Thread: Our Birds Out Here In Nevada

Thanks for the post.

I have three covies on my small place and take a few every fall. Ours like thick wild rose and other nasty cover, but we sometimes catch them in the sage. Same beautiful birds...

i have a question luv2safari
i watch a lot of gundog vids from america
why do so many of the dog workers i see place so much emphasis on the dog holding point?? some so much so that when THEY go to flush the bird its often a long way from where the dogs holding point.??or they appear to running round in circles kicking every bloody bush in a 10 metre radius
is this because of preserve hunting ie theyre frightened the dog will catch the birds before they shoot?
my last gsp was steady on the whoa .[certainly not on the shot and was allowed to flush on the release [good boy]
i hunt wild birds and have only ever had the dogs over many years catch 2 [both hen pheasants which i released unharmed]

Some dogs have such good noses they point a bit far back from the birds. As a young boy I had a dog like that, Rip was his name. My name is Bruce, and he was Bruce's Rip-Snorter. He and his sister Lady (Chuckar Lady Reeva) were a great team. Rip would go 200 yards to birds sometimes, nose held high, and Lady would point in closer than Rip, holding the birds better.

My dogs aren't steady to wing and shot on purpose. They're 90% chuckar dogs, and I want them right there where the birds fall. Our country has a lot of volcanic rock fields on steep mountains, and a crippled chuckar will dart down into holes in these rocks or run off and find some kind of hole...badger, groundhog, etc.

This is a bit of a problem when I miss ( too d@mned often now) or miss a pheasant...of go the dogs.

It's customary for our dogs to hold points and the hunter kick the bird out on ahead of the dog, just the way we do it.

Originally Posted by luv2safari

Some dogs have such good noses they point a bit far back from the birds. As a young boy I had a dog like that, Rip was his name. My name is Bruce, and he was Bruce's Rip-Snorter. He and his sister Lady (Chuckar Lady Reeva) were a great team. Rip would go 200 yards to birds sometimes, nose held high, and Lady would point in closer than Rip, holding the birds better.

My dogs aren't steady to wing and shot on purpose. They're 90% chuckar dogs, and I want them right there where the birds fall. Our country has a lot of volcanic rock fields on steep mountains, and a crippled chuckar will dart down into holes in these rocks or run off and find some kind of hole...badger, groundhog, etc.

This is a bit of a problem when I miss ( too d@mned often now) or miss a pheasant...of go the dogs.

It's customary for our dogs to hold points and the hunter kick the bird out on ahead of the dog, just the way we do it.

i get all of that luv2safari my old duck dog was allowed to be unsteady [like i had a choice with the old bastard] basicly for the reasons of fast water in some of the locations we hunted.
as stated i had a gsp so considered it part of his job to flush but i see our pointer and setter trials the dog must flush and be steady to it to gain top prize.