Beam Me Up Scotty GSP, Son of Crosswinds Microchip, Grandson of Truckin Fritz
Back 5 years ago, I decided to get back into field trials, shorthairs and upland hunting, now that I’d past 65 and was retiring, kind of!
In doing some research, trying to find a pup from Hall of Fame German Shorthaired pointers , Rawhides Clown or Crosswinds Truckin Fritz!
Somehow while searching for such a specimen, I was put into contact I was told, might be able to help me! His name was Larry Mize, a former NSTRA field trial judge, who had a stud dog named Beam Me Up Scotty, grandson of Truckin Fritz!
During our conversation, he told me of a female he had been using for a guide dog on Old Hickory Plantation in Kentucky that he was letting go of because she hunted to ‘close in’ for field trials! She had been the female pick of her 10 puppy litter, and Larry had donated her too his Quail Unlimited chapter and she was auctioned off for more than 2500! (he never told me how much exactly) Long story short the guy ended up divorced almost a year later, and ask Larry if he’d take her back and someday pay him what he could!
Her name was Annie, and she was the daughter of Scotty, and the granddaughter of another well known NSTRA Hall of Fame dog, Crosswinds Microchip! Chip was the son of the incredible Crosswinds Truckin Fritz, sire to 93 progeny that had earned Champsionship status by winning many field trials and hunting competitions.
Annie had turned 3 that February, 2020. Larry had been using her as a guide dog at a quail hunting place in Kentucky called ‘Old Hickory’ Plantation, a pay to hunt place. She had a great nose, needed no e collar to ‘force’ her to comply, as Annie is very biddable and pleasant to hunt with. She does hunt close, but her offspring didn’t inherit that in their traits, and have been taught as far or as near as you train them too based on your needs in a pointing or field trial dog!
I, being always suspicious, it’s my nature, sadly, decided to send her to a trainer aquaintance outside of Aurora Missouri and have him ‘see’ if she was well trained and a good hunter. After a short week, he called and said you can come get her, as he didn’t need to ‘train her’ as she would smell and get birdey as soon as he’d let her out of her kennel, approximately 100 yards from the grass training field where he’d plant his pigeons or quail. He began to recount what he said was a good a hunting dog as he’d seen!
