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Whoadog My trapping has been at parks and market parking lots where the birds are pretty much resident and you get the same birds. Roof trapping may be different and maybe you get more transient birds. I can usually go to a place I hadn't trapped at before and get a few birds in 10 minutes if they a...

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Awarding and collecting are two different things. If the landowner was off his rocker enough to threaten people with a gun and shot a dog, he is unlikely to do anything to comply with a court award without force. Im guessing he will go to jail for more threats and gun related tomfoolery. Hopefully n...

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Holy Cats ! What have I done ? :D this morning while sitting having my coffee reading GDF & not want to hyjack another posters thread which was something to do with the up coming field trial season. I asked could anyone enter a field trial on my own thread. Came home early because of weather checke...

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"Hunt 'Em Up" by Joe Arnett and George Hickox was a decent book on retrievers. Mike Gould wrote a book I read many years ago that had stuck with me.

But these days I'd look for something Mike Lardy wrote.

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not all older folks are right. A majority are but there is always one in the crowd that's still a know it all. 8) Why does everyone here always pick on Joe Biden? :wink: 'Cause Pelosi is passed being old and is now senile. Besides, Joe is funny just to look at. I think Joe is probably a nice guy to...

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If my dogs hear me curse, they go in their kennel or outside. I have worked in a "proper" corporate office for 15 years straight now. We dont have the freedom to curse in a mixed office. When I was in Flight Test, it was an office and mixed, but an occasional word or two a day was heard across the o...

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A particular trap isn't going to be your issue. Pigeons get wise after being trapped. You will likely be only able to trap at one location a few times before they won't go into the trap again. Any decent design will work fine. Make one

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So why pussyfoot around the issue? The moderators can issue warnings for vulgar language, personal attacks, clearly provoking, continued denigrating others or whatever the rules state. If it's repetitive, give them a short suspension, longer suspension, expulsion, in a progressively escalating manner.

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I'm pretty sure there isn't much difference in manufacturing cost between the rotary servo design and the solenoid design. Price out a solenoid at retail prices and price out a servo at retail prices. There really isn't any difference. A rotary servo has a ton of moving parts, motor, and a gearbox w...

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That first picture brought a chuckle. I have thousands of pictures from my horse days with the back of a horse head and the two pointy ears.

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Ray
your explanation confirms what I imagined the rationale was. My dog gives in and is relaxed when I pick her up. She is also comfortable being handled on point.

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Sorry. Too early to segway? To the question, I pick up my dog because that's how the dog was always handled by the trainer and how the trainer taught me. I didn't ask why since there were so many other things I was more curious about at the time. But I would guess he has a reason for doing it. He do...

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Does anyone else run multiple bird steady drills?

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ADW. For the threat to the owner.

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Gh123
No sweat. Your humor went sailing over my head.

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Not all of the same litter have the same potential. For example: my wife was #2 of 5 in her family. (Hey, I didn't say litter) She's double degreed with math and mechanical engineering and highly technical in aerospace management. #1 sis is a housewife with no technical aptitude at all and frankly,...

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sckwest1 wrote:Dogs and people ats 2 different species, so a not logical comparison,

I'll bet there are some lab rats that would be happy to hear that before they get today's injection of some fatal disease and then get dissected.

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Not all of the same litter have the same potential. For example: my wife was #2 of 5 in her family. (Hey, I didn't say litter) She's double degreed with math and mechanical engineering and highly technical in aerospace management. #1 sis is a housewife with no technical aptitude at all and frankly, ...

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For the record, I'm an owner of a dog sired by a national level CH and with three HOF CH in her lineage. But I dont trial and have only a passing interest in trials. But I see a huge benefit of trials to the hunter. Where I hunt I do want a hard charging dog capable of running big at my discretion. ...

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I'm pretty sure your observation is a generalization. But really, what difference does it make how a few or a number of breeders think? If a breeder has a litter you think has a pup in there that is the second coming of Snakefoot, but he thinks trials are over rated, do you care what he thinks? If h...

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It gets cold out here. Why just the other day it was well below 70. It was so cold the suntan lotion was hard to put on. I was even thinking about going without it. Im just glad its back to normal for late winter...75F and moderate to severe clear.

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CDN_Cocker wrote: ..., you'll never shoot a frozen one out of the sky, even if you live up my way

Well the Weather Channel sure made it sound like you'd need slugs to knock the frozen birds down...as cold as they said it was.

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Where I think I'm going with this is that I'll try to find some Tritronics Pro Controls and retrofit them to my DT launchers. I think that'll be the path that best satisfies me. Tri-tronics has quit making the Pro-Control with no plans to introduce a new model. Here is a new one on the scene that w...

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Farmers/ranchers deserve to find their way to make the best living for their family that they can, just like the rest of us. Being a farmer/rancher doesn't come with a halo and wings. They are just people. What would I pay? Scott, like you, I've been paying for hunt club birds, a few trespass fees a...

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I have to admit, I've never hunted bobs, ptarmigan, or snowcock. But I've hunted chukar. They pretty well can run a hunter to cry uncle. The few blues I hunted were on flat ground and while challenging, they weren't an exercise in masochism chukar hunting can be. Mearns have become a pleasure I've l...

