Conclusion of Series One Recap

The 1st Series Land Triple with Roosters, 1 Flyer and 2 Dead is in the books at 1:52 pm with dog #20's rerun to finish the test.

With 60 dogs entered in the 80th running of the National Retriever Club Championship, we had one scratching, we started with 59 competing dogs! Congrats to all the dogs who qualified!

The day with Bess, our female test dog at 6:58 am. She got a no bird and went back to in the blind and came right back out at 6:59 am for her test. It took Bess 6 minutes 28 seconds to complete the test. She had to get a few whistles from handler Mark Littlejohn. Our second test dog Shooter with handler Larry Vaske came to the line at 7:06 am. It took them 5 minutes and 15 seconds to complete their test.

Dog #1 Blue, our first competing dog came to the line at 7:27 am, and this started the 2020 NRC Championship.

Our re-birds and gun changes happened as follows...

Re-Bird after #11 at 8:28 am with dog #12 starting back at 8:31 am. Gun Change after #20 at 9:25 am, starting back with dog #21 at 9:31 am. 2nd Re-Bird after #33 at 10:52 am with dog #34 starting back at 10:54 am. 2nd Gun Change happened after #40 at 11:35 am with the dog #41 starting back up at 11:41 am.

It showed to be a tough day for the gunners as we had 12 no birds/ reruns. 

Dog #8 had a break, and there was a handle with dog #21.

The last dog #20 came to the line at 1:47 pm and was completed at 1:52 pm.

From the time the first running dog came to the line at 7:27 am until the last running dog finished test, this series took 6 hours 25 minutes. Which is approximately 6.5 minutes per dog.