Day 6 – Flight C – Test 3 – Palmetto East-Land – Thursday, October 22

Flight C: Carol Hynes and Tellus Calhoun

Palmetto East-Land – Land Triple, Land Blind and Honor

This Land Triple with a blind and honor contained an out-of-order flyer and a blind run under the arc of bird number three. The terrain was a strip-mowed field with wide strips of cover. Standing on the mat, bird number one was a flyer shot to the left at 118 yards in front of the mat. Bird number two was thrown to the right, landing 84 yards from the line to the left of the flyer. Bird number three was 55 yards below the line, off to the right hand side of the field, thrown to the left. The blind was at 107 yards and the line to it was under the arc of bird number three, the go-bird.

Flight C is the second group to visit this test site and the conditions today were different than what the previous flight experienced, because there was little to no wind. We arrived early afternoon to this test, fully underway. Of the six dogs we saw, we saw one good job, two handles, one not invited to run the blind and one break on the honor. 

On Thursday, we visited this test site again in the middle of the afternoon. The wind had picked up from yesterday, so the pheasant flyer was flying higher and further, resulting in a significant increase in no-birds. Four of the five dogs that we saw today, had to be handled on the flyer.