I enjoyed reading everyone's input here. Thanks all who contributed! I am very fortunate to have a
mighty fine pup coming that I'll be pickin up this week
, that I will be specifically focusing on/working with to be a pen comp dog. If anyone gives a hoot, I'll post periodic updates on that journey
I'm really looking forward to it....
good idea...post the entire journey like the mistakes as well as what is working...I used to enter my dogs and they did ok but I never trained in the pen for it...I am thinking that the guys who win on a regular basis have good bay pen dogs but that is only half of it...the other half is how often to train and for how long amongst other things...
I can certainly do that. I have a hunting buddy over here that is good friends with a woman that has some very very good pen dogs, and I am looking into meeting her through him and trying to learn as much as I can on the specifics as in what is a good training regimen for a pen comp dog. I think the hardest part about getting into something 'new,' is finding someone experienced in that area that is willing to share some insight and knowledge on the subject. For every small handful of generous folks willing to mentor someone, there's twice as many that will not give a newcomer the time of day, lol, especially in anything that's competitive. I'm looking forward to the journey. I'll start the thread when my new addition is here.
