I agree, to have a good dog you have to keep them in the birds. After moving here I needed to work with a couple of young dogs and few birds were around this area so I built a flight pin and added 400 quail. I also built recall pins, scattered them around the property. It worked pretty well for training young dogs and my 6 yr old son. My son shot his first quail over my dogs back then. I no longer have pointing dogs but have been giving some thought to raising some Chucker's for working my Golden Retriever on flush training/retrieving training. Maybe taking him Pheasant hunting/dove hunting along with his duck hunting. I am a firm believer that you have to get dogs into birds to make a good hunting/retrieving dog.
Last edited by TGW1; 05/17/19 07:14 AM.
