Good - Passed first Senior test
Bad - won tritronics 50s in the raffle
Ugly - invisible bird on the blind - other than that, no issues
Now I gotta log off and go collar condition my dog in time for tomorrow. Expect to move up to Master after a productive session tonight!
The Good, Bad, and the ugly - official Flora report
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The Good, Bad, and the ugly - official Flora report
HRCH Bwanna Sharkey JH
Wouldn't a condo at the beach be nice!!!?
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Great job everybody. I wanted to make it but was stuck at home. For those of us that have been doing HRC, any big differences?
Wish I had had a chance to meet you guys in Flora, I was in the red Dodge truck. It would have been nice to put faces with names. Hope you had a successful weekend, mine was. Passed both Master dogs, my two senior dogs had a great weekend passing both days the other had head inserted and decided he would rather sniff daisy's. The one Junior dog had one goof but still managed to pass both days.
Bill, just to let you know another Wildfrose dog " Wildrose Sable Dawn" got her Senior Title on Saturday, linning both the water and land blinds. And despite her handler (me) goofing up on the land blind and some creative bank running on a water mark ( we will be working HARD on that this week) on her part passed again on Sunday. She will be running Masters in Nashville on the 20th. You need to cowboy up and come on over and train and go to Nashville. Give me a shout.
Marty
Bill, just to let you know another Wildfrose dog " Wildrose Sable Dawn" got her Senior Title on Saturday, linning both the water and land blinds. And despite her handler (me) goofing up on the land blind and some creative bank running on a water mark ( we will be working HARD on that this week) on her part passed again on Sunday. She will be running Masters in Nashville on the 20th. You need to cowboy up and come on over and train and go to Nashville. Give me a shout.
Marty
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Had a great time, It was good to meet a lot of you guys. Nash ran good pulled out another Master ribbon.
Meeka, good kob on the senior pass. Featherworks, it was good to met you.
Meeka, good kob on the senior pass. Featherworks, it was good to met you.
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Trey Edwards
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The yet to be named Chocolate Dawg
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The yet to be named Chocolate Dawg
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More ugly on Sunday.
Here is Phillip's description, which I will add to a little:
On sunday morning the test was pretty plain with a walk up double then a right hand blind with poor depth perception for the handler. On our walk up the honor dog broke and we had to get back behind the holding blind and start over. By this time Blaze is getting even more wired. On our second try she crept real bad but never broke. I had to re-heel her and we picked up the marks and basicly lined the blind but she went slightly right and past. One whistled to bird.
For anyone wondering what a senior test is like, well in the book it looks like Seasoned. At the line it doesn't. The land marks were 100 and 125 yards uphill in knee deep grass and one was into the sun. Had a shot flyer as a go bird not only into the sun but at the crest of the hill. The flyer works to erase the first mark, especially if a hunt has to be made for the flyer. It also tests control at the line, especially since you can't speak to the dog after the test begins. And this had the added spice (both days) of that you walked up to the line and the test began while you walked.
The good is that Sharkey absolutely STEPPED on the land marks, and very very few did. Virtually every dog had to hunt to varying degrees.
Phillip said : "The water was short and sweet (sour )The test was set up to make even the best dogs cheet. The entry on the blind was almost parrallel to the bank. This was one of the shortest but hardest water tests I'ever run. In the end we passed and got our ribbon and our Senior title. Oh heah, Meeka got me with the water."
I say that the water test that afternoon was setup and conducted with an AKC rep watching. So it was a real bugger. Even though I thought parts of it weren't fair (the dwg had to go into a virtual cave on the water blind and the go bird was tossed low and short aginst a schittie background and land in stuff so thick the dawg had to really fight and struggle, sometimes through a dead cedar tree in the water to get to the mark in ultra thick stuff), it was neat to have a test that had some VERY REAL challenges.
Very few dogs ran the test smoothly. I dog lined the blind. Featherworks did a nice job on the test. His dowg is very, very solid on lining for blinds in water and even he had to stop his dog on the bank and cast her into the water.
