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[werner.reiche]

I use to hunt over a lab and always used a whistle if he started to range out to far. Blew it once and he'd stop and look back... I'd blow the whistle 5-6 times real quick and he'd work back towards me. Once he got use to the drill he started working in close the majority of the time and again if he ranged out I'd whistle him back in.

But like you mentioned they all were handling dogs.... Was just wondering if any of you guys that own and hunt a pointer have ever tried training the dog to a whistle.

Sounds like spaniel whistle training - once for stop, twice for switch direction left-right, and a series of quick/quieter tweets for recall.

[gbk]

Nice to have You back Werner!

[Sharon]

Yea that's why trailing never appealed to me. (not that its a thing round here anymore) I run the dogs to impress me not someone else.

I enjoyed hunting too, but trials were great fun. You met all kinds of enthusiastic gun dog owners . Of course having an AF Champion dog gave great pleasure. Still several Ontario folk participating in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

[Sharon]

Nice to have You back Werner!

Yes, absolutely.