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Posts posted by stroller
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Last winter was very mild allowing fleas to keep breeding and myxi last summer was rife. My dogs picked up diseased rabbits every day.
Its been a bit colder this year maybe it will be a bumper year for young rabbits. We have been getting reasonable numbers but I haven't been out a lot
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Big Bobs champion John, he has had his nose pushed out as I haven't had him on the pheasants as much as the young dog there are too many fences and I don't want him jumping and damaging his legs he is 10 now so its easy days only for the big lad
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pjmc he is 3 in March but still a big puppy really they take forever to grow up
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Casso method is spot on and one I use but for immediate results put a figure of 8 in the noose end of a slip lead which fits over his head and nose it works every time, a lot of gsp owners use this method as they are twats for pulling
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Cheers John, yes he has come on. Im going to give the trialling a go with him this year
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Just a few photos of some grouse pointing training last Sunday it was bloody cold!
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I use a long rein on rushy ground that holds rabbits but he is a pointer so its easy to get up on him and he flushes on command, a bit different on a springer but maybe 2 reins together might work?
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Rob they are called the Pennine pointer in this area as a lot of grouse moor keepers have them. From what ive seen they do the job but if they are better than either of their pure bred parents im not sure
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Nope thats a load of bollocks, Im sure there are gwps with hard mouths just as there are spaniels and labs with hard mouths. But I know lots of them and hard mouths aren't a problem
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It all depends on the ground your shooting I suppose if there is a lot of game about they will naturally work closer but if not they will do what they are bred for. like ive said I have never seen one work so im not sure if you can rein them in
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I have never seen one work but I have spoken to a lady who works them and she says they make better falconry dogs as they range literally for miles. Im not sure how a dog like that would fit into a syndicate pheasant shoot or in the beaters line of a grouse moor?
I do like the look of them and if someone would give me one I will definitely give them a go
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I feed raw with no issues other than well muscled dogs with great tartar free teeth
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yes Nick snipe are a regular part of our shooting season from August 12th until January 31st
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We hunt snipe not exclusively on its own but as part of what we call "Rough shooting" Where the bag is a mix of pheasant, rabbit, woodcock, pigeon and if your a good enough shot snipe.
My own pointer is three next march and he has just started to recognise woodcock as a bird to shoot but as yet I haven't had a point on snipe. Possibly because my shooting is so bad I haven't hit one in several years.
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You are right they are as soft as shite and they seem to take forever to grow up at two and a half when he isn't working he is a pratt. Very vocal dogs but when he is in a hide or on a peg he is silent unlike my old gsp who was a whiner.
Extremely easily trained he just lives to work and as my 24 year old son says "Dad that dog is a machine". As for range he works on the moor as far as the scent takes him last Sunday we were training on a grouse moor and he was easily a 100+ meters either side of me.
My dog works at an easy canter down to a fast trot I have seen a lot faster dogs who cover a lot of ground and bump birds and ive seen spinones who plod about but miss nothing. So a good steady pace wins the day for me.
At his age he isn't the finished article yet but we have been invited to grouse count on a couple of moors by people who know this breed and rate his work. My top accolade this season was from a very knowledgeable Labrador man who picks up on the moors and he said "That's a good dog ive been watching him all season" Which from a Labrador man means a lot.
He isn't an Angel by any means he can take the piss on the stop whistle and did show me up by rioting on a shoot over day (Training day ) but he was fresh off the moor and there were an awful lot of pheasant's. At the moment we are working on the stop whistle and directional blind retrieves with a mix of success but we will keep plodding on.
Rory Major an hpr trainer from Lincoln way says he rates the Brittany spaniels as the best hpr but they look like hard work to me.
I hope this helps its just one mans opinion of one dog
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Yes David I have one a two and a half year old dog. That I use on the moor and rough shooting as well as the normal beat one shoot one pheasant syndicate. What do you want to know?
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Good advice I will give it a go over the Christmas break cheers lads
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Im not a dedicated pigeon shooter but I have permission on a farm that is mainly arable it has mainly wheat on it at the moment we have decoyed it in the past and really enjoyed the dozen or so birds we managed to tempt in over the couple of hours we sat there.
Is it worth getting the decoys out again there is a fair amount of birds about but they don't seem to go onto the wheat. will they come down onto wheat with a few decoys out if I put them on a field they come over using it as a flight path?
I will say ive shot at (Notice the "Shot at") pheasant, duck, grouse, black game and partridge and I prefer the sporting pigeon in a good wind to any other bird.
My first love is shooting rabbits over my vizsla
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dont take him anywhere with game until he has recall and stop whistle he is about a year to young to hunt
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every walk is an opportunity to train just start the basics again when your out walking and don't let him hunt unless its for a dummy. Too much hunting too soon will ruin a pointer
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too much too soon. She is a puppy let her grow up
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I know they are the favourite hpr breed of a trainer named Rory Major ne reckons they miss nothing and I asked a lad who trains vizslas etc how he was getting on with his pup and he said its the easiest dog he has ever trained
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or get into the cover yourself and encourage her in
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can you get an experienced dog to show her the way?
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Help With Cocker Spaniel
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put her on a lead and let her see other dogs work. just make sure you have her recall and stop whistle sorted before she starts hunting