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JONOV... Thanks for the input. I still believe $100 deposit is enough skin, anymore is just an advantage to the questionable seller. A deposit increase because of price of pup?... full price is paid on delivery, where is there more loss to the seller verse what the buyer loses, if seller doesn't li...

I think many people do not understand the real purpose of insurance. Insurance is strictly to help pay for something you can afford, in other words a catastrophic type accident and is not there to pay your regular smaller incidents. Of course we use it if we have it but it should not be the basis of...

Urban_Redneck wrote:Look into feeding raw, it's much easier on a dog's digestive system.

I think this is something you can not prove or find any real research that even suggests it.

Ezzy

material? Steel? Bismuth? e-Shot? Tungsten-iron? Hevi-shot? Tungsten-matrix? Other? I want as little recoil as possible. I don't want the non-tox shot material to add to recoil over lead which steel shot has been purported to do because of the much higher velocities needed for adequate penetration ...

I always weaned around 5 weeks and then started giving the pups individual time, car rides, and nail trims before they went home with someone. Hopefully it helped the new owners for those first few days if I had them started in those areas.

I will make an uneducated guess that there are not many more than a few million going home many days during the season to be dressed that night or maybe even the next morning.

Jon, I seriously doubt if a single one of those hunter dress in a manner to just pleases you. I also doubt if people without beards are any cleaner cut than you or I. Oops, forgot I am east of the Rockies and have a beard. Now for the important part. This topic has absolutely nothing to do with hunt...

What you need for a crate depends entirely on how you want to use it.

A public forum is not the place to for anyone to criticize someone else when no one reading it has a clue what really happened. Legally you are allowed the privilege to meet your accuser eye to eye. On a forum that is impossible, so we do not allow it, period.

Early in the season I skin and gut birds in the field and put them in a cooler with ice. The guts go to the dogs. Later in the season I just gut in the field, and reward the dogs. I usually keep all the meat from my birds up to the first joint in the wing along with drumsticks on birds bigger than ...

I've got my own theory on these thing's. Years ago when I started trialing pointing dogs, I watched a call back where the dog jumped out of cover to mark a fall, stopped on it's own. They picked the dog up! The rules say a dog may jump out of cover to mark but never forward. I questioned an old tim...

Is your first priority a different hunting dog or do you want to compete in coverdog trials? By that I mean, there is no reason the other breeds you mentioned couldn't compete, just that they don't have the volume or track record in those venues. As a hunting dog, I doubt you'll find that one is fa...

I use a Leica Rangefinder routinely associated with my archery practice and hunting. I think without using a range finder many 150-200 yard retrieves will be retold years later as 300, 300 as 500 ... Military training has well documented our inability to accurately judge distances with the naked ey...

According to my dictionary, RED SETTER and IRISH SETTER are one in the same. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/red-setter?s=t Well that would be wrong. People don't tend to be overly helpful to folks that balk at them when they try to help. Just some advice. When they tried to rejuvenate the Irish t...

Typical shotgun range in the field is a maximum of 55 yards, for goodness sakes! I would want my dog to just expeditiously deliver my bird to my hand undamaged. They can sail quite a long ways. Especially bigger birds like pheasants, geese, ducks...I've also seen ducks shot, turn around apparently ...

Birddogger2- I was thinking of getting another coverdog need aetter like you think, I just want to look st all options and look into things like Brittany’s and gsps even being able to run in them or not and what other people think and what they use and how the other breeds typically hunt and act an...

Dakotazeb wrote:It's the way of the world these days. So be it! Not necessarily a negative unless you don't like Purina.

Both are good companies that make a good product.

Yep... you go back far enough and we also bought and sold people, placing no value on their individual lives or rights. We chained mentally handicapped children in basements because they were an embarrassment. We poisoned indigenous people so we could take what we wanted from them. We killed off sp...

Sharon wrote:I say "Hurry up!" which I'm sure makes the neighbors wonder at midnight.

We use "do your numbers" and she does it.

Personally, I rarely use constant. A dog has to be able to beat the correction and they seem to learn faster and stay happier using the nick. So, it's HERE, NICK, HERE. If he comes praise him, if not Nick again. This allows the DOG to make the choice and shut the collar off. Much more effective. I ...

The term "sporting dog" seems to encompass any breed used, without regard to specific field functions, to assist hunters in the taking of critters with FEATHERS, period. If I had spoken to my old unreconstructed Southern uncle in terms of my Labs as being 'sporting dogs' would he still have underst...

Plus GDS owns this forum for you to use free.

The only thing that I have seen work on some is make sure they at having a firm bowel movement.\\

Ezzy

Newer health science, as I understand it, tells us to focus less on caloric content and more on Carbohydrates! Most overweight people and I suppose dogs eat extremely high carb loaded meals...(i.e. all grains, all fruits, all sugars, all root crops, etc. etc.)...another reason to go grain free! In ...

Average Guy, not trying to make fun of you but I really have never heard of a method of trash breaking that even mentioned testing how little stimulation should be used. For breaking, the more the better, for dog training, the less you use the better.

