What’s different about the gwp and do you think it’s a breed thing or an individual trait? Did you have lab GSP crosses and how were those, bird machines, point, range, picture?
That’s interesting, I’ve found them to be the easiest to figure out, very habitual. They don’t have the same numbers in a covey but they seem to be in the same areas and enjoy the same type of habitat.
What kind of dogs have you run over the years and have you gravitated towards a certain one? After all my one year of experience I like the idea of a pointer and or a setter except the hair.
I think if we ever stopped learning 1. We’d be wrong 2. It’d get boring.
I have to slow myself down or I’d already have a pointer and be running two dogs. Luckily the wife helps with that.
Appreciate the offer, and I will. What area is in your wheelhouse? As in OR, ID, MT. Also I welcome the hunting break but it hurts a little to read next fall.
That’s funny about the quail and they do have a simile build. Right now Nelli comes in at about 40 lbs and has a light frame which works well in CA heat. The downside is a December duck hunt is pretty low on her list of things to do. If a situation presented where I could jump some on a sunny or...
Haha no but my buddy I hunt with won’t drink anything else so there’s typically a few around. I’m down south in Fallbrook/N. County SD. How about yourself?
I appreciate it and you’re right, she really took to quail but had a hard time with Chukar. But seeing her learn and not apply as much pressure and stay steady or run through boulders after catching wind it definitely something else.
So until this year I’d only ever previously dabbled in upland. But this year I went all in and we got a GSP pup, so it was our first season learning together. I sent her to get some training before the season when she was roughly 9 months and then we started sept 2nd. I hit the dove opener...
Which for these higher tier units is easier said than done and would likely get frustrating after bouncing from one area to the next.
Its an interesting issue and I think that somewhere in the middle there’s a reasonable path forward, a season seems like a strong compromise.