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Training - Page 5
Gundog training: expert guides for puppies, handlers and working dogs
Good gundog training is built on consistency, timing and understanding how working dogs think. Whether you’re starting a new puppy on its first retrieves or refining steadiness and handling skills ahead of the season, Gundog Journal’s training pages give you expert, practical guidance at every stage.
Our gundog training guides cover basic obedience, introduction to game, cold game training, water work, whistle commands and advanced fieldwork – with breed-specific advice for Labradors, spaniels, vizslas and all HPR breeds. Every method is rooted in positive, reward-based training from handlers who work dogs in the real world.
From first steps to field trial standard, this is the training resource serious gundog owners come back to season after season.
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TrainingDoes a Ferrari suit a learner?
Sometimes the wrong dog ends up with the wrong owner and Field Editor Ben Randall has some words of wisdom on how to avoid this happening.
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Training news
Overcoming nerves
Lindsay Corbett tells us about her dog of a lifetime and shares how she overcame her nerves in order to compete in the Cocker Championships.
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TrainingThe element of surprise
We discover how the element of surprise when training your gundog can help embed teaching.
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Training
What’s the going rate?
Just how much you should pay for a puppy is one of the most difficult questions because there are so many variables. But Patrice Fellows has some useful guidelines.
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Training
The A team
Anthea Shelley discusses which dog is best for which role and how you can assemble the perfect team for your needs.
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Difficult days
In social media world every dog handler seems to be perfect, but this is not reflective of real life training. In this first of a new series Joanne Perrott speaks to handler Abbie Reid from Riverlily ...
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Training news
Don’t accept defeat
Trainer Damian Barson reports on a remarkable man who has not let cerebral palsy stop him working his dog on shoot day.
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Training
Here’s one I made earlier
BASC’s head of game and gundogs Glynn Evans considers the options when you haven’t got the time to train a puppy from scratch.
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Training news
Sofa surfing spaniels
Having fallen in love with shooting later in life Jo Bennett and her springer Clover won top-placed spaniel at the Chudleys Championship in 2019. Jo’s dogs are now proof that being allowed on the so...
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Training
Mud, glorious mud
Questions and Answers from Gundog Journal about training in muddy, wet conditions.
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