Thread: Pointer and Setter Trials

Originally Posted by Gibo

What does a set look like? Point with all feet on the ground using nose??

Sometimes the dog can go on point with a real 'snap'...I have found my bitch who moved up to the bird on point and was standing with one rear leg at half mast...some will have either front leg lifted in the point mode but usually this part of the pointing process is done with after they have moved in; it is more an indicator. If the dog scents the bird from a distance, they will initiate or you will the couler in French or roading in...have had the odd bird scented in considerable distances so the couler can be a prolonged exercise...which to me is very exciting and to yourself you are hoping and praying the bird isn't a runner so that the dog after all his work and the intensity can get the retrieve. The one thing that really gets me is that often the dog can go through all of this, then on to the flush, bird breaks cover and it is a blinking hen (pheasant)...the look on the dog's face is enough to curdle your blood!!!

Boy on point...indicating a cock Cali we had called in...



some dogs will have their tails vibrating when hard on point!!