The Central Prairie Field Trial Club held the second Jimmy Mcnutt Memorial Amateur Shooting Dog Trail along the Derby, Gun Dog and Puppy Trails on March 25 at the Sandy Run fields.  The Club used the Sandy Run Bottom Fields as the course for the trials. Rain was in the forecast for the entire day, but it stayed mostly dry except when I ran Flip in the puppy trial.  Little wet and muddy but still some nice dog work and a fun day in the field.

Kevin and Tommy Diekroeger brought out their dogs, Ina, Penny and Abby to some quail hunt.  I set some nice sized coveys around the old Tinkerfarm Pond and they busted them up, knocking down a few and chasing singles througth the fencerows.  The next morning Kurt Diekroeger joined them and they did a repeat hunt with more birds and coming up with some from both days.

Perry Bumpus set up an upland bird hunt for his buddies, Bart Knight and Michael Herschbach.  Steve Sanders brought out his two pointers and lab Stella to point and flush the pheasant, chukar and quail in the Clubhouse Field.    Ava and Doo came out toward the end to help clean up some of the single quail spread around the field.  Lots of birds and action in this video.

RichZumbahlen came out with his two lab, Shady and Coco to hunt some quail.  I set some mini-coveys in the East Bottom Field and the labs searched the milo and prairie strips for the birds.  I was able to capture a couple of rises before leaving Rich and the labs to search all the Sandy Run bottoms.  

John Wright and Logan Stine came out for an afternoon of hunting and fishing.  They  allowed me to work a few puppies on their birds.  First my young wirehair, Hildy, got to hunt some chukar, then Flip a young setter I am training got to work some quail.  Finally I got some big dogs out, Doo, Ava and Mac to go after some pheasant.  I cooked up some of our game for dinner, before we ran their dogs on some coon.

Joe Mitterer brought his buddy, John Golden and young shorthair, Grace to do some chukar and quail hunting.  I set some chukar and quail doubles around the prairie and milo strips in the Cabin Field for the trio to hunt.  Grace is coming along well, getting a bunch of bird work in her first season and did a great job for the hunters.

Dan Crunk and Butch Spelbring brought out their field trial dogs to do some work on quail around the the Sandy Run Bottom fields.  The dogs got to work on their steadiness and backing in particular.  Although no quail were injured in this practice there were several blank gun malfunctions.

Alan Feezel came out with his shorthair Harley to hunt some pheasant.  I set some birds down in the East Bottom.   Harley was on his game and found all the birds and they came back with nearly all of their pheasant.

Tim McClain came out with his young shorthair, Lucy, to hunt some pheasant and chukar.  He picked a sunny, breezy day, so we headed down to the East Bottom to get out of the wind.  The pheasants were on the run, but the chukar stayed home and Lucy was able to find nearly all of them.  

Larry Holman and Brad Hecht came out to work their pointers over  some quail.  Brad brought his dog, Ruby to find the quail in the Clubhouse Field.  Ruby did a good job finding the birds and got steadier at each point.  Larry brought out his trial dog, Bo, to do some running and finding down in the Sandy Run bottom fields.