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Wonder lead is solving the pulling issue for my dog. Choke chains and prong collars, she would ignore them. She'd pull and be choking/gagging, but wouldn't stop. A few sessions on the wonder lead and she is much better. I only have to correct her now if she is really excited about something and forg...

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Just old Wrangler jeans or their Ryder, ripstop work jeans. Chaps if I am in heavy cactus. I am tempted to try the Deluth Fire hose pants some day. I carry a revolver with snake shot so I wear suspenders so my pants don't fall down. I tried the firehose pants, my only issue was they are really heav...

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My GWP would not be an outside dog, though that is probably mostly because of the way I raised her. She's a spoiled house dog. One day I had some guys in replacing flooring. It was summer so I blocked the dog door and left her in the fenced backyard. At work about mid day I get a call on my cell pho...

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Ms. Cage wrote:I like how Noah slowed down the video's so you see a nice slow rise of the bird vs. up and gone.

Did anyone else get a little motion sick watching that part?

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I've nothing good about Danners in the last few years, everyone I know how has tried them has complained about leaks after minimal use. I won't risk it now.

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Definitely a bird problem. Out here we do a lot of preserve hunts, occasionally we get a bird that needs a little encouragement to fly. But, for the most part the pen raised birds act about like early season wild bird. They hold reasonably well, but fly when pressured.

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Yep - have a couple of pen raised chukar in the freezer, already used them once for training while alive and they will get used again.

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Never could figure out why one needs special pants to go hunting. Everybody I know wears Jeans. I have been going more toward Carrhart Bibs as my belly gets a bit bigger. The legs need to be tailored a bit because the are huge. Comfort and light weight are most important. I don't like being locked ...

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I've got a smooth coated GWP. Took it in as a rescue dog and found it to be an excellent bird dog. The coat's great, I've only picked up one single cocklebur hunting pheasants. Same here, well - other than the rescue part. She only seems to pick up beggar lice which are easy in her coat, a steel co...

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Occasionally a dog will sit when stimulated on the neck. The use of a flank collar will usually eliminate the "sit" response. I've seen that. One of my hunting partners was maybe a little rough on his dog with the e-collar correcting the dog not backing a point. His GWP now sits to back. It's not l...

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It sounds like you would like something other than a lab, and that is perfectly okay. I did the same, believe me you don't see many Britts down here, but I wanted something a little different! Look at the Draht, german wirehair, boykin, springer, or a chesapeake. The chesapeke may not be the easies...

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"Girlfriends family friend" is kind of a red flag, as others have mentioned. It is very possible that friend is a "backyard breeder". Unless that family friend is a legit full blown breeder doing all the professional dog breeder stuff focusing on field bred hunting labs, including testing, it's a re...

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Wish I had a picture of it... Sunday we did our last hunt of the year. There was a pheasant hiding in a completely buried culvert in the middle of the property in the bottom of a deep abandoned short section of irrigation ditch. The dog was down in the ditch with her head all the way in the culvert ...

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Yup - it's purely a temporary measure to get the dog to someone who knows what they are doing. I've been lucky, the worst barbwire incident I've had was a long deep cut on the inside of the dogs ear flap that bled like crazy, but wasn't at all life threatening or require any treatment beyond pressur...

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There are several models on Amazon too. I have this, but haven't had to use it yet. http://www.amazon.com/Oasis-Disposable- ... B002OMA99O

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There is a lot to be said for getting a spring puppy over a winter puppy, if everything else is equal.

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DC40 is the last for the Aastro 220. As far as I know you can mix and match compatible collars.

http://support.garmin.com/support/searc ... ame=garmin

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Sounds like you started about the same way I did. I got my pup out hunting with a couple of trained bird dogs starting at a little over 4 months. She would run behind the adults, trying to keep up, and honor their points (I got lucky that she is a natural backer). We let her retrieve a bird now and ...

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On the preserve, we send the kids out each spring and we buy back the empties for a nickel.

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It's gas instead of inertia, but I recently purchased a Beretta A400 12ga XPlor with the kick off system and love it. I used it for about 1/2 the season. Couple other folks tried it and bought their own immediately after. Actually, I bought the 20ga version for smaller birds and liked it so much I b...

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If we have enough shooters, I'll happily trade out my shotgun for a hiking pole and just work the dog.

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I'd buy 7 months

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How does it compare to another breed, to say a <plucks wildly at the air> GSP just to start?

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Cute pup! Now I want a new puppy too but have to wait about 3 years.

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We had to go the wrong direction last year. To keep it under CRP we had to graze cattle on it for a season and beat the crap out of it. Improvements over all though, we are opening up more irrigation ditches, spreading cattail seed on the wet areas. and creating some nesting shelters. We'll see how ...

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I have been use a cordless Dremel tool for years with good results. I have one dog (an elderly lab) that I had to quit using the dremel on. As soon as the dremel starts, she begins trembling so badly it is impossible to do her nails. I was working on something in the garage with the dremel once wit...

