This is a combo series. It is a double with two blinds (and two mats!) The handler has been given the instructions: The right long dead hen duck will be thrown first to the left at 290 yards. Then the short guns to the left at 150 yards shoot a rooster pheasant to the left, then they retire when the dog leaves for land blind. The handler then calls the dog off this exciting bird to run a land blind with a hen mallard at 250 yards. The land blind is off the back of the first bird thrown down at the water’s edge. Then it is the handler’s choice to pick up either of the marks that just fell. Then he moves to the mat at the far right to pick up the water blind, a water blind at 365 yards where the dog will find a drake mallard. And then he picks up the remaining bird.
The line faces southeast looking over the same area that we used in the Sixth Series.
On this, the second day, it is cold at 54 degrees, with a gentle breeze hitting the handler in the chest. There is a haze visible on the water as the sun rises …
On this, the second day, it is cold at 54 degrees, with a gentle breeze hitting the handler in the chest. There is a haze visible on the water as the sun rises …
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The rooster flyer guns, shooting to the left and retiring behind the tree.
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The long guns and the land blind planter in the white and the water blind planter in the top right of the photo
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Thank you to Jeff Schuett for these wonderful aerial sketches.
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