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Gun Dog	Customer Rating:
Excellent book for training gun dogs or any dog in general. I would recommend this book for anyone wanting training advice from the novice to the expert. Very clear and sensical tips and training advice that is easy to follow and implement.

Worked for me	Customer Rating:
I used this book for my first dog and had excellent results. I do not know why I got away from his methodes but now I am Back. Yes its time conuming and can really try ones patience but it produces a great dog.

Way outdated and the author is too physical on the dogs	Customer Rating:
Here is another book that was written too many years ago and needs to be updated.The rapid training pretty much come from breaking your dogs spirit to get him to do what you want. Bird dog discipline is a must but this guys techniques are poor in general and will not make it fun for the dog. He makes the dog more of a tool than a hunting companion. Thumbs down

Read It and Wolter's Other Books

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R. A. Wolters' books are so much fun to read, and most of the information is correct and useful. Actually, it is all useful. I recommend this and his other books for anyone preparing to get a dog (hunting or otherwise). I like the 7 week pup thing personally, but the basis of Wolters' assertions on this matter may be a little dogmatic and are disputed by some experts and researchers. I looked into the study that he uses for this assertion in all of his books, and it seems that he misinterpreted the data and came to a rash decision. I believe getting a pup at exactly 49 days is a good idea, but it is not as necessary as Wolters would indicate.

Training	Customer Rating:
It is no news that this is one of the best training books for upland game that has ever been written. You may disagree with Wolters but you can never say his methods dont work. This is my number one resource for training my dogs.