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The rules say that for the NASDC and NOSDC there are three ways to qualify. 1. Any previous winner or runner-up in an NGSPA National, Regional, or Specie (hour championships) is qualified for life, OR, 2.The winner of the Futurity is qualified for the following year only, OR, 3. the dog must partici...

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Aw shoot, Doc Favor and Richie and me are friends. I only get to see em once a year or so cause they are out in ID. But we are just pickin on each other. Ok, we will cut it out.

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Hey, I am not a fan of specie championships on planty birds. For that matter I am not a fan of trials held on planty birds period. But although I have shot alot of feral pheasants in the field, and will shoot some more this year I hope, they are still feral, kinda like feral pigs are feral. Don't be...

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Actually, the pheasant is not native anywhere. Not even in China. The "Ringneck Pheasant" is a hybrid game farm bird turned loose, a feral bird not a native. It exists wherever it has been turned loose. Huns ain't native to the US either - its that pesky "Hun" part. Feral again. For that matter, the...

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PS, if the dog is a Derby I can guarantee that the Derby stake will not be dual sanctioned, if that makes a difference to you. Even if they decide on a dual sanctioned trial, It will be up to the club to determine whether the Derby will be AKC or NGPSA, but the Derby can be only one of the two. The ...

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It is an NGSPA hour championship. The Wye Island grounds are very pretty in the fall. Wye is, well, an island in the east side of the Chesapeake Bay. Lots of geese that time of year. The course is around the outside edge of the island. The dogs really can't get away because the bay is there. One of ...

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What is your understanding as to how entries will be handled? Will it be the AF culture where names are put into a container and then drawn or the AKC culture where all entries must be submitted before a "closing date"? As I understand it, drawings will be held just the way Dan said. Although it is...

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Oh man, another guy falls for the marketing. Those scents are absolutely worthless, always have been, always will be. The way to train a dog is with BIRDS, not with gimmicks. Go find a local NAVHDA club, or a local trainer, or a hunt club, or best of all get the dog out on wild, young of the year bi...

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Hi Dave. I am sorry if my prior post sounded like a "Dave is wrong" post. That was not what I meant to do. I am sure you heard what you heard and know what you know because I heard the same things. However, times change. You know more than most that if one compares the NGSPA written rules with the A...

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That has been long in accomplishing, congratulations to the folks that are working on it. Great post John Just to be clear, while I really appreciate Jerry's comment, the work to make these stakes a reality is being done by the whole NGSPA Board, AKC event staff, and I think it is fair to say the K...

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Every breed has its own culture and there are differences between them. I don't want to be interpreted as saying that what the Brittanys do is wrong. On the contrary, the Brittany breed has a system that works really well. On top of that, I don't know enough about the Brittany hour stakes to pontifi...

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Doesn't surprise me and not unexpected that the publication of the dual sanctioned events is still evolving. This was just approved at the Board Meeting in June, so would expect the organizations with fall championships to give it a try. How's that? A dual sanctioned GSP wild bird trial. Everything ...

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Most of the discussion in this thread about the new Dual Sanctioned Trial is not correct. I am not the NGSPA Board spokesman, that would be Tom Davis, our new president, but some basic incorrect assumptions need to be changed here. First, the NGSPA Chukar Championship, and and the Region 8 and Hunga...

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I have tried the springer. It really depends on how fast the dog is taking you. I see people working their dogs all the time from a bike, with the dog in a flat run, meaning two or three feet on the ground at all times. That is not much of a workout to me. If the dog is in what we horse people call ...

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Only 8 more points to that FC or AFC. You are in trouble now!

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I would agree with the first part of that advice, but would want to ask around about how the placements have gone in the past with that club when it comes to the second. Some clubs can get very "clubby" and you do need to run the right coat in order to have much of a chance at a placment. Other club...

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We are pretty far off the topic of washout. But for me there was a very good measure of range in the grouse woods until recently, and that was bell range. If you could hear the bell, or at least had contact with the bell in the last few minutes, the range was fine, yardage was unimportant. What was ...

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Oh, heck, Spot is what he is and I am not very sensitive. As I have said before, I like em all. I have endured the run offs and tried to encourage the few close in dogs that just did not seem very interested. I will say that now when I see a young dog take off chasing birds over the horizon, I just ...

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Its a funny thing about grouse dogs and grouse hunting. Grouse hunting isn't that hard. Oh, the cover is thick and the shooting is challenging, but the birds are not that hard to find. We did an awful lot of grouse hunting as kids without any dog at all, you just needed to know what to look for in t...

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The was exceptionally cool! Thanks for posting it.

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There is an example of an ecollar going back at least to the 60's on display at the Bird Dog Museum, although I would agree that they were not common until the late 70's when the Tri Tronics original A1-70 was available (with that terrible telescoping antenna that kept breaking off). Check cords, th...

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Well, I think you are coming to the wrong conclusion (about breeding to your buddy's hunting stock) because you are not remembering what things were like then (when Prince James was whelped). In the early 60's, there was pretty much nothing but hunting dog stock to breed to. You could come to the sa...

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I don't think it says anything about the dogs of today. It is alot easier to see how great a dog was once the job of being great is done. Everybody can see how good a Rusty or a Clown or a Slick or a Pork Roll or a Guard Rail was once someone has done all the training and running of them and their p...

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I agree with the posts above about chasing a ghost. Rusty gets credit for producing alot of great pups, but if you really look at it, the credit should go to Mona. She produced Leipchen Buddendorf and Rusty out of two different sires. The problem is that it was a long time ago, and you are definitel...

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I want to respectfully disagree with Greg's comments about not ever breeding a carrier. First, I want to make it absolutely clear that I am not making these statements because my dogs have the gene, they don't, or because "alot of field trial dogs have the gene" which is also untrue. I have field tr...

