Wild Apple Kennel and Guide Service

Wild Apple Kennel and Guide Service
The 2007 Grand National Grouse Champion, Winner 2008 Northern New England Woodcock Championship, Winner 2010 Lake States Grouse Championship, Runner-up 2011 Northeast Grouse and Woodcock Championship, Winner 2011 International Amateur Woodcock Championship, Winner 2012 Southern New England Woodcock Championship

Wild Apple Kennel Training Blog

This blog will try to present a running account of the training and field trialing season for the pointers of Wild Apple Kennel. NOW ACCEPTING BOOKINGS FOR THE 2015 GROUSE AND WOODCOCK SEASON WITH WILD APPLE KENNEL GUIDE SERVICE! PHONE NUMBERS 603-449-3419 OR CELL 603-381-8763.



Thursday, April 26, 2012

You Just Can't Avoid the Little Buggers

Today we ran three braces of dogs in a spot where we thought we wouldn't find any birds.  Boy were we wrong.  In the first brace Frankie had a a really nice find on the far edge (300 yards away) where we saw him stop and then stand as we walked all the way across the field.  He had a hen woodcock about five feet off his nose in the grass on the edge and we fired and collared him away without flushing her.  On the way back to the truck he had a stop to flush on another woodcock.  He was running with Jack who had two woodcock finds of his own -- one that we didn't flush and one that got up pretty good (probably a male).  In the second brace, LJ and Little Thuddy had a good run and the Little Thuddster had a grouse find.  He always seems to find a bird. In the final brace Abbie and Trash ripped it up and Trash had two woodcock contacts.  One was pretty much a stop to flush and the other was on the bird that Jack had pointed.  It ran around pretty good before Trash finally bumped it on about her third relocation.

Tomorrow we're heading over to Bangor  for the Mid Coast Maine Trial.  you can check out the running order at http://mcmftc.wordpress.com/ LJ and Tony's four puppies are running Sat. morning in the Open Puppy.  Frankie and Trash are also running in the Open Derby.  Jack is in the first brace of the Open Shooting Dog which drew a nice entry of 21 dogs.  Stopped and got a special bottle of single malt to give to Jack's scout Mike Flewelling who has scouted Jack numerous times including his last three Championship placements.  Hopefully I'll see a lot of you there.  If I have time in the morning I'll put up an other training article for you.

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