This DVD and Field Guide show 25 Essential Drills and Exercises to teach, refine, or maintain your dogs handling skills.

You can improve handling performance with these drills, whether you have a field trial, hunt test or hunting retriever.

Inside you will learn:

• Learn drills to develop great teamwork with your dog while you increase land and water, casting and lining skills.
• Field Exercises and Drills help improve all levels of dogs become better on land and water blinds.
• The Problem-solving drills will provide you with solutions to common issues.
• Watch dogs that have mastered important drills and others doing them for the first time.
• A companion Field Guide to Essential Retriever Training Drills for Handling includes all the drills with their purpose, procedure, diagrams and key notes. Use it to review each drill, plan your training and trouble-shoot in the field.

Disc 1

Team Work, Land Casting and Handling Drills

Drills 1-8

Water Lining and Casting Drills

Drills 9-12

Extras

Disc 2

Field Exercises for Land and Water Blinds

Drills 13-20

Problem Solving Drills

Drills 21-25

Closing

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