English pointer. ????

helpme23

Hi lads just a question have an english pointer and i want to get her setting pointing before the season..any tips on how i could manage this. Not much game in my club. She has got plenty of work just needs the game to work on the point. ???

Eddie B

What age is the dog? Setting really comes naturally, and there's no given rule as to when a dog starts to set! Give the dog plenty of work, maybe try boggy area's where there may be snipe present! Snipe give off good scent, and might be a good option if pheasants aren't plentiful!

helpme23

Eddie B wrote: »

What age is the dog? Setting really comes naturally, and there's no given rule as to when a dog starts to set! Give the dog plenty of work, maybe try boggy area's where there may be snipe present! Snipe give off good scent, and might be a good option if pheasants aren't plentiful!

The biitch is 16 months trained on the stop and return whiste. But just not enough game for her to get steady. Snipe can blow a dogs mind. But yes your correct could be the only way for the time begin.

pheasantmad

Snipe are grand to start a pointing dog off with if you wish to continue to shoot them after, if not they could ruin a dog that is going to be just used for pheasant and woodcock, I find that a dog started this way has a tendency to pull out in to the middle of green fields to where the snipe are if your not meeting enough game around the headlands, ditches, jmo, try and get some tame pigeons they give off great scent and I find great to start a dog off with. Just put the bird to sleep and place out in light cover, have a long line on the dog so as he wont catch the bird when it wakes, best thing about pigeons is that if you keep them awhile they will fly straight back home.