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yes this quartering and playing the wind is how labs find stuff. I thought this thread would be about finding ducks you didn't shoot! My boy had a couple bands to his name
When my lab was a puppy I would throw dead birds in tall grass and have him sniff them out. We played this game weekly and he loved it. I even do it in the off season with him with wings tied to a bumper. He loves doing it and never misses one. In doing so, he finds 99% of all birds that go into deep grass, stickers or brush. The ones he looses some times are the ones that dive and grab to the bottom. If it's shallow enough and he sees where they dive, he has trained himself to rake the bottom with his paws trying to kick it up. If a bird hit the ground, he almost never looses it.