Gun Dog Forum

I don't follow why you still would hobble them when you found out they will come back to a small loft. One other thing, if a dog won't point a pigeon it won't point any bird. You will hear some people say their dogs won't point pigeons and that can happen with any bird if you teach your dog a certa...

It won't harm them one bit. I recently went and bought some to train my dog. Same way you want to. With hobbles out of a launcher. I live on 15acers but didn't go build a loft or nothing fancy I just used a portable puppy kennel and set it on a table on our back deck. I put hay in there and food and...

I'm positive that is correct. There is public land but mostly people you would hunt near go there...lots of beer cans:)

There are some decent leases and people usually let you out for quail if you know someone. You usually have to wait till after deer season though

Thanks yall, this post didn't go up right away cause it was my first one. I ended up running her on quail and she did really well the first day. Then I run her again and no point. I guess I'll give it a rest a while. I have access to lots of land with such different terrain. I've been taking her out...

She's a 4month old GSP. She learned whoa, come, come around really fast. I did sight pointing with a quail wing around 3months old. She didn't point it at first but eventually did. I stopped once she pointed it that first time and never did it again. Took her out with pigeons in launcher and she wou...