VGP Training Update

No pictures for this post sorry. Been having issues with the camera and gave up. Had some serious training to do so i got busy.
Sunday I and helper Biz went to the Uintahs to do some forest work. Great day for it too, sunny, warm ,green. Runoff still flowing strong. Saw deer, grouse and such. Laid a 1/4 mile long blood track and let it set for 3 hours.
Meantime we worked on other areas of the VGP test. Biz went for a walk while Hess wasn't looking. Deep into the woods dropping a few bumpers along the way,and after dropping the last one hid where he could observe Hess. I released Hess with a hunt command and off he went, coming back every minute or so with a bumper and back in again. Finding the last one and heads out, Biz said Hess was looking real hard and covered alot of ground. Good to hear.
We walked through the forest letting Hess search and firing a couple shots from the shotgun. No problems there. Did fine.
Biz drug a rabbit for me about 1500 feet or so. Hid behind it and watched as Hess tracked it, found it and returned to me with no hesitation.
Forgot to get the fox from Zac so we had Hessian retrieve the Rabbit over fallen timber about 3 feet tall. No problem. Did great on this too.
Worked on some obedience like the Down Stay. Biz hid behind a tree and watched as i put Hess into a Down and walked off into the trees where he could not see me and fired 3 shots from the shotgun. Hess wasn't supposed to move from the position i put him in. Biz says he sat up and then went back to down before he could do anything. Perfect. I could do without the sitting up part but have a few months.
We also simulated a drive hunt, Biz went off into the woods making alot of noise, breaking branches and such. Fired 4 rounds from the shotgun. Hess stayed at my side unleashed but whined a bit, think i can fix that, Otherwise did great. Always likes to go search over the area when released. Can't blame him he is a hunter.
Finally back to the bood track. We approached the starting wound bed. I Platzed Hess and went to investigate. Came back and put the tracking collar and lead on and started off. "Hess, blood blood. Find the buck!" Off we go. Hess tracking strong and fast, need to work on slowing down a bit. Followed track well, jumped a grouse and i had to return his focus back to the blood which wasn't to bad. He took to the track right away again in speed mode but focused. Lost it a few times but not for long, turns back around by himself and starts tracking again. Along the way as i see blood i speak out "blood good boy find the buck". Seemed to help him get excited about it. Finally the end of our 1/4 mile long bloodtrack through the woods, over fallen timber and wet runoff hillsides! I am so stoked Hess is really catching on to this blood tracking thing.
All is well. Hope all training is going well for everyone else. Going to check out the Force Fetch event tonight, hopefully i will have an update on that as well. Happy training!