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To answer your original question, even though the color is as orange as orange can be, officially both those pups would be called lemon..........officially. On a side note, those look like pointer pups if I ever saw one.

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If you need brain surgery you don't go to a General Practicioner.......... I used to encounter porcis all the time until I hunted over Pointers, Britts and Setters. Only seen 1 in the last 2 years (over a shorthair) used to be 1 a week!!!!

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The little white arm that pull the spring. Loosen the screw that connects it to the acuater. It tightens itself over time, just loosen it about half a turn or more. It gets to tight and compresses that arm into the housing. Let us know if that works.

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If the dog has never moved or lost intensity, etc. Then I as a judge won't downgrade the dog because it has an idiot as a handler. Although if all that screaming the dog starts to soften up, look around, I'm knocking points pretty severely. I'm pretty tough judge too though, don't get invited to jud...

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Glad I was there to witness Bugsy do his thing. For all the readers ole Bugs finished his hour about as strong as you could hope for a AA dog in real bird country to finish. And Bugs is all that 100% bird dog. The best part though Doc...... When everyone else dismounts to work a bird they walk up to...

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A good pheasant dog is going to keep contact with a running bird. Rather it be going around and pinning it from the other direction or work it until it runs out of cover and the bird stops, then so will that dog. Now take that same dog up Chukar hunting. He goes 500yds straight up hill and locks up....

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I was meaning to ask how your trip went, now I know. Definatley nice to get some hands on with someone that should have been in the Hall of Fame years ago. Jealous!!!

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You know what ultimatley constitutes a succesful breeding program..........................................ADVERTISING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Billy Joe Redneck from the dirty South sits on his porch full of dogs. He's raising pups from a line of dogs his gramps started in the 20's. Quail are getting h...

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IMO, breeding dogs is single handily the most difficult animal for a "breeder" to improve upon, let alone an amateur breeder or begineer breeder, or backyard breeder or anything else you want to call them. Let me give an example, As a young child, and I'm talking 6 or 7 years young until adult hood ...

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Had it all growing up, nothing makes a pair like a farm kid and his dog. Dad was a pointer/setter man from Missiouri but we usually only had what was free growing up in Oregon. The first none stock dog I could call mine was a Bluetick bitch, shortly after they outlawed use of hounds in the state. Be...

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I've killed more birds over 5 month old dogs then many have over 5 yr old dogs. But I'm not a liberal tree hugging hippie either so I may be a little old school. I want my dogs to learn why he hunts and how to hunt before I do any formal training the next spring and summer. Makes the whole process a...

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If she's cute and single she needs to start with a Pointer................

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Nice pictures. Looks like you don't have to worry about cheat grass or foxtail. Gerties all grown up.

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Well.........attended R.J.'s seminar, noticed no one else from here showed up.......... I've had the pleasure to get to know R.J. the last few years, but this was my first seminar. As usual R.J. is very good with the newbies that showed up, he has a way of getting things across. The dinners in the e...

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Not quite as tough as owl, but sweeter then hawk.

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What I've learned from this thread..........
1. Doug always post the best pictures.
2. If I wasn't to stubborn to own a Britt, Chukar12 and I would get along fantastic!!!
3. That repetition works for training bird dogs, but not BillThomas's

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I might be wrong but from your post it sounds like you seem to think people are not breeding to the top winning dogs out of spite or jealousy. Trialers are always watching and your dog can win everything in his game but if he doesn't produce dogs that win, people will notice and no one is going to ...

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,I thought the trialing was to showcase the potential for breeding the next generation,which has not been what I've seen,so I'm done with it, Weeds, this is interesting to me. You have considerable more trialing experience than I do, but I have been hunting with dogs since i could walk and I am 47 ...

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Your pup is doing a better job of teaching you. If he scratches and you open the door, then he's going to scratch. He gets the result he's looking for. I make my dogs stand on an old wine barrel, or stool on the deck. The bell on the rope is a good idea as well. He needs to be scolded rather with a ...

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Please tell me you found a way around the lake to pick up that Elk shed........................

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Well.................................For the first time in 33 years of running NSTRA in the North West, a Pointer has brought home the bragging rights to be called the number one dog of the year!!!!! Went into this weekend tied with another dog and only 3 points ahead of two more. Had a nice 4 bird ...

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Looks like the weather may brighten up according to the latest forecast Matt, but I would still bring some rain gear just in case. :D Thanks for the heads up, I've been watching all of my radar and weather apps, it's looks like we could get lucky. I'm tied with that bad a$$ Britt Im always bragging...

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ymepointer wrote:Sweet, are you going?

Tied for first in the Region, you bet I'm going!!!!

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ymepointer wrote:Great work Matt, Congrats! Is the last trial up north in Chewellah?