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That's a very convenient half-truth. Your statement is flatly untrue and highly offensive. This is the kind of information that NEEDS to be discussed and talked about You are right. However, when it comes to identifying specific dogs or lines of dogs that are affected, I would prefer to have the pu...

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The "LD tag" has not been applied by Dr. Casal or her researchers to any "line" of dogs or to any specific progenitor. Given the occasional "looseness" of registration paperwork before the existence of DNA, I frankly doubt that anyone can trace the LD gene back to specific dogs that existed several ...

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Scooters have brakes, at least mine has brakes and all the one's I have seen have brakes. One major advantage of a scooter is if the dog decides to do something flaky, like stop to poop suddenly, or chase a rabbit off the trail, the driver just hits the brakes and hops off. It is only a couple of in...

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Works great, doesn't it? And the dogs seem to really love it. I put a cyclometer on mine and we hit about 23 mph with both dogs in the harness. Haven't done it in awhile though.

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....and some were still works in progress.

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I rode several braces of the Amateur and enjoyed every one of them. Was really excited about the quality of the dogs. Well trained, all of them.

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Other way around. FDSB/AF has always just been "pointers." AKC called them English pointers, but now they seem to like the traditional AF name for the breed.

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Hi Bill. Sorry to hear about your health, get better there's dogs to run. The prairie and the prairie grouse in Minnesota are themselves an interesting story. There is a band of forest running from northwest to southeast Minnesota called the "Big Woods." It is basswood, maple, oak, and is the buffer...

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In my view, this is just the wrong question to ask when picking a dog for hunting or trialing. It is not about run. It is about nose and birdiness. Have hunted over lots of close working dogs of many breeds. My personal observation is that most of those close working dogs just don't have a nose and ...

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Neil's information is, of course, accurate, except I am not sure whether the 1920's is accurate for the start of field trials in Canada. The original question was "when did All Age stakes start," and the answer to that is "when field trials started," because as mentioned, at the start there were two...

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All Age trials came about since the beginning of organized trialling in this country. There were Derby stakes for dogs through their second year and there were All Age stakes for dogs of any age. The more relevant question is when did Shooting Dog stakes enter the equation. True. And the beginning ...

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The only thing I would add is that you should try come up with a plan to avoid that first confrontation with a porky. You would think that once they have encountered one and gotten quilled, dogs would stay away. But my own experience is the opposite, once they have had a fracas with a porky, they ha...

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You don't need inserts to simply put a primer in a .32 . You need a decapper to remove the old primer, and a repriming tool to put the new primer in. Going from memory, but I am pretty sure the are just Small Pistol primers (that is a primer size). I agree though that a .22 is the best way to go. Al...

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After a lifetime of dogs, I have had to put down my share - old age, car accident, injury, cancer - it is always a tough decision. You do think you get used to it, and then one comes along that just touches you. And you find yourself crying like a baby, like the first time. So I have been there Doc,...

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I agree with Greg completely. I like to fly fish. Lots of flyfisherman look with disdain on bait fishermen, "worm dunkers" who would dip a nightcrawler in a trout stream. When I was a kid, dunking worms was all I knew how to do. It worked pretty good too. These days I prefer not to dunk worms, I pre...

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Training a dog to the level of performance required in any of the formal venues, whether NAVHDA, FT, or any other, requires a great deal of work and requires that the dog be kept constantly in training. There are lots of people who have the time, enjoy it, and do it themselves. It certainly requires...

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The question was about buying and trialing a $1000 pup out of AA parents and turning it into an NC. In field trialing, just like baseball or any other sports, there are alot of levels. Our OP was asking about the cost at the very top level. Here in Minn., and in most places, we have lots of people w...

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You be very careful with that bark collar. It is possible for the prongs to cause hot spots on the neck such as you are seeing, and for those hot spots to get bad enough that the prongs will penetrate the dog's neck. If you read the instructions they say that the collar has to be checked at least da...

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はGoogleがユーティリティを翻訳していることを知らなかった。不思議ではイタリア語で作成することができた。私はまだ私の古いドイツのポケット高schoolから辞書ドイツ語のクラス、私は覚えていないことの単語を見てtoが、貴社がまだどのようにまとめて、外国語の文の構造を配置することは理にかなっ知らなければならない。それは簡単に他の誰かがよりもダウン外国語で自分の考えを置くに書いているかの要点を理解することです。過去40年残念ながら、以上の私はドイツ語の単語よりも私が覚えて忘れてしまった。高校妻20年後、私はドイツを訪問した。私は理解して理解することが、あなたはそれを失うことを使用しない場合こ...

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Geez you guys, I just read where the traffic on Google's translate utility has gone through the roof just based on you two guys' hits during this thread alone.

I think we can do it in Japanese if you want.

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Non è possibile prevedere. Ho visto cuccialate da uno a ventiuno.

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I am puzzled by the question. Every trialer I know started field trialing by trialing their hunting dog. All the trialers I know are hunters. All my dogs are hunting dogs. Even the NC. Especially the NC, his broke dog manners are spectacular and that has brought birds to the bag. There is no differe...

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I bought a Lowrance Map Pro probably close to 15 years ago. Its memory is limited by today's standards, but you know what, I can input a map on that thing that has detail that I have not been able to match on any other units (especially Garmin, their maps are not great). But the point is, GPS stuff ...

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Thanks for the pirep (pilot report), and now, back to our regularly scheduled argument... er....animated and cordial discussion.

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Hey, not to change the subject or anything, but how do you like that thing? I have been thinking about getting the 3G one to store and review approach plates, which are the maps we use to do an instrument approach for landing (aircraft). It needs to be bright and readable even in the daylight, and g...

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