Series 9 Water Quad Test Description

The Judges have been generous and kind up until now. The 9th Series Water quadruple marking test is going to separate the strong from the weak and take no prisoners. You will either do the work or you will walk off line shaking your head. We are holding the 9th Series on TJ Lindbloom property. The gallery and Judges are perched high on the hill with a branch of the Umpqua River to the Northwest of our test. The Umpqua River is one of the best trout fishing streams in the nation. The line is overlooking an island filled pond with points jotting out from the shore-lines at all angles. A very busy picture with dense lush cover on many of the points and islands that are perfectly placed in the paths of the marks. The mat is facing due North and the wind is steady out of the North. This test begins with the Long Retired (LR) mark up the middle. This bird is a monster measuring 398 yds. It is a drake mallard requiring a double shot and is being thrown to the right on a spit of land at the end of a channel landing in heavy cover. The next bird to be thrown is hen mallard situated shorter and left of the LR. This mark is thrown to the right as well in a hip-pocket fashion landing on an island on the same shore the gun station sits landing in medium cover. We will refer to this mark as the Mid-Distance Retired mark (MR) measuring at 187 yds. Both of these stations retired after the dog is released for the go-bird. Now the dogs must swing to the far right shoreline of the pond to watch a hen pheasant Flyer (RF) being shot to the left landing in heavy bright green cover of the same shore. The final bird of the test is a temping one and bring the dog to swing far left to the immediate shore. Here a gun stations stands to shoot a mallard clear across a channel of water and point where the bird in sluced in the water on the other side of the point. This bird is exciting and only measures 90 yds. This test is averaging 18 minutes a dog. GOOD LUCK TO ALL!!!