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Don

I love both but I think a huge difference, on average, is you take a shorthair hunting, a pointer take's you!

Don

Don't throw Wolter's away, someone might drag it out of the trash, burn it! I think the thing that make the Delmar Smith book so good is a dog lover and writter wrote what a pro was telling him, just so happen's the pro was one of the best. I doubt that had Tarrant written the book about his own met...

Don

hubweims wrote:what about the weims??????

I put that photo in there because it's the most appealing one I have left. It wouldn't matter the breed to me.

OOP's I lied. Other than this I have a Brittany that looks pretty good.

Don

I think your right but the man suggested it. I did use it on horse back tho. I'd call in the dog's and heel them to the horse. I tried a check cord lead and it ended up under the horse to much.

Don

Plywood come's in 4' x 8' sheet's. If you make it 6' high you'll have to cut off 2' of each. If you build it 7' high you'll cut 1' off each and can sheet the roof with it. The higher the bird's have to fly to reach the top, the more excerise they'll get which means better conditioned bird's. Chicken...

Don

hubweims, Maybe I've misunderstood what you said. Here's the first sentence or two. "think that it is important also to teach your dog heel from out in front of you. with leash, check cord, possibly pinch collar, and dog out in front of you while you are standing still, give the heel command and sta...

Don

I had a rich client year's ago that told me a man couldn't have to many dog's or horse's and if he had enough money he could have all the dog's and horse's he want's!

Don

I don't have a pocket camera but I do have a few.

Nikon D70 (only digital)

Nikon F5 35mm

Hasselblad X-Pan 35mm panoramic

Pentax 645 NII med format film

Mamiya RB67 med format film

Don

Hubwiems Post: i think that it is important also to teach your dog heel from out in front of you. with leash, check cord, possibly pinch collar, and dog out in front of you while you are standing still, give the heel command and start gently leading you dog to heel. helps them realize that heel mean...

Don

If you can go in after dark, go in durning daylight and find where they are coming and going from. Then go back after dark and close their escape route. Then if they are not to high, just use a dim falsh light and go around and pick them up. They don't fly much in the dark. If they are to high, use ...

Don

schultz's honor wrote:[IMG][IMG]
Be advised that this tool is not for everybody. In the wrong hands it could be desasterous.

As can any training device or method!

Don

You guy's should really enroll in an obedience class. Field training is about bird dog's and obedience is about manner's. Few people go to their proctologist to get their teeth cleaned!

Don

That is really a fine looking coop but how high off the ground is that re-entry door? You are going to put a varmit door on it right? The re-entry door on my big pen is 6' off the ground and I've trapped two cat's inside the pen this year. This has been a concern of mine the old one I had varmit do...

Don

Rick,

You realize of course that my nose is turning up and I'm squinting? Here is where I hich my pant's and sniff!

Don

Gonehuntin hit it right. Pick one method and stick with it. There many different roads you can take to get to the same point but you can't get there taking them all at the same time. Reguardless of what anyone think's of the next guy's method, if it work's,,,it work's. What you'll find, or should fi...

Don

I am pretty much a breed specific snob. I don't believe I want to go out and watch the jack of all trades do his thing. It's not that I think they are less at it but I like watching the dog's I feel were bred to be specialist at it. I love all the dog's but in a blind nothing beat's a Labrador for m...

Don

That is really a fine looking coop but how high off the ground is that re-entry door? You are going to put a varmit door on it right? The re-entry door on my big pen is 6' off the ground and I've trapped two cat's inside the pen this year.

Don

ezzy333 wrote:Do all of those manuvers silently after you have told him to heal once. The purpose is to make him pay attention to you and not you telling him what to do. he will figure it out after you step on him or knee him.

I think that is what you are saying Don,

Ezzy

Absolutely!

Don

When he step's out in front of you, if his head so much as get's past your knee, turn into him. Bend down as far as you can with your left knee and if you get low enough, bump him with your knee. Now and again do a complete 180 on him. Do the 180 both into him and away from him. You have to keep him...

Don

As I recall there is no age limit. It is meerly a test to determine the potentional of the dog. It's been quite awhile for me so hopefully someone will correct any mistake's I make here. Your dog will have to show a desire to hunt, best seen when it's out and away from you and not constently hanging...

Don

Picture's do not lie! Picture #4 show's the head start the pointer gave the lab. #5 show's the pointer already caught the lab. #6 show's the pointer clearly beating the lab to the buck and #7 a big win for the pointer!!!!

Don

Thank's stump. I have a feeling that this is one of those topic's we like to avoid. That's to bad as done properly, it's not harsh. But like the shock collar the door is wide open to abuse. You notice the shock collar is not called a shock collar anymore, e-collar is much more plesant a term but the...

Don

I would offer homeing pigon's as mine are hatching now and I'm gonna have a lot this srping. Unfortunately I called UPS and Fed Ex and both told me they won't ship them.

Don

Great post Pear. Usually a post will be locked with no explaination until someone start's a new one and ask's why.

Good Job!!!

Don

Hehe. "Otis's" favorite treat is boiled corn cob's! He bury's they for a few day's then dig's them up and eat's them.

