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my first season on spring trials

  • 27-03-2010 7:51pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 282
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    well lads just completed my first season on spring trials for pointer's and setters. i competed in 4 novice trials not really knowing what kind of dog i had. the first day went well and i was called back for three runs but had no chance at game. the next two days i was eliminated in the first round, for bumping up a bird and for chasing but i was happy with the way he was running, and was given encouragement by a few of the top triallers to stick with him as he has the makings of a good one. today was the last trial of the spring and he had a find on a snipe which was enough to give him second place with a grade of excellent and qualified him for open stakes. so roll on the autumn and a chance to compete in open stakes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,070 EPointer=Birdss
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    Well done IS. Any pics from the day?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,461 foxshooter243
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    Fair play to you Irish Setter;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 600 greenpeter
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    well done


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 935 dicky82
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    congratulations. . . much success in the years to come. . .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 977 mallards
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    Well done IS.

    Mallards


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 Wolfhillbilly
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    well lads just completed my first season on spring trials for pointer's and setters. i competed in 4 novice trials not really knowing what kind of dog i had. the first day went well and i was called back for three runs but had no chance at game. the next two days i was eliminated in the first round, for bumping up a bird and for chasing but i was happy with the way he was running, and was given encouragement by a few of the top triallers to stick with him as he has the makings of a good one. today was the last trial of the spring and he had a find on a snipe which was enough to give him second place with a grade of excellent and qualified him for open stakes. so roll on the autumn and a chance to compete in open stakes


    Just out of interest IS - and I know we have touched on this before - are you also hunting your setters that you're trialing and if so, are you changing how you hunt them in regard to how long or even how you exercise them? I have competed in trials for a few years now although I would keep my setters for shooting over first with trialing as something to give me days out during the summer. However I have two pups at the moment and my hope is that if one starts to show well and is particularly fast I will keep him for trialing and can concentrate on shooting with the other one. I have spoken to plenty of field trial men about this with differing opinions but it seems to me that most don't shoot over them and some even limit their dogs' exercise to 15-minute runs n case it loses its speed. My two pups are nine months old and I would have high hopes for one of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 282 irish setter
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    Just out of interest IS - and I know we have touched on this before - are you also hunting your setters that you're trialing and if so, are you changing how you hunt them in regard to how long or even how you exercise them? I have competed in trials for a few years now although I would keep my setters for shooting over first with trialing as something to give me days out during the summer. However I have two pups at the moment and my hope is that if one starts to show well and is particularly fast I will keep him for trialing and can concentrate on shooting with the other one. I have spoken to plenty of field trial men about this with differing opinions but it seems to me that most don't shoot over them and some even limit their dogs' exercise to 15-minute runs n case it loses its speed. My two pups are nine months old and I would have high hopes for one of them.

    well i was talking to a few of the lads about this and the general opinion seems to be that too much shooting will make the dog cautious. for me i love my shooting so i will shoot with him but i will try to limit how often and for how long. i think the 15 mins exercise you refer to would be the length of a single run. if i was getting my dog fit i'd start with 4 x 5 minute runs and work up to 4 x 15 minute runs with less recovery time. the reason for the short runs is to keep speed up


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