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Brad Higgins posted an update in the group HGD Community 8 months, 4 weeks ago
Stella (Basso x Amber) went to her new home today. This video is of her new owners, Therese and Eric, learning to handle her in the field.Stella is steady on her birds until released, does a nice flush/stop on cue and has a natural retrieve. In this video, I’m having Eric and Therese take turns learning to handling…[Read more]
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Reagan Olivares uploaded 2 new Photos to HGD Community 9 months ago
Opening weekend of upland season, 10/14/18
(HGD) Ekahi goes on her first Valley Quail hunt and gets a 4 bird harvest . Her first encounter was a covey of about 50-60 birds and she handled it pretty good for a rookie. My next goal is to get Kepa and Ekahi hunting together in a brace.
Great weekend
Happy Hunting to all
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Reagan Olivares uploaded 4 new Photos to HGD Community 9 months ago
Opening Day of Upland Season, Nevada, 10/13/18
(HGD) Kepa starts the season with a 6 bird harvest of Valley Quail. Great day.Happy Hunting
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Reagan Olivares uploaded 3 new Photos to HGD Community 9 months, 1 week ago
Sage Grouse , Sept. 2018
HGD- Kepa
HGD- Ekahi on her first wild bird hunt and harvest2-hunts , 2- limits, 2- different areas.
Thank you Fred and Jani Ahlvers for a great hunt
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Brad Higgins posted an update in the group HGD Community 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Here are a couple of our young dogs, Stella and Ekahi, hunting in a cast for the first time. They did well, hunted independently and handled nicely.
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Wendell posted an update in the group HGD Community 9 months, 3 weeks ago
When you set up for the magic brush pile… Is it important or not important that my pup does or does not see me put the bird in the launcher and get set up? I would guess from an association perspective that hiding those activities from the pup would be best?
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Miriam joined the group HGD Community 10 months ago
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Kepa posted an update in the group HGD Community 10 months, 1 week ago
Ekahi and I received our Higgins Gundog Certification.
So now i have 2 Certified Higgins Gundogs.
I would like to thank Brad Higgins for allowing me to take the lead in the training of Ekahi, and being there to guide me through the process. Great learning experienceHiggins Gundog Certification (HGD)
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mlsarmiento joined the group HGD Community 10 months, 1 week ago
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Brad Higgins posted an update in the group HGD Community 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Here is one of our young pointers, Nigel. His sire and dam are both UK imports. He’s a beautiful, well balanced boy with lots of drive, pace and style.In my breeding program, one of the most important things I look for is a good balance between cooperation and drive. I want to see good field work but just as…[Read more]
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Wendell uploaded 1 new Photo to HGD Community 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Saturday was the first day of preserve hunting in Missouri. Annie and I got out there after a rain storm. After the birds got wet they didn’t want to fly real well. This was just a fun hunt for me to see how she would respond to here/come in a more excited area. She did great. She watched where I was, pointed some birds, flushed some birds,…[Read more]
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Hello Wendell,
The best way to build birdiness and scenting ability is to do just what you’re doing, give her experience on wild acting birds. Also, be quiet in the bird field. Let her focus on her hunting and the birds. Remember, the bird trains the dog. All we do is set up realistic hunting scenarios. Keep it as natural as possible with good,…[Read more]
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Kepa posted an update in the group HGD Community 11 months, 2 weeks ago
The Higgins Method – http://www.higginsgundogs.com
Ekahi Learns the Retrieve
Brad’s method breaks the retrieve into 2 parts. First the release to go get the bird then a here command to return with the bird. It is done this way because a predators brain can only focus on one thing at a time. They must complete the…[Read more]
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Curious if you do anything in particular to prevent or cure hard mouth. Sometimes my Annie is pretty aggressive with her bite… But not always.
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Hello Wendell,
Chewing on birds or being hard-mouthed is caused by the pressure you are putting on her to retrieve. People bring me hard mouthed dogs to fix all the time. One of the first things I do is remove all pressure to retrieve. After I say “fetch”, I walk away in the opposite direction. After just a couple of birds, she will go get her…[Read more]
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we were training fetch with dead birds, often in the field as a reward for steadiness on training birds – holding through wing and shot – stopped when he started bringing me back dead birds at field trials – ones I don’t think he caught and killed – well maybe, all happening at 200+yds, can’t see on foot – have concluded training with dead birds…[Read more]
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Hello Jack, welcome to our community page.
We don’t train for field trials or tests. My method is designed to bring out all of a dogs natural drive, style, intensity and focus for upland hunting (foot hunting) and wingshooting. Goals for field trials are considerably different. If you like, I can post some videos showing how we get a dog steady…[Read more]
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Jack Gabel joined the group HGD Community 11 months, 2 weeks ago
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Kepa posted an update in the group HGD Community 11 months, 4 weeks ago
The Higgins Method – http://www.higginsgundogs.com
Ekahi learns some new successful strategies.
1) Being steady and not chasing birds leads to success
2) When you are stationary, a flushing bird means don’t move. (steady to flush)
3) When you are moving, the sight of a flushing bird means stop. (stop to flush)In this…[Read more]
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Brad Higgins posted an update in the group HGD Community 1 year ago
Here is a link to a video of a young dog we worked this morning. This is Griffonpoint Z Shaka with her owner Warren. Shaka is now steady until released on birds she has pointed. This scenario was a little different. There was no wind on a warm morning making scent scarce and difficult to work. On these kind of days,…[Read more] -
Brad Higgins posted an update in the group HGD Community 1 year ago
I’m putting together some wingshooting clinics this summer. This video shows the method we use. It’s a variation of the Churchill or Instinctive method of shooting.This video will help you build the sight picture of how the shot comes together. Watch it numerous times. Focus only on the leading edge of the bird. The…[Read more]
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Raul C Pena posted an update in the group HGD Community 1 year ago
Hello community. I’m located in Georgetown, Tx and am looking for some hunters near me. How many Texans are in this community?
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Brad Higgins posted an update in the group HGD Community 1 year, 1 month ago
Here I’m checking on some of our released coveys of partridge. This is where we practice a different aspect of my training method. What I call “Fair Chase” training. Birds are banded, free released and given plenty of time to run and form coveys before we work any dogs on them. After training and shooting a few birds,…[Read more] -
Kepa posted an update in the group HGD Community 1 year, 1 month ago
Happy Hunting with Kepa,(Higgins Gundogs)
Jan. Highlights,#3
2017-2018 Season Finale-
Nice work Reagan.
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Here is my response to additional questions that were asked on another forum regarding this video:
“Hello All. I’ll try and answer a few questions.
If you watch the video, listen to the narrative and please, if you would, read the text that I included there on Youtube. It explains a lot about what I’m doing with Stella and her new handler. First…[Read more]
On the other forum someone asked about our hunting strategy. Here is my response:
Yes, with my method we have different expectations and in fact, we hunt in a different, more natural way. All the dogs are expected to handle well, manage their birds (set the bird but don’t flush until cued by the handler), Do an aggressive flush/stop when asked (…[Read more]