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Favourite Land Blinds

In this series of Favourite Set-Ups, I have been describing only marking set-ups. In this issue, I will discuss favourite set-ups for land blinds. Previously, I have described several concepts important to consider when designing blinds. One of the most important is the idea of 3-Peats. Three-peats are a set of three blinds which emphasize a similar concept. The repetition allows additional opportunities to practice and reinforce teaching a dog to deal with a factor. Examples are 3-peats with a crosswind, angling a road or ditch, a patch of cover or crossing a pot hole. The concept of factor repetition in a set of blinds will become part of our Favourite Blind Set-Up.

The second concept for blinds is to seek a picture that the dog can identify from line. If the dog can look way out and recognize a line to a distant spot, then prospects are high for a very good line. The most obvious way to create a situation that the dog can look out and identify is to use parameters or borders to a blind. Remember, we are talking about cold blinds, so that memory blinds, marked blinds or white jug blinds do not qualify here. (However, use the same concept on those blinds to help teach a dog about slots.) Slots are usually created by physical objects such as lone trees, brush piles, rock piles, large round hay bales, gunners or chairs. I use chairs when ideally located natural obstructions are absent. Chairs can be used to set the other border of a lone tree for example.  continued>

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