8th Series Test Description
Water Double
The 8th Series test will be a Land Double with a Hen Duck and a Drake Flyer at the "Stair Step Ponds" Field. 19 dog/handler teams will start this series. The mat for this test is facing North.
Bird # 1 is a Hen Duck. This station is on the handlers left. The gunners are down by the shore of a large pond on the left side of the field. The guns will shoot and then throw from Right to Left. The bird will land in the water or Lilly pads along the shore. This bird is approximately 240 yards from the mat. The line to this bird will take the dog down the hill from the mat and into the left pond, over a point and then re-enter the pond to swim to the recover the bird. (LONG LEFT)
Bird # 2 is a Drake Flyer gun station. The gunners are to the handlers right located about 1/2 way up from the bank of a small pond mid-field. These gunners will throw and then shoot from Right to Left with the bird landing approximately 210 yards from the mat near a clump of cedar bushes. For this mark, the dog will go down the hill from the mat and enter the 1st small pond directly ahead of them, go over a land bridge and enter the 2nd small pond mid-field, swim across and exit the water to locate their bird near the clump of cedars. (FLYER)
This test will take approximately 6-7 minutes per dog to complete.
