Gun Dog Forum

DonF

I will admit that on one level, it is fairly pointless to address a single shotgun as “my favorite gun.” Different shotguns have different purposes, and there is no reason to select only one. How about you? Well if I had to make a call it would probably be either my CZ Bobwhite 28ga or my AyA Matad...

DonF

At 18mos my Sis came down with epilepsy. She died of it Sunday night. Had a seizure Sat night and got her to a vet Sunday morning about 8am. Gave her two shots for pain and took her in. Called this morning with the bad news. God I miss her!

DonF

My first suggestion would be either a GSP or a Red Setter. But if I were to think long enough I'd probably come up with a Britt too. I have trained a number of them and they are very nice mostly. Not to much range and good companion's. Get it from gun dog breeding though. I've seen a good number of ...

DonF

Well didn't get to see her. Guy got down to Walla Walla and road got closed with snow! Was really looking forward to it! Did see the recent pup's Stormy sired up there though. Didn't think to take the camera though! Nice pup's!

DonF

Bodie and Squirt got leather collars made at a local saddle shop. Collars out lasted both of them. I've got leather collars on all four of my dogs now and they are going to be done before to much longer. Their next collars will come from a saddle maker. Whats biothane anyway?

DonF

Just got this from Craig in Yakima. It's his pup from that litter up there. Ruby!

DonF

One female and one male pup left in Yakima, Wash. Come Back, Joe Edwards kennel, female by my Stormy. Really nice female. Went to Craig O'Briens place to see them and Craigh has a female out of the litter. Really nice pup! Not sure what they are getting for them. Wish I'd had my camrea with me but f...

DonF

Kind of hard to do some things in the snow I would think. I'd be real careful of creating a new problem forr the trainer to work on. With 2' of snow there's not a whole lot of prodductive work youcan do outside of basic obedience.

DonF

One more time!

DonF

Molly is a Stormy/Sis pup. Guy up in North Idaho got her. Hoping to see her Dec 10th up in Yakima.

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45# of raising heck!

DonF

Your dog does what you allow it to do! It simply want's the bird, your job is to show it how. Remote traps guve you the opertunity to expose your dog to wild birds ways! You need to learn how to do that. Bring the dog in cross wind, check cord makes it easier but without the ck cord is much more nat...

DonF

I prefer ferals to homer's, got both. Ferals are generally smaller birds and easier to handle. Of course anything a feral can do, so can a homer but a feral can't do what a homer's does! In my experience ferals are a bit wilder than homer's. I have homer's come out of a trap and sit down next to the...

DonF

One more thing about letting it chase in the cover your talking about. I'd take a close look at the check cord she's dragging. Should be hard core to bounce off brush and avoid tangling in it and, very important, hope there no knot in the end that could catch in a "v" in the brush and hang it up!

DonF

Boy she is looking good!

DonF

I like my dogtra collars. You do not need a one mile range, that's silly. In all likelyhood you won't be able to see your dog at one mile. Chance yo could shoch it standong on a bird. Confine training to a much smaller area and only shock when you know exactly wht the dog is doing wrong! Even a half...

DonF

Thank yall for the help. I always keep her in the check cord when retrieving. I will admit, sometimes I can get frustrated. The first live bird she ever got, she wouldn't give the bird and she growled and bit me. I was furious and popped her pretty good... I know that's not fun for her. All of the ...

DonF

Couple problems, hard mouth and refusing to let go. My first though is she needs forced fetched. That should help with the hard mouth. The release is easy. Bring her in and be down on one knee, other knee up. Pull her into the spot between your knees and with your right hand over her back stroke her...

DonF

Had a guy bring me a 6yr old GSP male he told me he'd never run. I'm pretty sure that was an understatement! That dog had no interest in anything. Finally trying to get him to look for birds I took him into the quail pen and just stood there and watched him. Big nothing for about 45 min. Birds would...

DonF

Think I got her!

DonF

Craig O'Brien owns Ruby up in Yakima. Craig is the breeder of my Stormy and this pup is one out of the litter Stormy sired in Yakima a while back. I love that tail! Ruby has as good a home as it get's!

Well shoot, can't paste it here! Some good looking pup!

DonF

Have to congradulate you. Most people getting going seem to make a project out of the birds. Your loft will probabky work fine. About the floor, mine are 3/4" plywood. Preditors can dig under but have never come up through. I like the plywood for cleaning, easy to use a flat nose shovel and scrape e...

DonF

In a bragging mood now! Stormy on point with Snicker, his son, backing for the first time. Snick came around and soon as he saw Stormy i whoa'ed him. What a boy!

DonF

I ran NSTRA for several years and Judged. Found out I liked judging best, got to watcch every dog. I was tight as a judge had my own rules and you had to follow them. I worried about gun safety out there and my first rule was no loaded chamber in the field till you got to your dog on point. I got fr...

DonF

Boy no one has been here in a while. I pretty much cut my teeth with a Mossberg 500 pump, really like that one. Today I have an Ithica mod 37 16ga. Really like those Ithicas but I've never shot this one. Started using SxS's years ago and never left them. Really like my AyA's. I have had a 12ga, have...

DonF

She is a pretty girl! I found that even dogs that shy away from the water in the begining, they fall in once then ya can't keep them out of it. Used to dump my dogs in the horse water trough when I was done working them. They all got to where when we were done and I headed to the barn they'd run ahe...

DonF

Boy forgot all about this thread. Great one everyone should read.

