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Like the title says, let's see those gun dogs! I've got a Golden, and a Shepherd - haven't hunted with the Golden yet, he's only a 12mos. He's got a knack for marking targets and getting them in order though, so provided I can get the bird out of the sky, he can bring it back. The shepherd's another matter altogether. Both smart as a whip and leading the NILIF life with good results.
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God I love Shepherds...work with a lot of them... Heres my current "gun dog" An Aussie x Border Collie...just turned 12..phenomenal dog... And her protege'...who doesn't like to hunt, but does everything else, including fish...a pure Border Collie... Nothing like a little focus... Ingwe
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waiting in the truck for the girls to get out of school playing in the river playing softball relaxing next to me on the couch really hope to get some hunting photos with him before long but the weather, my back and my wife havent been cooperating....
A serious student of the "Armchair Safari" always looking for Africa/Asia hunting books
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Tank and Duke with a few pheasants Tank and his best pal with some ducks Tank with a snow goose from one of the spring snow goose slaughters of a few years back Duke with a few more pheasants
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Great pics guys I will and a few soon. Dukeman
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THATS quite a cool looking pair!!! Heres a couple more of Ingwedog afield doing her thing...just cause we all like to kinda brag up our dogs! She helped recover over 40 big game animals before she retired...she didn't miss much that was fun...now shes aging gracefully and only goes on the occasional fishing trip... We have had 12 wonderful years together... Ingwe
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Awesome pics guys!
Ingwe - those are some phenomenal pics!
It never occurred to me to use a dog to track large game, what a great reason to bring a pup to deer camp.
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Yep, she has come in pretty handy. It is illegal here to use a dog to hunt big game...locate and/ or haze them, so she was trained to stay strictly at heel and watch the show, sometimes even on a leash. Taught her to move by hand signals alone, up to and including crawling when need be.... Only when something got shot and ran out of sight was she deployed.... In a couple cases where we were uncertain of a hit, she provided quick confirmation, either positive or negative. She always knew exactly what she was doing, and why she was there...used to get visibly upset when I passed up a shot... Couple more pics...We had shining times...and still do..but its only fishing for her now... Ingwe
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The first pic my pup was around seven months old with my two boy's first ducks. The second pic he was around ten months old. October 17th can't get here soon enough.
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Looks like the dog...and the little dudes...had the hang of it by the second pic! Ingwe
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I had my hands full for the first part of the season teaching the boys and the dog but by the end of the season they were hitting more than misssing and Earl figured it out. I learned a lot about training dogs and boys last year.
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Here is my Golden with some birds he has hunted. Sad but he is getting old (just about 10 now). I don't how many days in the field he has left. I hope to get next year out him. I don't know what I will do when his hunting days are done. 9 species of upland birds he has gotten for me. 4 states he has hunted in. Drae with Ruffed grouse in our younger years. Drae with Mearns Quail Drae with Sharp-tailed grouse. Drae with Scaled quail.
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VERRRRRY cool pics...
But I know what you mean....as I mentioned in earlier posts,Ingwedog is "retired" from hunting, and indeed alot of the fishing in tough country ( she used to run interference between me and moose, or griz)shes not fast enough for that any more. Shes still sharp as a tack, and a pleasure to be around, and no one or no thing has ever known me better,but the day is coming, sooner now than before, and its killing me...
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Nice dogs folks. Here are mine. Here are my two setters. One is a Gordon the other an English What they get me
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If it doesn't have fin, fur, feathers or go bang, I just ain't interested.
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Great pics I will add some soon
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Great pics I will add some soon
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Here's my 3 year-old Golden waiting patiently for ducks. She has improved unbelievably in two years and tons of training. For example, with two teal swimming just outside the decoys, I told her to lay down and stay, which she did (but she was quivering with excitement and whining quietly). Two years ago she'd have bounded into the water after them. She now has pretty good manners when duck hunting.
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Lochsa; You have a REAL knack for photography... And especially for capturing your dog on film. EXCELLENT pics man! Keep them forever...
Ingwe
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