there ya go. When they are ready. Be honest with yourself and your expectations. make the first hunts about your dog, and not you, and defiently not your ego. try for their to be nothing a dog expereinces on a hunt for the first time, they didnt expereince in training where you controlled everything ( except follwing the flight of birds.., that just takes ojt (on the job training). Lots of stuff can happen on a hunt that can set a youngest back, if it doubt wait. travis