Gundog Training

What our Gundog Training covers

Training is progressive and practical, building solid foundations before advancing to more demanding work.

  • Lead work and basic obedience

  • Recall and steadiness around distraction

  • Retrieving on land and water

  • Stop whistle and directional control

  • Hunting and use of cover

  • Preparation for beating, picking up and rough shooting

  • Confidence, focus and consistency in the field

  • Guided walked up shooting, beating and Picking up

We work with all gundog breeds and adapt training to suit both the dog and the handler.

Training Paddock

Purpose built to fine tune straight lines, handling, and building the dogs confidence when on a blind retrieve.

Fenced areas for jumping and holding an area while hunting on a retrieve.

Rabbit Pen

The ultimate test of steadiness for a dog, having to hunt up through a mix of light and heavy cover and flushing the real thing.

Invaluable resource for both introducing a young dog to scent and helping steady up some overly keen dogs, but like wise is a great tool to get the slow burners firing.

Water

Our water is great for getting young dogs introduced to water, with easy entry and exit points. Fenced off at half way point to help encourage the dogs to take the same line on the way back through the water when retrieving from the opposite bank.

There is a fence which can be jumped at the far bank to set up really challenging retrieves for more experienced dogs.

HPR Training

We use live pigeons to encourage pointing and to simulate the flushing of game birds. This helps dogs learn to be steady on point and also overcome stickiness when commanded to flush. We train this behaviour in HPRs across all of our ground including large open grass fields, cover crop and in the rabbit pen.

Steady Pen

We also have a steady pen; an enclosed area with live pheasants which we use to help simulate the excitement of getting to a flushing point and keeping the dogs under control at that time.

Pigeons

We use pigeons in and out of cover crops to simulate the flushing of birds and getting the dogs steady to the flush.