Ezzy

This is the very first time I have heard experienced handlers recommend trial and error for trash breaking. I am at a loss for words as to why!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For trash breaking you use the highest setting while not saying a word. You want the dog hurting and thinking the deer did it and you had nothing to do with it.

Ezzy

I wouldn’t put too much faith in the dog food advisor’s rating. It’s fairly easy to put up a website and give yourself a title for a name. Amen Ezzy I agree.... hence the existence of "citizen's united".... but concerning dog food, dogfoodadvisor is amazing. If you take the time to read their revie...

Let me tell you about my latest invention... the Under and Over shotgun :lol: Naming something doesn't make it yours. Let results be your brand. From what I've seen, Brad practices essentially what I know as the Gibbons-West method. Bill West was always forthcoming, he learned the method from someo...

Brad has a method that works for him and may have things incorporated he learned from others. So has every other method I have heard of or seen. What is the big deal and why try and be insulting? My uncle was using a check cord and planted birds in the late thirties but I bet he didn't invent it. I...

Hello JTG, Yup, they break em and I fix em. :) Keep in touch. When you have that couple of days available, let me know. We'll get your dog handling, steady on his birds, and include a nice natural retrieve. We'll get you tuned up as a handler too. All the best, Higgins http://www.HigginsGundogs.com...

I have never seen homers as small as commies. It is true, some lines are smaller such as the Gordons, that have been bred for years as long distance flyers. Smaller birds handle long distance better that bigger birds that do well at shorter distances. I do think that how you feed Don, may have a lot...

Don, my last two Britts have left in the past couple of years and I miss them a whole lot. I want another but I just can't do that knowing my wife or someone will have to take care of it. But time in the field behind a good dog is probably the greatest sorrow I have as it is impossible for me to get...

My first Brits had French dogs in their pedigree. They were a little smaller, heavier coated, many more roans, less style, and softer temperament. At some stage they became Brittanys as they continued to be bred to the type of dog that worked best here in the states compared to how they were used in...

The best food you can buy is one that is readily available, your dog does well on it, and it is affordable. I have always found that any dog that is a picky eater isn't hungry. Cut them back a little or skip a feed or two and the pickiness disappears. More often than not it is the owner who wants th...

Similarly, since shooting from horseback is out of the question for me, I wouldn't want a dog that I needed a horse to keep up with. For me, the questions are ...are we maybe breeding for something that is a bit impractical for the great majority of hunters ? Do we want to be so impractical just for...

You can't undo what was done to the gsp's. People's need to win made them do things and hide it. And there were some really good white pointers that helped them to achieve some of what they wanted. So what was done is a done deal. I think it added style and speed. And gave people the ability to add...

Featherfinder wrote:Actually, it won't matter where you get your Brittany. It won't be a pointer.

'I would certainly hope not. There is a reason that the different breeds are different and hopefully we keep them that way.

Ezzy

I would cut the food back till he started cleaning it up within a few minutes and see if that doesn't help. There are a thousand good foods out there and I am sure you have fed some of them. The one thing I wouldn't buy or feed is a wet canned food. Stick to the dry kibble

Ezzy

RyanDoolittle wrote:i hope your looking outside canada for a brittany. They wont compare to your pointer.

Where did this come from??? I had no idea that anyone had judge he quality of all the dogs on either side of the border>

Ezzy

Well, worse case scenario is that he continues to pounce and retrieve all the birds I hunt, and that should drastically increase my bring home percentage and save me a ton of $ on shotgun shells. All kidding aside, I have no doubts you all mean the best in your replies, and they are appreciated, bu...

Not quite sure why they are promoting a high protein feed as a feed for weight gain when you get many more calories from a high fat feed. Protein is used to grow and repair muscle and it shouldn't have much effect on kidney health for a dog.

Ezzy

Of course. But we will always have people who think that genetics have little to do with performance or expected performance. Years of breeding have proven them wrong but you can not make anyone believe what they don't want to.

Ezzy

My vet mentioned the same thing during my 10 week puppy check up. Just wondering what you guys think about this. If it's more beneficial from a scientific standpoint, id rather wait on my dog to fully mature than neuter him at 6 months or when he lifts his leg to pee. My vet advice when pups and ki...

Omega 3 and 6 are oils and not vitamins.

Ezzy

Grain free has turned into a fad that has little if any evidence it is better. Experience tells us grain is an advantage for hard working dogs as you will find if you see what most trial dogs as well as sled dogs are fed. We want to see a meat based feed with a good amount of grain to back it up. Al...

Try a drop pf Super Glue on the nail

I didn't realize that either rof you gentlemen were my age. Just turned 85 last month.

Ezzy

The sadness is a result of the great memories. You have a lot of them.

I had been using Dr. Tim’s product for at least for five years, German shorthair pointer . My dogs are just health dogs that I wrote on my bicycle stuff like that I like the momentum and really feed less of it I alternate between momentum and the pursuit I’ve been meeting to pursue the last six mon...

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