I have asked a question on my lab not hunting/ranging from me. She really stays close, i am going to join a hunting club this summer which has classes for retrievers. I take my lab out, who is now 19 going on 20 months old, so i am not really expecting her to be like my uncle's 5 year old lab who is very good, but when i go out w/ her and my uncle, with his lab, my dog will not range from me very much, i feel it is partly because she doesn't really have the whole game down yet that when we go out and walk around looking for birds, thats what you have to do. Mainly she has been trained obedience and i have a dummy launcher w/ a pheasant wing on it and she absolutely loves it. I think my problem is the fact that she doesn't know what to do completely yet, and i think going out to the hunting classes and getting around more live birds in an area where they will get up for sure, that would help her and i'm going to take her out a lot more this summer to random places that i can access and let her walk around with me and try to get some live birds so she can flush and figure this whole thing out. Does this sound like it would work, or does anyone have any other sort of advice they could give to me, i know for sure it isn't gunshyness or gun sensitivity because if i grab my shotgun she goes crazy and thinks we are going to get birds, and i have used a dead bird and planted it w/ dragging it around and she finds them no problem so i have been working w/ her nose, but i think my main thing is lack of experience/knowledge on her part and her youth. Does this sound like it's my/her problem or am i over looking something else. Any advice would help me and thank you for looking.