Monday 26th October 2009

Black Mountain.

“Here!”  by Ross O’Neile.
Ross took Flake and Chris to the hill and ran them for nearly an hour. In that time he saw maybe ten snipe and had one find on a pair of them. Chris knew exactly where the birds were but then you would expect him to have the edge over Flake who probably hasn’t seen one percent of the number of snipe that Chris has. Flake hunted hard and covered a heap of ground at pace. She handled well and ran nice and flat….until led astray by Chris. Chris gave it a real go and started off hunting hard and running good lines. He had a find on a pair of snipe but he couldn’t produce them at first as Flake tried to steal his point but never really put them up. Chris then relocated and went on to produce his birds. Perhaps the dogs should have been picked up when they started to go native but my dogs are getting runs that I couldn’t give them thanks to Ross, and this all helps keep them right.