Completed another year, Looking forward to a solid 2019.
This was my pups first season and what a season it was.
Last January, we started off with lots of puppy training and conditioning. The first of April we dropped the boy off at, Nelson Volta kennel outside of Los Banos, for his intro to gundog training. The critter made the cut and it was on. Scott Acevedo put Bendu through the paces, I would go over once a week for my training and to get my handling skills up to speed. During the next three months, it was birds, guns and fun, six days a week, we missed the dog, but he was in great hands, his training camp crew kept him busy.
We picked Benny up at the end of June, then it was lots of time in the woods and field. I wanted to put the dog in and around as much wild birds as possible, Bendu is gonna hunt. We hunted up a few rabbits and he don’t care what the game is, he just wants to hunt.
By the time dove season rolled around, the dog had been in the field plenty, but doves are new to him. I had a draw on the opener at a premium dove refuge spot. I kept the boy on a long lead, he wouldn’t take off, i shot a limit of birds and the pup would mark and get em, but had a hard time on the retrieve. He found a three deep in the thick cover and we only lost two birds, hell of a day, hot like hell by 8:30. We put up a few pheasant as well and he sniffed out a nest full of eggs that day on the walk out.
We went back the next weekend and smashed a few more dove and walked 6 miles scouting pheasant, we put up a few.
That’s all I can do now, I’ll come back a little later for some more of the season recap.
Hope y’all are havin a good New Year’s Day!
This was my pups first season and what a season it was.
Last January, we started off with lots of puppy training and conditioning. The first of April we dropped the boy off at, Nelson Volta kennel outside of Los Banos, for his intro to gundog training. The critter made the cut and it was on. Scott Acevedo put Bendu through the paces, I would go over once a week for my training and to get my handling skills up to speed. During the next three months, it was birds, guns and fun, six days a week, we missed the dog, but he was in great hands, his training camp crew kept him busy.
We picked Benny up at the end of June, then it was lots of time in the woods and field. I wanted to put the dog in and around as much wild birds as possible, Bendu is gonna hunt. We hunted up a few rabbits and he don’t care what the game is, he just wants to hunt.
By the time dove season rolled around, the dog had been in the field plenty, but doves are new to him. I had a draw on the opener at a premium dove refuge spot. I kept the boy on a long lead, he wouldn’t take off, i shot a limit of birds and the pup would mark and get em, but had a hard time on the retrieve. He found a three deep in the thick cover and we only lost two birds, hell of a day, hot like hell by 8:30. We put up a few pheasant as well and he sniffed out a nest full of eggs that day on the walk out.
We went back the next weekend and smashed a few more dove and walked 6 miles scouting pheasant, we put up a few.
That’s all I can do now, I’ll come back a little later for some more of the season recap.
Hope y’all are havin a good New Year’s Day!