"Slippery Slope" is a Land Triple with a Flyer and an Honor. The test
is situated in a green field dotted with Avery full body goose decoys.
The mat is sitting at the top of a long sloping hill. Dead bird #1 is
thrown to the right from a tree line located at the handlers left. The
bird lands 140 yards from the mat in an open field in knee-high cover.
Dead bird #2 is thrown from a row of shrubs and trees in front of the
line. The bird is thrown to the left landing 71 yards from the line
tight to the line to bird #1. Both the birds land downhill from the mat
giving the dogs plenty of room to build up speed and miss their marks.
The flyer is bird #3. The guns are to the right of the line. These
gunners stand on the near end of the shrub and tree line hiding the
gunners for bird #2. The flyer gunners throw and shoot from left to
right with the flyer landing 67 yards from the line. There is an honor
in this test to the left of the mat.
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| The credit for these test diagrams goes to Terry Elliot – Thank you, Terry! |
The handler comes to the mat with a breeze crossing
the mat from right to left. The flyer seemed to be both quick and easy
for all of the dogs that we watched run this test. The middle bird was
picked up second by most with a few tight hunts, but very little
difficulty. Handling on the left-hand bird was necessary for quite a few
dogs. The dogs would go down the hill for the left-hand bird and start
hunting short or left forcing a handle.
