Went pheasant hunting today at Cherry Valley, Blue is a Tiger Mountain Pointing Lab, he points about half the pheasants I shoot but this is the first time I got a picture of him doing it. He held the point till I sent him after the bird.



Everybody with the Blue and Mickey pups should watch for the ability to point.

Awsome
so where is the pic of the dead rooster?

I shot it at about 10 yards and took its head off, wasnt a good picture.

we need to get Radar out and see if he is into birds.

Super cool!

Nice Pic! My pup really started to increase his pointing in the past few weeks, but he is still mostly working as a flusher.

Was out at Crescent lake yesterday. Dog goes into the corn, I hear "cluck cluck" and out he comes out with a rooster and delivers. As far as I can tell, the bird was healthy and there were no obvious wounds. I guess it was just a stupid pen raised bird.

Cheers!
SD

I don't hunt, but am having seconds thoughts. Tye is obviously "hunting" any time he gets outdoors. He has pointed slugs, robbins, and crows. Will chase ducks till they land in the water. Doesn't want them bad enough to swim after them. I would love to see how he would react to a phesant hunt.

Cool picture of a lab on point!

DV - You should take him hunting.

Watching your dog hunt is one of the greatest joys in life. Especially if your dog is a hunting dog. Even if he isn't trained specifically to hunt. When he is hunting he will be in his element and you will see how much he is enjoying the feeling of being a predator.

If you are interested let me know if you are in the Elma area. I could take you two out on the river and try and shoot a duck for him to retrieve.

RR: Lets do it. I am pretty open most weeks now.

Tye has not been around nearby gunshots, but showed no fear in a major thunderstorm.

Dave _ I would HIGHLY reccomend taking the pup to a hunt club / game farm for the first time out. Controlled environment, no other hunters, and guarenteed birds. Cooke Canyon over in Ellensberg is an aswesome place to take a first time pup.

I agree 100% with RR "Watching your dog hunt is one of the greatest joys in life"! My lab lives for it and you can not believe the ammount of joy he gets from a morning in the field hunting birds.

Cheers!
SD

Snow Dog

I think I will look into the Cook Canyon thing. Thanks.

Hey Dave, I go to Cherry Valley in Duvall a couple times a week, I will give you a call next time I am gonna go, you and Tye can come along.

Sweet. I would love that. He has zero hunting training but is pretty good as far as obedience.

I'll bet he does just fine his first time out and has a blast. I swear my dog teaches himself how to hunt more than I do through training. I figure my job is mostly to provide him the opportunity to learn

When I was training Blue I was amazed by his innate ability to find birds. The only training I had to do was basic obedience and he did the rest.

It was amazing watching my old lab Chester (RIP) train himself. I got him when I was 14 and did the best I could with my high school schedule. I remember realizing that my dog had figured out to get the cripples first, the long retrieves next, and the close ones last. I never had time to show him that stuff, he just got it. Amazing.

You may have to take Tye solo until he realizes what he is doing. This will require a shooter/Achewter Hillbilly name fer it. The first bird that falls while he is watching it fly away will be like his first piece of ASS. If Tye goes with Blue he may just want to play with Blue. Blue will want to hunt and may let Tye know he is out of line. It could be with what Dave says about Tye's natural interest in hunting it could be all good from the git go. The first time Mickey saw me shoulder a gun she got very excited. The first time i shot around her she took off in the direction I shot to find what ever it was that i must have killed.
Needless to say we were both dissapointed.

Same here. Besides basic obetiant training I did very little bird training. I figure the dog know more about bird hunting instinctivly then I'll ever know. I like to say I'm going for a walk but my pup is hunting. That holds true whether I'm carrying a shotgun or not.

I also agree about going solo at first for two reasons. 1st off the older dogs may not be to friendly to a playing pup when they are in "business" mode. And secondly pups seem to ignore any good lessons they may learn from more experianced dogs and focus in on and "hardwire" the bad lessons.

Not saying Blue has any bad habits of course