Well I was 20 years old once now 50 and I can tell ya you can learn more from a well experienced veteran dog man that you can ever learn out of a book . There may be new ways but all they are a old ways with big fancy handles now a days !
You cannot beat hands on eyes on experience !
x2--- sitting down with one of these ol-timers and shutting up and just listening to them and I do mean REALY listening to them will help and teach one a great deal. For some reason when I read this post I thought about that story about the old-bull and the young-bull--- LOL