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Originally Posted by Craig Larter
October, no pressure just make sure she has a grand time. Never try to train a dog in a hunting situation. Train for perfection and take what you get in first year of hunting situations. If young dogs have a bad experience in the field they may never recover. There not machines.
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Just like a pointing breed. It’s a wonderful, if anxious, time. Good luck, but I’m sure your experience will provide all you need.
I would not mind coming back as one of your duck dogs. 
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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