red setters hunt

Sadie 12/16/2011

2011-12-23T12:04:00.000-08:00

Well my pup Sadie is begining to listen and work very nice. I caught this shot with my phone camera. I never seem to have the good camera for the good shots. Well the pheasant had slipped away from her but we did eventually get it.

Can't keep a good red dog owner down

2011-11-26T16:13:00.000-08:00

My best friend Julie out with her red setter "Lady" only months after her motorcycle accident.

Julie suffered from a broken tibia, a fracture to the base of her skull.

Julie was basically scalped and required 60 stitches to sew her back up. Rods and srews holding her leg together and a couple of months in a neck brace.

Julie consideres hers self lucky to be alive.

While Julie has been unable to work with lady for a while I stepped in and helped a little here and there. Now in Novemeber Julie is feeling a little better but still on one crutch.

When I offered her the oportunity to come out and shoot a couple pheasants over her dog she didn't hesitate for a second. Julie has been very anxious to get out with Lady since the last time was mid August when we had began preparing for this falls hunts. Then the accident at the end of August set everything back.

Julie has now been able to see her dog do things she didn't do before the accident like holding a staunch point

Lady Claire

2011-04-24T16:07:00.001-07:00

Claire, now known as Lady in the capable hands of my close friend Julie, is begining to come around nicely. Saturday the 23rd we went out for a bit of training Lady showed enthusiasm for the hunt not only in the field but when she heres her bell on her hunting collar she now gets excited know she gets to go. Lady also is begining to handle nice for Julie and works at a good hunting distance. She showed signs of hunting objectives this weekend something hadn't been doing in the past. She is begining to respond to hand signals while afield and pay cloer attention to what Julie is doing. Her listening skills still need a little work but she has come a long way in a short time already I have no doubt Julie is going to have

a great hunting season this coming fall.

In the photo Lady is pointing a planted quail and Sadie is honoring the point. Julie is kicking around looking for the quail and trying to tempt Lady off point so she can be corrected but both dogs remained steady to flush.

Profile: Sadie

2011-04-24T15:50:00.000-07:00

Sadie now 1 year old is a very intense puppy with a big set of wheels. Her nose is excellent she's very well gaited and runs fast and effortlessly. She is still in the tweety bird stage so she likes to chase tweety birds. She is almost broke except when she can see the bird. I expect by this fall she'll get to do some productive hunting.

Clair gets a new home

2011-03-31T07:05:00.000-07:00

Claire pictured here with Julie her new owner/master. Clair enjoys being part house dog part, hunting dog. Claire is 5yrs old and was basically neglected of her needs as a well bred high end hunting dog so she is under going training/retraining to get her out of some of the bad habits she's developed over the years. Now that Julie is in charge Clair will have at the least the life of a hunting dog.

Moxi, Kira tag team for Mpls man

2011-01-31T17:44:00.000-08:00

January 30th 2011, Moxi and Kira helped this gentleman from Mpls get his first pheasant ever. Moxi and Kira pu t on a great show, running thru chest deep snow and demonstrating excellent pointing and backing, giving this gentleman several close up oportunities to bag his birds. Temperature was a balmy 17 degrees with a wind that brought the temp down to Zero but nobody was cold.

Last day to pheasant hunt

2011-01-06T15:35:00.001-08:00

The last day of pheasant season Moxi and I went out for some wild birds the first half of the day and on the way home we stopped by the pheasant preserve for some scratch birds. The winds cutting like a knife, were gusting up to 30mph making the windchill well below zero.

Much to my suprise we received a new member to BlaisN' Red Setters. "Clair" Clair is 5 yrs old and her previous owner was unable to provide clair with what she really needed, to get out hunting! Clair is 5 yrs old and out of Firefly kennels in Colorado.

Clair weighs in at 42lbs and very tall 27" and prances when she walks. She's had a bath and had all the matts removed and brushed out now she looks like a different dog.

