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Can you run the JR test multiple times a day?

'brown' Labrador retrievers? brown? LOL

Thanks as always for these videos past and present, Kevin!

Still have not seen any "Seasoned" level tests....😢

20:10 an experienced handler and judge with a gun warning. Not to finger point but to reiterate in the excitement of tests, we can do things we "never" do, dogs and humans alike! Thanks CRF for these great videos.

Judge - Region 3 - Texas Kevin Buchman maybe??

Can you choose to stand rather then sit during the test ?

Great stuff! Thanks for cataloguing it David!

2:24 a rectangular holding blind is not natural. I prefer marks thrown from natural cover such as the middle mark thrown from behind the clump of trees. In AKC field trials the rulebook states that if holding blinds are used, the "throwers should be concealed by a blind that provides complete coverage, adequate space,and natural camouflage to conceal the distinctive shape of the blind" . It would be nice if AKC hunt tests were more natural. Why not use natural cover whenever it is available instead of artificial rectangular holding blinds? It is fairly easy to teach a retriever to mark off an holding blind if the retriever forgot a mark. For example: ua-cam.com/video/Wp-kCEc96Jw/v-deo.html

A very good video covering all aspects of the Senior test and more. Great discussions of similarities and differences of HRC and AKC tests. The panel is very good and I like that they are not just yes men for each other. There was actually a frank airing of ideas and real discussion. This is so refreshing in these politically correct times of hazy speech. For those of us that are really interested in learning this sport, this is an invaluable video.

Great video, gave me lots to think about.

I don't think i've ever seen a master test that 2 handles didn't result in a drop.

Thank you so much for this informative discussion

Good intel in this video. Looking into akc hunt test as been running Navhda and want to try other testing as well. Not finding much for testing in maine but still researching

Some terrible gun handling examples. Should have edited with proper shotgun handling in a hunting situation.

I love your content! Any chance of doing a series for Golden Retriever WC and WCX?

There is nothing in the rulebook specifying that the handler can not silently sneak up to the line like one would do actually hunting in a jump shooting scenario. Otherwise you are dictating how the handler handles his/her dog. Why not judge the dog work and allow the handler to handle like an actual jump shoot hunting scenario?

EXCELLENT! Most retrievers handle a diversion bird or "bulldog" as a routine when returning from a mark. Tougher diversion birds would be a sluice shot spraying water as suction in a water blind, or a diversion bird thrown enroute as a "poison bird" during the initial line on a blind retrieve.

Would it be best that a handler remove their dog from the test if the handler has to restrain it from breaking? This is an opportunity to make correction but is not allowed. (The dog is getting away with bad behavior)

Love your content, by the way. I’m finding it very helpful.

Question. I notice in this video that the handlers are not sitting the dogs when the diversion is thrown. Is that because the video is a training exercise, or is it different in AKC and HRC? I’m teaching my pup is sit on a diversion bird and watch the fall before calling her in.

Just here to say I may very well never run a Senior test, but this video gave me so much great insight and information. I hope to come back to this comment in the future and say "Man look at that comment where I said I was never going to run a Senior test, who'd have thought?" :D

Great explanation of how the WC fits in the puzzle of types of tests. Thanks!!

Me being some ol boy that just started this, I'm scared to death of a finished test. I'll be running finished this weekend

Thanks for this. I am finding these explanatory and clarifying videos helpful.

I know it’s not mandatory, but why is not very many picking Marks up in order?

Excellent! Although not specified in the AKC hunt test rule book, some AKC hunt test judges consider patting the leg to pull a dog to see a mark not allowed.

Excellent! My favorite is 37:20 explaining the blind corridor and the 3 danger zones in that water blind where a dog out of the blind corridor is in danger of getting out of sight of the handler.

Very well done!!!!

Very good video! Will you be making one for the senior level?

Great video and statistics. I know it’s all about training, but have you look into the passing rate on the order the dog was run ex; first 5 dogs needs no casting on marks compare to the middle and last group of dogs?

I'll never run a Master test and I still watch every video you put out, start to finish. Really nicely done in both video quality and information. Thank you for the effort we all know this takes!

do you all ever worry about cottenmouths? or rattlesnakes?

This is safe gun handling? Hands over barrel, barrel pointing at head?

Is this safe gun handling?

Clear Run Films, you guys ought to post a couple seasoned tests too.

What camera do you use to film? Very nice job.

That dog should be a little left or right behind you as you shoot that gun it's not good for the dog's ears

This channel is incredible. Thank you so much for all this quality content I am binge watching.

CRF, the quality of these videos is excellent. Big thanks from a hopefully first time Hunt Tester!

Thank you so much for making these videos! They are so helpful! Please ask the judges not to shuffle their papers though because the microphone really picks up that noise!

Thank you for this video!!

Thanks for the educational content. How come we can't see the handlers sending the dog for the blind initially? it seems like it's already edited to where the dog is in the water already. I'm curious what the release looked like.

You should consider not filming the bird being thrown after the test dog. Where it lands without the context of how the dog behaved while the bird was being thrown is much less valuable especially in the context of a seminar, the handler and Pat are watching the dog as the birds are coming out that's what I want to watch as I hear Pat's commentary on how the dog is running and handled. Hope this comes across as a polite suggestion, very grateful for this to be available!

Thank you. Very informative.

Beautiful property! Where is this?

Our professional training programs in the latter days involve primarily family companion/protection, detection, and branching into stockdog work as working dogs are a calling in support to our stockmen in the rural community we serve. However, in 1989, my senior year of HS, I had offers as an assistant from both D.L. Walters and Jane Laman here in Kansas. I went with Jane, and enjoyed baptism into the glorious world of the retriever field trial circuit. All this to say, I have experience in the retriever sports. And my early experience allowed a guided introduction into the sport, which was such a blessing for an 18 y/o green wing. So many don’t get such helps. And for folks young and old, who desire to get into tests and trials with their own dogs, there can be a sense of gnosticism or mysticism that can be a daunting detractor for the uninitiated. My point? THIS CHANNEL AND ITS MANNER OF WRITING AND PRODUCTION IS DEMYSTIFYING AGAINST A NEW HANDLER’S IGNORANCE OF THE ETHOS AND RULES!!! Y’all are doing a good work! So helpful!!! God bless your work!

As a former finished judge, this was a great film, glad to see it. Gun handling was the most often thing I had to remind handlers, even the pros, I think when handlers get to the line they are so focused on the dog, and the marks, shouldering the gun is on the back of their mind.

Great Video! I'd be throwing a fit with all those cars driving though

Nice job! I enjoyed the video. Keep up the good work! Thank you!