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Frankug

Google Alabama Quail Hunting Trail. Ought to give you a start. Where all the dots are is down near Union Springs. It does appear there is some up near Birmingham. Unlike out west there is not as much public land in the south, some though. Most are hunting preserve, private land types. Better than no...

Frankug

Sweet video by the way! Awesome looking dogs!

Frankug

My grandfather field trialled EPs and Setters. He did this off of a horse and he wanted his dogs stretching it out. Practically cantering to keep up. Covering ground I suppose. I remember hunting with him and some of his dogs would point and retrieve the bird after the shot not in the trial but on t...

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Is it a western thing? Hunted birds my whole life in the southeast and have not seen that many. Is it the first gun dog of choice because of its looks or what? Seems like everyone on this site has a GSP. Feel like I'm on a GSP forum. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Please explain.

Frankug

I don't like to hit my dogs upside the head. FYI.

Frankug

What part of bama? I hunt there a good bit. Union Springs is the bird dog capital of the world. I hunt near there a good bit.

Frankug

This is one thing I honestly never gave much thought. I just threw there butts in the back and rolled. I guess it worked out though. If I put my dog box in the back of the truck and pull up to the kennels. My dogs run straight to my truck and can't wait to get in. They are fired up because they know...

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I would probably start with a "no"! Then tone, then let er rip at lowest setting and work up if necessary. Shock yourself first before you ever shock your dog with a collar. What I would want to train with a collar is not to respect the collar but to respect you. The longer I have dogs the less I li...

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Dug out an opossum today! Not the game I am after but they seemed to enjoy it. Should of never told someone my dogs don't go to ground. Been humbled worse by dogs!

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ImageUploadedByTapatalk1390693610.069663.jpg Teckel digging it out! ImageUploadedByTapatalk1390693651.858430.jpg Bavarian Mountain Hound doing a little earth work. After telling someone that my Mountain Hound would dig out rabbits. I have Wirehaired dachshunds but I told someone that they didn't di...

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I can promise you I will not be sticking my dogs head under water until he starts choking! Your dog is bored and needs entertainment. Wear him out with exercise. Probably be good for you too.

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I have 3 in the bed, two on the floor, one in the living room and a kennel full. Misery loves company so I figured I would chime in. I love it though. Wouldn't want it any other way.

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Got a guy trapping my farm right now. After talking to his friend today, he says he does set multiple footholds per bait site. I haven't caught up with him yet (the trapper), but I am going to see what he thinks. Most of the trappers I have met are some of the best woodsman I have come across. Don't...

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I was unaware of Yotes running in packs? Seen two together but that is the most. Seen a group of pups and mom. Thinking a pack of coyotes does not happen? They are not wolves, which do run in packs. Still don't like them! Just wondering? If they did why wouldn't they set like six foot holds per bait...

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CDN Cocker, I was just relaying what I had done. Not telling anyone one way or another. I just said it might work. I have never done it around pointers, I don't know who would flush the birds. Unless you had the dog point and the kids flush while you got ready with the bow. Once again never done it,...

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He's an English Cocker Spaniel. Well all of the top pictures are. Liver is the mother, "Spice". Black is the Dad, "Cash". Those two I bought for my parents to use on their Southern Style Quail Hunts. They both came from Covey Flush Kennels in Sasser, GA. Great breeder. Seen tons of his dogs working....

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That's scary. People should look up sportsman's alliance. They seem to cover hunting with dogs very well. They will vote us out if we don't stand up. Takes money though. The antis have tons of money.

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Can't seem to find Spaniel Thread. Starting a new one. Got new books on training. HUP! Training Spaniels the American Way by James Spencer and Training Spaniels by Joe Irving. Starting now. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1389842965.820427.jpg "Hank" : son ImageUploadedByTapatalk1389843002.171034.jpg Mom (li...

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I tend to like female hunting dogs. I feel I have better rapport with a female as I am male. Sounds strange but universal. Males can drive me crazy. Slow to mature. Stubborn. They spend too much time peeing on stuff and marking their territory and not hunting to me. My females are better hunters. Mo...

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I neuter males, but lean my dogs towards females anyway. Meaning I prefer females, "bitches". I have yet to notice a negative side effect. I do it at appropriate time of course. I have also heard dozens say that it has negative, less drive, they get fat, etc. I tend to put all that in my country tal...

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Don't have pigeons, but have had chickens free range. Have heard of CDs never used it though, heard they worked. I have used fishing line strung above coop and part of the barnyard. Hawks would not go near it. Sounds crazy, but saw it at the beach at an out door cafe. They had strung it above the ca...

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I bird hunt, rabbit hunt, and deer hunt. My preferred method of deer hunting is archery. I have a Bavarian Mountain hound i trained and use to track many many deer. Some we never found but many we do. I can say with 100% confidence that I recover twice as many deer as I would without a dog. Remarkab...

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Cockers "riding the wagon". My male pup is the Liver Roan. "Cash" my parents dog is the sire and an old pro on the hunts. He is 9 and our first Cocker.

