Wednesday, September 12, 2007 |
Test 5 - Land Triple
The caravan left headquarters at 7:30am for a scheduled 8:30am start. The test grounds were located on the property of Howard Simson & Elise Langlois. Upon arrival at the test site at 7:45 everyone was informed to return in 1 hour, start time would be 9:30am. As the test was east facing the judges wanted to delay until visibility was better.
The day began sunny about 12C, the wind was NW at about 10km/hr. Clouds arrived around noon and the wind increased to about 25km, as the afternoon progressed we had a few sprinkles of rain mixed with sun and the wind had changed to the west.
The test site was a very large rolling hay field, lightly scattered with hay bales and strips of uncut cover.
The Test – Land Triple with 2 retired guns.The test was originally set up as a quad but that was changed after the test dogs ran. Bird # 1 – Long center retired gun at 307 yd’s. It was a drake mallard was thrown to right from the side of a hill to a small valley filled with cover. They retired as soon as the second gun went off.Bird # 2 - This was a retired gun placed at 226 yd’s quite wide left of the center bird. It was a drake mallard thrown to the right behind a strip of cover.Bird # 3 - The go bird was at 203 yd’s, thrown to the left landing on open field it was a hen mallard. This mark was to the right of the center bird on the other side of the valley.
The official test dogs began running at 10:02. They ran the original quad test which had a standout gun located to the left of the left retired gun and was thrown 3 rd. The GRM ran first and had difficulty with the center retired and had to handle. The BLF ran next and had a good job.The judges decided to reduce the test to a triple, eliminating the far left standout gun. The first running dog # 18 started at 10:31am and the triple was about 7-8 minutes a dog
There were 3 dogs picked up, 7 handles. The test seemed to become more difficult when the wind changed to the west. The center bird was where most problems occurred as earlier dogs were getting wind saves.
Dogs dropped after the 5 th series were # 9, 25, 29, 31, 34, 49, 51, 52, 59, 64, 67. Dog starting the 6th series is dog #
We are heading out for a night of fun at the workers party...
The day began sunny about 12C, the wind was NW at about 10km/hr. Clouds arrived around noon and the wind increased to about 25km, as the afternoon progressed we had a few sprinkles of rain mixed with sun and the wind had changed to the west.
The test site was a very large rolling hay field, lightly scattered with hay bales and strips of uncut cover.
The Test – Land Triple with 2 retired guns.The test was originally set up as a quad but that was changed after the test dogs ran. Bird # 1 – Long center retired gun at 307 yd’s. It was a drake mallard was thrown to right from the side of a hill to a small valley filled with cover. They retired as soon as the second gun went off.Bird # 2 - This was a retired gun placed at 226 yd’s quite wide left of the center bird. It was a drake mallard thrown to the right behind a strip of cover.Bird # 3 - The go bird was at 203 yd’s, thrown to the left landing on open field it was a hen mallard. This mark was to the right of the center bird on the other side of the valley.
The official test dogs began running at 10:02. They ran the original quad test which had a standout gun located to the left of the left retired gun and was thrown 3 rd. The GRM ran first and had difficulty with the center retired and had to handle. The BLF ran next and had a good job.The judges decided to reduce the test to a triple, eliminating the far left standout gun. The first running dog # 18 started at 10:31am and the triple was about 7-8 minutes a dog
There were 3 dogs picked up, 7 handles. The test seemed to become more difficult when the wind changed to the west. The center bird was where most problems occurred as earlier dogs were getting wind saves.
Dogs dropped after the 5 th series were # 9, 25, 29, 31, 34, 49, 51, 52, 59, 64, 67. Dog starting the 6th series is dog #
We are heading out for a night of fun at the workers party...
Going to the line
Test 5 - gallery
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The judges
Workers
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