Don

There is a lighter side to this dog nutrition program. I think most of us feed what we believe to be a quality feed to our dog's. But what if the dog was left to itself? My old "Drifter" absolutely loved dead field mice and the riper the better. Never tried to catch a live one tho. He prefered them ...

Don

wannabe wrote: If I ever get too old to want to kill birds, then I will probably be too old to want to feed dogs.

I got new's for you. If I became a quadraphledgeick (sp), tomorrow, I'd still find a way to feed dog's!

I'll be feeding dog's long after I'm dead and gone. I can feel it!

Don

okie wrote:Don
I was unable to find Sporting Dog Specialties, would like to find the video you were talking about.
Thanks
Dave

I'll look around and see if I can find it.

Don

Wazzu, Didn't you speak of this dog on another site? I seem to remember it. If a bird wing and a rod is all you have, then it's all you have. But as Devil's Creek pointed out, it encourage's sight pointing. Then some dog's just won't point it. I had a pointer that would wear herself out trying to ca...

Don

Let's keep in mind alot of waterfowl hunters don't have dogs, so who knows for sure that a dog that couldn't retrieve well left the bird??? Yea but waterfowl hunter's are good swimmer's! :D The down side is that they wear to many clothes and get water everywhere when they get back to the blind and ...

Don

I have fed a lot of different food's over the year's and the most important thing is that your dog will eat it! There are grocery store food's that work well, even for trial dog's. Purina Hi-Pro is used by a lot of performance dog owner's. Many like it because anywhere you go, you can get it. I was ...

Don

I too love good leather collar's. Heavy stiff leather, but I used heavy stiff nylon collars with a D ring. When I put it on the dog I like it to slide around the neck like a steel ring. Always keep's the check cord and the snap in the right place!

Don

Good grief. Why not just let it go?

Don

Found a couple more from my old NSTRA day's. Ran a double trial up in Spokane and won both fields and a second on one with Hannah. God do I miss her!

Don

Your puppy ain't gonna know come here from sic'm for quite awhile. What he needs is to get out and be exposed to thing's. Bushes, tree's, everything. He need's to investigate the world and have thing's to chase. "bleep" birds and butterflys work well. He won't care. You have time befor you need anyt...

Don

John, Just went back and read your post on cover dog's. It answered my question's. Yea, I think that is something I'd really like. I'n not a big setter fan because of the hair but now I've alway's had a soft spot for a number of Burrnt Creek dog's I've worked with. Hummmmmm! Hope you don't mind if I...

Don

Hey Wagonmaster a question? In grouse trials do they hunt grouse or some other bird in grouse cover? I assume it's not a horsebach trial and do the judges walk? I'll field this in case John doesn't catch it. Generally in grouse trials everybody walks, though occasionally the judges are mounted. The...

Don

So, Don......can we show you something in a slightly used Field Trial Horse? :lol: As Yoda would say, "Corrupt him we must"! Me, I just want to handle the dogs and let someone else do the shooting, unless we are talking Ruffed Grouse, and then it is all about revenge for me! I'm afraid that you guy...

Don

I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about why I hunt anything. What I'm finding is I hunt because of the dog's. There was a time when I got dog's because I figured I'd get more bird's, then I graduated the the excuse that I'd lose less cripple's. But the past 10 or 15 yrs I found myself hunti...

Don

Stump wrote:
AceofSpades41 wrote:Great Pics guys.

Don,

The point by that mule deer looks pretty intense....
I'll bet theres a hot doe close by LOL.

Lucky guess!!

Don

It sound's like an association of click means treat's for some specific action. But there's no command? How does the dog know what you want it to do? Not trying to second guess but I get the feeling one command mean's everything in which case the dog would have to go thru all the stuff it learned to...

Don

12 volt I like that picture. The pointer look's great and the setter is obviously backing and not getting it's own snoot full. Nice picture!

Don

How about a patch for a shooting vest or what ever? Think I'd go for that.

Don

If that really work's I wouldn't quit no matter what.
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This is not a joke, right?

Don

That's a good idea. Lost most of my photo's in a fire but still have a few: 2x RU Ch Rex of Rifle http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o277/DonFischer/oddballstuff-sortitout247.jpg Kate, Rex and Pete http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o277/DonFischer/RexKateandPete600.jpg Kate http://i122.photobucket....

Don

Is this pup broke to shot already?

Don

Now wait a minute. What is clicker training?

Don

Rick I have a question. I looked at your site and notice that you have no AKC bred dogs. But I also notice that you have a couple that are highlighted as not AKC registered. Do you have any AKC registered dog's? On a couple there is no indication.

Don

Other than spruce grouse in Alaska with a GSP, the only dog's I've hunted grouse with have been springer spaniel's. I think it's line's that would make a good grouse dog. But how do you breed a good grouse dog? I'm guessing that it would best be moderately fast and fairly close working because of th...

Don

One of the most creative names I've seen is the cover dog of the L.C.Supply magazine. I think the dog is named "I'm Lucky Too " and he's called "Deuce." His father was named "Lucky." Yea and then there was "I'm a "bleep" Too", off spring of "Tricky "bleep"". E. Setter's than ran in NSTRA years ago....

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