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DWR solution works quite well. DWR is a coating found on a lot of modern outdoor gear. It can wear off over time so when you notice the garments not performing as well as it previously had it’s time to reapply. Several companies make it. I have used Nikwax’s products and had really good success. htt...

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No-Mars in Caldwell, ID. A friend has a boy and girl pair and they are incredible dogs.

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Halved antlers, Kongs and ropes are the only things that last more then 5 minutes in our house.

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I have a male French Brit who is 3.5 y/o. From the age of 5 months through about 12 months I would hike 5-7 miles in the foothills behind my house 5 or more days a week. He would do 2-3x my distance. Around 12 months he settled down quite a bit. Around the same time we got him neutered. Not sure if ...

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I really like the Dogtra T&B 2500.

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We let our brittany run off leash in the foothills behind our house at around 5-6 months. I have always thought of the "come" command as possibly the most crucial because it can honestly save your dogs life. I think everyone knows of someone who's dog has been hit by a car. I have even been hunting ...

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Like some others have said - that is a wild bird for you. They run and fly! I trained my brittany almost entirely on wild bird exposure because we are fortunate to live in an area where we can get him on wild quail and huns year round even on short runs / hikes form the house. These birds taught him...

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Yes. I have skeet 1 / skeet 2 in my skb SxS 20 gauge and it works really well. It is my go to gun for hunting quail, huns, chukar.

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The only ones I have ever heard / seen on hunting dogs are Lewis Boots. I have never used them, but they seem to have quite a following.

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An advantage of a pro trainer is that they might be more likely to use actual rattlesnakes. None of the snake avoidance classes around me actually use rattlers. They all use gopher snakes. When actual rattlesnakes are used the dog can be conditioned to avoid the scent as well.

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I am in Southwest Idaho and have run into similar issues. I did rattlesnake avoidance - which helped - but to your point the snake has to be rattling before it cues the dogs trained avoidance. I had the exact same thing happen with my dog - my dog ran within 3 feet of a juvenile rattlesnake 2 times ...

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French Brits are great upland dogs! I have a 2.5 year old male from Mark. Mine is very fun to hunt with, extremely smart, nice size, very friendly around other people, dogs and kids. I primarily hunt chukar and Huns here in Idaho with mine - and occasionally pheasant in Oregon. His range varies with...

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I am not sure if I would use marking in the house as a reason for not getting a male. I have a 2.5 year old male French Brittany and he learned very quickly that marking in the house is not acceptable. Our other dog is an intact female and he marked 2x in our house in the first 6 months and has not ...

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I use a Dogtra T&B 2500 and have a Garmin Astro for when we get into denser terrain where it is hard to see my Brittany. The combo works pretty well!

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Remington 870 - It is cheap, predictably realiable and bulletproof in all conditions! You can find the express version for $300. I have seen people drop them in the water, pull them out, rack them a few times and fire without an issue. I have also seen guides on Walpole island flip over canoes with ...

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I trained my French Brittany to recall to a whistle and then discovered one really big problem with that. On really windy days when my dog was 100+ yards away he could not hear the whistle. So, I trained the whistle recall with the locate beep - not stim - on my Dogtra T&B 2500 and he quickly starte...

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I like to use a few things depending on terrain. My Brittany always has a rip stop orange nylon vest on - 1) to help me keep an eye on him because he is super shifty and 2) because he has no regard for his own body and I know too many people who’s dogs have been punctured while running through dense...

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Yes, you can totally do this. In Idaho we have a permit called a Sport Dog and Falconry training permit - I think I paid $20 for a 2 year permit - I am not sure how common this is in other states, but might be worth looking into. This allows me to go out on public land and plant pen raised birds ou...

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Yes, you can totally do this. In Idaho we have a permit called a Sport Dog and Falconry training permit - I think I paid $20 for a 2 year permit - I am not sure how common this is in other states, but might be worth looking into. This allows me to go out on public land and plant pen raised birds out...

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That T&B 2500 has a beep function on it too. I whistle trained my dog and quickly realized on windy days when I was walking into the wind he was not able to hear me. So I synced up the collar beep with his whistle recall training and he now knows to come when he heres the collar beep. If I am runnin...

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Sounds like the inconsistency of the e-collar / your inability to correct the dog could be causing it - and either way it is definitely not helping it. I would get a new e-collar with 3/4 to 1 mile range so you know you are able to correct your dog when it is not responding to known commands. Even t...

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The best things we have found is anything from kong, ropes, and elk or deer antlers cut in half length wise - he will chew on them whole, but prefers the ones cut in half. All of the mentioned chew toys last a really long time too.

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I looked very seriously into getting a pudelpointer myself because at the time I hunted waterfowl a lot more then upland (honestly the only reason I have a brittany right now is because my wife said no wire hair on the hunting dog....). There are a lot of world class hunting dog breeders in and arou...

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I edited my post above with info on a California Quails call. They are pretty vocal, so it is worth checking out. Where is your hunting trip?

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California Quail have a comma shaped group of feathers on their head going forward vs mountain quail the small grouping of feathers face straight up or backward. I hunt a fair amount in SW Idaho and can confidently tell you that I have never seen a covey of mountain quail across 3 years of hunting. ...

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In the area I hunt the chukar are usually pretty vocal, so I have a general idea of what area to walk up / through. I would just see a spotting scope as another 5+ pounds of stuff I would be lugging up with me. I guess it would not hurt to have it in the car. That way when you heard them as you were...