Willy

2010-12-31T14:55:00.000-08:00

Here is Willy. Willy is from Kira and littermate to Sadie. Willy is owned by Dean and Jackie Hiller here in Minnesota. They report to me that Willy now 9 months hunts like a pro is a great family dog and lives up to being the clown as irish setters are known for. Willy is very bright and listens great Jackie tells me. Willy has already exceeded the Hiller's expectaions as a pet and hunting dog and are completely in love with him.

Soon I hope to have some hunting pics of him.

Team work

2010-12-31T14:24:00.000-08:00

Christmas weekend I went out with Moxi and Kira. I was able to witness Moxi back Kira from roughly 75 to 100 yds away. I was amazed just by the fact that these are my dogs doing this. Moxi typically would not back Kira because Kira will point tweety birds due to her inexperience. Since I've been working them together Kira is begining to ignore the tweety birds and Moxi begining to take Kira's points a little more seriously. Moxi has now been making retrieves something she didn't do before until we started letting Kira come with. Kira loves to retrieve .

I am convinced that hunting with dogs trained at this level combined with their natural instincts does not allow much hope for the wildlife that is being hunted. Using two dogs even seems unfair at times. I've hunted wild birds and preserve birds with these dogs, to be done in 15 to 30 minutes is not unusual. Often my drive is longer than the hunt.

Josh's first pheasant

2010-12-06T15:51:00.000-08:00

With Moxi's assistance the day after Thanksgiving Josh, the son of a very good friend of mine Chet who is pictured in an earlier post, decided it was time for his boy to get a taste of shooting pheasants with an old style single shot 20gauge and a dog. Moxi. Well Josh missed the first two but he did get the third one. I think Josh is now hooked on pheasant hunting along with being an accomplished deer hunter with both rifle and bow and arrow. Accompanied with his sister Miranda in photo

Kira's day out with Julie

2010-12-06T15:19:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving weekend and the first weekend in December Kira has been getting into the action. She's been backing Moxi without fail. Kira has even been finding her own birds and Moxi backing her. She also has been making retrieves. I have to say she's not very clear on objectives so she does a lot of extra running around. Kira's nose is outstanding and when on point she looks like a million bucks.
December 4th Kira and Moxi helped good friend of mine, Julie Crawford get her first pheasant. Having missed our share of wild pheasants we stopped by the preserve for some scratch birds. We were told a group of serious hunters worked with four dogs for a better part of the day shooting all of their birds and having seen a couple scratch birds fly off too far ahead to shoot at.
So Julie and I went to that field and indeed 5 mnutes into the field Moxi established point that produced out first bird we then proceeded to see 6 more but they were running and flying off before either of the dogs could get a point on them. On our way back to the truck as the sun was setting the dogs went on point Julie kicked out a rooster and missed about 50 paces and the dogs went on point again Julie kicked out another rooster and down it came, not even realizing the bird had been hit Julie was perplexed with her gun jamming after a bit of putsing with the gun here comes Kira with the rooster in her mouth delivering it to hand completely suprising Julie.

RED HOT

2010-11-22T13:09:00.000-08:00

November 13th and 14th

2010-11-20T15:38:00.000-08:00

November 13th Moxi hunted at a preserve for a group from a Mpls based company. Running pheasants and wet heavy snow 13 of 17 birds recovered. November 14th Moxi did more preserve work for a father son team. 8 birds released 24 birds pointed 6 birds recovered.

All in all a great way to spend the weekend.

Out of the pages of Field & Stream

2010-11-07T17:59:00.000-08:00

Halloween after an hour in the field and woods Moxi found me several pheasants and 2 grouse due to my shooting skills it took a little extra for me to get my limit of pheasant for the day and shortly after the photo was taken I shot my second rooster.
November 7th 2010 60 degrees. Five minutes into the field Moxi went on point and we soon had our first rooster, 20 minutes later she pointed a second and we were done for the day. It took me an hour to drive there, so we walked around for a while and she found 3 more that we watched fly away.

late summer training for Sadie

2010-09-22T14:56:00.000-07:00

September 18th 2010 Sadie now 6 months old developing her her pointing skills and also har backing skills by honoring Moxi's point. Sadie works very hard at finding her birds and does fairly well at her age. I took her out on her own the next day and she was able to find 2 pheasants. I would say she's off to a great start.