No, Landt Farms in Spokane

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As I usually just post hunting photos in the fall, I thought I'd change it up a little. I finished off Cage's NSTRA Championship on the 28th of April, week shy of him turning 3. This trial was Cage's 9th double/double trial, started off slow learning the game but this spring has been a blast as he f...

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Darn I am working in Seattle this week and am going to eastern Washington for a britt trial this weekend...I thought it might be that one and I could say hello... Keep your eye out for a bitch Britt pup, call name Katie or Caity, handled by Corrie Thorn. Nice little pup!!!! Handler is new to the ga...

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LOL :) Because Pointer and Setter breeders all ready have the stellar pointing and bird finding down pat. They needed something else to work on so they wouldn't get bored so they bred for poker straight tails pointing, high merry tails running, just to be picky. All of those other breeds still tryin...

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birddog1968 wrote:Little head crank comes from alot further back than HTA, A rambling rebel would throw his head up . Just the age of internet pictures now.....

Your correct, and alot of these dog pics posted above are an example of a nice stylish head carraige. But the EXTREME came and died with HTA.

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The " EXTREME" headcrank was and is a fad. It was the thing to have for a few years. They even had a invitational trial for only the offspring of Honky Tonk dogs. That Fad died off quickly and you will find that not many if any of the top pros today have any HTA in their string, if it is, it's prett...

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I got ya Hooka, I knew where you were coming from.

We release the first group at about 5 weeks because it's still cool outside. The 2nd batch at 4 weeks. Any younger and they'll fly straight through the netting. No issues with canabalism but not many older ones left by that point.

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Coturnix came in to use years ago because they are supposed to give off more scent than a Bob White even though much smaller. They fly like the Wright Brother's first plane for sure. I'm not ragging on you Hooka, your just posting a theory., But, these always get me.........How can anyone make a cl...

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Broke = steady to wing and shot. OK, the dog is naturaly steady to wing and shot. Is it broke? In My Opinion, No. The dog is steady because of what momma and daddy put in him. But, he doesn't know he's supposed to stay steady, if at any time dog feels incling to move, he will. Therefore it is a nat...

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this is how we roll

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Didn't he pass away on the 6th of Jan???? What's the link to that website.

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Congrats, know how stoked you must be. Get that MH on him this summer...................Then start all over with another. Viscious cycle we play, but gotta love it.

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Seems to be a typo in your link, Oscar

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Benny you go to Oregon State, not University of Oregon. Stop being such a hippie and get your dog a beef knuckle!!!!

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I made a phone call to some friends in that area, club presidents and such, they are getting on it.

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AA vs SD=3 hours vs 1 1/2 hours. They all playing to play the big game at the end, that's where the difference is apparent, up until that point to many variables. IMO

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DonF wrote:
ST8 UPPOINTERS wrote:I'll be running in kennewick!
I pronably don't know you, not Tom Medley by chance?

lol Don, Tom doesn't even know how to turn on a computer, let alone an e-mail or spend time on a forum. Heck, Tom doesn't even have a cell phone!!!!!!!

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In my opinion Fibber is an Elhew dog, no doubt. A son of Snakefoot out of Deep Creek Kate(Dunn's Fearless Bud x Elhew Molly) Bob was the breeder of the dog, that makes him 100%. Bob was Elhew, so if he stuck the prefix on the dog it is an Elhew dog. Same goes with Strike. And same goes for Bama, Ji...

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If you haven't noticed by now, you surely will see shortly, that many of these "opinions" you are hearing are based on plain ole ignorance. But to narrow down and answer your question, let's first determine what an "Elhew" dog is. It's no secret the amount of birddogs that Mr. Wehle produced, but he...

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Here is one for you Doug. My last Pointer is out of a double bred Fibber McGee and a double bred Lil Whippersnaer (Sir Lancelots Grandmother bred back to Sir Lancelot) I was going to name him MH McGees Sireaton. (a nod to Hoyle's influence in the breeding) They sent it back saying Sir is a pre fix a...

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I'll take a stad. If I'm having heart issues I go to Cardiologist not a Gerneral Practioner. I hunt upland birds, therefor I want a specialist, the big 4: Pointers, Setters, Shorthairs, Britts. Norrows it down pretty quick. Next stipulation, although I love working with my dogs all season long, trai...

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Don, Caleb..............

If you can tell where I'm at, then your better men then I am, LOL
I make an extra effort to not give away any landmarks for that exact reason.

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I forgot these guys were watching

Cage was on point, after I shot about another 100 came up out of the bottom to check things out.

It's a CZ Ringneck, nice little shooter.

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I enjoy hunting with my bird dog buddies and their dogs or taking friends out that have never hunted over a pointing dog or letting a brace of dogs work and enjoy the quality work. Then every now and again I just need to get out by myself, with the one bird finder and just hunt birds. Put 16 shells ...

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See we don;t always hunt steep sage brush covered rock piles out west. Every now and again we have to put them in the thick stuff and put the power steering back into them and install a governor.

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