This test uses all rooster pheasants. When the dog stands on the mat, he looks to his right at 200 yards. The first bird is a rooster pheasant thrown right. The gunners stand on top of a ridge and the throw lands in an indentation on the right side of this ridge. The second bird is a rooster flyer. The gunners are 90 yards in front of the line shooting to the right, then retiring. The flyer is allowed to ride out to the right across a draw landing on the opposite hill. The handler has been instructed to watch the birds go down, then the dog turns to the right and runs the blind first while the flyer gunners stand out and the second bird retires. The line to the blind goes gently down the right hand side of the hill through the gap in a stand of trees along a washline and out to the bird. When the dog returns with the blind, the gunners then retire.
At 6:34 am, our only Test dog, FC-AFC Mitimat You Go Girl with handler Tim Thompson came to the line. She had a smooth blind, she stepped on the right bird and picked up the flyer last.
The handlers were commenting that the wind was much the same as yesterday, but since there was no rain, the visibility had improved. When it gets a little brighter, we will take a video of the test.
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Left-hand Flyer Station
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Right-Hand dead bird and Blind through the trees
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