Next Generation: Sadie

2010-07-12T06:41:00.000-07:00

Sadie is the result of a breeding with Kira and a carefuly selected Sire.

Sadie has already shown signs of being a smart, hard drivin, hunting dog/trial dog.

Spring 2010

2010-07-12T06:35:00.000-07:00

Spring of 2010 Moxi brought home Second Place in Open shooting Dog competition.

Early Spring

2010-03-06T13:32:00.001-08:00

Moxi keeping her skills sharp working scratch birds on a local shooting preserve a couple weeks before they close for the season. She had to wait quit a while before I could get to her and yes we did get the bird.

Final December Hunt

2010-01-25T15:53:00.000-08:00

Our final December hunt the last day of season included Kira. Though Kira didn't find any pheasants she was there to back Moxi with out so much as a flinch.
We got our limit of 3 and went home after 2 hours in the field.

December hunts

2009-12-21T15:10:00.000-08:00

December 13th and December 20th Moxi found me a pheasant and a grouse each of those days

Sunny Day

2009-11-27T12:46:00.000-08:00

November 27,09 45 degrees with a breeze. Moxi found a rooster pheasant 5 minutes into the hunt but I wasn't able to make the shot. We found 4 hen pheasants sadly we had to let them go.

Moxi had a very nice point on a grouse which I was able to bring down after wading thru ice cold water to get to her.

Another Raccoon

2009-11-24T16:09:00.000-08:00

November 21, 09 Moxi finds and points another raccoon a little scrap and we continued on to find some pheasants.

Battle

2009-11-14T11:44:00.000-08:00

November 11 Moxi found herself a racoon her second one ever but this one she chose to scrap a bit both unscathed and ending in a draw both going their seperate ways.

Beautiful Nov. Day

2009-11-14T11:21:00.000-08:00

November 7th Moxi did some preserve work for a party of 5. 16 birds released . Moxi had 20 finds 13 birds were shot over her a lab that joined the hunt claimed 2 finds. The temp was a balmy 65 degrees with a breeze

Still hunting

2009-10-24T09:22:00.000-07:00

October 22nd Moxi found me two pheasant her first 30 minutes in the field I missed the first one.

Moxi stopped to take a break near a beaver pond while grouse hunting in Northern Minnesota

Late Summer Training

2009-09-12T18:47:00.000-07:00

Today during a late summer early fall refresher Moxi established point in some heavy cover. I went in, couldn't find anything so I had her relocate, she came around me and reestablished point I began to search a bit seeing nothing but smelling skunk. Though I never saw the skunk my pants and boots received a coating of that pleasant scent of skunk.

Moxi went on to find several birds.

Kira on the other hand well she does a little better each time we go out....

Feathers, Fur and Quills

2009-05-08T17:46:00.000-07:00

Monday May 4, 2009 The old dog Xena now 10 got to go for a work out about half way through her work out she was reminded the value of holding her point.

In Xena's younger years she broke on a pheasant and now carries in her 11, 20 gauge 7 1/2 shot lead pellets too deep to dig out. Xena shows no ill efects from either the lead or the quills. Xena is truly a hard core hunting dog even yet at 10 years old.

Not only do red setters hunt they do it for years

Red Setter in Action

2009-05-05T16:45:00.000-07:00

Moxi in action at the 2009 Izaack Holton Classic, May 1.

Win for Red Setters

2009-05-05T14:30:00.000-07:00

Friday May 1st Minnesota Bird Hunters Association hosted the Izaack Holton Classic in Milaca Minnesota. Moxi ran in that and made it through without being disqualified. Moxi had four finds a back and a stop to flush. Moxi didn't place but I was satisfied with just making it through the course. Placements went to white dogs.

