Test 2 - Water Triple

Midnight, Sunday, chain and sheet lightning with heavy rain accompanied trailers as they tried to sleep.

Monday morning was overcast with strong south winds. Test #3, was a water triple with a retired gun.  Gun #1, 200 yards at center, with a duck angled back right to left…the line was to take three to five feet of a narrow neck of water at a culvert, and land all the way to the bird.  A lot of dogs got hung up on the right side of the gun before going left to the bird.  Gun #2, left, at 142 yards, was a long throw across a channel and then retired…the line to this bird was an angle entry into the channel, past a small point and a swim to the bird.  A lot of dogs hung right in the channel and turned left when they reached the bird, a few avoided the water and took land to the gun station, then swam the channel to the bird, however, most took the channel or part of it.  The go-bird at 116 yards was angled back across a road into some tules…the line to this bird was to just miss the culvert, angle into shore tules, into the water to the bird.  Most dogs missed the shore tules and continued further on to an opening free of tules, then took water to the bird. Wind strength and direction varied during the day (from south to westerly) causing performance on the retired left duck to be quite variable. The end of day produced heavy rain as promised.

The test was completed at 6:00pm,at which time cocktails and camaraderie took over, and everyone was invited to a “Fish Fry” hosted by the Portage La Prairie Retriever Club, with Dawne McKenzie and Ron MacKenzie doing the honors.

Callbacks were posted at 7:00p.m., and 54 dogs were called back.  Fourteen dogs were dropped, call backs were 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12,13,14,15, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, 70, 74.