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  • Home
  • Training
    • Puppy Conditioning
    • Started Gun Dog Training
    • Intermediate GD Training
    • Finished Gun Dog Training
    • Advanced Finished Gun Dog
    • Fees / Guarantees
  • Purchase
    • Buy Hunting Dogs
    • Dog For Sale: CHAMP
    • Dog For Sale: VIVI
    • Dog Sold: RED
  • Boarding
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    • About Us
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    • Contact Us
  • Testimonials
    • Past Clients
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    • Videos of Big Sky

Phase 2: Started Gun Dog Training (8-10 WeekS)

About the program

Acquired Techniques:

Acquired Techniques:

  Within the Started Gun Dog Phase, your pup will develop the “desire to retrieve” instinct, not only through canvas dummy training, but dead and live birds as well. During a 8 to 10 week training phase, they will learn to quarter in the field, keeping in close synchronization with the handlers hand signals; respond briskly to the come call; and will learn the skill of returning to the handler upon command.


The dog will learn to perform an upland set (pheasants, grouse, etc,) and a field waterfowl hunt (ducks/geese coming into decoys placed out in a field). The pup will also learn a waterfowl set on land and on water (mark and retrieve a live duck on land and on water).


Your dog will become accustomed to the gun as well as learn how to retrieve shot game and flush their prey. Should birds be missed, they will learn on their own to give chase and will return back handler when signaled. They will acquire how to retrieve shot game over water, mark waterfalls, and swim to make retrieves.

Acquired Techniques:

Acquired Techniques:

Acquired Techniques:

  • Perform upland sets
  • Perform field waterfowl hunts  and a waterfowl set on land
  • Perform waterfowl sets on land and on water
  • Quarter in front of the handler within gun range and handle from side to side in response to hand signals.
  • Gun and bird introduction
  • Find and flush birds then retrieve those that are shot. Not give chase to those that are missed.
  • Learn to sit on the bank of a pond and retrieve shot game that lands in the water within safe swimming distance.
  • Make retrieves of passing shots in the field common to field waterfowl hunting.
  • Heal, sit, stay, come training
  • Ready to hunt: Retrieving upland and waterfowl shot over them 
  • Find and retrieve deer sheds  
  • Quarter upland haunts within gun range with minimal guidance.
  • Swim to retrieve marked downed game
  • Weekly written progress report provided to the owner

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