Recent content by Scott Adams

Hey Carl, Nice Redheads!

I'm not sure what you mean? I updated my user cp with more info than anyone needs to know about me. Anything else? Am I getting enough posts yet to use the classifieds?

I stop training and only hunt in the fall. The only exception is a young dog under 2yrs old, if I have one. No fall water training for this dog, only carefully controlled hunting experience, on both land & water. Hunting experience is NOT training! I consider training to be an environment that...

DeWayne: No backpeddling whatsoever. There is a huge difference between, hunting & training when it comes to water attitude. I use the skills taught to my dog, in warm water, to do the work I want while hunting in Cold water. Cold water that is only a little colder than what he was in earlier...

Sure, No problem. Fair question. No dogs exposure to cold water should be out of the blue, and most probably are not. As I said earlier, dogs get used to cold water just fine, if they are hunted as the season progresses. My dogs hunt the great lakes, right into late December. Like most, I'm...

Cold water is not a factor that you can expose the dog to, and expect better performance because of it. Think about it people! You start hunting in Sept or Oct, when the water is in the 50's or 60's. With any luck, you've done some training when the water was in the 60's. I don't know about...

Mike, I think you have failed to read or understand this thread entirely, but I am thrilled that you tried. My panties are officially bunched up.

Cold water training. A lot of hard core waterfowlers here. I am more hard core than some, and not nearly as much as others. It’s tough to make more than one or two things a huge priority and do well at all of them. My duck boat is pretty basic. I spend my time training dogs because that’s what...

Jeez Tod, Not much of a welcome for a new guy. Who decided that the discussion has been hashed through sufficiently? The fact that the discussion is public, invites responses, don't you think? I am not being critical of the origional poster at all. He was good enough to post his experience...

Tod, I know some guys are joking about the toughness of Chessies. Nothing wrong with that. There are enough references in this thread that indicate people are not joking about training in cold water. The conversation indicates that we should expose them to the conditions in training, that they...

Hello everyone. This is my first post here, but I have plenty of other posts on other forums. I'm a retriever enthusiast and I've been training for hunting & field trials for 21 years. Part of my motivation for signing on, is my genuine concern about what I'm reading on this thread. I'm not...