The supporting stakes were held on May the 2nd and Moxi was victorious with a first place win in the "Open Shooting Dog" Stake, where she had 5 finds a back that was out of the pages of Field and Stream , two stop to flush

Aside from being a bit on the windy side it was an excellent weekend a cool breeze and warm sunshine, the grounds held enough water that the dogs were able to keep cool yet dry enough noone really had to get their feet wet. The quail flew well and there was several awesome dogs!

Wet red setter

2009-04-26T18:07:00.000-07:00

Today was a very wet day for training but very productive, I saw a light bulb turn on in Kira's brain today and Moxi well she is just becoming a show off the birds were not able to hide from her today she had several excellent finds, very productive day for both dogs and their handler.

A good work out

2009-04-22T16:54:00.000-07:00

Moxi had an excellent find today it almost sounds like one of those tall tails.

While out for some brushing up before the next trial I noticed moxi caught wind of something, head up and a little zizg zag and she was off I thought she scented a deer I whistled her but she ignored me something she normally does not do and them she was out of sight. I waited a minute whistled her again she didn't show so I began walking the direction I last saw her after about a 300yd walk I saw her in a thicket on point, I walked in and about 20 feet in front of her I flushed a woodcock. It was an extremely windy day so the wind was to her advantage in this case I guess but it was so windy I didn't think the scent of a bird hunkered down in a thicket would travel a line like that. It was as if the dog was being pulled on a string right to the bird all that distance.

a bird dog yet

2009-04-18T19:49:00.000-07:00

I keep telling myself I'll make a bird dog out of her yet. Kira is way behind schedule at age 4 she's at a derby level. It's taken me this long to figure her out. I had to leave her behind since I had Moxi that showed much more promise.

Kira has those days when she looks like she's got it all together and quite litterally the very next day be clueless. Kira needed maturity and recently begun to show she's ready. Kira is otherwise a smart gentle dog that is a pleasure to have around and will retieve all day.

Now that Moxi has a few wins to her name I thought I should now give Kira a shot at some more competition

spring training

2009-04-05T17:24:00.000-07:00

A team effort during spring training early April.

"Remington"

2009-03-21T11:21:00.000-07:00

Remington the red setter during an early spring training session 03/20/09.

Remington is owned by Bruce Konold of Eagan, Minnesota. Remington is out of bearcat lines. Remington is a big boy but is very light on his feet, well gaited and has a great nose. Remington is inexperienced in the field but displays a great deal of natural ability.

Irish Setters "Tuff"

2009-01-02T16:57:00.000-08:00

1/02/09 This is Moxi's legs after a hunt, she's pretty hard core. She'll never be a show dog now

Christmas gift from Moxi

2008-12-26T14:59:00.000-08:00

The day after Christmas Moxi hunted for another small group at Pheasant Ridge in Ogilvie, Mn.
Moxi helped this young woman shoot her first pheasant.

Great Day Afield with an Irish Setter

2008-12-20T19:08:00.000-08:00

12/20/08 in near blizzard conditions Moxi had four contacts 2 hen pheasant 2 rooster pheasant. We went home with our limit after 2 hours of wading through knee deep snow. Another great day afield with an Irish Setter

red "Rider"

2008-12-20T18:59:00.000-08:00

Rider a nice male red setter owned by Randy Binder, Rochester Mn. Rider is out of Berg Bros. Gun Dogs. Finding birds is not an issue for Rider and doubles as an all around great pet.

Moxi does it again

2008-12-07T17:01:00.000-08:00

Moxi hunted birds for another small group at Pheasant Ridge on 12/07/08. 12 birds released 11 birds reclaimed.

A Stellar Day

2008-12-07T06:19:00.000-08:00

Today 12/6/08 Moxi did some more preserve work for a small group at Pheasant Ridge in Ogilvie, Mn. 20 bird were released 17 were reclaimed.

