The Ultimate Guide to Bird Dog Training by Jerome B. Robinson

For walking upland hunters wanting closer working dogs and have access to lots of birds for training.

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Copyright 2000, 247 pages, softcover, b/w photos, and illustrations

The Ultimate Guide to Bird Dog Training explains how to train a bird dog to hunt at a pace that suits a man walking, and to point and hold birds with all the elegance and style of a field trial champion. It combines successful traditional methods with modern electronic techniques to show how the nation's top professional gundog trainers develop reliable hunting dogs that are easy to control, exciting to watch, and stylish on point.

The author has traveled around the United States for more than 30 years studying how professional trainers develop the most dependable and enjoyable hunting dogs and passing that information along to readers. In this book, he provides everything a reader needs to know to train pointing dogs for hunting in the close-cover conditions found in most parts of the country today.

If it seems that every dog you've ever tried to train has brought you to heel, pick up this book. Robinson has been writing about dog training methods for more than 30 years, and his tips, gleaned from America's best bird dog trainers, will give you the close working dog that you desire and deserve,

--Slaton White, Editor, Field & Stream

One of the greatest things I ever did for the readers of Sports Afield during my editorship there was to make Jerry Robinson Gundog Editor. Today, my esteem for his prose and knowledge is still without limits. Follow Jerry Robinson and your path to glorious and golden upland gunning over a great dog will become clear. Here, in one book, you will find everything you need to save time, money, and aggravation in developing the hunting companion of a lifetime.

--Lamar Underwood, former Editor in Chief, Sports Afield and Outdoor Life magazines

Finally, the book that all bird-dog trainers have been waiting for. Whether you're new to the game and are thinking about purchasing your first gundog, or are a professional trainer looking to see what others are doing in the field, this book is for you. Among other things, you'll learn how to:

Use electronic collars correctly

Buy the puppy that will grow into the dog you want

Say the four commands of dog training-come, sit, no, heel

Train your dogs with pigeons and quail

Practice with your dog in your backyard

Feed your dog nutritious foods for every season

Hunt with a dog that's steady to shot

Table of Contents:

Introduction

E-Collars: The Electronic Leash
Don't Buy Mail-Order Dogs
Start with a Pup
Puppies Should Learn to Point Before They Learn to Run
How to Prevent Gun Shyness
Tone of Voice
Four Lessons Every Dog Must Learn: Come, Sit, No, Heel
Stop to Flush
The Early Months
The Backyard Bird Supply
How to Build a Callback Quail Pen
Pigeons: The Ideal Training Birds
The Harnessed Quail
Backyard Bird Dog Practice
First Time Afield
Second-Year Madness
Teaching the Dog to Quarter Ahead of the Gun
The Time to Teach the Dog to Whoa
A Trick That Makes Him Whoa with a High Tail
The Crucial Moment
Bird Work-At Last!
Use the Wind to Your Advantage
Steadiness to Wing
The Importance of the Stop to Flush
Steadying to Multiple Flushes
Retrieving: The Force Method
Steadying to the Shot
Backing Another Dog's Point
How to Establish Artificial Training Coveys
Transition to Wild Birds
The Beeper and The Bell
Don't Let Your Hunting Companion Ruin Your Dog
Hard Mouth-Easier Prevented than Cured
Be a Buddy as Well as a Boss
Your Kid Can Be Your Best Assistant
If the Dog Doesn't Point, Don't Shoot
Pre-Season Conditioning for You and Your Dog
What Not to Feed Your Dog
How to Ship Dogs Safely by Air
How to Build the Ideal Dog Kennel
How to Build a Lifetime Dog Crate
Don't Let Your Dog Die of Snakebite
So, You Want to Have Puppies

Index

Steve Says: Robinson: The Ultimate Guide to Bird Dog Training

Transcript from Steve's Video:

Today we're looking at Jerome Robinson's "Ultimate Guide to Bird Dog Training." This is one of my favorite books that we sell, mainly because it's highly focused on birds in training. It's designed for the walking upland hunter who is looking for a closer working dog, for folks that have the ability to use a lot of birds in their training.

Birds are a key part of training, but Jerome really focuses on that. And it's a key part of how he introduces the dogs to everything. So I've just enjoyed the method. It works well. But keep in mind you've got to have access to a lot of birds and you've got to have the ability to work your dog on a lot of birds for this method to work for you.

Check it out. "Ultimate Guide to Bird Dog Training."

Steve Snell

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