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About the only way you can hunt valley quail is break up the covies and hunt single's. While cove's sometime will hold, usually they won't. I think the problem is the have a sentry bird and it goes, they all generally go! Valley quail will run out from an approaching dog or hunter from way out. I'v...

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A great explanation of an All Age dog.
http://strideaway.com/a-definition-of-t ... n-russell/

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Regarding who can or cannot handle an AA "pup", having lived Something akin to 'the novice with the AA pup' scenario, and survived, I'd agree it's not for the faint of heart. That first year in the field I'd go from terrified to angry to "all is lost" and back to terrified. That was just in the firs...

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Bill
thanks for those last two posts. Great explanations and that story.

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If you're looking for a well bred setter pup, one from Bo would be about as good as you could take a chance on. https://www.georgehickox.com/george_hickox_bird_dogs_for_sale_setters.html Think about what your suggesting here pony. Your recommending a lab guy to spend 4x the amount of money for a pu...

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I just stopped by Dogtra in Torrance. It's in a standard tilt-up industrial complex. They aren't set up for a lot of retail sales, but they do it in their lobby. Prices are MSRP as you would expect, so they don't undermine their distributors and retailers. The young lady helping me brought out a phe...

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I was a lab guy and elbow dysplasia lameness onset with the lab forced me to look into another dog. I'm in the southwest and heat is an issue. I narrowed it down to GSPs and Pointers. I went with a pointer purely on the word of Hickox. I had never seen one hunt. "bleep" scary to go from a 30 yard ra...

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I spoke to Tritronics customer service today. They said the Pro Control is discontinued. No replacement product is planned.

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Something is seriously going south in SD. A biologist told my farmer friend that West Nile has taken a large toll. This and the extreme loss of cover! Good point. My farmer friend pointed out that in the 20+ years I've been hunting his place, improved fertilizers/weed control have virtually elimina...

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Don
I've trained in 2 beeps on the low volume tone of my Alpha to turn my dog. No more worries about sound of a whistle getting there.

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I don't know about trial dogs, but I keep worrying my shy little pointer will shorten up too much as she gets more affectionate and used to snacking on exotic cheese, imported prosciutto, and being a house dog in the city. But she seems to dispel my worries. She's big and bold in the field. Last mon...

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Something is seriously going south in SD. A biologist told my farmer friend that West Nile has taken a large toll.

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My dog has the same perspective I have: how can you tell?

Regarding silhouettes, I think they work fine if the dog was taught using a live dog and the falsie is just used to reinforce.

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Jc I did stumble across someone's thread about using Motorola 2way radios to make a remote system. But I was trying to get a more robust system. It looked like it would work, just not what I was looking for. I gave some thought to buying a Futaba 3 or 4 channel airplane radio system and repackaging ...

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GrayDawg wrote:The Ithaca with the straight grip.......... that's my kind of shooter !! Very, very nice.
A 20ga. ?

Yes, a 1926 20ga NID grade 3 ejector. Its one of my favorites in the bigger bores that I shoot.

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I think the LCS stuff is either Innotek or Chinese. Possibly one and the same. The system from either Tritronics or Dogtra is likely to run around $700 for 3 launcher remotes, 3 solenoid, & 1 transmitter. I don't know if batteries and chargers are needed on top of that. Im going to look into some ot...

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Nate I had to send the receivers and transmitter back for repair. Got it all back and they work now. But it concerns me that they failed packed away in their original boxes and having been used lightly and well cared for. If they hiccup again I'm going to look for a change of the electronics. Tritro...

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I have three DT launchers. The basic metal mechanism is decent quality for the purpose. But the weakness seems to be the electronics. They were working fine last summer when I put them back in their original boxes and in a cabinet in my garage. I never got them wet and they've only been used a handf...

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I've been going to a friend's farm for over 20 years near Huron SD. Bird populations in the area have declined drastically over that time. Last October was about the worst I've seen it. Other areas may differ. But I'm not likely to drive 4000 miles round trip and spend a couple grand for what I've b...

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Ive been a member over there for ten years. It never ceases to amaze me the depth and breadth of collective knowledge over there. easy fix. It's a great forum.

Bud
did you ever get that Sneider shooting? I didn't see the internal pix, but if it just needed firing pins, it should be a quick and

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I run my dog's backing drills with a remote control pop-up silhouette since she had already been trained to back/honor on a live dog usually with multiple launchers. The method I described with a tethered bird was when I was out of town and my friend didn't have a launcher. It can be done without a ...

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A friend and I were recently teaching his dog to honor the same way Sharon described except we were on flat ground and usedthe cover to block the line of sight of the dog being trained until it passes the cover. We also used a tethered pigeon and fired a gun when it reached the end of the string. Ge...

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My friends over at the doublegunshop forum had a thread on Snieder guns a few years back. These guns date to the late 1870s.

Here's the link
http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubb ... 162&page=1

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Possibly a sideplated boxlock or a hybrid like the LeFever? That engraving seems turn of the century to me.

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I had my female lab come into heat right after getting her (1 yr old) and no kennel. She was being kept in the backyard which has 4 foot high walls when we went to work. I needed to keep her secure from neighborhood dogs hopping the fence. My solution was to put her in the garage with a box I built ...

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