Running

Drew said:
This is how I transitioned from a Labrador to a Griffon. I got to old and slow to keep up with my Lab. When she got on a running pheasant there wasn't enough electricity to change her speed or direction. I Googled slow methodical bird dog and here I am with a Griffon.
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I don't really believe in those shock collars, I have one but I just let my dog go. I love watching my dog. If you can use one of those collars with just the vibration or a sound then it's okay in my opinion.
 
benelli-banger said:
I quit a few years ago…I walk briskly at times..,not worth hurting myself. I’d run to help a buddy or dog in need…or a damsel in distress, who wants me to remove her dress, cause she wants me to see her breasts, and it’s happened, I must confess, and I assisted with great zest…😝surely I jest…if it happened, I’d keep it close to the vest…that’d be best…
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Yeah don't kiss and tell.
 
Goosemaster said:
Yeah I found myself running a couple weeks ago, and then I stopped and just asked myself. Myself it was if it was really worth it to run anymore, and I decided no not really. Might trip, or blow a hammy.
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I did a fairly vicious face plant last weekend that probably wouldn't have happened just a few years ago. I should probably try to learn from it. Falling down is no fun, especially when a shotgun is involved. Could damage it! 😆
 
A5 Sweet 16 said:
I did a fairly vicious face plant last weekend that probably wouldn't have happened just a few years ago. I should probably try to learn from it. Falling down is no fun, especially when a shotgun is involved. Could damage it! 😆
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I ran last year, and tripped, my gun went flying. I went down on the ice, really busted my ass. 🙁
 
Drew said:
That is how did this. More concerned about the bird than my surroundings. I fell right on my shotgun. Bent the end of the barrel and broke the tip of my finger. Getting older means getting slower and also less graceful.
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Damn that's a really bad fall. Damn. When I fell I had this old 870, luckily I didn't have that Browning.
 
Goosemaster said:
I don't really believe in those shock collars, I have one but I just let my dog go. I love watching my dog. If you can use one of those collars with just the vibration or a sound then it's okay in my opinion.
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I always put the "hearing aid" on my lab. Saturday was our Kansas opener. Normally, it's a challenge to slow my dog down the first couple of hours of the season without relying on some light to moderate stimulation. This year she surprised me. I only used the "nick" feature 4 or 5 times all weekend, and recall consistent stimulation once. (My collar stimulation ranges on the digital display from 0-127, and I run it on 28. i can barely feel this level on my finger, but it's enough for her to know to change course)
Yesterday evening, because she did so well last weekend, I went out for a nice 30 minute golden-hour hunt and decided she didn't need her "hearing aid". She got on scent and was at least 300 yards in front of me trailing as fast as she could run in a zig-zag. She pinned the bird down, it flushed and there wasn't a gun shot or any praise on her retreat back to me.
One of us learned a lesson, but I'm not sure it was her. Atleast I was alone for this experiment.
 
Just keep at it Carguy.
I finally got some points from my pointing lab this last weekend in his 3rd real season, I don't count the puppy season. He still runs ahead when tracking on the ground but the points on birds in the snow where awesome! I even got to reward his excellent work with a retrieve. The best thing you can do is to keep rewarding the pup when they do it right, They'll (hopefully) put it together to learn that birds out of range never get retrieves. And nothing wrong with the "hearing aid".
 
Yes. Now my middle fingers are not a matched set. One looks fairly normal and the other looks like a toe from a tree frog.
 
birddude said:
I can think of a lot worse ways to go. I just hope I got one in the vest. I'd hate to go out with a goose egg:)
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One time I was duck hunting on the East Gallatin, and I fell through the ice, and it was deep and over my head, and it was 10 below zero, and I almost drowned. Luckily I tossed my A5 up into the weeds and was able to grab onto a branch off a tree.
 
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