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  1. Flairball
    There are a lot of work-arounds. So, I have no keeper if skills, so I will be learning on the fly. This kind of keepering just doesn’t happen in the states, so our neighbors will not be “keepering”. We will be feeding, so hopefully our grass will be the greenest. We use a lot of partridge for dog training. Many are not shot. It has been our experience that those partridge hang around and survive for 3-4 months, which is encouraging. As for the skill level of the other guns? Well, let’s just say I want to provide opportunities. What they do with them,...? The bag limits I quoted a
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    I live in the US, and a friend and I are trying to put together a small shoot. I need a little input. We are thinking of putting together a mixed bag shoot, 6-8 guns, shooting 2-3 days. This would be a mini-driven type of shoot with 4-6 drives. The main issues revolve around property size, and bag size. Most of the potential properties are between 100-200 acres. These would have some woods, fields, and hedges. Most likely the birds would be driven from the hedges, and some of the crops in the fields. I think this could work for a small shoot. The issue of how many birds to release is a bi
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    I must have messed up the links. I’ll try to fix it.
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    I've had a very fulfilling shooting season, but I haven't shared much of it here. I have, updated my blog, however, so here are a couple of links to my season in review. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3- coming soon.
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    Thanks, Les. I had a great time, and I am looking forward to shooting with you again next year.
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    I was thinking more about improvement of breed, either pointer or Lab. Don’t really see how this could help. Wouldn’t know what Genes or traits would transfer to the pups, so could end up with a dog that neither points, nor retrieves. But, what would it do on a grouse moor that continental pointing breed, or even a setter couldn’t do? There are lots of dog breeds out there, and I think probably one for whatever one needs.
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    Got out on the geese, today. I was fortunate enough to receive an invite from a gentleman from Leeds who knows a thing or two about goose shooting. It was a beautiful morning, and despite being under gunned only having a 20g with me, I was still able to shoot my first Greylag. Thank Les.
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    Had a nice day out with a friend’s syndicate in Driffield, yesterday. Drew good pegs on every drive, and got showered in gifts.
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    Okay. Seeing the regularly, but not in great numbers in N. and E. Yorkshire. I still haven’t dropped the hammer on one, yet, but my friend managed one.
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    He was my first and only setter. He was a great dog and I loved him, but like you I am a springer man. Won’t ever be without one.
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    He’s no longer with us. Can you spot the woodcock?
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    Why would they? What good would this do?
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    I’m glad to see the woodcock are filtering through. I’m heading over tomorrow to do some shooting and I’d sure like to get a chance at woodcock. The flight came through here last month. Had a couple good days on them, and shot a few over my springer. Actually,....shot a few over my friends springer, too. Had one day where we easily flushed 50 but lunch time.
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    Wow. He really is a special kind of stupid. A mistake like that can really have other negative effects. I recently learned that letting my pup playfully chase the hose stream around the yard can be a problem when one pisses in the woods.
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    No. The book I'm looking for was about 90% illustrations. Each page had a number of drawings on it. It almost looked like someone had published a sketch book. That looks interesting, and I may need to give that a look. Thanks.
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    Some years back I stumbled across an interesting book, and I'd like to look into buying a copy. Naturally I've forgotten the name. Perhaps someone here will know the book I'm looking for. The book covered all the shooting sports and other field sports, and was almost entirely illustrations. The illustrations seemed to be done in pencil. The book had sections on driven bird shooting, rough shooting, pigeon shooting, wildfowling, stalking, ferreting, and much more. Ring a bell with anyone?
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    I would have to say that depends on certain variables, but if the dog is well bred and the handler knows what cover to hunt the success rate is the same. Some years ago I decided to get a Setter, and put a lot of time into him. He was a great dog, and very exciting in the grouse woods, but we neither killed nor saw more birds than with a spaniel. A couple years ago I was up north staying in a friend's camp which I was sharing with other friends of his I'd not met before. One of the gentlemen, a pointer trialer, had never shot grouse over a spaniel. We decided to hunt together for a bit to s
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    Is that pup a Springer? Do many folks work spaniels in the US? It is a Springer pup. Spaniels are a minority breed, but not uncommon. Everyone knows someone who works one, but more people hunt with pointing breeds, GSP, Setters, and Brittanies probably being the most popular. Then there is the retriever crowd. Lots of them, too. They are predominantly used for waterfowling, but there are quite a few in the uplands. Amongst the spaniel people Springer are the most popular breed, but cockers are coming on strong. Other spaniel breeds are extremely rare to find in the field, and if you do prepar
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    If you've blown the whistle, and run out to make him stop on every retrieve, you've trained him to expect to sit on every retrieve. If he doesn't make the pick, then the pressure never comes. So he's a smart boy who figured out how to turn off the pressure. I'm a little confused as to what he was doing that made you feel you needed to work on his stop whistle. Was he not nonslip steady, and breaking on retrieves? If so, I would say lots of tossed dummies that he watches you, or another dog pick up would be the drill. The stop whistle training should be conducted independently, not wi
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    Is that pup a Springer? Do many folks work spaniels in the US? It is a Springer pup. Spaniels are a minority breed, but not uncommon. Everyone knows someone who works one, but more people hunt with pointing breeds, GSP, Setters, and Brittanies probably being the most popular. Then there is the retriever crowd. Lots of them, too. They are predominantly used for waterfowling, but there are quite a few in the uplands. Amongst the spaniel people Springer are the most popular breed, but cockers are coming on strong. Other spaniel breeds are extremely rare to find in the field, and if you do
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    My new pup.
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    I had the opportunity to get out on a syndicate day in E. Yorkshire, earlier this month. Had a great time, and enjoyed some good company. Wish I lived closer, and had the means to spend more time shooting driven birds more often. Anyway, here is my report. http://allseasonsoutdoors.blogspot.com/2016/12/aso-goes-to-england-again.html
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    With things winding down around here I took advantage of a break in the cold weather to take the dog and the gun out for a walk. Found a few pheasant in the hedgerows. Managed to knock a couple down.
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    Got into the woodcock again, today. Knocked a couple down with my 28g.
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    We've been seeing them in big numbers, here. The dog flushed about 25 the day before yesterday, and probably 15 today. I've even managed to put a few on the ground. Of course, these birds aren't nearly as big as what you all have, but they're still good sport. And eating.
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