Thank you…I have always felt that it it’s important to be honest with people…that’s why I also show my missed shots (and have taken some stick for it over the years!) Cheers Nick
Thank you for your kind comments, Twig will be a bit special as she is “home bred”. Looking forward to seeing how she shapes up over the next few months…just got to keep my running shoes at the ready! Cheers Nick
I was chuckling to myself a bit when Twig was all wound up at the beginning, paying only modest attention to commands. I thought 'well, no dog starts off completely polished'. Then that pheasant retrieve! Wow, very impressive!
Thanks for taking the time to comment and how right you are! Too many people like to show “the finished article” but I have always been a realist and I think it is important to show the bad bits as well as the good bits…its called reality 😂 That retrieve will live with me for a long time although I now have my work cut out to control her drive…Cheers Nick
Great video mate, I used to be a beater a while back but I'm just getting back into it so I'm quite the novice any tips and pointers would be great and also just wondering what part of England your about. Great video
Well don’t theses dogs test your emotions. One minute they push your buttons by ignoring commands, the next minute they exceed your expectations. When you sent the young dog for a runner I immediately thought wrong decision, too much of an ask for a young dog and an immediate contradiction to the work you had put in a few minutes earlier to hold and stay. But what a retrieve to make for even the most experienced of dogs. I guess you may struggle to hold off her natural instinct to push on and hunt in the line, but wow does she serve you well on a retrieve. Congratulations in securing a great moment and memory on film. Well done Twig 🙌 p.s. guns were very productive with a significant number of runners 😬🤣🤣
Thanks Steve for your comments and you must have read my mind! It all happened so quick and to be honest I reacted on instinct. Twigs retrieving has always been good but after watching the video back I was really impressed with her mark on the pheasant, she hit the fall perfectly. I only wish I had seen her take the line of the bird the other side of the hill….and you are quite right I will have to watch her next time I run her. Her hunting needed to come up a gear or two and I suspect I shan’t have any problems in that area….Cheers Nick
We can come across quite thick bramble which can cut the dogs up a bit and gorse can be a bit nasty but on the whole the dogs just plough through it although a post shoot check up is really important. Cheers Nick
Very nice retrieve by Twig - no doubt about that - well done! But.... I really don't get, why she was even sent in the first place? She was disobedient to the whistle most of the time, and then out of pure luck you get a situation, where she hits some scent, in the same moment, you blow the whistle, and then she turns. Couldn't have been more perfect timing to show her what the whistle means. She then flushes the bird, but again disobedient on the stop signal, and you have to yell at her to stop her. In my honest opinion, you have done bad even worse, by giving her the reward of picking up that bird after being disobedient and you yelling at her. I would've put her back in the place, where she was supposed to stop, and let another dog pick up that bird, call her in, put her on a leash and let her walk heel, until getting back to the car. Well, I love your videos man - kudos to that! And really hope you succeed with Twig...
Evening….first of all thank you for taking the time to comment on the video and I appreciate your assessment of the situation, which to be honest is smack on! The scenario kind of unfolded and the reason I ended up sending her for the bird was that we didn’t have a dog at that end of the line and the gamekeeper was very keen that we picked all the birds shot. I saw that she had stopped by me and had a solid mark on the bird as it dropped, it was an instinctive reaction to send her although you are quite right it wasn’t necessarily the right thing to do…hindsight is a wonderful thing. On a positive note she hit the mark and took a lovely line to make her retrieve, Twig is still very much a “work in progress” and I am back at the same place doing a flushing / hunting training session with her this coming weekend and hopefully we will get her squared away….as they say “watch this space”! All the best Nick
We’ve all been there… Fully understand, that we do things out of instinct, especially when we swap dogs during the day - a 7-8 year old experienced dog, I would of course have send immediately, and sometimes in the heat.. I fully understand! Thanks for the videos 😊
Bloody fantastic love the way you showed the good the bad and the ugly mate unlike some of the other videos on RUclips top man👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you…I have always felt that it it’s important to be honest with people…that’s why I also show my missed shots (and have taken some stick for it over the years!) Cheers Nick
Great footage there Nick and what a fantastic retrieve by the young lady, she is one for the future mate, well done both and keep the vids coming.
