We made a move to the northeast across the dam, behind the kennels of Edwards Training facility in Bonham, Texas. The mat is facing west overlooking the pond dam of the first piece of water from Series 5 watermarks. The wind is blustering out of the south, southwest at 27 mph and at times it will kindly lay down to 15 mph. The Judges did several blows of the whistles to make sure the dogs will be able to hear them all the way to the end of the blind.
All is good, the Land Blind or LB as it will be referred to begins in cut grass below the kennels. The LB passes thru heavy cover, over the gravel dam road carrying a steep path on the back side of the dam. Then the LB angles to the north out into a field of varying lengths of cover where the bird is laying in a tuft of cover at the base of a small tree at 230 yards. This bird is a dead Rooster pheasant.
To perform the Waterblind or WB the handler moves to another mat north of the first. The WB crosses the path or line to the LB. The WB also begins in cut grass then proceeds into heavy cover angling the gravel dam road. Then the dog must angle into the pond, slicing along the shoreline holding a stiff wind rather than blowing into the shore. When the dog exits the pond the path to the WB crosses the road again. The dog will where the dog will find a bird in the "Y" intersection of gravel roads at 250 yards.
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