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Originally Posted by MarshRat89
My dog will be 3 in a month. I trained her myself but never finished forcing her. We made it through hold and picking up the dummy on command. Once I started the ground work it started getting rough and I was scared to mess her up not knowing fully what I was doing. I picked it bAck up a couple months later and had her working a line up to about 20 yards. Hunting season ended, Laziness, and lack of time got in the way, and I stopped working her. Hunted her this weekend. All her marked retrieves were great, but the blinds she went to her typical hunt on her own and eventually find it 5 minutes later deal. Is it too late to try and finish forcing her? She still knows her commands to pick up the bird and delivers to hand just won't work a line and doesn't know hand signals.
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I'd say it's never too old assuming you have the drive. Hunting dogs tends to undo a lot of training. Sounds fo me like pattern blinds would do you more justice at that age and with quicker results. Also I'm assuming you never went thru swim by...do dat! It all depends on what your willing to put into it.
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