Gun Dog Forum

My dog eats anything he finds out in the fields, kitchen scrapes, roadkill, anything. I got him a DT systems pa 300. It doesn't fase him. He will not stop even with it around his flank; he doesn't even act like it hurts. He does fine while on a check cord. I was wandering if the only thing to do was...

I'm looking at budget ecollars and am split between the dt systems pa 300 and the sportdog 350 yard trainer. I know the are both cheep collars but I wondered if anybody had any experience with either and their thoughts on them.

Wow... never would have figured that out on my own. Thank you

In my state (pa), all hunting dogs have to get there own licence separate from there owners

I am trying to get my dog registered so I can buy his first hunting dog licence but am totally confused. He is a pedigreed vdd so do I somehow register him threw the vdd-gna or do I still just register him threw the akc or ukc?

I shoot alot of birds and was wanting to get some mounted, but the cost is just way to high. I found these taxidermy kits from vandikes and wanted to know if anybody has tryed them. Is everthing you need REALLY included like they say? And do they actually look ok?

What are your opinions of Joan Bailey's books vs the others mentioned?

I was also wandering, if I train him to a whistle and then get another whistle some day will he respond to both without retraining or just the original whistle. And I heard that cage realised birds smelled different the wild birds and this caused problems with the dog. Has anyone had a problem with ...

I've seen many of these birds walking the edges of creeks around here but that's kind of hit or miss. Does anyone know if they can be called in? maybe just as a locator?

Anyone have experience with Joan Bailey's second book, How to Have the Best Trained Gun Dog. I have the first one, How to Help Gun Dogs Train Themselves, and i thought it was prity good. I was wandering if anybody has trained a dog using the second and how it turned out, or any comment about if the ...

My drahthaar is 11 weeks and I'm now really looking for the program I'm going to use. But, the options are quite confusing for someone who has never used any of them.
Please comment which you all use, why you use it, and what you recomend.

Thanks, so far were just doing simple conditioning like in How To Help Gun Dogs Train Themselves by Joan Bailey.

Im now thinking about what supplies I need for my new pup. I hunt some upland, I plan to start grouse hunting in the woods and I do some waterfowl. I was wandering what whistles you use, why you like them and what you recommend. I was looking at the new Storm whistles, their supposed to be the loude...

I'm starting to train my new pup and wandered what command word you use. I've heard some weird ones with the clame its so their dog doesnt get confused with anybody else talking or with another dog. So I was wandering what some of your word for your dogs commands were.

Ok, thanks, this is my first hunting dog (he's a drahthaar) and wasn't sure. That makes me feel better.

Sorry about not enough info. He is being crate trained and some family will be with him the whole time, but I was told the person who will be hunting with him (me), should be with him as much as possible and wasn't sure if that would be to long.

I got a new puppy 2 weeks ago, now he is 10 weeks old. But in 2 weeks I'd like to go away for the weekend, and I'd like to know what you all thought of that, would be ok for my pup?