You have taught your dogs to hunt in the manor you like and it works for you, especially if you have a one sided dog, which many are. I never, or rarely hunt back and forth on the same road. I tend to sweep up the road, letting the dog hunt 80-100 yards to each side, then move into the heavy cover and sweep that back to the truck.Winchey wrote:
When I hunt logging roads I like to send them out to one side of the road and to work the whole side, I don't want them on the edge of the road, don't need a dog for those birds and I don't want them crossing the road, I will send him on the other side on the way back instead of hitting the same ground twice.
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So when I say a dog is quartering the road, what they are doing is going to the right side, hunting that, then quartering to the left side and hunting that. This may go to the definition of quartering. To me, a dog is still quartering if he hunts to the right, hunts an area to the right, then hunts to the left and hunts an area to the left. He does not have to windshield wiper a line to be considered to be quartering.
A few years back Winchey, I had a setter like that. He would rarely hunt to the right, always favoring his left. With that dog I hunted roads the way you do.
I have found that if you observe them carefully, most dogs are stronger on one side than the other, same as people are right or left handed.