Sunday, May 20, 2018

Sunday May 20 – Flight A – Test 1 – "Two Cedars"

"Two Cedars" is a Land Triple with a Flyer and an Honor. The test site is located in a beautiful green field full of Avery full body goose decoys. Looking out from the mat, there are two cedar trees at an almost equal distance from the line. Dead bird #1 is thrown from the right tree towards the left tree landing 82 yards from the line. Dead bird #2 is thrown from the right to left. The throwers are behind the left cedar tree throwing towards a tree line with the bird landing in an open field 127 yards from the line. The handler and the dog will then need to swing to their far left. The flyer gunners will throw, then shoot bird #3 from left to right with the flyer landing approximately 85 yards from the line. There is an honor to the right of the mat.

The credit for the test diagrams goes to Terry Elliot – Thank you, Terry!
The rain delay has stopped with the clouds giving way to patches of sun. It is currently very humid, but the temperature is only 70 degrees. There is a light breeze blowing down the test from left to right. The test's only problem seems to occur with the right hand mark. The wind is very favorable to the flyer and the middle bird. Some dogs are going right of the right cedar tree and getting deep into the row crop before turning back towards the cedars and their bird. If this wind would die or change directions, the middle bird would give this test fits. The winger is tossing this bird and incredibly long distance. The test is taking approximately 4 minutes a dog …