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Tuesday, September 19 - Day 2
 
Test 3 - Water Blind

This blind was 239 yards and started behind a small ridge, making it out of sight for the dogs.The wind was right to left at about 10 to 40 mph. The line to the blind was over the ridge, across a prairie trail which connected to a road running straight at the blind along a dike. Both sides of the road were scented after every ten dogs. The line then progressed into the water angled to the right off of the road and across a small spit of land for a re-entry.The dogs then had to continue past a floating log and across a good piece of water and past land on the right, to a point where the bird was planted. The bird planters were stationed upwind of the blind which caused considerable problems for some dogs who beached early. There were a variation of problems on the road up front as well with dogs going into the water on both sides and getting hung up in the scent. A few dogs didn't want to get off the road when they were cast into the water on the right and into a varying wind. The weather played a huge factor with this blind as squalls came up and passed about every 40 minutes all day long with sunny breaks in between. Usually when this happened, a couple of dogs would be picked up.

The test was completed on Tuesday. Callbacks later listed 22 lost. Those are: 1, 5, 8, 9, 11, 14, 19, 34, 35, 36, 57, 58, 59,  64, 66, 71, 85, 89, 92, and 94.( It was reported that all but a handful were pick-ups) Seventy-seven remained in contention. Wednesday's test would be water marks in the same area. Dog #40 will start.  Sorry, the first set of callbacks posted had two errors - These are current ones.


Gladys and Scottie Gillespie
& Phil MacMillan

Web reporter Stu Mead

 

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