Well, The water memory mark was straight across the 1 acre pond we ran Junior on in the fall, so Sharkey was familiar with it. It was way up the hill almost to the base of the bunker. The winger was in plain view. The go bird was left and a 45 degree angle entry to the upper cove of the pond, only about 45 yards. The blind was not hot, but was also left at about a 10 degree angle, no kidding, about 35 yards.
My dog absolutely blew my mind. I knew from the morning test that he was getting "loose" cause he was flinching on the honor. I guess that is what happens on consecutive test days and Travis mentioned once about a dawg getting testwise. I have set up the test to say this. I was on the stool in the blind and my dog saw both marks and marked them and I sent him without getting off the stool. HE TOOK OFF IN A FLASH ALL THE WAY AROUND THE POND AND HUNTED BIG FOR THE MEMORY BIRD! I almost died. He has a tendency to cheat a little, but this was huge, out of this world, blatent, screw you and your wife attitude cheating. And I was pissed.
He finally found it and I was careful to line him on the "go" bird that was now a memory(I hoped). He took the line but was a little right and was looking back and forth at the area of the fall and the bank straight in front. I thought he waqs remembering and would turn but he didn't.
When he got close to the bank I knew I could handle him over just 10 yards easily but I din't want to cause I knew at this point I needed serious points. He probably got 20 points on the morning marks and needed only a few more, but he couldn't get a zero or 2-3 each and pass. If I didn't handle, he was on his own in thick cover and had to have a hard left. And he would be kinda downwind from the duck, but also downwind and very close to the bird blind. Well he got out and made a tight circle left right to the duck like he knew exactly where it was and one of the judges said "remarkable". On the blind he was slow and paused going in but he took the water angle entry and was keeping his fat line and I actually had to work towards the bank with the casts (I guess becasue of the bird he had just gotten right). And he did the blind ok.
So I figured he failed and I woulda failed him caus eit FELT like a failure to me. But the judges actually gave him points for the marking and deducted "perseverence" , for the bank running, so as bad as it looked and felt, it was not a fail. AKC seems to have stricter judging standards, and I think it kept the judges from failing me. If anyone here has any AKC judging knowledge, I'd like to hear about it.
Here is Phillip's description, which I will add to a little:
On sunday morning the test was pretty plain with a walk up double then a right hand blind with poor depth perception for the handler. On our walk up the honor dog broke and we had to get back behind the holding blind and start over. By this time Blaze is getting even more wired. On our second try she crept real bad but never broke. I had to re-heel her and we picked up the marks and basicly lined the blind but she went slightly right and past. One whistled to bird.
For anyone wondering what a senior test is like, well in the book it looks like Seasoned. At the line it doesn't. The land marks were 100 and 125 yards uphill in knee deep grass and one was into the sun. Had a shot flyer as a go bird not only into the sun but at the crest of the hill. The flyer works to erase the first mark, especially if a hunt has to be made for the flyer. It also tests control at the line, especially since you can't speak to the dog after the test begins. And this had the added spice (both days) of that you walked up to the line and the test began while you walked.
The good is that Sharkey absolutely STEPPED on the land marks, and very very few did. Virtually every dog had to hunt to varying degrees.
Phillip said : "The water was short and sweet (sour )The test was set up to make even the best dogs cheet. The entry on the blind was almost parrallel to the bank. This was one of the shortest but hardest water tests I'ever run. In the end we passed and got our ribbon and our Senior title. Oh heah, Meeka got me with the water."
I say that the water test that afternoon was setup and conducted with an AKC rep watching. So it was a real bugger. Even though I thought parts of it weren't fair (the dwg had to go into a virtual cave on the water blind and the go bird was tossed low and short aginst a schittie background and land in stuff so thick the dawg had to really fight and struggle, sometimes through a dead cedar tree in the water to get to the mark in ultra thick stuff), it was neat to have a test that had some VERY REAL challenges.
Very few dogs ran the test smoothly. I dog lined the blind. Featherworks did a nice job on the test. His dowg is very, very solid on lining for blinds in water and even he had to stop his dog on the bank and cast her into the water.
