Back to the Field

We were up bright and early Sunday as we headed out of the house in the snowy weather to officially kick off the training season in preparation for the spring/summer hunt test season with a trip to Eagle Creek, Oregon to Double Gun Ranch for training with Chris. We were lucky and the weather seemed to get better as we got closer to Oregon and ended up snow free even though it was cold and windy.

Since it was only Ben and I that made the trek we were able to get about 3 hours of straight training in with the boys. We were able to get Odin out pointing and holding birds which nice to see that he hadn't lost his touch or skills after having the last few months off and being in the show ring. We worked with Loki on his hearing and his pointing planted birds. We aren't working the retrieving or too much with planted birds with Loki right now since he is at the skill level needed for the junior hunter level so we used the most of the day to work with Odin since he is going for his master hunter title. 

Loki pointing a planted bird

 We were also able to get some work with Odin on honoring another dog's point since this is an area we had a lot of trouble with last year during the tests. Hopefully with some more work on this skill we will be able to replicate it during a real test this year.

Odin honoring Jazzi"s point



Onto another weekend of training and seeing the boys evolve into good little hunting dogs.