RUBY

2008-12-02T13:57:00.000-08:00

Tom Hulshizer of Utica, Mn. updates me recently about Ruby's success in the field. Ruby daughter to Moxi is now about a year and half Tom writes me this:
Hey Anthony,Thought I would pass along these pics of us with Ruby and her firstpheasants. We actually got 3 roosters, but my other brother had left withone of the birds before we took the pics. That's me on the right. Ruby didgreat for her first time out. She pointed 2 out of the 3 birds we shot. Thelast bird was an absolutely beautiful point, she pinned him down in a grassywaterway and was locked up solid. I told her whoa and walked in on it, allthe while praying I wouldn't miss!!!Haha! Dropped it about 20 yards out infront of her, couldn't have been better!! Anyway, just wanted to share thesewith you. Take care!

Tom Hulshizer
I just knew she would do well for him!

Irish Setters earn their keep

2008-11-30T06:12:00.000-08:00

November 29, 2008 Moxi

had the opportunity once again to hunt pheasants for a large group at Pheasant Ridge in Ogilvie Mn. The customers were very pleased with Moxi's performance earning her a tip that will keep her in feed for a couple of months.

The next day I brought Moxi out for a hunt on wild pheasants and in the first 10 minutes afield we had our first rooster. After that it took a while we did bag our second rooster but it was dark by the time we made it back to the car so we couldn't get a photo.

My Good Friend

2008-11-15T17:50:00.000-08:00

My good friend Chet and his son Josh on the last weekend of deer season. Chet owns the land that I do a lot of my bird hunting on. Chet does a lot of deer hunting on his land and today was a good day!

November Sunday Afternoon

2008-11-02T18:05:00.000-08:00

2008-11-02T17:51:00.000-08:00

Moxi, the red setter won a second place at the Northern Lights field trial club in Solon Springs, Wisconsin Oct. 26, 2008. Hard driving wind and rain was the weather for that event.

November 2, 2008 Moxi Pictured with two rooster pheasant on a beautiful 70 degree day. Though the weather was great Moxi had to do some hard work that a Lab would have admired. A 15 minute search in cold swamp water and thick marsh grass she produced the downed rooster. Cold and shivering she continued on and in approx. 10 minutes we had our second pheasant.

Lucky Dog

2008-10-17T16:41:00.000-07:00

This Molly formerly known as Sammi. Molly is living the life with her new master Abby Konold of Eagan Mn.

Red Setters in the Northern Woods

2008-10-17T16:31:00.000-07:00

Moxi the 3 yr old red setter has been holding her own in the woods of northern Minnesota this year. Her red orange coat is better camo in the fall foliage leaving it very difficult to find her on point, leading to many missed shots.

Blais'N Red Ricochet

2008-08-24T18:35:00.000-07:00

This is Rico Owned by Larry and Christine Harren of St. Michael Minnesota. Rico is about 16 months this August of 08. Rico practices his pointing skills when ever he can. Rico is the result of an out cross of Bearcat and Celtic lines.

RUBY

2008-08-02T11:13:00.000-07:00

This is Ruby owned by Tom Hulshizer of Utica, MN.

Ruby is daughter to Moxi so I expect she'll be a superior bird finding machine. I'm anxiously awaiting updates on her progress. Tom recently purchased Ruby from her original owner and is now working with her in hopes of being able to shoot birds over her this fall. She may not be perfect this fall but I'm positive he'll get to shoot birds over her.

A fine specimen

2008-07-06T14:16:00.000-07:00

Here is another fine specimen to come from the kennels of Blais'N Red Setters.

Owner Tom and Sarah Cummings of Elk River Mn.

Little Hottie

2008-05-10T11:27:00.000-07:00

This is Meg owned by Doreen Reynolds of Mpls Mn.

Meg is daughter to Moxi.

