On point

We did this several years ago. I saved the thread, but most of the pictures are gone because of photobucket. Lets do it again. I'll go first.



You go next.

I would, but still can’t post pics

My 4 mo old posing on a pigeon.

No time to shut the doors, Tank's on point!

This was Cracker's first point on wild bobwhite quail before I put her through the breaking process.

Susie.....

One of my favorite pics ever.


Beach Bobs

My best bird finder sideways

Another pup below

Here you go.

Thanks !

This is Cracker on a foggy morning. It was a Garmin find.

Never posted a pic. Let's see if it works.

Bleu said to tell her good girl Lucy!

She’s come a long way in the last two years since that pic. She’s had a lot of bird killed because of her little nose. I wish I took the time to get more pics in the field. I’m always trying to get up there before the bird run off. I never think to snap a photo. I need to stop putting my phone in the glove box.

Lotta great things to look at in this world....but a focused dog is pretty tough to beat!

Your little Brit looks scary serious.

"You on point?"
"No, He's on point."
"You sure? you look like you're on point."
"I mean, I am...but, I'm on point because he's on point and you're on point too?"
"I'm on point because you're on point"
"I told you he's on point."
"Shut up guys, I'm on point."
"Guess we should all point"
"ok, where's the guy with the gun?"

Beckett.

8 weeks, frog.

16 months, Kansas pheasant.

16 months, Texas quail.

This is Cookie, my HOA female. I really miss her. She was the best bird dog most people had ever seen. I took her up to my lease in Choncho county with six other bird dogs, before her first birthday. We pointed 17 total coveys. Cookie pointed 14 of them. She was the fastest dog in all of NSTRA. She won the regional championship trial at two.

We got 'em surrounded!........

Here are some of my favorites

Picture of Buck, probably best all around dog I ever owned out of Elhew Damascus (late 90s)


Pic of Rex, guard rail/fiddler breeding, gentle giant. Incredible nose


Pic of my 11 year old in her prime (Sadie, also out of Damascus)


2 Year old Belle, Rocky Star Andy, Wild Agin breeding

Pretty nice stash of memories.

great pictures

Beautiful dogs ,thanks for sharing. Forrest

That Damascus always threw some ugly pups.

Damn, I love this one! It’s a shame they can’t stay 5 forever.

She’s beautiful! Did you get any pups out of her?

Pic of my 11 year old in her prime (Sadie, also out of Damascus)

Best dog I ever owned was out of Damascus. I sure miss Mikey and cried like a baby when he died. Sadie was a looker for sure!

Beautiful dogs

Yeats.

Nice!

scale - I never bred Sadie. She placed in her first couple of NSTRA trials I ran her in, and then she got sick on a Kansas pheasant hunting trip when she had first turned three, wouldnt hold down food, and she got diagnosed that her esophagus had enlarged and stopped working - so had to feed her dog food soup in a dog high chair I made for two months. She got pneumonia twice and finally the specialty vet in Addison figured out she had a rare form of Addisons disease (has to take Prednisone every day). Never felt comfortable breeding her after that. She is the sweetest smartest dog I have ever owned, going to hurt when she moves on to doggie heaven, I will tell you that.

This was the last point of the season back in February. The Big Boy had them nailed at high noon.

I remember the last morning of last season. I quite around 10 am. It was already hot. I got 1 covey pointed by both dogs and quit.

Cracker across the road on Johnny house birds.



This was a setup without the e- collar for a magazine.

Turkey hunting last weekend, when walking to the next pasture.
Judee found some quail! We haven't seen quail in years.

9 wk old Kate is a raging tornado, everywhere at 90mph. First look at the wing got a three point landing with flaps up. Think I'm going to like her. Chet

Love the black patch.

Cash on point during a panhandle pheasant hunt.

Thanks Chet.....she's a young one with a strong Miller line. 1-1/2 yr old and had a great season last fall. Runs big enough and has field manners out the wazoo. I'm excited for her we just need rain badly on our place like most everyone else.

First point for our new pudelpointer pup. Took her about a minute.

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I started walking some of the birds out after a few days. Here you go;

Bill - I have a question:

Reading about field trial training dogs and a famous trainer who won all sorts of awards who retired from competition and now trains for Grays Plantation in South Carolina. I know next to nothing about dog training or field trialing. But just reading about it, it seems there are a lot of requirements that don’t really matter and/or aid in actual hunting though. Example: training the dogs to “hold their points” and remain stock still after the birds are gone until the trainer “releases” them by a command or touch.

I get “steady through the shot” so a dog isn’t jumping or running into the line of fire. My Jenny is pretty good in that regard, but when the shooting’s done she breaks in the direction of birds that have fallen (if she sees them) to retrieve them or where they went to await my command to find dead if I hit one she didn’t see.

There are other examples (I’m sure you know them better than me.)

Question: What’s the point of training a dog on “style traits” that don’t actually relate to finding birds and/or bringing them to bag?

(Please go easy on me as I don’t know squat about bird dog training.)

That's a very good question. We didn't require steady to wing and shot in NSTRA. Chet competes in the broke dog trials. Maybe he can enlighten us. It's been discussed several times on bird dog forums. It's one of the best trolling questions out there.

Haha I don’t know enough to “troll” on bird dog stuff.

This was a Garmin find;

This is a painting.

Garden & Gun Mag?

There's a bird under the net this one. Cookie was helping me catch birds for myJohnny house.

I have several to post but for some reason I can't anymore, not sure why.

My only setter.

Shine at 8 weeks


and at 4 months

This is Rita Mae our 'pointing' lab.

good looking dogs

2019 thread bump

Crackers first point on pen raised birds after a NSTRA trial

Scarlet (RIP)



Rhett (RIP)



Ellie w/ Rhett



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