He's coming on great guns, we take him out on a 100 acer site opposite us which has a mixture of hedges, ditches, woods and open fields that has rabbit sets, badger sets, fox holes pigeons squirrels and the odd muntjac so plenty to get the scent going we have him on a 20mtr training line at present but he is unaware that we do not hold it and he's happy to run side to side of us as we walk never to far away he's also out with other dogs so gets to play like a puppy should but every now and then when he is hard on a scent we recall him with the whistle which he responds to like a rocket as we treat him (rightly or wrongly depending who you talk to) on his return he's bit of a puller if we walk him on a normal lead but I'm a tad reluctant to hold him back just yet as would not want to hinder his desire to hunt.