Day 7 – Flight E – Test 4 – Byrd's Campground-Land/Water – Friday, October 23

Flight E: Kay Scott and John Kinnard
Byrd’s Campground-Land/Water – Land/Water Triple, 

Double Blind and Walk-up

This test is a Land/Water Triple with a double blind and a walk-up. Bird one is to the handler's right, thrown to the right  at 40 yards. Bird number two is a flyer shot to the right, landing 150 yards in front of the line at a point of cover. Bird number three is thrown to the left from the shoreline, landing in the water 40 yards to the left of the line. The line to the land blind is between the flyer and bird one at 130 yards from the line. The water blind is under the arc of bird three, 35 yards in front of the line. The handler comes to the line, with bird one a walk-up. The go-bird is water bird number three. The handler must then pick-up the land blind. The handler proceeds to complete picking up birds one and two and finishes with the land blind.

We arrived this test with Flight E finishing running their last few dogs. The troublesome bird seemed to be the flyer, with the dogs fading with the terrain into towards the flyer station. Despite the difficulties, the gallery was very complimentary of the bird placement.

Kenny Girot describes Byrd's Campground-Land/Water