The blind was 180 yds. from the line, which was on a hillside, and the line to the blind included an angle entry down a steep grassy slope for 60 yds., with a pair of rocks on the line at about 23 yds. One was about 2 1/2ft high and 2 ft. wide. The other was about 12 inches high and 3 ft. long which could easily be jumped, but not many rose to the challenge and the rocks did deflect some dogs from their line. The line carried on through about 40 yds. of marsh grass to the water’s edge, then by water down the shoreline for 80 yds. There was about 10 feet of tall marsh grass all along the shore. A gun station was placed on the land to the right of the blind and, when signaled, fired and threw a bird from right to left at about 150 yds. to land short of the marsh grass lining the bank.
A boat with white-coated blind planters was in place off to the left. A fairly strong wind blew from right to left, subsiding and building throughout the test. The test was 6 to 7 minutes per dog and finished about 12.30 PM.
Most of the dogs completed the test without major faults. Dogs #16, 22,37, and 49 were not called back for the next series.
There were 30 dogs back and, after the test dogs, the first dog, #47, ran at 2 PM. The same grounds were used for this test as the previous one but the line was moved down the hill and about 15 yds. to left. The prevailing wind was from right to left, but sporadically switched 180 degrees back and forth.
No. 1 Gun Station was on the right at the base of a stand of trees on a rise across a pond of lunging and swimming water. A drake mallard was thrown 45 back, right to left to land in light cover close to a tree behind the gunners at 194 yds. They then retired to a blind in the trees.
The No. 2 Gun Station was at 190 yds on a gentle slope some distance past the end of the pond that had been used for the preceding blind. The bird was thrown from right to right and landed into light cover at the edge of a swale of marsh grass.
In the center No. 3 guns were at 130 yds and in the same spot as the gunners who threw the poison bird in the previous blind retrieve. They also threw from right to left landing the bird near the edge of the marsh grass, as before.
Most of the dogs did not have the difficulty with the test which all anticipated, although there were a few who handled or were very loose on one of the longer birds.
The boat used in the previous test was hauled partly onto the shore to the left of where the line was. When sent for the No. 2 bird, four dogs veered well to left and launched themselves into the water at the boat, two of them actually running down the length of the boat and diving off the stern end
This test took about 10 to 12 minutes per dog and finished just before 8 P.M. The following dogs were not called back for the 7th. test: Dogs # 23, 26, 36, 46.
