UPDATE!! Again this year during hunting season, The Checkcord will host our "Reader's Bird Dog Photo Gallery". If you would be so kind as to email me your favorite hunting picture featuring your favorite bird dog(s), you and/or family and friends along with some a little information on the dog and whoever or whatever else is in the picture, I'll post them weekly here on The Checkcord beginning October 1, 2004. This has been a lot of fun in the past with dogs and hunters from all over the world featured here in living color. Please submmit all photos in either GIF or JPEG formats only! If you are having trouble emailing your photo attachments, please contact me.
There is nothing more fun than hunting wild phesants over talented and well trained German Shorthairs. How many German Shorthairs can you find in this picture that was taken a couple years back while hunting pheasants in Nebraska? Steve |
Here's a pic of my Dog Sophie taken back opening day 1997. She was just over 2 years old. She pointed all but one of the birds. She flush one and one of the hunting partners of mine got excited and shot the bird. Of course, being still fairly young and in training didn't hold point and flushed the next few birds. I pointed that out to the one hunting partners on why you only shoot bird she holds point on. It took us a few more hours after that to get our limit. It was a good hunting day in eastern Washington. Kyle Kostoff |
This is "Maggie", Huntley's Magic of Trefoil, at eight weeks on her first quail. She held steady and if you look really closely you will see a feather on her nose. She is now a little over a year old and has completed her AKC Junior Hunter title. This will be her first season hunting with her owner Jim. |
This is my dog, "Freck" (that's Armbrust's Cactus Freckles MH, to you!) Freck passed in 2003. She was my best friend and she humbled me every time I put her on the ground. She was so much more than just a bird dog. I miss her very much. You can read about her in the pages of The Checkcord. |
Emma (Legacyk's Abaco Reef Diver) Age 2. Lives in Ontario Canada. Finished her Field Dog title at 16 months of age. Submitted by Andrew |
Linwood Original Artwork JH winning a Derby Stake in Wisconsin in April. Submitted by Lori |
Freck again, with me and some friends. November 1994, Fairbury, Nebraska. USAF band tour. (Hey, I never said it was tough duty!) A day I'll never forget. One this day, amongst one of the birds layed out there is the first rooster I ever shot for Freck. She had not yet turned six months old. |
Here is a picture of 15 month old DEVLYNNE [RED BARN CRESCENDO, JH,CGC, TDI ] in OHIO at the ISCA National Hunt Test and Walking Trial. We train with the Bushkill chapter, NAVHDA and he is coming along very nice. (Editor's note: From the looks of it, that might be the understatement of the week) Submitted by Tom Kaiser |