Ha ha, great story! Shows the subjectivity in the process, maybe they didn't properly cleanse their palate in between yours and hers!
kind of reminds me of the movie " Bottle Shock"
In a nutshell, Field trial dogs have to go to extreme lengths to find a winner because they are competing against each other. Hunt test dogs compete against a test, so you basically have to either pass or fail.
Field trial dogs are forced to run in straight lines to the bird. Which usually means running across a tip of a lake without running around it to prove themselves worthy of exactness. Whereas a hunt test dog will be more practical in his approach to finding the bird.
Note: all 4 types of labs make excellent companions.
There are 4 different camps in Labs.
1. Field Trial Labs
2. Hunt Test Labs
3. Show Labs
4. English labs
The Field trail labs are the high end rockets, extremely intelligent, typically longer and leaner.
The Hunt Test labs and English Labs are a good happy medium.
The show labs are confirmation only. They typically have the blocky heads you're looking for but aren't as smart. Just like a beauty pageant.
Colors:
the typical field trial winners are broken down as follows:
Black lab males represent 75%
Black lab females make up 10-15%
All other colors represent the remainder.
draw your own conclusions.
I really don't think this will change your mind.....
But I did field trials and hunt tests for over 10 years.
Hope this helps
My two biggest....Hybrid with unknown weight (guess was 12-15) I owe this to Wrench!!
Smallmouth caught a couple of weeks ago, somewhere between 20.5" and 21"
Strange, are they protecting the actual reel foot? Which is usually steel? Or are they protecting the rod reel seat, which is plastic?
agree with Wrench on that, I've had to add gaskets/spacers in reel seats for certain brand reels, to keeps the reel from moving around and get a solid mount.