Recent content by blackpearl

what is this all about a choke lead and a good tug thats all it takes ,its dogs were talking about not horses.

The problem in ireland is at a trial you must send your dog in to flush the bird ,if you flush the bird yourself you are put out of the trial .

good, last evening 1 pheasant and 2 snipe set he dropped to all flushes even one snipe that did not hold to set he stoped as well was over the moon made a big fuss of him the next couple of times out will tell the tale,getting their thanks.

I am in ireland, if i get him droping to flush i have a good chance with him, doing some work with pidgeons he will stay when the bird flushes from the trap but most of the time on wild birds he is running a few steps ,taking a step or 2 will put him out in a trial over with us ,was think of...

Have a english setter 31/2 years old have shot a couple hundred pheasants over him ,he would be running into flush and shot at this stage ,i have started him in the trialing circle this last month or so his ranging is perfect but am having trouble getting him to stay to flush ,just wondering can...

really helpful thanks, did not let the dogs get use to the bleeper ,people back in Ireland were laughing at me when they heard I bought a collar a lot of the forestry I shoot in is chest high with some open patches in it,i allways used a bell but the problem was when the dog set you had to look...

sorry for your loss,if you don't mind how many of the 17 years was the dog hunting.

Hudson name from one of my best setters of all time.

got a bleeper collar for my dogs new forestry getting to tall,. getting to hard to find dogs,problem is my dogs work on whistle, recall and sit I have 3 setters 2 reds and one English only one dog will work with collar the other 2 keep coming back on the bleep ,quail call and hawk scream they...

brown dogs can do will put them up in the next few days.

hello from ireland hello everyone out their been hunting pheasants in Ireland for35years I am a red setter man hoping to chat to use bird dog people out their .