I ran the SR test Saturday at Tejas. Beauiful ranch and great club! Land series was tight a double(with a live flyer) with thigh high thick bermuda cover. The line of the blind was behind the memory bird station by 10 yards but the mark was 30 yrds past the bird station. The bird was placed on the left back of johnson grass mott. 98% of dogs had trouble picking the bird up. Once you got the dogs to the Mott of grass they wanted to go around it to the right. Then most of them would wind it and jump in for it. If you picked up the marks and the blind with CONTROL you where called back. The water series was tough. 38 Yard walk up(thrown left to right) straight in front of the line with maybe 20-25 yard swim. Go bird was 75-85 yards (Thrown right to left) into some thick cover of bermuda and sunflower and some type of snow pea looking cover. Lots of hunting and handling on both marks. Wind was left to right. Blind was angle left to a point and 90% swim. If the dog got to the point then they found the bird. If you had a poor land series and then had to handle a bunch on the water marks then they did not let you run the water blind. Lots of dogs where lost on the water series. Judges were straight forward and fair just a tough water series. I was one of the fortunate to get a pass....My first senior pass.
