Day 7 – Flight D – Test 4 – Clubhouse-Land – Friday, October 23

Flight D: Martin Bell and Bruce Bachert
Clubhouse-Land – Land Triple, Land Blind and Honor

Flight D was the first group to use the Clubhouse-Land test site. This is a land triple with a land blind and an honor. The first bird down is the right-hand flyer, shot to the right at 110 yards. The middle bird at 77 yards was thrown to the right landing in the hip pocket of the flyer. The left go-bird is thrown to the right at 30 yards. The blind is under the arc of the middle bird at 120 yards. The judges instructed the handlers to pick up all the marks and then the blind. 

For those dogs that had to handle, they had to look up the slope with the sun in their eyes. This may have contributed to the number of cast refusals we witnessed. The flyer was giving the dogs trouble, drawing them into the flyer station.

Doug Shade describes the Clubhouse Land Test