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  3. Bushing With Beating Dog

    in Gundogs & Retrievers

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    Yes i use all my gundogs for bushing with my Lurcher, i also use them with friends Lurchers / Terriers with no problems.

    Like said above they have to be finished with their training and you have to be strict with the stop whistle.( especially with Spaniels which can easily loose there heads)

    I have a young Springer 8 mounth which i took on the last 2 days of the season, i will take her out bushing over the summer but will just treat it like an ordanary beating day and hunt her under control not letting her run riot with the other dogs.

     

    My Lab on the other hand has always ran with the pack, i also let her run in and never attempt to control her in anyway with the whistle, as this would dilute any training done.

    But as soon as the whistle comes out she is back to a gundog and it works very well and i tell you what you have never seen a keener hunting Lab.

    And being only 21" she is Mustard in the cover.

     

    I know 99% of Gundog trainers will be screaming "NO" at the computer screen, but if you get your training drummed into them, then do plenty of refresher training before next season, you will have some cracking fun.

  4. Pointer X Spaniel

    in Bushing Dogs

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    I have seen 2 working while out shooting, both took more the the GWP, 1 being the same size as a ESS, the other exactly like a GWP.

    Both were good hunters of fur and feather, although 1 was a bit wild but that was down to the owner.

     

    neither pointed but both hit cover well and were excellent retrievers on land and water.

  16. Mother & Daughter

    in Gundogs & Retrievers

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    Those photos of them playing are brilliant mate, especially the second from bottom.

     

    That yellow lab has such an intense look on her face!

     

    Great pics and good luck with them :)

     

    Thanks for the comments mate

     

    That funny looking yellow lab is a Wirehaired Vizla :laugh:

  18. Mother & Daughter

    in Gundogs & Retrievers

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    Where have the other 3 posts gone ???

     

    I sometimes wish she was a Fox red Lab stroller, ha ha

    But the last few week she has steped up her game, as well as our shoot she has been beating over Cumbria and Saturday she had about 100 birds in front of her, she was hunting through the bracken hard but kept her head and i was able to control her, so i cant complain at the minute.

     

    hily, i wont be training this pup, i gave it to my lad as his first gundog, so i will be training him to train her if you know what i mean, ha

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