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I’ve got a 2 year old Boykin, addie, that started hunting quail and pheasant with pretty frequently this season. Before this year, she’s hunted quail some, but it’s started to turn into an every weekend affair due to working out a sweet deal with a local quail plantation. For the quail plantation, w...

After my boykin doing well at a pick up dog at a pheasant tower shoot a few weeks ago, she has been asked to pickup several other shoots. I think it’s a great chance for her to get a lot of retrieves and some flushing in, so we usually go. After the hunts, she usually has some cutting on her nose, l...

First off thank you all for the replies. Secondly, I never said nor implied that I wanted a flying retrieve off high bank. I want a hard charge and no stalling apon entry into the water. For instance, my chessie will hit water in midstride for a retrieve. Not a flashy high jump entry, but simply not...

Boykin spaniel. 1 year old, has been force fetched by a pro..................... I few weeks ago I made a post about my boykin not wanting to enter water on steep banks and having a big issue with cheating the bank. We have worked and worked on this, and the problem is nearly fixed through dozens of...

Thanks for the input guys. I want to run her in hunt tests and want her to complete water blinds so cheating the bank is a problem that needs to be resolved. As far as the not wanting to jump from the bank, I’m not taking about a large dropoff but any type of bank that does not slope, she charges to...

I've got a Boykin that will be a year old in November and she has just recently came back from going through force fetch with a pro. I do not know anyone who has done it and wanted to have it done by someone whos "been there done that". One problem that has arisen lately is her wanting to cheat the ...

Hey guys, newly signed up to the forum but have gained an enormous amount of information by looking through old posts over the past few months. There a couple of things that I am running into that I would like to have some input on, and I feel they both stem from the same problem. One thing that I a...