Hunt Test Question

I'm very green inall of this, but shouldn't Trainability be scored very low for this? Possibly a "0"?

Why? Only reason trainability should be low would be if handler kept calling dog and dog ignored handler in order to get the other bird.

I would actually be very impressed with it if the dog actually MARKED it versus winded it coming in with the first bird.
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Again, I'm just a newbie, but I would ask "What standard do you train to?" If you told a judge ahead of time that your dog was going to pick them both up then that's awesome, but other than that, it reminds me of the old Pee Wee Herman "I planned it that way" routine - something uncontroled that just worked out well.

Very respectfully submitted.

CNBarnes said:

Backcast said:

Again, I'm just a newbie, but I would ask "What standard do you train to?" If you told a judge ahead of time that your dog was going to pick them both up then that's awesome, but other than that, it reminds me of the old Pee Wee Herman "I planned it that way" routine - something uncontroled that just worked out well.

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If I had a dog that could do this 100% reliably, when I go hunting for real, I would WANT my dog to do this. It is more efficient and is a BETTER hunting dog.


Real life hunting is the standard. It is why we have these games.

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There is no doubt that it is more efficient. On occassion I've killed two birds with one shot, real efficient-but I don't train for that. Just lucky that time.
All I'm saying is that if you train that the dog should return after picking up a mark then the dog is not doing what you trained it to do.
So will this be the next bar in competitions?