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The first several hunts with your retriever should focus entirely on teaching the dog his new job. All of the preparation done to get him to this point in his life will go out the window if you fail to remember this important detail. You must simplify for him, every aspect of the first several hunts as if you were taking a youth out on his or her first season. In fact, this is exactly what you're doing with your now ready to hunt young dog. he has no idea why you got him up at 2am, tossed him in a crate in the back of your truck and drove like a maniac all over God's creation just to end up sitting at the edge of some smelly lake shore waiting on daybreak. Up until this point, he loaded up on the dog truck each morning with all his training buddies and ran marks and drills all day. This is something totally different. He's really worried about all the grease paint on your face if you wanna know the truth. Bigfoot lives!
Before I get into what and what not to do and while we wait on daybreak, let me make sure we are on the same page with this retriever's skill level.
If this retriever has finished our Basic Gun Dog course, then he belongs here. If you did the training on him, that's fine, but let's quickly review the skills he was taught as a minimum requirement to see you dressed this way so early in the morning.
This young dog was taught all obedience commands and had them formalized with the E-collar. He completed force-fetch and may have even started force to pile work. This gave you the tools you needed to enforce his handling and delivery of birds to you. He has completed the steady to shot procedure and continues to receive daily strengthening in this area. He has ran marks a minimum of 3-4 days a week for the last six months in which he was taught to retrieve real birds on land and water with distances of 100 yards or more (strong clue that 98% of his retrieves were not hand-thrown for him). He is quite familiar with decoys, duck calls, gunfire, platforms, boats and other hunting and training equipment. HE KNOWS HIS JOB!
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