DonF

Wen I first moved into where I am now, had 14 dog's out back and the first night I looked on the hill behind the barn and about 8 coyote's were sitting there in a row watching my dog's!

DonF

Keep in mind when taking very young puppy's around chicken's. Far better than a shock from a collar is a peck from a chicken. Pup's learn real fast how to avoid the peck! Imagine if every bird your dog pointed walked over to the dog and pecked it. Wouldn't take to long and your dog would quit pointi...

DonF

Here is one of the locals during her training. The first photo was taken during her "whoa" barrel work :D . The second photo shows her finished, steady, pointing a quail. I often work some of the local prairie wolves. This one is still a little gun sensitive though :D. I trained her the same way I ...

DonF

Perfection Kennels Perfect Gun Acclimation Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I have seen that video quite a long time ago and pretty good. Notice in the video with introducing the dog to the gun. Wen the gun is fired the dog looks over at the gun a moment then goes on to retrieve. I can't see any ...

DonF

Have had chicken for aa long long time and never a problem with the dog's. I start them out around chickens going out with me to do chore's while they are just puppy's. Seem to learn real fast not to fool with them. Sometime's not paying attention and Sis or Snicker will get left in the chicken coop...

DonF

a Don't remember which it is but I prefer the 1 which uses 9v batteries. Go train and dead battery, just pop in a new 9v. Mine last 2 years if I don't forget to turn them off That sounds like the same one's I have. Mine take 9v in the reciever. I have had two different brands and have worked with se...

DonF

What if the dog runs away? Chases a deer? Goes after a bird or rabbit? You may not NEED one, but for me, it's the cheapest insurance I can buy. There's also YOU. I hunt a lot of big woods and with a GPS, I can get out. There's a good point no one made. Hunt in a place where your not sure how to get...

DonF

I don't think you really need to worry about pointing abilities in a dog bred to point to begin with. simply expose the dog. Good way I think is walking the pup around in fields and let it chase d*cky birds. Pup won't catch them but it does start the pup hunting. I do not believe in the beginning do...

DonF

I think you said you started the pup at 6mos. Big problem for me right there. At 6 mos they truly are a pup and your watching puppy junk hoping for something else. As for the traps, sounds like they are remote traps and you have the best thing for doing a dog in my opinion. Beauty of the remote is y...

DonF

Thing's like that are brought about by marketing, two different barrels to make the gun do two different things. I would not have a gun like that even if I used a shotgun to deer. There are bird guns and there are slug guns. Don't try to make one into the other!

DonF

I'm going to guess at how he got it done. Same as I do to get young pointer's started pointing. Springer's have what they call a fault called blinking. That a dog that goes into a flush but hesitates. Well train to increase the blink and you have a point! Take the dog out with remote traps and when ...

DonF

Hard to believe! So what is the point? Pointing dogs just not good enough? I'd suggest you try a springer-doodle but am afraid you'd try!

DonF

I went a lot of years without a GPS collar, never could afford one. Then I got Bodie and Squirt and suddenly I had no clue where the dogs I took with me were. Spent the money on a GPS and always knew about where they were after that! After Bodie and Squirt I got Stormy and he doesn't run anything at...

DonF

I ran into that problem with my Stormy. Really didn't seem to care about the birds at all as a puppy. About ready to give up on him and at 11 mos he pointed his first bird! 11 mos!!!! Well he also developed really fast from that point on and is a really nice dog today. When my old ES Bodie was about...

DonF

Best way I found to do it iswith the whoa command. I use the Delmar Smith whoa post, no waist collar. Work on whoa quite a bit so when you say whoa, the dog stops. When your reald to break the dog, back up to the training yard and whoa. I use the check cord to start them the e-collar. have your dog ...

DonF

For my money, The Delmar Smith Method. My first few were done according to the book but at some point I vered off and added stuff to suit myself. What you will find out in the end is one method will trip your trigger and the key to success willn be reputation, meaning they will all work! The secret ...

DonF

Ya know, been a lot of years since I've had ESS. Loved them too! Quite a bit different that pointing dogs, don't have to get the dog to hold the bird! Do lot's of work keeping your dogs with you in gun range. Hup command. I would think this is important, similar to the whoa command with pointing dog...

DonF

I’m expecting to get an eight week old Brittany at the end of September. Im just a guy who wants to hunt, not interested in trialing (yet?) so no need for perfection, just a dog that will help me find birds and hopefully bring them back to me. Our quail season here runs from October to February, so...

DonF

Pretty simple for me. Put the females in one box and the males in another. decide if you want a male or female and go to that box. Close your eyes and grab one! Going to be quite a bit of changing for a couple years and whichever one you pick will grow on you. probably have some faults but when it l...

DonF

here's one of my old Bodie I really like.

Dog's breaking away at a Britt trial near Madras, Oregon.

DonF

Love this head shot I got of Stormy a couple years ago.

Here's another favorite of a Britt breaking away at a field trial.

DonF

One more of Tig

One more of pup's too!

Three females and three males but sounds like two females are spoken for.

DonF

More puppy's

DonF

Went to Yakima todays to see Stormy's [uppys, 4 1/2 weeks old today. Got a better photo of mom too, Tig. Tig is about 40#, about 3 yrs old and never had a haircut, really nice dog! Tig https://i.imgur.com/8QOsUQtl.jpg?1 Puppy's https://i.imgur.com/wydN0ovl.jpg Three males and three females. Think tw...

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