Our only gun change for 9th series came after dog #57 finished its re-run.
We had a bit of delay getting started this morning due to fog. But things cleared up and we were ready to go at 9:32 am with our first dog #52. We have had 8 dogs complete this series.
So far we have had 1 no bird; 5 handles, 1 double handle and 1 picked up.
Our temps has increased to 77 degrees with partly cloudy skies.
We will be back with our next running dog #18.
Our first gun changed happened after dog #22, "Stryder," completed his honor. Joe Broyles with his dog, "Chance," was the bye dog.
We started the 6th Series Water Quad with an Honor by calling the first test dog, Bess to the line at 7:38 am then Shooter came to the line at 8:07 am. When Shooter completed his test, he stood at honor for our first running dog #9, which came to the line at 8:54 am.
So far we have had 10 dogs complete this series. We have had 2 no birds, these dogs still need to get the re-runs, 1 double handle and another just handled. We also had a pick up. We are about 1 hour 45 minutes in this series and the time is averaging out to be about 10.5 per dog to complete it.
Our weather had been partly cloudy with temps in the upper 70's. We have a west wind at 8 mph.
We will be back soon with the next running dog.
After dog #24 completed its series we had a gun change at 2:40 pm. Our temps are 83 degrees with sunny skies. The wind has picked up to 10 mph still coming from the south.
We will be back soon with dog #25!
Starting with the last gun change at 11:35 am, the wind has slowly picked up out of the east. This is pushing some of the dogs to the right on the long middle retired bird putting them on the wrong side of the guns. Most dogs quickly recover.
The work on the right retired is still pretty much the same. A lot of dogs go under the arc of the bird. Some hunt deep before recovering and other just quickly adjust.
The temp is 77 degrees with sunny skies and the wind coming out of the east 5 - 8 mph.
We will be right back with dog # 41.
Our first gun change came at 9:25 am after dog #20 received a no bird on a still flopping flyer.
We started 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.
So far we have had 7 no bird with 5 of the dogs already having their re run. We had one dog #8 break.
The weather is producing a warm, sun shiny day with an afternoon temp being in the low 80's!
Time permitting, the callbacks will be given at the 1st Series test site and we are hoping to get in the second series.
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