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Originally Posted by Hales Smut

I think you will agree that the moment you train this dog, he just doesn't stop chasing a rabbit when you blow the stop whistle for the first,second or third time.
When you read Erlandson's first book about his 17 Champions, you will see that a good few where non hunters that took time to get going. I don't like this type of dog. It's fine when you have plenty of game, but not if the dog only gets 1 find every hour in the hardest of cover.

No I won;t agree... yes he will, if he's been trained to stop properly in the first place, yes he is harder to stop than a white grass dog, all the more reason your stop whistle training has to be that much sharper for the tougher type of dog.....

On preserves we have a ton of game, but one pheasant an hour would be a good days hunting here in our public forests... our dogs are up to it... and I can tell, at a trial, the difference between a dog capable of that type of work and one that lives and works on preserves only. (Preserves = Pheasant Estates).

Ballyblack's, you won;t find much online, Jim Clarke (Mr Ballyblack) is in his Eighties and doesn't spend much time online. I think our spaniels could go the same road. I am breeding back to Ballyblack lines to try and keep them, others are looking to imports... be interesting to see how that all works out.

I believe by the time you have the skill to use an e-collar properly, you don;t need one

Originally Posted by Ruff

I believe by the time you have the skill to use an e-collar properly, you don;t need one

Have a dog hard headed enough and you do.