SERIES THREE – Water Triple with a Flyer and Two Retired
We have just moved across the street to the property of Terri and Wayne Curtis and the home of Fox Hollow Kennels. The Third Series is a Water Triple with a Flyer and Two Retired.
The Third Series begins with the mat facing east halfway up a hillside in a pasture dotted with bushes and trees. The field has a pond at the bottom with both sides rising up. The area is framed in timber and the cover is a hay meadow. The two outside marks form a 90 degree angle. The middle bird is slightly angled towards the flyer. This is a water triple with the birds thrown around the horn from right to left.
First Bird thrown is the Short Right Retired (SRR), a hen mallard thrown left at 190 yards from the shore to a small point. The line to the bird is a long entry to the water with a swim past a right hand point and a left hand point to a second right hand point at the end of the pond.
The second bird, the Long Middle Retired (LMR), is thrown at 276 is a rooster pheasant thrown left deep of the drip line of a large tree. The line to the bird is a mid length entry to a corner of water and a long drive on land.
The last bird will be a mallard duck flyer at 87 yards shot left out of the test with no water on line to the bird.
Both bird number one and two are retired. This test is taking 10-1/2 minutes per dog.
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| Third Series Drone Diagram by Pat Burns of Elite Retrievers. |
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| Third Series Sketch by Official Artist Cary Hunkel |
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| Short Right Retired – 190 yards |
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| Long Middle Retired – 276 yards |
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| Drake Flyer – 87 yards |