5th Series

Test Five is a Land Quad in Palmetto Field with two flyers and two retired birds. The mat faces north and looks over a rolling field covered in broom sage.

The first bird is a live duck flyer (Right Flyer) 300 yards from the line on the handler's front right. The bird is shot left to right to land in the broom sage. The line to this bird takes the dog straight out from the line toward the gunners and angling right across a mowed strip into cover.

The second bird is a Short Retired dead hen pheasant. The gunners are in front of the mat 250 yards from the line. Their holding blind is by a small tree and their bird is thrown left to right, aimed toward the gunners at the right flyer.

The third bird, the Long Retired, is a dead hen pheasant thrown left and lands visually behind a hay bale. However, it's actually deep of the bale landing in heavy broom straw 305 yards out. These gunners are retired in a group of trees, deep and slightly left of the short retired gunners.

The last bird is a hen pheasant Flyer shot to the left. These gunners are on the handler's left, 260 yards from the line, sitting on the side of a hill. They shoot up the hill away from the mat.

Fifth Series – Land Quad

First Bird – Drake Mallard Flyer – 300 yards


Second Bird – Hen Pheasant Short Retired – 250 yards

Third Bird – Hen Pheasant Long Retired – 305 yards
Fourth Bird – Hen Pheasant Flyer – 260 yards

Fifth Series Sketch by Jean Wu