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I'm in Georgia but hunt a good bit in Alabama too. Want a dog to assist in Duck hunting and quail hunting. Flushing but also retrieving. Could use him on woodcock in Georgia, when I have them. My parents have two English Cockers they use to retrieve quail after pointed by their 22 English pointers. ...

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It seems to me the way the Europeans run there spaniels is safer. Stopping, sitting, steady post flush makes more sense to me. Having one run tighter seems better to me. Who trains this way in the states? Is there a good book on it or a good trainer to send a dog to? Have interest in training my new...

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I think fifteen, but I try not to count. Lets count: 1 coon hound 1 Bavarian Mountain Hound 1 English Cocker Spaniel 3 Beagles 6 Wirehaired Dachshunds 2 chihuahuas So fourteen, I was off by one. Five in the house right now, eight in the kennel. Coon hound runs free on farm. All pups start out in the...

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Good advice. Researching now. I bought two Cockers for my Parents to use on their quail hunts about eight years ago. They have 22 English pointers that they run two at a time to point the birds then use the Cockers for retrieval. They came from Covey Flush Kennels in Sasser, Ga. Really everyone in m...

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I never said they are all stewards of the land, as I am not an idiot. Like I said that to say all are rapist is idiotic as well.

Frankug

Cockers and Rabbits: Cool, thanks to the two of you. I have six Wirehaired Dachshunds and three Beagles, I will take my Mountain Hound along on the rabbit hunts as well. She has grown to really enjoy it, and oddly enough will dig them out if she can. My ten year old coon hound will come along someti...

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The pup pics top the charts for me! Way Cool!! Thanks.

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What kind of dog is Diemo? Jagdterrier? He is a stud!! Where in Georgia you getting into all that game?

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Seems to me Del Lolo is correct. Size is genetic. Nutrition will determine if he reaches that genetic potential. But having raised a lot of dogs, you seem to have two dogs on different extremes. I mean the one inside getting fed three times a day is going to have some problems developmentally as wel...

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Just googled this breed. Another dog I had never heard of that is pretty cool. German Spaniel (quail dog). Said it was used on all sorts of game though. Fur or feather and takes to the water like a fish. Seems rare. How do you find em?

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To try and learn more about dogs and hunting etc. I also wanted a place to tell all the many mistakes I have made with dogs over the years. Somebody might learn something from me. Not that many dog hunters out there that I can sit around and talk to. I love hunting with dogs. Hope we don't lose this...

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Any body hunt rabbits with an English Cocker? I have seen it on You Tube in Europe. I have some access to birds quail, ducks etc. Rabbits out the backdoor though. I already have a pack of rabbit dogs and wondering what he would do if thrown in the mix? Good Jump Dog or fricking slumming it? Thanks. ...

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I don't have my dogs in the box much here in the Georgia summertime, but heat should be a consideration. My dogs would eventually eat, chew, destroy it if it was made of wood. Don't know if your dogs are apt to chewing though? If using pressure treated wood, you would not want them eating chewing it...

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Wachtel means quail in German, Just FYI. Hunt with German Dogs. Not those though. Do you have a pic? Loose translation German Quail Dog. Is it the German name of a pointer GSP, GWP? Or different dog?

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I am sorry Gonehunting has never met a farmer that is a steward of the Land. I can tell you that he has never met me. I work everyday on my farm taking care of my land. I have put 600 acres of my farm in permanent Conservation easement, restored more habitat than he will ever think of attempting. Ju...

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Back to the original question: would you pay for hunting? If the Farmers in my area were treating the land like Gonehunting says they are in his area. I would not pay a dime. I don't know why anyone would want rights through their taxdollars to hunt their land. Sounds like a wasteland to me. That is...

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Government money is surely going to dry up. The same people who think they have entitlements to my land are bankrupting this country. They aren't making any more land and that is why there is a price on it. Finite resource, enjoy it while it last. I am a hunter that can digest more information than ...

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I am a farmer/rancher tax paying land owning dog hunting fool. I can guarantee that I have never thought that my tax dollars have gone to give me permission to hunt somebody else's land. Seems there is a gripe about the farmer/rancher landowner crowd that is quite offensive to me. We are the ones ho...

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Alabama quail hunting.
Took my 4 month old Cocker as well. He seemed pretty relaxed. Got him around birds etc., tons of fun!

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Frankug

Snake bites: I hunt in Georgia. Big snakes and I have seen lots of snake bites. Small dogs and big. It matters what time of year they get bit here. Fall bite less worry. Spring bite after denning and venom build up, get worried. I give all my dogs the western diamondback anti venom shot. It is cheap...

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Used the surrogators on my parents farm in Alabama and found no evidence that they worked. "Tall Timbers" was doing a research study on them. We banded all surrogator birds and harvested next to zero. We sold surrogators. The evidence for pheasant is really good to my knowledge. The standard thinkin...

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New Member: Hi I'm Frank and I have dogs. Love running around the woods here in Georgia chasing rabbits. I have six Wirehaired Dachshunds three beagles up until this morning. More about that in a minute. I have a Bavarian Mountain Hound I trained to track wounded deer. A coon hound. Been around bird...

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