Day 7 – Flight A – Test 4 –Goose Pond-Land – Friday, October 23

Flight A: Judges Robert Rascoe and Tom McMorrow 

Goose Pond-Land – Land Triple, Blind, Honor

This was a Land Triple with a blind and honor, using all rooster pheasants. The handler comes to the line on the crest of a hill. A well-brushed blind sits in front of the line at the base of a hill. This station blows a call, shoots, then throws to the right with the bird landing 103 yards from the line. Next, to the handler's right is a walk-out flyer. The gunners are in a blind, deep right of bird one. They walk out, blow a call and shoot to the left with the bird landing 139 yards from the line. Next, there is a pheasant call from a brushed-up station on the handler's far left. This bird is thrown to the right, landing 75 yards from the line. The dogs picked-up the go-bird, next they picked up the flyer and finished off the test with the middle bird. After completing the marks, the dogs were asked to run a blind off the left hand side of the middle bird, located 127 yards from the line.

Flight A was the second group to use this test site. We arrived mid-afternoon by which time, the temperature had risen to over 80 degrees and there was very slight wind in the handler's face. The air was hazy and we were told that there was a controlled burn going on nearby. We watched six dogs run and three of them had to be handled on the flyer. Five of the six dogs had multiple handles on the blind, the other was not invited to run the blind.

Future MNH !!!