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    Pre-season training

    I was just interested to know what (if anything) people are doing to get their dogs ready for the upcoming bird season?

    My older dog is almost 8 and has had a lot of training and has done a lot of hunting and so doesn't really need any pre-season sharpening. Instead I just focus on maintaining his fitness and weight throughout the year. My younger dog is 22 months and she just had an introduction last year and came out on about 8 hunts. I have decided that I will hunt her for at least the first half of the season as a non-slip retriever, I do a lot of walked up and rough hunting so normally have my dogs working just out in front of me. So with her she is heeling on every walk, I try to go somewhere with game once a week so she is used to seeing the pheasant flush, but remains by my side.

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    Thought this was going to be how to get rid of Christmas dinner before the roar
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    You are from the Stewart island you don't have to worry about that. Every time I have been down there for a hunt the locals just seem to be cutting down a bunch of feed and then waiting for the deer, so you don't need to worry getting fit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hautapu View Post
    You are from the Stewart island you don't have to worry about that. Every time I have been down there for a hunt the locals just seem to be cutting down a bunch of feed and then waiting for the deer, so you don't need to worry getting fit.
    Very true... Then I go to the mainland and they have these things called mountains with more interesting four legged game at the top of them

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    I just take my lab magpie shooting and Chuck a ball around and go swimming 2 times a day

 

 

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