So... How did everybody do....

[rebelduckaholic]

CC so much for you talking about those waders and DRY pants

[B3]

Great job as usual by the West MS club. Great grounds and people. Ran the finished B today and the judges set up 2 very nice series. Chance ya'll knew exactly where the dogs would not want to go on both the land and water blinds- and you put the bird in that spot.

Thanks for a great weekend,

Bill

[Damn_It_Boy]

Can you tell I like this pic? Closeup....

[duckhuntercv]

ran my yellow lab avery on her first hunt test in starter and she did great. Im addicted to hunt test now. Great test lots of fun

[Damn_It_Boy]

[pstone]

I got the WMHRC febuary soakin last year! It HAD to be COLD!

[Copiah Creek]

Im soooooooooo glad ya'll liked the pic But DIB you and Brian will title a dog sooner or later and its on like a chicken bone

And Taz and the Whittington brothers all i can say is getting wet for someone else's dog is as bad as coming home and finding the toilet seat up and money cant even make it up , soooooooo i will get some sort of pay back from you worm's who all had important reason's for not being there

And i got to meet pntailhtr , i had him picture'd a lot bigger i hate your dog went awall , but you should have stayed for the party anyway And at the sat. night ribbon ceramony when Mr Glen thanked all the marshall's and sheriff's and bird boys by name , and the last one was a big loud DAMN_ IT_ BOY it was priceless

And i want to thank trycon peasonally for helping , i dont know what we would have done with out you ,,,,,,,,,,,so THANKS !

And my daughter was thrilled her chessie got 2 passes after NO training since oct .

And congrats to Walker you have done a great job with your pup , and since his dad is gone your pup is all thats left of him , thanks for coming and im glad your hard work has paid off

GC you aint going to quit running my favoright brit , Ellie May , If you do i will have to dogknap her

And last dont anybody like a soaking as much as RICK so i think its time he got a dog and titled it !

[Copiah Creek]

T-BONE where wuz you , you would have loved the timber test !

[Copiah Creek]

And i want to thank Team Chumac , for coming i hope ya'll come back next year . And i cant wait to come train wif ya'll for the GRAND !

Mark , Elvis looked great , and Jimbo i sure couldn't tell it was your first finished test , and your pup is very impressive i cant wait to see him run .

And Chuck all i can say is thanks for all you have done for me and all the help you have given , your a GREAT trainer but your a BETTER friend

[Copiah Creek]

Sorry i almost forgot chessielover your a big ole WUSS

[pntailhntr]

PATHETIC!!! He did SOO bad in the seasoned water test, I loaded up and came home, I didn't even stay for land!! I think somebody stole my dog and replace him with somebody else's dog!!! He wouldn't stop on the whistle for the blind, he broke on the first mark as soon as it hit the water, I mean, GOOD GOD!!! I was SOOOOO pissed!! Going back to work!! I have NO CLUE what came over him. YOu would have thought he had never been to a hunt test!!

I said in another post a month or so ago, you NEVER KNOW what your dog is going to do or how he is going to act at a hunt test, today was SOLID PROOF of that fact!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm better now, sort of!!![/quote?]

Which one were you I was helping marshall duties at seasoned?

I was the first dog to not pick up the blind and the first dog to break on the first thrown mark!! Yellow male dog.

CC, i would not have made good company at the party, I was HIGHLY pissed and didnt' really feel like partying. I do hate I missed it, but I wasn't up to partying!!! You know, they say, everyone will experience the crazy dog at a hunt test, well, I JUST DID!! If I didn't know anybetter, I would say someone stole my dog and replace him with an UNTRAINED imposter!!!!!

[T-Bone]

T-BONE where wuz you , you would have loved the timber test !

mama put her foot down and had to hang around the crib....hate i missed it! t

[Meeka]

I finally got a chance to ride down and see the timber test Sunday pm and it just about killed me that I wasn't runnin. It would have been an absolute blast! I can't wait till next year! After the river gets out of Mahannah, we may need to have a trainin day up there and run that test! There is one other place near the road that could be run very similar too. Not sayin we would have passed or not, but that test was RIGHT up our alley. And any handler or dog who has ever hunted green timber would feel right at home. It was absolutely a HUNTING retriever test.

Let me try to describe as best I can even though I didn't run it. (So every one not there will be jealous)(including Travis!)

Mature Hardwoods with runnin water about knee boot depth. Test is run IN the timber. Chance and Harris and line at a log. Marks right to left at West, South and East.(180* swing). Bird throwers hiding behind trees just like a hunter would. They hand toss each mark. Just like hunting in green timber, dog just sees ducks falling after they come down outta the tree tops - they see bird coming down and the splash. Blind between first and second marks. Runnin water through trees and suction from everywhere - marks cover, wind and trees. You gotta steer through the trees in runnin water.

Congrats to WMHRC and the judges for getting out of the box and using the spot.

[Meeka]

And Sunday seasoned water was run in a true duck hole as well. You want a pretty straight forward seasoned test that surprises with just enough challenge, that was it. It presented a couple of lessons about winger blinds. Dogs could see a winger blind and open runnin water out front and the blind was run to the right and it REALLY had a lot of them fighting to left towards the winger blind and more open area. Blind was not hard, but you just had to be able to have a SOME control, and the wind helped right at the end of the blind.

But the dozy that really surprised everyone was a 50-60 yard go bird! It was hand tossed out of the woods and landed in open water. Easy to see and big splash. But it gave some dogs fits because . . . . IMO . . . . . . . there was NO BLIND that the bird came out of. Some dogs did not swing with the gun/handler and some dogs were drawn to the woods.

[Damn_It_Boy]

Good explanation Meeka. Did we meet? Probably did but I met so many folks I can't remember who is who.

Here are some pics that Rick shot at the timber test......