Thursday, September 13, 2007 |
Test 6 - Water Triple
We woke to a clear cold morning it was 3C. The caravan left headquarters at 7am to proceed to the test site.
The pond for the 6 the test was a large oval beaver pond riddled with tulles and grass islands, lily pads and floating muskeg islands. It was ringed by forest and a high ridge at the SE end. The winds started out light from the NE and as the day progress by late morning had switched to the SE about 20 – km/hr with gusts of 40km per hour. Our clear day turned into a mixture of sun & cloud. There was good visibility all day for the marks,
The test – Water Triple with one retired center gun. Bird # 1 – Center retired at 139 yd’s. A drake mallard was thrown to the left (a huge throw) from a beaver dam across a stripe of land into a little bay. You were unable to see the dog pick up the bird. Bird # 2 - This bird was to the LT. at 164 yd’s, across a channel to a stripe land/ muskeg. A drake mallard was thrown to the left and the sat down in their boat. This gun was retired originally for the test dogs. As a stand out gun it became quite a draw resulting in switches and handles. Bird # 3 – This was a short stand out Go bird at 34 yd’s and thrown from a boat to the left and landed amongst a cluster of grass & tulle islands directly in front of the line. This bird was 59 yd’s when the test dogs ran.
The Official Test Dogs ran at 8:05am. They ran the test as a double retired and both ran into difficulties. I will take this opportunity to thank and commend the great job Val Chappell & Connie Dresser have done handling the Official Test Dogs. The first running dog # 28 started at 8:57. The gallery enjoyed a wonderful breakfast sponsored by Purina.
The test produced a variety of work from excellent on down and many answers were provided to the judges on both long birds. The test was not finished at the end of running light and 5 dogs will be run tomorrow morning. There were no partial callbacks to be done.
At the end of today’s work there were 13 handles. The terrain of the pond made this a difficult task.
The pond for the 6 the test was a large oval beaver pond riddled with tulles and grass islands, lily pads and floating muskeg islands. It was ringed by forest and a high ridge at the SE end. The winds started out light from the NE and as the day progress by late morning had switched to the SE about 20 – km/hr with gusts of 40km per hour. Our clear day turned into a mixture of sun & cloud. There was good visibility all day for the marks,
The test – Water Triple with one retired center gun. Bird # 1 – Center retired at 139 yd’s. A drake mallard was thrown to the left (a huge throw) from a beaver dam across a stripe of land into a little bay. You were unable to see the dog pick up the bird. Bird # 2 - This bird was to the LT. at 164 yd’s, across a channel to a stripe land/ muskeg. A drake mallard was thrown to the left and the sat down in their boat. This gun was retired originally for the test dogs. As a stand out gun it became quite a draw resulting in switches and handles. Bird # 3 – This was a short stand out Go bird at 34 yd’s and thrown from a boat to the left and landed amongst a cluster of grass & tulle islands directly in front of the line. This bird was 59 yd’s when the test dogs ran.
The Official Test Dogs ran at 8:05am. They ran the test as a double retired and both ran into difficulties. I will take this opportunity to thank and commend the great job Val Chappell & Connie Dresser have done handling the Official Test Dogs. The first running dog # 28 started at 8:57. The gallery enjoyed a wonderful breakfast sponsored by Purina.
The test produced a variety of work from excellent on down and many answers were provided to the judges on both long birds. The test was not finished at the end of running light and 5 dogs will be run tomorrow morning. There were no partial callbacks to be done.
At the end of today’s work there were 13 handles. The terrain of the pond made this a difficult task.
Test 6 - Gallery
Going to the line
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Future Star
Stake Marshall
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