Kiowa earned his Started Retriever title last weekend with two passes at the PSRC sponsored tests near Bremerton, WA. Had to handle him once on Sat., and forgot my whistle on Sun. (land marks); otherwise things went pretty smoothly.

If any of you ever get out this way, I can highly recommend this club's training grounds. In addition, they seem to have a great group of members who volunteered countless hours to put on very organized tests, as well as a fabulous barbeque/raffle/silent auction Sat. night. Tim Lockard was the event chair, and worked very hard to make sure all went well.

Gigi
Congratulations on the ne title, is NAHRA's started test semilar to Junior or Senior? Never ran NAHRA, not a club in this area so I have no background in it. I have heard from a lot of folks that run it and all seem to have a good time.

Marty

Gigi, a huge congratulations to you and Ki! That is terrific !

Gigi, Thanks for the great endorsement of PSRC! We enjoyed your visit to the Kitsap Penisula and a hearty congrats on Kiowa earning his Started Title! He is a hansome peake and has a great personality to match. Keep on doing the work and we will be seeing you guys entering Senior next summer.

Marty, The Started stake is closer to HRC Started than an AKC Junior. The dogs are required to complete five single marks, 2 on land and 2 on water; the 5th mark land/water is the decision of the judges. Dogs must be steady but may be restrained to steady. Dogs are not required to deliver to hand. The dogs are required to return to the point of orgin without delay.

Congratulations

Marty, I forgot to add that at PSRC the dogs will see two shot flyers(ducks). One each land and water series. Decoy spreads, boats, calling and always a attention call or shot with shot fired at the top of the arc. Guns are for the most part hidden guns but not always at the Started level.

Tim, you forgot the mat! Fortunately, Ki didn't care what he had to sit on, as long as he got to go!

Thanks for a great weekend!

GiGi

Congrats Gigi!!!very cool!


Marty - NAHRA is a blast - at least in Alaska

started land marks can be up to 75 yds, water up to 50.....

hunter - double marks on land and water...land marks to 75, water marks to 50, short trail test

intermediate - double marks on land and water...land to 100, water to 75 - land blind to 75, water blind to 50 (wish they would change the water blind to 75 also) - trail, and quarter (no flush).

senior - triple marks - one series on land, one on water - all up to 100 yds, blinds (water and land) up to 100 yd, trail and quarter with steady to shot and fall....

here is an example of a senior/intermediate test that we had last yr...It was a killer of a test...by the end of the day they lost all but one of the senior dogs and all but 2 of the intermediate dogs (Hitch being one of those two)



there was a diversion bird thrown for both levels, and you can just make out one of the gun stations past the treeline on the right, the middle station is also beyond the hayfield nearer the center of the pic and these two marks were thrown toward each other....senior blind was hot and to the left of the middle gun station....the left gun station was a 'bridge' mark - thrown across the road - dogs needed to get on the road and then off the left side of it to take a straight line to the bird....

Juli

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Originally posted by Tim Lockard:
Marty, I forgot to add that at PSRC the dogs will see two shot flyers(ducks). One each land and water series. Decoy spreads, boats, calling and always a attention call or shot with shot fired at the top of the arc. Guns are for the most part hidden guns but not always at the Started level.

Tim, Howabout posting upcoming events? I never heard a word about anything going on last weekend. I would have certainly made it over to at least see a couple Chessie friends. (GiGi too)

Paul, Sorry, about that. The event was mentioned(a couple of times) in Gigi's post about the NAHRA passes in Spokane in May. Our next event at PSRC is our AKC licensed field trial 24-26 July. The club website www.pugetretriever.com Come on over.

Thanks for the information, would be pretty cool to get two flyers in a test. Has only happend in a Master test once in about 19 years of running them.

If there was a NAHRA in the area I would have to go and check it out, this is a big HRC and AKC Hunt Test area, I don't know where or if there is one even remotely close.

Marty

Bookmarked! Maybe I'll swing out and watch some of the trial on Saturday or Sunday(July). Be good to meet you. Paul

Gigi,
Congrats, very nice job

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Originally posted by Paul Gilmore:
Bookmarked! Maybe I'll swing out and watch some of the trial on Saturday or Sunday(July). Be good to meet you. Paul

My training partner is taking Friday off to go watch some. I may come down watch and do a some work on the dogs that day....play hookey from work of course!

Thanks, Everyone!

Marty- is was GREAT having the 2 flyers; really added excitement. I was a little worried about how Kiowa would do, since he'd been bred the week before. On Sat. he was quite cool about everything, not his usual style. I was worried that I didn't have my dog with me. But then we walked up to the line and he was all business. It really helped that Sat. began with water marks, my dock dog's favorite.

Everybody- make a field trip up to Tim's club- they're great people working in a beautiful setting!