8th Series – Water Double
The 8th Series is located at Middle Lakes Field. The mat is facing Northwest. The handler and dog will be set high on a hill overlooking 2 lakes. Both marks are almost as high as the mat, but on a 2 different hills.
Bird # 1 is a Dead Hen Duck located almost straight in front of the mat. These gunners shoot and then throw the hen from right to left. The bird lands approximately 320 yards from the line. The gunners are on a steep hill by a cedar bush with the bird landing in front of a large pile of brush. The line will take the dog down a hill into a piece of water - back over the side of a hill and into a 2nd piece of water and then up to the bird. There is a land bridge between the hillside and the far hill with the bird that separates lake 1 and 2. The trick is that if the dog takes the land bridge, it will deposit them heading away from the bird, behind the guns. (We will refer to this mark as R for Right)
Bird # 2 is a Rooster Flyer. These gunners are on a hill to the handlers left. The gunners throw and then shoot the Rooster angled back up the hill landing approximately 170 yards from the line. The dogs will go down the hill and then up a steep hill - and may or may not catch a finger of the water at the base on the way to retrieve this bird. (We will refer to this mark as LF for Left Flyer)
This test is taking approximately 9.5 minutes per dog to complete.
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| View from the mat |
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| Left side of the field |
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| Another view from the mat |