Big win

2008-04-26T10:40:00.000-07:00

April 13th 2008 Moxi wins her first ever Open shooting dog Stake. She was spectacular and even if she wouldn't have won I was very pleased with her performance. This was her first run at this level of competition.
On the 25th of April I gave it another shot and had Moxi run in the Izaak Holton Classic, another Open Shooting dog stake. Moxi didn't do so well getting disqualified 10 minutes into what was a 45minute stake. Unfortunately she saw the bird run and she made the attempt to catch it. Up until that point she was looking good.

4 month old pup

2008-04-12T07:55:00.000-07:00

4 Month old pup staunch on point, yes she is scent pointing a live bird hidden in the grass about 15 feet in front of her. This pup had not been styled up prior to the photo this is just how she stopped she held the point long enough for me to take a few photos and flush the bird. This is typical red setter or what I've come to expect in young red setters.

A man and his dog

2008-04-12T00:46:00.000-07:00

Satisfied customer Larry Harren with his Red Setter Pup, Rico.

Can you handle it?

2008-04-11T14:36:00.000-07:00

Can you handle hunting all day with a dog that looks like this and actually put birds in the bag? Yes it's true Irish "Red" Setters CAN HUNT!

Pretty

2008-04-10T18:05:00.000-07:00

5 month old pup

getting the job done

2008-04-10T17:55:00.000-07:00

Today's red setter is a class gun dog in the ranks with the English pointers, English setters. Indeed a force to be reckoned with. Whether hunting for large groups at a shooting preserve or wild birds with their master, red setters get the job done.

Picture Perfect

2008-04-10T17:48:00.000-07:00

need I say more

2008-04-10T13:57:00.000-07:00

10 month old pup

2008-04-08T15:47:00.000-07:00

The Clan

2008-04-07T17:22:00.000-07:00

The Clan

Xena, Kira, Kalie,Moxi

mother daughter

2008-04-07T17:18:00.000-07:00

Xena and Moxi a mother daughter team. An hour in the field with these two and we had our limit of pheasant.

Kira

2008-04-07T17:15:00.000-07:00

Kira, stylish and intense

2008-04-07T16:57:00.000-07:00

This is Xena, mother to Moxi.

Xena was my first red setter and I wish I had known what I was doing when I first got her. I made every mistake possible with her, had I known then what I know now she would have been very formiddable in trials. 35 pounds of enegy and drive I considered her a chesapeake personality. Break ice, dive under water to make a retrieve,cross rivers, swim upstream, make 200 and 300 yd retrieves, point fur and feathers, no fear what so ever she got off the plane at 12 weeks and was ready for action. Play and play hard. Xena was an all out hunting dog by the time I got into trials and learned a thing or two, some of the bad habits had taken hold for good, though she did well in competition her lack of manners worked against her, rufusing to back and stealing points, things she didn't ever have to do hunting. Now Xena is 9 and though she can't go as long, she will still break ice and give you a hell of a days hunt.To this day I have never come home empty handed from a hunt with Xena or Moxi and to hunt with the both of them together just isn't fair to the wild life.

2008-04-07T16:54:00.000-07:00

Moxi and me after a trial.

Moxi the Red Setter

2008-04-07T16:27:00.000-07:00

Moxi is one of those dogs that is a joy to hunt with from age 4 months she exhibited a sharp mind and a willingness to handle unlike some of my previous experiences with pointing dogs. A high energy to hunt and calm around the house, perfectly happy to lay on a rug and chew a bone. Moxi has a good balance of a strong eager to please personality and a strong drive to find birds.

Moxi does have a couple of Derby wins to her name in filed trial events and now working on a walking shooting dog placement.

Moxi has now hunted for groups as large as 12 guns holding staunch while all guns a blazin.

She does not care to handle for any one other than myself, loyalty, another thing I wasn't accustom to in pointing dogs.

A Stellar Day Afield

2008-04-07T14:47:00.000-07:00

These are happy customers of BlaisN Red Setters.

Red Setter Moxi hunted for five guns in the Fall of 2007 for a Mpls. Based Company: Stellar Technologies

Moxi's performance was nothing short of Stellar!