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Best trip out this year was with a buddy who had picked up an old damascus shotgun. I think he said it was made in England in 1869. He loaded some black powder cartridges for it, we tested it at the range on some clays and then headed out for birds.Search found 3782 matches
- Fri Dec 25, 2020 12:24 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Dang only a couple of members hunt??????
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Re: Dang only a couple of members hunt??????
Best trip out this year was with a buddy who had picked up an old damascus shotgun. I think he said it was made in England in 1869. He loaded some black powder cartridges for it, we tested it at the range on some clays and then headed out for birds.
- Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:00 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Merry Christmas friends
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Re: Merry Christmas friends
Merry Christmas Sharon. Here in Alberta we've been on lockdown for a few weeks already - not that I have noticed much change in my daily routine from it.
- Thu Dec 10, 2020 11:55 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Couple good days
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Re: Couple good days
Sounds like some good days ahead for the dogs.
- Sat Sep 14, 2019 11:16 am
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Running 2 Pointing Dogs at Once
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10549
Re: Running 2 Pointing Dogs at Once
2 dogs working independently are always more effective than one. The increase in effectiveness isn’t worth using up all your dog power. Anyone that would lose a friend over a piece of dog work needs to unwind their spring a little - well maybe a lot.
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- Thu Sep 12, 2019 11:29 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Running 2 Pointing Dogs at Once
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10549
Re: Running 2 Pointing Dogs at Once
There is not a dog in existence that will find every bird that exists on his/her beat everytime. So the supposition that having a second dog working the same beat on a slightly different angle and path is redundant is a fallacy.
- Tue Aug 20, 2019 11:47 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What is the most prestigious retriever and flusher competition
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1524
- Sat Aug 03, 2019 11:30 pm
- Forum: Brags
- Topic: NSTRA best run yet
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13232
- Wed Jul 17, 2019 8:42 am
- Forum: Training
- Topic: training a pointing breed to sit on command
- Replies: 51
- Views: 28697
Re: training a pointing breed to sit on command
No dog of mine and no dog I have seen has sat while on point. The training must have gone wrong for a dog to do that. I think a dog that did sit on point must be expecting what it perceives to be a correction of some kind ? Bill T. I have a pup here right now that has not been taught to sit, never ...
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:19 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: training a pointing breed to sit on command
- Replies: 51
- Views: 28697
Re: training a pointing breed to sit on command
I've seen dogs default to sit when pressure is applied during training. Not what you want in a pointing dog. Beginners can easily overemphasized the sit command. I believe the breeder is trying to help you not make a normal beginners mistake. Might consider whoa instead. I like what Don had to say....
- Mon Apr 01, 2019 2:15 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Puppy vs adult dog food
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8854
Re: Puppy vs adult dog food
For years and years, it was thought that the super high protein in puppy food led to dogs overgrowing and from that, hip dysplasia. From what I understand, it's actually calcium caused that. I haven't ever heard either of those - what they did find through studies is that overweight puppies were mo...
- Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:27 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Puppy vs adult dog food
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8854
Re: Puppy vs adult dog food
Thank u for the advice on biting. That is basically down the line of what I am doing already, like I said this pup is a biting machine. If u smack his nose or yell he just gets more and more amped up. Some pups like to use their teeth in play more than other pups do. When I am correcting a pup for ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 10:16 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Puppy vs adult dog food
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8854
Re: Puppy vs adult dog food
Puppy food does have a different nutritional profile that is geared towards the developing structure of the dog. But, IMO ProPlan 30/20 or any of its equivalents would probably be better than the cheap grade puppy foods.
- Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:48 pm
- Forum: Health and Nutrition
- Topic: Costco Dog Food???
- Replies: 42
- Views: 37339
Re: Costco Dog Food???
Well I just got great news today. The breeder called me today and the dog had her puppies on Thursday and everyone is doing excellent. She had a total of seven puppies and we are number seven on the list. So we are not sure if we’ll end up with a male or female it really doesn’t matter that much to...
- Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:29 pm
- Forum: Health and Nutrition
- Topic: Costco Dog Food???
- Replies: 42
- Views: 37339
Re: Costco Dog Food???
Thanks for all of the replies. So from all of your post it seems to be pretty good. I’m posting a link here to Costco to see which type I should switch to once she’s off the puppy food. I’d also like to see if you think it will be a good choice to feed her throughout her life. I’m not sure if I go ...
- Thu Mar 21, 2019 5:17 pm
- Forum: Health and Nutrition
- Topic: Costco Dog Food???
- Replies: 42
- Views: 37339
Re: Costco Dog Food???
Thanks for all of the replies. So from all of your post it seems to be pretty good. I’m posting a link here to Costco to see which type I should switch to once she’s off the puppy food. I’d also like to see if you think it will be a good choice to feed her throughout her life. I’m not sure if I go ...
- Sun Mar 17, 2019 11:23 pm
- Forum: Health and Nutrition
- Topic: Costco Dog Food???
- Replies: 42
- Views: 37339
Re: Costco Dog Food???
Buddy of mine has fed all his dogs Kirkland for many years. Can't say his dogs were any worse off than mine.
- Thu Mar 07, 2019 9:03 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: male or female puppy
- Replies: 51
- Views: 20392
Re: male or female puppy
I was up to SK for four days at the end of October 2017 but the weather was awful. Subzero and a windy whiteout. A couple people in the group lucked out and shot specks but it just wasn't in the cards for me. By the time I leave here for Montana (usually third week of October), I have pretty much f...
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 7:28 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: male or female puppy
- Replies: 51
- Views: 20392
Re: male or female puppy
A few specks have been coming through in the spring but haven't seen them during season. Not yet. Still on my bucket list. You are in Ontario. Specks are on your bucket list. Every year you travel to Montana. Must not want specks that bad if you cant plan a stop in Sk or AB. