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: I knew I'd get you old guys going with this
: one. One hour at aa pace is tough, 3 hours
: is super tough. You gotta love one that
: won't quit. There aren't that many places
: where You can run a 3 hour aa heat anymore.
: You could at the ZBar by using more of the 43ooo acres and using some of the tighter courses along the salt fork river.The real beauty all on wild birds and the plus BOB WHITE QUAIL. Prairie type. These tight courses are You may have to ride a bit farther to get back to camp to eat which is all important it seems.LOL
Don
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: Is the 3 hour dog passe'? With the change
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: the ffa format to one and a half hours,
: there is only the National Ch at 3 hours.
: The Continental is 1 hour and 50 minutes
: now. Many dogs don't finish at grand
: junction, handlers picking up if they don't
: feel they aren't in the race. So where is
: the Big incentive to breed or condition for
: 3 hours? Plus a dog needs to recover from a
: 3 hour heat.
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: I don't understand the mystique of three
: hour heats. When I was hunting, I commonly
: used a dog for half a day which for me was
: closer to four hours. If I'm judging a
: field trial, I don't want to look at two
: dogs for three hours, one is enough for me
: to make up my mind. Plus for an amateur, 30
: or 40 hours in the saddle is more than
: enough, I'm not interested in 180 or more,
: or even 90 for that matter.
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: I am with you on this one.
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: When I had just one dog, that dog had to go
: all day and that meant a good four hours in
: the morning, a break for lunch(My lunch, not
: the dog's) and three or four hours in the
: afternoon. When I upgraded to two dogs,
: some years later, once they both learned
: their trade, I often hunted them together,
: again all day, more often than not.
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: Back then I typically hunted four days a
: week, so the dogs got a break pretty much
: every other day, except weekends.
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: So I guess those dogs of mine from back then
: had a little bit of bottom. So did I, back
: then.
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: RayG
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: The dogs we worked were in training while we
: were hunting. Never used boards clickers
: poles or whatever. Maybe a lot of work but
: sure develops a fine dog that knows what
: hunting and finding birds are all about. The
: best ones were from wild bird proven stock.
: Don
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