Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Day Two - In The Books

 We started the second day of the NRDC Championship with 29 dogs starting and at 7:59 am dog #18 coming to the line to start the 3rd Series a Land Double with two pheasants. We had the gun change for this series after dog #32. We made it through this series with no handles, pick ups, no bird/re-runs. The series concluded at 10:17 am. Callbacks came in shortly after the end of the series, with 27 dogs being callback to the 4th Series. Dogs # 1 & 11 were dropped.

The 4th Series, a Water Series with two drakes started after a bit of a delay due to a test change. Dog #26 came to the line at 11:48 am. However, another short delayed while the gunners had to get a live duck off the test site pond. We got back to running the dogs at 12:02 pm. We got through are first 13 running dogs before our gun change at 1:36 am. We completed the 4th Series and the second day after 7.5 hours of being in the field at 3:32 pm, We ended the series with 2 needing assistance and 1 pick up. Callbacks came in again quickly after the series was completed with 24 dogs being called and 3 dropped which were #11, 17 & 24.

It was announced that the test dogs we will called to the line tomorrow morning at 7:45 am with the first running dog #9 to start the 5th Series at 8:00 am.