Recent content by LCR10A

Agree 100%. It’s not the gun, choke or shot, but changing guns or chokes improves my mental outlook! A fresh outlook of sorts. Most of the problem is with my mechanics. And I can practice that .

I’ll start with one but will change if I run into a slump. Might change the chokes first and then the gun. Confidence is important.

Extreme Dog Fuel

Dog is the last out when traffic is clear and first in to their crate when I get back to the car. Also looking and listening for traffic when near a road. It’s also not worth hunting near a busy road for me.

I shoot left handed. I use a beretta 690 with a left handed stock and an ultraleggaro with a neutral stock. Both open levers push right. I haven’t seen an open lever push to the left-that would be cool!

The stocks cast makes it left handed, right handed or neutral, if I’m reading the question correctly.

I lost one hunting about 20 years ago. It went after a pheasant that I shot at and missed. E collar battery was dead. Took about 1/2 hour to find him. Started blowing my whistle, tweet tweet tweet, and he finally showed up. Sickening feeling. Carry a whistle now for back up.

Sorry to hear about what happened. Great to hear about that vet clinic! I drive by their sign on the highway regularly and wondered whether they were even open anymore!

Behavior around the house is really important and something to consider. Hunting season is only a small portion of the year. Consider the number of days that you will be hunting too. Some like to train and or run their dog in hunt tests during the “off season”.

I have 3 females that all hunt very well. One is a GR HRCH / AKC MN HOF dog. She points too. I think that there are less Field Trial / AKC hunt test females because they are not allowed to run when they are in season. I’d look at both parents hunting ability and health. Repeat breedings are...

In my opinion, females are generally smaller than males, which in theory would make it easier to run the distances needed for upland hunting. On the other hand, females go into season 2x a year until they are spayed. If I were getting a male, I’d look for a smaller framed dog for upland work...

Colorado has a plate with a trout on it.

Julie Bates Knutson has written a book Training the Pointing Labrador. She also has a podcast with the same name. All puppies with pointing parents don’t point. I think many will but some won’t. I’d get her on birds early and often and incorporate that with other basic training. Chukar...

Chalk it up to dog training…

It’s surprising how landowners and neighbors can show up seemingly out of no where