Well, The water memory mark was straight across the 1 acre pond we ran Junior on in the fall, so Sharkey was familiar with it. It was way up the hill almost to the base of the bunker. The winger was in plain view. The go bird was left and a 45 degree angle entry to the upper cove of the pond, only about 45 yards. The blind was not hot, but was also left at about a 10 degree angle, no kidding, about 35 yards.
My dog absolutely blew my mind. I knew from the morning test that he was getting "loose" cause he was flinching on the honor. I guess that is what happens on consecutive test days and Travis mentioned once about a dawg getting testwise. I have set up the test to say this. I was on the stool in the blind and my dog saw both marks and marked them and I sent him without getting off the stool. HE TOOK OFF IN A FLASH ALL THE WAY AROUND THE POND AND HUNTED BIG FOR THE MEMORY BIRD! I almost died. He has a tendency to cheat a little, but this was huge, out of this world, blatent, screw you and your wife attitude cheating. And I was pissed.
He finally found it and I was careful to line him on the "go" bird that was now a memory(I hoped). He took the line but was a little right and was looking back and forth at the area of the fall and the bank straight in front. I thought he waqs remembering and would turn but he didn't.
When he got close to the bank I knew I could handle him over just 10 yards easily but I din't want to cause I knew at this point I needed serious points. He probably got 20 points on the morning marks and needed only a few more, but he couldn't get a zero or 2-3 each and pass. If I didn't handle, he was on his own in thick cover and had to have a hard left. And he would be kinda downwind from the duck, but also downwind and very close to the bird blind. Well he got out and made a tight circle left right to the duck like he knew exactly where it was and one of the judges said "remarkable". On the blind he was slow and paused going in but he took the water angle entry and was keeping his fat line and I actually had to work towards the bank with the casts (I guess becasue of the bird he had just gotten right). And he did the blind ok.
So I figured he failed and I woulda failed him caus eit FELT like a failure to me. But the judges actually gave him points for the marking and deducted "perseverence" , for the bank running, so as bad as it looked and felt, it was not a fail. AKC seems to have stricter judging standards, and I think it kept the judges from failing me. If anyone here has any AKC judging knowledge, I'd like to hear about it.
HRCH Bwanna Sharkey JH
Wouldn't a condo at the beach be nice!!!?
Wouldn't a condo at the beach be nice!!!?
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My post took a while and I actually finished it after Marty. Marty, I saw you, but didn't know you. Congrats on that water blind that is quiet a statement to line that sucker.
On the other hand . . . . .
. . . The guy in front of me had a two year old british he got from Mike Stewart's son. He had a finished pass under his belt. His dowg bank ran all the way around and never recovered. I hate to give these freaks some fodder, but that made at least three BRB's (bank runnin brits)!!!!!!!!!!!
On the other hand . . . . .
. . . The guy in front of me had a two year old british he got from Mike Stewart's son. He had a finished pass under his belt. His dowg bank ran all the way around and never recovered. I hate to give these freaks some fodder, but that made at least three BRB's (bank runnin brits)!!!!!!!!!!!HRCH Bwanna Sharkey JH
Wouldn't a condo at the beach be nice!!!?
Wouldn't a condo at the beach be nice!!!?
Congrats
Congrats on passing , great feeling seeing the work pay off , if you want to get ride of the BAD let me know LOL
Keith
Keith
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Keith, its a running issue around here for me - to collar or not to collar. You see it in the threads now. It's like orange juice, I am not sure whether I'd like to continue to squeeze my own or just break down and buy fresh squeezed in a can. I think I'm gonna keep it for a while until I decide whether and how to use it. And its gonna take me a little while to think on it.
HRCH Bwanna Sharkey JH
Wouldn't a condo at the beach be nice!!!?
Wouldn't a condo at the beach be nice!!!?
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Marty, I don't think we're ready to run master. I'd like to train though. I'll be hitting it hard this summer with both Teal and "the beast".
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