Hunting Wirehaired Pointing Griffons
Keeping the "hunt" in our hunting dogs!
Keeping the "hunt" in our hunting dogs!
AKC Hunt Test June 15 & 16
Junior Hunter Testing
Kim ran both Blanche and Jett at the AKC Hunt Tests sponsored by the Western South Dakota Bird Dog Club at Pheasants on Kara Creek on June 15 and 16, 2019. Blanche has previously tested with the VHDF and earned an NA Prize I last June. It was Jett's very first hunt test experience.
Both girls were in season, so they had to be isolated with the other girls in the same condition and had to run at the end of the day.
They had no success on Saturday, but on Sunday, both girls hunted well. Blanche did a great job of methodically covering ground and using that great nose of hers. Jett ran around at a high rate of speed, jumping the creek, diving in the creek, covering a lot of ground and occasionally stopping to point a bird. The judges were kind and each girl earned a qualifying score on Sunday, their first "legs" toward the 4 legs needed for their JH titles.
If at first you don't succeed...
The first day of the test didn't go as I expected. I didn't expect Blanche to find no birds and I sure didn't expect Jett to race around the field as if she had a bottle rocket in her hind end.
But the second day, they settled down and showed what they could do. The people were nice and the weather was beautiful.
It was a great weekend.