Thank you for your kind comments, Twig will be a bit special as she is “home bred”. Looking forward to seeing how she shapes up over the next few months…just got to keep my running shoes at the ready! Cheers Nick
I was chuckling to myself a bit when Twig was all wound up at the beginning, paying only modest attention to commands. I thought 'well, no dog starts off completely polished'. Then that pheasant retrieve! Wow, very impressive!
Thanks for taking the time to comment and how right you are! Too many people like to show “the finished article” but I have always been a realist and I think it is important to show the bad bits as well as the good bits…its called reality 😂 That retrieve will live with me for a long time although I now have my work cut out to control her drive…Cheers Nick
Well done Twig, fantastic retrieve, thanks for the video Nick, cheers Howie
Cheers Howie….these young dogs keep us on our toes !
Great video, as always, and what an amazing retrieve by Twig.
Thank you….it was a bit special, mind you I would have much preferred a nice little 20 yard retrieve 😂 Cheers Nick
really a great film, and what a retrieve Twig did - looking forward to the next one. best regards from Denmark
Thank you….we will be heading out again next week, back into the bramble ! Hope all is well. Cheers Nick
Thank you Nick. And congratulations on Twig!
Thank you!
Another great video.
Great retrieve. That’s as good as you’ll get but lads, the standard of shooting is abysmal. Do these guys shoot regular or is it a day out
Great video mate, I used to be a beater a while back but I'm just getting back into it so I'm quite the novice any tips and pointers would be great and also just wondering what part of England your about. Great video
We are based in the Bucks area. Cheers NIck
Well don’t theses dogs test your emotions. One minute they push your buttons by ignoring commands, the next minute they exceed your expectations. When you sent the young dog for a runner I immediately thought wrong decision, too much of an ask for a young dog and an immediate contradiction to the work you had put in a few minutes earlier to hold and stay. But what a retrieve to make for even the most experienced of dogs. I guess you may struggle to hold off her natural instinct to push on and hunt in the line, but wow does she serve you well on a retrieve. Congratulations in securing a great moment and memory on film. Well done Twig 🙌
p.s. guns were very productive with a significant number of runners 😬🤣🤣
Thanks Steve for your comments and you must have read my mind! It all happened so quick and to be honest I reacted on instinct. Twigs retrieving has always been good but after watching the video back I was really impressed with her mark on the pheasant, she hit the fall perfectly. I only wish I had seen her take the line of the bird the other side of the hill….and you are quite right I will have to watch her next time I run her. Her hunting needed to come up a gear or two and I suspect I shan’t have any problems in that area….Cheers Nick
do you have much issue with burr and prickles in the field? I run a Brittany in Australia and we have some typical nasty sharp burrs to contend with
We can come across quite thick bramble which can cut the dogs up a bit and gorse can be a bit nasty but on the whole the dogs just plough through it although a post shoot check up is really important. Cheers Nick
Very nice retrieve by Twig - no doubt about that - well done!
But.... I really don't get, why she was even sent in the first place?
She was disobedient to the whistle most of the time, and then out of pure luck you get a situation, where she hits some scent, in the same moment, you blow the whistle, and then she turns. Couldn't have been more perfect timing to show her what the whistle means. She then flushes the bird, but again disobedient on the stop signal, and you have to yell at her to stop her. In my honest opinion, you have done bad even worse, by giving her the reward of picking up that bird after being disobedient and you yelling at her. I would've put her back in the place, where she was supposed to stop, and let another dog pick up that bird, call her in, put her on a leash and let her walk heel, until getting back to the car.
Well, I love your videos man - kudos to that!
And really hope you succeed with Twig...
Evening….first of all thank you for taking the time to comment on the video and I appreciate your assessment of the situation, which to be honest is smack on! The scenario kind of unfolded and the reason I ended up sending her for the bird was that we didn’t have a dog at that end of the line and the gamekeeper was very keen that we picked all the birds shot. I saw that she had stopped by me and had a solid mark on the bird as it dropped, it was an instinctive reaction to send her although you are quite right it wasn’t necessarily the right thing to do…hindsight is a wonderful thing. On a positive note she hit the mark and took a lovely line to make her retrieve, Twig is still very much a “work in progress” and I am back at the same place doing a flushing / hunting training session with her this coming weekend and hopefully we will get her squared away….as they say “watch this space”! All the best Nick
We’ve all been there… Fully understand, that we do things out of instinct, especially when we swap dogs during the day - a 7-8 year old experienced dog, I would of course have send immediately, and sometimes in the heat.. I fully understand!
Thanks for the videos 😊
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