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Yes, that totally happens with a young inexperienced dog. I am fortunate to have access to quail and huns in the foothills behind my house. I started running my dog off-leash in these areas around 5 months and it took him until about 7 months to realize what we were actually doing. In that time eith...

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Laelaps is another one. They have always intrigued me, but every iPhone I have ever owned has been horribly unreliable in cold weather when exposed. With my phones always being weak links in cold or rainy weather - the batteries tend to not like cold weather - I just bought a garmin Astro.

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You could put on something like a mud river kennel cover and make small slices with a knife to accommodate the kennel couplers. If the fabric looks brittle once cut, bring it to a seamstress to overstich it to prevent the fabric from ripping or coming undone.

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Thanks for this post. I was just about to post something along the same lines. Been looking for a quality vest for a few years, and now that my GSP is about 1.5 years old, I need to carry water for him too. I was really leaning between the Q5 Centerfire and the Wing Works. Any guidance there??? Wha...

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So I have been poking around looking at upland vests for about 3 years now. In the meantime, I have just used a blaze orange marmot hiking backpack which always seemed to be enough for what I needed - spot for a water bladder - my water, a bottle holder on each side - dog's water, zip pouches in the...

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I am not trying to start a debate, but rather just share an info update from the FDA. The FDA is working with manufacturers of isoxazoline products to include new label information to highlight neurologic adverse events because these events were seen consistently across the isoxazoline class of prod...

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Every time my boy digs a hole I throw a huge rock in it and fill the hole back up with dirt. He gradually did all of the digging for me and now he is unable to dig down far enough to slide out.

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I have skeet 1 and skeet 2 fixed chokes in my 20ga s/s. Hunt quail, huns, and chukar with it.

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No. I should have been more specific. You only need that license if you want to shoot the farmed game birds over your dogs out of season. You can train your dog with farmed birds and no gun without that license any time of year. There are a lot of great books that you can find the titles of online o...

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So in Idaho you can field train a dog on any public land outside of the city of course. If you want to do it out of season you need a falconry and dog training license - this allows you to plant and shoot farm raised birds on public land - you have to be on public land to do this out of season not W...

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I researched Ithaca 100 and 200e 20 gauge S/S for about 18 months last year, as I wanted one of those two guns. There is not a ton of info around the internet on them, but what I gathered from internet research, watching gunbroker.com auctions, and speaking with local gunsmiths was the following. An...

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I had a dog trainer with my first dog that addressed this issue. He said a lot of puppies bite as a result of being pulled from their litters at 8-weeks. A lot of bite inhibition is naturally taught to puppies by other puppies in their litter biting them. They learn pretty quickly that when another ...

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Farmina $80 for 26lb bag. I also use Chewy because of their selection and secondly out of convenience.

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I use a Garmin Alpha along with a Dogtra T&B 2500. I also like running separate tracking and correction / recall collars - I use the beep on the Dogtra for recall - for the sake of redundancy. Garmin and SportDog also make nice dual purpose correction / recall collars with 3/4 - 1 mile range and eit...

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I was hiking with my dogs in the Boise Foothills the other day and ran into a guy with 3 English Pointers. We started talking about our dogs and where we got them. He got two of his from Brad Higgins in Nevada and all three of his dogs were trained by Brad Higgins. He had so many positive things to ...

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I really like the Cabelas Ripstop vest. I recently bought my growing pup a second one in a larger size because the first worked so well. They are very adjustable, protect their bellys, it helps limit burr and cheat grass collection on the rest of his body, and if / when he rolls in things like cow m...

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I have a 1.5 year old French Brit male. We crate him in an Intermediate size Ruff Tough kennel everyday when we are at work. We hike or run him every night and it has never been a problem. Occasionally we have toyed with leaving him out and he always gets into something, so that ended quickly.

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Jason Staley just outside of Twin Falls, Idaho has some spectacular dogs. He is supposed to be a great trainer as well. A lot of Field Champions in his kennel and his dogs won the Western Futurity Champion titles in 2013-2016.

http://www.jskennelsandtraining.com

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I tried motorcycle tubes on my dog. The problem I had was that the adhesive on the duck tape was horrible in the early cold morning weather. It did not want to stick to anything and they fell on in about 30 seconds. Lewis boots look nice, but have not used them -- GunDogSupply sells them for less th...

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I recently switched my French Brit from Acana to Farmina. He seems to love it and performs well on it.

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I've had a lot of trouble rubbing my gsp's raw around there front legs. Seems most are lab shaped. Neck doesn't fit, to wide between the front legs, barrel shaped instead of tuck up at the belly. After you rub them raw they are down for a week. Anyone find vests that work on a gsp. Sylmar has 154 r...

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When assessing Crude Protein content in a food the manufacturer is using the amount of nitrogen present in the food when a chemical analysis is performed to estimate the overall protein content. There is nitrogen in animal protein and non-animal protein - grains, legumes, etc., but there is also nit...

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My experience with the Cabelas Ripstop Vest is the same. I have never had to adjust it or resecure it in the field. I have never seen him get hung up on anything in 1.5 years either. The fact Sylmar with do alterations is very cool!

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Cabela's Ripstop Vest works extremely well! -- http://www.cabelas.com/product/Cabelas-Ripstop-Dog-Vest/2352806.uts My Brittany wears one every time he goes out. A friends Brittany caught a stick in the torso last year. It took 3 surgeries - and well over $1.5k (the vet felt bad so he gave him a pric...

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