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Buy and follow the instruction in the Perfect Here video.

https://www.perfectionkennel.com/order-dvds.html

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Talk to Biologists with the DNRs in each state and get Maps of public areas ahead of time. Start now. That will give you information on where to go. OnX is a very useful software. Run good 10 ply tires on your truck to avoid flats and be prepared to get stuck and get out (tow rope, snow shovel, hand...

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No idea if they allow their dogs to be used as outside studs nor what conditions they might require around it, but SilverShot are the best Weims I have seen.

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I have never used a Dogtra. Word I hear from Perfection Kennel is it's low end is not as low as Garmin and it's high end is higher. They use them when they need that higher level but otherwise use Garmin 550s. I have a 550, Alpha and the 550+ and 6 collars. Have had good service from them for the mo...

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After 2 years of extensive and trouble free use of my 550+ and mini TT15 collars I had a major malfunction yesterday. I gave an ecollar correction to my 6 month old puppy using a low 2 (used many times since the ecollar was introduced to this puppy 2 months ago) and she reacted as though it was WAY ...

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FirehouseBirdDogs, Sharon posted some links that I hope are helpful to you. Here is my current 5 month old pup in some work this week. I am pleased with her progress so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWgOofEB57Y I'm just an amateur trainer working with a few dogs over a lot of years. All my do...

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My Chevy Pickup has a spare battery tray where I mounted a deep cycle marine battery wired into the alternator with a lead run to the back of the truck under my camper shell. My crates have ruff n tuff fans mounted on the front which run off of those leads. Those fans are a small car radiator fan an...

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The OP said he was confused so I'll repeat for his benefit. There are numerous hunting situations where I follow the dog vs the dog taking all its leads from me. It is the dog's job to find birds and with experience it knows a lot about where and how to do that. I use trained ecollar tone AND body l...

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Welcome! Sounds like you and your dog live a good Life!

Would love to see photos of your Boykin.

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Another young Odyssey bred dog. I watched this dog in a clinic two weeks ago for 4 days in a row.
The dog absorbed her training very well. Her owner has been in that line of dogs for some time and put 5 FC titles on them.

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This is another 6 month old Odyssey pup at a clinic earlier this Spring. He was so naturally steady to flush and wing they were going to go ahead and steady him up ahead of fall. First bird dog of the young man who owns and is training him. Dog has trained really easy for him so far. Another nice da...

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The Odyseey line was mentioned. I have been around several of those dogs quite a bit and have seen nothing but positive in them. Jon Hann won a National Championship with his Charlie dog and says it is the best wild bird dog he has ever hunted over. Runs big and consistently finds birds where there ...

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Lost me there. Anyone looking for training advice on the internet had best have an ability to sort through such things. I never have intentions of misleading anyone, nor do I ever doubt your ability to train a dog to high standard. If the OP finds value in my post great, and its fine if not the case...

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My use of body language to signal to the dog whether I want it come all the way in or instead work to the front in the direction I am walking is where I saw similarities. My use of the ecollar is for the tone not the stimulation as long as the dog does not blow me off when I am indicating it needs t...

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I use the direction I am walking and the tone on the ecollar to manage the direction my dog is hunting in. But I will also note I do not always choose to manage their search, as some hunting situations are best left to the dog and I then follow the dog to the birds. The birds and terrain being hunte...

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Worked some pups on pigeons in launchers this morning at Perfection Kennel, including my pup. Very enjoyable. Got to see this daughter of Shadow Oak Bo on her first pigeon in a launcher and thought you all would enjoy seeing it. The Lady off camera was kicking around simulating an attempt to flush t...

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Couple of days ago I was heading towards to the kennel to put my 5 month old pup up. I turned around to see where she was and saw she was heading towards me with something in her mouth. Turns out she had found a dead fledging bird. She could have eaten it or gone the other way with it. Instead she b...

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Oldbeek, a Friend sent me some of his shotcam videos from this past season hunting mearns and gambels quail in AZ. He is an outstanding shot and the videos were way cool. He took two crossing birds with one shot in one of them. I checked out the product since your post prompted me and did not see a ...

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I have hunted extensively with both the Alpha (hunt statistics) and the 550 Plus (no hunt statistics). Having data on how far my dog ran has never come into play in anything I do with my dogs. Most often I did not bother to look at the hunt statistics on the Alpha. My dogs are in shape and I can rea...

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I started a Lawn Mowing business when I was 11. One of the yards I mowed was for an elderly widow with a giant Weimaraner in the fenced in back yard. Her recently deceased Husband's last dog. She had a garage sale where she sold all kinds of Sporting Goods treasures judged through the eyes of an 11 ...

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Bill T, Sure would be interested in seeing your old training video if you had a way to upload it to Youtube or something similar.

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Alot of excellent information and instruction packed into one session today. https://www.facebook.com/PerfectionKennel/videos/255266282450647/?__tn__=kC-R&eid=ARAyMGiGvH0dq1dc2Cwp7wbVIKNJH9hc_AUXcwVawkiPT2yAUM7Jr2JeiljDKQTZVOqotJl5dq-YOb9C&hc_ref=ARQf2joiDZkih5mTa0199AuzRk1J9F_qfpK_CWmrJQH_3iObDiGjf...

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Thank You. How's your pup doing, Max2?

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Hey Brad, Thank You for the response.

If you like you can see my 5 month old pup pointing and retrieving a fresh shot pigeon in this morning training session over in my Got a new Pup thread.

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Question is what do you do when the pup goes the opposite way with the bird, or sits down and chews on it, or does not want to pick it up and carry it, or gets a little older and bolder and then does not want to return to you with it and prefers to play keep away. All of which are very common behavi...

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Idylwyld, Looks good.

I am reading "Training with Mo" now. I hear alot of folks recommend and use it and thought it was past due for me to get educated on his approach. Which as you say came from Gibbons/West.

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Developing Marking, Hunt Dead Persistence and Return to me behaviors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXk-LfcifsI

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I use the ecollar tone for silent recall. Introduced it a couple of days ago. Going well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h1xFX4KiBQ

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5 months old. She is going to be a handful this Fall. Will cut her loose on the prairie in a couple of months and hang on.

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I run my adult dog and pup together a couple of times a week but spend more time 1:1 because they are at opposite ends of the spectrum for development and training at the moment.

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No they use color coding because they never run two dogs on one transmitter. So one transmitter and one collar for each dog, and they want to make sure they have the right transmitter for the collar on the dog.

I use a 550 and a 550 plus daily and have no problems switching between dogs with them.

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You said you found no Grouse. A dog cannot point birds that are not there. Until you actually see your dog getting an opportunity to work and point a grouse it is hard to make any conclusions there is my thought. Woodcock are a different case in my experience. My last two GWPs pointed the first pige...

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Cute pup. Welcome to the Forum.

What are your plans for your pup?

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Photo of my view just now. Only right to share it.

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