Your very kind Ian but i doubt i could get anywhere near trial standard, apart from anything else i dont think i would have the fortitudewestcountry wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 1:54 pm Ian , from what you have done with Eze ,she should be capable of running in a trial.
I do go beating and have dogs that do the job. I have dogs that pick up ,all on large commercial shoots. 10000 bird days on exmoor. I also trial with moderate success. Believe me when I say that a well trained trialing dog can do whatever is asked of it wether beating or picking up. Lots of trial winning dogs are trained in the beating line.
I tip my hat to you that you are able to take a dog trialing and same dog beating
perhaps its down to how well and how consistent you are with it or perhaps the type of shoot and the way keeper runs it , maybe ?I have seen a few trialing dogs on beating line and at least one of them had won stuff. It started off well and was quite impressive however as the shoot progressed it had a moment same as the rest of our dogs do, he got away with it as the 40 or so birds it ran in too all went over the guns, plus i don't think the keeper saw it. Another dog was i think quite young and although i think had won tests (and maybe trialled i am not sure) was in effect in training, he was very selective as to how and were he worked it so much so that the rest of us were in effect doing his job, never saw him again
the other couple i have seen must have been no better or worse than rest of us as i cant remember anything specific.I think if your experienced and good enough then like you the dog will do what's asked of it however my only point is that the rest of us are only beating (maybe the odd day on pigeon and or the odd rough shooting) and there are aspects of the usual training regime that imo are not required and maybe there is a better way of training, i dont know what yet i havent worked it out but my next one will definitely not be trained to be retrieve driven
