Recent content by daniel77

Hope that they are buried together. My thoughts and prayers to his family. Thankfully, where we hunt has only frozen over completely twice in the last 30 years, and is only 2.5 feet deep anyway. We don't bring the dogs at all if it freezes...

I'm a bit late to this party, but I'll toss in my two cents. I've done a bit of Schutzhund work and have seen Mals do some amazing things. Many people may not know it, but Schutzhund is where force fetching actually originated. I did indeed duck hunt with my old German Shepherd. That being...

Agree with just about all that has been said already. First of all, you should assess what type of hunting that you really prefer to do. I would say that the way you raise your pup and how you train it will have a lot to do with the outcome as long as you are starting with a dog that has the...

My dad also has a fine O/U that he no longer duck hunts with because he's afraid of messing up a nice gun. You can certainly just clean it up after the hunt using some sort of chemical spray. Some folks don't like WD-40, but the WD stands for Water Displacement after all. Many use a real gun...

Not trying to bash you, but wouldn't it be a better idea to just do your homework and find some land first, public or private, rather than hunt the roads? Just seems like part of the normal planning process to me...

After the thread that I'd started about the training books came back up I reread it, and now have a question. A couple of folks had mentioned in that thread about the double whistle for "come around" not being used by most folks anymore. My question is this, why is the double whistle now out? I...

Let the dog progress at his pace, which may or may not coincide with your expectations. In two years, you won't remember that it took an extra month to get him to ______.

I know several lab guys that regularly test their dogs with birds like that to be sure they are steady and don't "go" till told. I also know at least 3 hog hunters who keep a pig or two (usually a baby wild hog they caught and raised) around just so that they can maintain a handle on their dogs...

I did a quick search and first link I tried had both forend and buttstock for a combined $155. Not sure what expensive is to you, but I thought that was very reasonable. Good luck. If it was for a rifle stock, and not a shotgun, I'd have a half dozen good suppliers to offer you...

This just in......Deanna Farve, wife of Brett Farve, has issued a statement saying that the cell phone pics weren't meant for Jenn Sterger but they were meant to be sent to her. She was quoted as saying, "They were supposed to be sent to me but you know Brett, they were intercepted." Geaux...

I just got a DT micro iDT plus, which is 900 yd, fully waterproof, expandable to 3 dogs, small, 16 levels of mom and cont., has the vibration feature and priced @ less than $200 bucks. So far (couple of months), I have no complaints whatsoever. My dog is very soft also, but works well with a...

+1 on the Tru Oil.

Eeeaaasssyyy Now! I'm a retriever man myself, and just now have my first pointing dog, a 9 month old male English Setter. I put that word in quotes for a reason. It was a bit tongue in cheek, fuel for fire, and so forth. Have a Scotch and relax.:cheers:

I'd say that learning to trust air scent and move quickly is one of those things that a dog learns with experience. As I had gotten into in that other thread, to really have a dog tracking ground scent takes a bunch of work. A dog that simply starts out holding it's head low while searching will...

I've got a bit of experience with Schutzhund, and the tracking parts of it are interesting. One of the things that I learned through it are differences in scent. Wind scent, as ya'll called it, is up higher, and doesn't last as long (think hours). The ground scent is left in each place where the...