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Hunting Glossary

HuntingNet.com has comprised a database of many of these phrases and their definitions to help you gain a better understand of hunting terminology.

The hunting world is filled with a variety of different terms and phrases that may mean one thing to a seasoned veteran but make no sense whatsoever to someone who is just starting out.

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Mark Search:

An item a dog sees thrown for it to retrieve. Usually a game bird or a training bumper. A foundation task for dogs. It can also be a descriptive term for how well a dog picks up the bird.

Matriarch Search:

Refers to the oldest female in a given game species. She may live with daughters, grand daughters and even great-grand daughters.

Maw & Paw/Mama-Papa Search:

Two marks are thrown in opposite directions from a single gun station. This is similar to a fountain double and has also been called a “poor man’s double.” This can be difficult because an over trained dog may be reluctant to go back to a gun where he has already picked up a mark because he has been taught not to go back to an old fall area.

Memory Bird Search:

Any item in a multiple mark situation, other than the last item, a dog has seen thrown for it to retrieve.

Metatarsal gland Search:

A gland in deer located on the outside of the hind feet.

MH Search:

Master Hunter. An AKC title used as a suffix on a dog’s registered name. The Master Hunt Test consists of land blinds; water blinds; multiple marks on land (triples or quads); multiple marks on water (triples or quads); multiple marks on both land and water; a walk up; diversion shots and/ or marks and an honor. The Master Hunter represents a truly complete hunting dog.

MHR Search:

Master Hunting Retriever. A NAHRA title used before the dog’s name. The Senior test takes an Intermediate dog and adds a lot of training and experience. A Senior Dog by definition is a finished hunting retriever. Senior dogs should be under complete control at all times and steady under all conditions. They should handle sharply and mark precisely. They should be able to ignore diversions while returning from marks and handle off "poison birds" on blinds. They are the elite of all hunting dogs and should show it. They are the dogs that any of us would be proud to own and hunt with anywhere in the country. These dogs should be able to work cover and water, run multiple marked retrieves and blind retrieves on water and land and be steady to shot and fall. Here his work must be carried out with precision and control. A dog receiving a Qualifying score in the Senior testing category at a Licensed NAHRA Hunting Retriever Field Test shall be credited with twenty (20) points toward the title of Master Hunting Retriever (MHR). Dogs that have acquired points in the Senior testing category at Licensed NAHRA Hunting Retriever Field Tests may continue to enter either the Started or Intermediate testing categories. In order to be recorded as a Master Hunting Retriever (MHR) a dog must be an approved purebred breed registered with an approved breed registry and must have a record of having accumulated at least one hundred (100) points in Licensed NAHRA Hunting Retriever Field Tests in the Senior testing category or have accumulated twenty (20) Intermediate points and eighty (80) Senior points in Licensed NAHRA Hunting Retriever Field Tests. Upon completion of these requirements a dog will be recorded as a Master Hunting Retriever (MHR) by the North American Hunting Retriever Association, Inc. and, where appropriate, may display the title Master Hunting Retriever or the initials MHR before its name.

Molt Search:

Losing feathers and regrowing them at different stages in life.

Molting Search:

The process of shedding the coat. Molting occurs twice a year-once in the spring and once in the fall.

Momentum Search:

The force or drive that a retriever exerts in order to drive to a mark.

Money Bird Search:

The absolute last item, in a multiple mark situation, the dog picks up. Called "Money Bird" because in a Field Trial, if your dog doesn’t get it, you get no money!

Morphology Search:

The physical characteristics on the outside of a body.

Mule Deer Search:

A subspecies of whitetail deer located in the western United States and Mexico.