The Third Series is a Blind. The line is 10 feet left and deep of a big live oak tree. The line skims past the tree and you go about 40 feet in to a small finger of water with decoys in it. The dog should swim about 15 feet to get to up on the point and then reenter the water. When they get out of the water they should go up and over the road, skim the right edge of the mound where the flyer gunners station sat from Test Two. The crates were on the left side of the mound. The line to the blind is a slot between the right end of the mound and hay bale. The blind is 285 yards from the line where the dog will pick up a dead rooster pheasant.
The instructions to the handlers was that the dog must be on the mat for all sends and the handlers can move up to the orange ribbon once the dog enters the water. There is no restriction on lateral movement. The following photos show various views of the blind. This is a fast-moving blind at just about 2 minutes.
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| Drone Aerial photo of the Water Blind by Pat Burns of Elite Retrievers |
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| Thank you to Jean Wu for these great sketches she's been providing to us all week. |
