Steady to flush and shot?

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BradyBuck

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How many hunters find it necessary to steady your dog to flush, shot and fall? I am newish to upland hunting but I’ve always steadied my flushers to the flush, shot and fall. Pretty much every hunting video I’ve seen of upland dogs they all break as soon as the birds flush. Seems to create some dangerous situations.

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I have never tried to train a dog to be steady to anything. I have had pointers (GSPs). To avoid a "dangerous situation", avoid low shots, adopt the blue sky rule.
 
Steady to flush shot and fall is a must for a hunt test but not so much for wild bird hunting, at least from what I’ve seen in person. Agree, It could be dangerous depending on who’s hunting with you.
 
If a guy gets his dog to that point in training/testing that’s awesome, but to reliably put feathers in the bag I prefer them to break on shot and relocate freely
 
A field trial spaniel steady as all get out can be allowed to be UNsteady as all get out in actual hunting situations & spiffed back up for trials. Can they be allowed to be unsteady in some hunting situations, while required to be steady in others? I'm guessing so, but I'm uncertain. I don't train anywhere near to that level, as some of you know. My dogs follow a bird upon flushing it if they can, & I prefer it for obvious reasons. I've maybe had to hold off on 2 shots in thousands of flushes. Poor quality or still dizzy pen-reared birds that fly slow & barely get above the grass tips might be a different story, or so it would seem from some youtube videos. I have no first hand experience with such "hunting".
 
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