6th Series – Water Double with a Flyer
For the 6th Series, we are staying at Stair-Step Ponds.The mat is moved forward from the 5th Series across the road. The mat now faces Southwest towards two ponds.
Bird # 1 is a Drake. The gunners shoot and then throw this duck to the right with a slight angle back landing approximately 230 yards from the mat. These guns are positioned in front of a cedar bush on a heavily terraced hillside. The line to this bird will take the dog down to the water - across a small pond - up and over a land bridge - into cattails and a skinny finger of water just right of a large willow bush. Next they will go up 4 levels of terrace to locate their bird. (We will refer to this mark as L for Left)
Bird # 2 is a Hen Duck Flyer. The gunners for this bird are positioned close to the shore, just to the left front side of a group of cedar bushes. The gunners will throw and then shoot the hen duck. She will land approximately 170 yards from the line. The throw is a flat throw parallel to the shore. The line to this bird will take the dog down to the pond and across the middle right side of the body of water. Next they will go over the land bridge to enter a long finger of water in pond #2. The dogs should swim past the land bridge, into the next pond - go up onto the shore and be right at the bird. (We will refer to this mark as RF for Right Flyer)
The wind is currently at the handlers back - meaning the dogs must be deep of the birds to wind them.
This test is taking approximately 7-10 minutes per dog to complete.