lots of picked up dogs and double handles. Apparently the test looks lots different from the line as opposed to the gallery. Flyers have been FAST. Big roosters.