Modern breaking; a treatise on the rearing, breaking and handling of setters and pointers, embodying the methods employed by the most successful breakers and field trial handlers of the day .. . ame is found it is considered a falsepoint by the shooter, but in field trials thepointing of fur, land turtles or larks is notconsidered a false point. Flushing: A dog is said to have flushedwhen he approaches the birds so closely or insuch a manner as to cause them to take wing. Backing: A dog is backing when he comesupon another dog pointing and shows his con-fidence in the pointing dog by also poin
Modern breaking; a treatise on the rearing, breaking and handling of setters and pointers, embodying the methods employed by the most successful breakers and field trial handlers of the day .. . ame is found it is considered a falsepoint by the shooter, but in field trials thepointing of fur, land turtles or larks is notconsidered a false point. Flushing: A dog is said to have flushedwhen he approaches the birds so closely or insuch a manner as to cause them to take wing. Backing: A dog is backing when he comesupon another dog pointing and shows his con-fidence in the pointing dog by also pointing,without having scented game. Drawing and roading refer to a dogs mannerand method of locating a bird after he has thescent. If he has the body scent of the birdor birds and approaches this scent in straightlines, that is, walks boldly lip toward the birdwith his head up, he is said to be drawing onbirds. If, on the contrary, he pays no attentionto the body scent, but with his nose to theground follows the trail left by the birds asthey ran through the grass, he is followingwhat is known as the foot scent, and is said to oa riaa Ed > aa o t a ? O • a a^ hj a p !>td CO do K5. Modern Breaking 43 be roading. In many cases it is necessary fora dog to road a bird up, but the dog thatdraws on his birds and rehes upon the bodyscent is of much higher class. Pottering refers to a dogs actions whileworking on birds or the scent of birds, A dogwhich lacks decision in his work and spendsa great deal of time in foot scent or whichnoses about where birds have been and doesnot seem able to distinguish between old andnew scent, and fails to locate the birds accur-ately, is said to be a potterer. Blinking: A dog which is able to find birdsand point them for a time and then withoutflushing the birds leaves his point and goeshunting for another bevy is called a fault is due sometimes to overtraining,extreme nervousness or a sour, sulky disposi-tion and is a most difficult
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