Slowing your dog

Gobbler said:
I love the idea of sitting on a whistle blast but you rarely see it done with upland dogs in the field. It one thing to train a retriever when he is going out on a retrieve to stop on the whistle and look back at you but another to stop a bird dog of any kind when it is on a hot scent. I'm not saying it can't be done but I've never seen it in my fifty years in the upland fields.
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It can be done with the vibrate function. Gaurantee.. not to sit but stay on all 4's. Stop and look back. Until close enough or on release... never been a fan of whistles. If dog can here em so can the game ur chasing.
 
I'm on my 3rd lab right now, I have a 9-year-old and an almost 2-year-old. Both dogs are trained to return/recall with the tone function on their e-collars. If they are on scent they will run as far as I will let them, but if they get further than 30-35 yds, I recall them, and they can pick the scent back up once they have returned. Both dogs hunt relatively close in the 10–20-yard range. I will say that my young dog really enjoys trying to stretch that distance and this past weekend on the last day in IA she realized that dad's transmitter battery was dead, and wow did she run, I had to result back to the whistle which she isn't accustomed to, so it made for a challenging first field!
 
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