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The Mason-Dixon club's road sign shows the way to the event grounds at Maryland's McKee-Beshers preserve.
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Two handlers talk with a judge while they prepare to send their dogs out for a leg of their Junior Hunter titles.
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Handlers get some course guidance from the judges that will observe their brace of dogs.
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Handlers have one last chance to remind their dogs who's in charge.
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A GSP and a Vizsla break away from the line for their junior test.
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A double point during a junior hunt test.
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A handler kicks for the bird her junior Vizsla is pointing.
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A handler signals the junior hunt test judges that her dog is on a point.
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Gunners and bird planters chat while waiting on the sidelines for a brace of master dogs to enter the bird field.
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A German Shorthaired Pointer launches into the bird field during a master hunt test.
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A GSP moves through the sorghum with a purpose.
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A GSP shows a fine 30-yard back during a master hunt test. Display a higher-resolution version of this image to see what the backing dog is seeing.
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It's not what it looks like! The handler (who stays very much on her feet), holding a prop gun, has just kicked the Chukar up for the gunner. The other handler is staying low and out of the way.
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A pointer gently retrieves a wounded chukar.
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A pointer, with a happy spring in her step, speeds her retrieve.
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Thunder the GSP locks up stylishly while pointing a chukar in the edge of a sorghum strip.
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A Weimaraner quarters the bird field during a master hunt test. The blaze orange cape keeps him highly visible to handler, judges, and gunners.
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A master Vizsla retrieves a chukar to hand.
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A Vizsla puts the 'waaay back' in backing.
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A Vizsla quarters out in front of his handler.
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Master shorthair bracemates are independently working the bird field.
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An Irish setter frisks on the hunt test grounds before her junior test.
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The McKee-Beshers pavilion is the hub of the M-D GSP hunt test activity.
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A hunt test judge has words with his single-minded mount. By day's end, that mule will have walked the course many times.
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Ah, steadiness. A Vizsla's senior handler is able to take his time walking up to the flush because he's been able to trust that dog to hold her point for over 10 minutes.
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A Brittany quarters the bird field after a long run through the master test back course.
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A Brittany clears a line of knocked-down sorghum as he quarters through a master hunt test bird field.
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A Pointer runs through a sorgum patch.
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Pointer and mom watch the bird field from the sidelines.
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Stella contemplates the camera.
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A handler softly cautions his shorthair, who has hit on a point while passing a bird to his side.
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A GSP shows his field-trialing family heritage and covers the master field at a brisk pace.
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A shortair uses his powerful build to easily clear a dense tangle of briars as he works a hedgerow.
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A GSP makes for his objective - the cover provided by a stripe of beat-down sorghum - at full throttle. His whiter coat helps him stay cool (and more visible) in strong sun.
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A handler and his steady shorthaired companion watch as a gunner takes down a just-flushed chukar.
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A shorthair retrieves a just-shot chukar. He moves right past the gunner, and brings the bird to his handler's hand.
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A nice back, one shorthair coming across another already on point.
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A liver shorthair stretches out on the run.
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A brace of shorthairs dash through a tree line between fields.
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