You train them much the same way you'd train them to find birds. Get a bit of deer, like a hock, and teach them to find and point it, much the same way you might get a quail's wing and do the same. The dogs I've had or seen working didn't really need much teaching, other than the basics, and once they see you drop a deer (or quail, or duck) and get up on it to give it a good sniff while you act all excited and pleased with them, they soon get the, um, point
You can teach them to point foxes or other critters too, the same way.
I haven't yet seen a dog that will retrieve deer though
cool thank you
