Day 6 – Flight B – Test 3 – Palmetto West-Land – Thursday, October 22

Flight B: Dale Langhorne and Ed Sullivan

Palmetto West-Land – Land Triple, Land Blind, Honor

We arrived at this third test just as Flight B was finishing this test up for the day with just a couple of  dogs left to run.

Flight B's third test is a Land Triple with a blind and an honor using all pheasants. Bird number one was thrown to the left at 80 yards. The left-hand second bird was thrown to the right, 60 yards from the line. The third bird was a flyer landing 150 yards from the line; this bird was shot to the left; the line to retrieve this bird was under the arc of bird number one. After the dog picked up all three marks, the blind was at 90 yards under the arc of bird number two.

As we visited this test for the second time, we paid particular attention to the fact that the middle flyer continued to cause the most problems. This is as a result of the fact that the flyer had a wide area in which it was falling. Sometimes it was under the arc of the right hand bird, and other times it was in line with the right hand first bird down.

Jack Morris describes Palmetto West-Land