Thread: Pointer and Setter Trials

Originally Posted by el borracho

please post those comments as I have always backed the testing systems -please do !!!!you know you have been wrong before:

Here you go then....despite your alleged 'support' of Testing and having never seen or participated in it, you suggest that it is inferior. In actual fact, it is simply different in terms of how people make use of it.

Originally Posted by el borracho

a test without a comp means less

Originally Posted by el borracho

Hypocrital you say hahahah GQ hypocracy would be you slagging tweed when being the most elegantly tweed dresser in New Zealand hahahah :thumbsup :

Me wearing tweed has never been in dispute. My offense (and that of others) is from when you say others look like 'ditch diggers' simply because of what they choose wear.

Originally Posted by Pointer

A man I consider a mentor would disagree... He travelled there numerous times with GSPs and Curlys.

The southerners are a pragmatic bunch, not to be fussed with bullshit pigeon trials. Where they have been traditionally strong is in in retriever trials, and more recently, spaniel trials

Yes, I have witnessed parts thereof the retriever trial (South Islands)...Teresa was there with her chessies...it was pretty exciting stuff actually...if a Labrador can be exciting

Its a bit of a Bob Dylan song eh EES -The times they are a chaingin

I couldn't possibly speak on behalf of the South Island El B

The P & S fraternity only have pigeon trials down there!

I'm glad someone got where I was going with this EBs 😊

They would probably grow the sport if they did a couple of live game trials --a must to prove a dog amongst its peers I think

I agree, I am sure there would be resurgence if they did run wild game trials...

It will take a Southerner to do it though...

Agree Ees ,use what these is available and give thanks for it

Yes, probably...someone who has the bottle to bang the table and say 'righto, lets do it'... Seriously, the spaniel guys have wild game trials on the preserves, so why is the P & S fraternity so reticent about doing so...

Originally Posted by EeeBees

Yes, probably...someone who has the bottle to bang the table and say 'righto, lets do it'... Seriously, the spaniel guys have wild game trials on the preserves, so why is the P & S fraternity so reticent about doing so...

I think there is only one Preserve that the Spaniel folk Trial on in the SI, the rest of the trials are primarily on rabbits.

I have never hunted the south so dont rightly know their terrain but I understand they have some fine quail grounds -dont know if it is on big open spaces or in the river bed areas ???

Where the P & S trial was run when I was down there, it looked quailly country to me...stopped to water the dogs on the Waimak a couple of years later and there were quail in the rough there...there were quail on the riverbank out of Geraldine...Marlborough could be a go for quail??

When I move from Auckland and become mortgage free Im going to spend a little time down there --let my dogs run huge ..............