Gun Dog Forum

Ok ever since I have gotten in to hunting I fell in love with bird dogs .i would drive my family crazy with all the German shorthaired pointers running around the house . I'm from California and my dream was to get a Deutsch Drathaar from it's motherland Germany .over the past for and a half years I...

My name is Rico .I joined this forum a few years ago when I lived in Los Angeles California . Buy for the past 4 years I have been coming to Germany and now I live here at the moment . Any gundog members in the area of bayern ? I picked up my Deutsch drathaar pup yesterday and would like to train hi...

i hunt near LA alot of the land is Private now. and upland this season has been unproductive ..duck's seem to be more plentiful
and i would not but my dog in freezing cold water . i was just simply thinking next year i will hunt more duck's then upland bird's .

found my answer thanks

This season i decided that upland hunting is not for me birds number are way to short in California this year. i will only hunt upland birds here and there next year but i am mainly going to hunt duck's for now on . i have been wondering how many of You hunt Duck's year around with your Gsp? i have ...

yea i think i will just buy smart fetch and force fetch him myself and give him lots of praise when his doing correctly ...would love to duck hunt with him

fortunately a few days ago i met a professional gun dog trainer who invited me on a hunt the next day of meeting him and he evaluated Thunder and said He is Fine dog only problem is the retrieving and i will be leaving to Germany next month so while im gone .i will be leaving Thunder with him and he...

i say Whoa on birds he does not Move he holds point until i flush birds or they self flush i thought whoa means to stay when the word is said i never tell him to whoa after the bird has flushed .

no he has not been de'chase yet.

he is here and heel and whoa broke i can Whoa him on birds all day i have not worked with keeping him on whoa after a bird has flushed i was planning on working on getting him steady to wing and shot after the seasons over .but i was wondering witch would be better to teach force force fetching or s...

he is very steady on birds he is whoa broke but if the bird flushes or i flush the bird he will take off after it.

i have a 3 year old male gsp he is trained steady to wing and flush he retrieves Ok not always good and i am wondering if i should train him steady to wing and shot first before force fetching or does it not matter . and do some of you have special ways or tips on training steady to wing and shot? a...

I went to a place i hunted last year with 100s of quail did not see a single bird! me and the dogs hunted all day it was not good at all.

i planed to heel her and whoa her sometime April or may i just wanted to build her drive on birds and try to bring out her natural retrieving but i only been able to put her on the launchers .. today i plan on buying some quail and start her retrieving training..right now her range is pretty good fo...

I recentley received a gsp pup 2 weeks ago I introduce her to birds following the perfect start dvd .and she's already has been shot over not gun shy. I been running her on homers in 3 remote launcher two pigeon size and a pheasant size witch I put 2 pigeons in 3 times a week sometimes twice a day ....

the pup will not pick up bumpers her mom is a natural retriever her dad does not retrieve some of her littermates retrieves naturally with no training ...and the guy I got her from said she retrieves frozen quail and chukar ...so I thought it would be good to try live birds to enhance it .ill give g...

how much success have you had with that? i want to set my pup up for the best success i can ..

ill stick to Frozen bird then thanks i dont want to create any problems

Actually Both her Parents from Shady meadow kennels !

i got her from a guy were i live ! her grandfather is Turbo from Shady meadow kennels her Pedigree is Full of champions on both sides !

ok so i have a 6 month old Female Gsp who i want to build her natural retrieving Desire up would like to get some Experience guys advice on it! i would like to get some live pigeons and toss them out for her in high grass and let her find them is this a good start?

yea i think its 3 lol..... i will email these guys. and my dog does not papered i got her from someone in Hemet,.

AHGSP i think i will give the clip winged pigeon a try! i think shes not ready to be forced fetched shes still learning how to hold point i have not shot a bird for her yet....i was told to wait until she is broke to force fetch her....

i have a 1 and a half rescue female Gsp everything is going very great with her training! she finds and points bird whoa's pretty well im having problems with bringing out her natural retrieving she will not pick up Bumpers or frozen birds only Live birds and she will hold them but after a while she...

My dog is 1 and a half years old and don't have her started yet she is very birdy points planted pigeons for a minute or 3 ...and I do plan to force fetch her so I will be looking into smart fetch. Thanks guys got the help very appreciative.

I guess that answers one of my questions lol I'm going to get it.

i was thinking of buying the PERFECT START AND PERFECT FINSH any feed back on it! and is there any more good dvd's anyone can recommemd ..
im new at training bird dogs.

Thanks guys for the advice I will not shoot around her again until she r conditioned and I'm very sure she is ready ...now I hope I didn't ruin her...this is my first gun dog and I want to do it right for her. so we can have many good seasons together....

I went duck hunting and the first few shots my 1 and a half female gsp was ok with it then later on as we shot more she started to get scared And hide behind my gf so I stopped with the shooting and started trying to get her to retrieved some dead ducks witch she not trained on doing at first she sh...

He knows sit stay and come he pretty well he also good at retrieving pheasent winged bumpers too me .! i also have some bob white quail i planted them took him down wind on a check cord once he got the smell he charged into the bush were i planted them.. and when i dont let him charge in he barks an...

THANKS GUNDOG... there was a few people there at the time and i will start training him alone and work on his basic field commands since he knows his yard commands well ! and soon as the season starts i will put him on quail since the season is so close!

Yea your right as I am not exp, that much I will work on commands aswell as not talking so much
I will take all the advice giving to me and I appreciate it would like to get more thanks

i recently acquired a 6 year old Gsp who has Been hunting for 4 years but not the for the past two years he knows some of his hunting commands but the previous owner told me he needs to be refreshed.. i was told he knows find birdy 's whoa fetch stay sit ! i have a few homing pigeons i place them in...