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Hunting Dog Training Tips: How to Train Your Dog in Thicket

When faced with a big bush, how do you get your dog to trust that there is something in there? Professional gun dog trainer Howard Kirby, in association with Skinners Petfoods, brings you short informational films to help you with your basic gun dog training. For more from Howard, visit Visit and This article first appeared on Fieldsports Britain, episode 177. To watch the full programme, go to Join Fieldsports Nation and fund our fight for field sports in the media; for complete details on YouTube membership for the same via Patreon. To become a more structural shareholder, visit Subscribe to our weekly email newsletter Fieldsports Shop Go to We are proud to promote the enjoyment of field and country sports. There are three guiding principles for everything we do at Fieldsports Channel: Hunt, shoot and fish responsibly Respect the game Ensure a quick, clean and humane kill Engage in nature. Join Fieldsports Nation’s risk warning: investments of this nature carry risks to your capital as well as potential rewards. Approved as a financial promotion by Envestors Limited. Which is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (No. 07236828.)

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Thicket Coveys | Oklahoma Quail Hunting



Hunting has been tough so far this season. I’m finding some coveys deep in the large sand plum thickets we have here in the Panhandle. Because of the absence of any meaningful ground cover beneath the thickets the birds are running to the opposite edge and flushing generally out of range. It makes for tough shooting.
Sand plums, also known as Chickasaw plum, Cherokee plum, or Sandhill plum (Prunus angustifolia Marshall), are native fruit-producing shrubs or small trees in Oklahoma. In Panhandle bobwhite habitat they grow in thickets often intermingled with sumac. Sand Plums offer excellent overhead cover for bobwhite and during the summer produce small, tart fruit that my mother turns into awesome jam.

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