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After a great start, mid season the dog "forgot" how to be a pointing dog. She was doing pretty much everything wrong... flushing, repositioning multiple times and ultimately bumping the bird, not steady to anything, playing keep-away with a bird, and etc. It would have been a bunch of big fat zeros...

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My Brittany will point rabbits but just doesn't care about them as much as birds. You can tell by looking at him on point. He is not as excited. My GWP ignores them. If she bumps one, she starts, looks at it for a sec, then gets back to looking for birds. I bet if I shot a rabbit for her I could tu...

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I'm just shy an inch, maybe less of being able to get two vari kennels in the back with the seat up. The ruff tough has a smaller outside dimension which should make it just right. I'll know by the end of February if my calculations work ok. The forester is a nice vehicle with great gas mileage for...

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Good on you for taking care of the dog, but that breeder owes you money. Taking emotion out of it, he knowingly sold you a defective product. Don't let him get away with charging you thousands of dollars to take a problem dog off his hands. Not to go all Internet Tough Guy, but if I were in that sit...

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I wouldn't even be able to get 1 in there and close the hatch unless I folded down the 2nd row.

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My very leggy 55lb GWP who I bet is as tall as your GSP, just with a lighter build, fits ok in an intermediate ruff tuff kennel. It's the upper end of okay, if she was any taller it wouldn't be. I rarely use it though since I mostly do road trips in my 2013 outback with a pet barrier behind the 2nd ...

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Nice looking dog. Love the expressions on his face. I have a chocolate lab that has a similar look to him, but Sarge is not so calm in a duck blind. He whines - which is annoying. Good thing I'm a 99% of the time upland hunter! How ironic that you have a lab that whines and I assume from your post ...

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Maddie had this on Saturday while hunting out of town. Started peeing blood after about 12 miles of hunting (about midway for her on an average day). Caught a urine sample and took her to the emergency vet. I thought it was going to be a UTI, but the analysis of the sample was clean other than the f...

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Not sure who is honoring who here

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Wow, I thought I was aggressive introducing my dog to gunfire moving up to a .22 at 3 months and a shotgun at 4 months. She was hunting at 5 months, more accurately following the adult dogs and honoring their points (didn't have to train that at all, which was great!). Next dog I take it slower, tho...

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kcbullets wrote:I use IC for everything upland.

Me too, but my 20ga A400 came with Cyl, M, and F chokes. I bought an IC aftermarket and have been using it. I need to pattern the gun since maybe Beretta knows something I don't know.

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steady to wing and shot. If you want your dog to break on the shot because you retrieve more birds that way then you aren't doing your job as the shooter. I would say its definitely safer and gentlemen like in the field. If you have to pass up a low flying bird because your dog isn't steady to wing...

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When my pup was that age I also worked on some basic obedience commands (here and down mostly) using treats for a short session or two each day. She loved it.

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Over 20 wild pheasants. Crapload of preserve birds, not even counting those.

5 huns and 3 sharptails.

1 barn pigeon that buzzed me right after I loaded the shotgun next to the car.

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gonehuntin' wrote:I don't think it an advantage on grouse or woodcock, but I feel it is a huge advantage on pheasant. I believe more birds are recovered the quicker the dog is on them.

I agree with this. The quicker the dog is on a wounded fast running bird the better.

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Well - we worked things out. Did some yard work and put her back on the whoa post for a few sessions. Ran her through a bunch of drills on the check cord on the one tethered chukar I was able to get and rewarded her with retrieves on a preserve pheasant that broke it's neck in the pen. This weekend ...

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My dog had those once after a hard day hunting on a new property with extra heavy cover a few months ago. Zits all over her belly and the insides of her thighs. The couple I popped had pure white puss. Went away after about 2 days and the bumps never bothered her. I figured she was rubbing on someth...

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I frequently stop by my Grandmother's house with my dog. Grandma loves to give the dog treats, last time she bought beggin strips and fed Maddie most of a bag while I wasn't looking. The car smelled like rotten dog farts for days. I was considering torching it for the insurance money!

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I can vouch for not teaching tug of war. My dog thinks tug of war and keep away are the most fun games in the world, especially with a bird in her mouth. We no longer play either game and are going to do the full force fetch routine once the season is over. We can fix it and at least she is not hard...

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Your dog is not experiencing the "terrible twos" because that is a human issue not a dog issue. Your dog is experiencing "lack of discipline" aka you're letting your dog get away with crap and not enforcing behavior year round, but rather expecting the dog to perform well in the field despite not h...

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2.5 yo GWP named Maddie. I think she finally hit the terrible twos. She reverted to trying to counter surf and seems to be under the impression she doesn't need me to get birds. Last 3 times out she was waiting way too long to point. The first two it was super windy so I gave her those thinking she ...

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What I plan to do, hopefully 10+ years from now, is to cremate my dog and spread her ashes at our favorite hunting spot.

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ezzy333 wrote:That is impressive. How much are they getting for it? That took some good engineering and can't be cheap.

Ezzy

Quite a bit

http://www.amazon.com/Feiyu-G3-Ultra-St ... u+g3+ultra

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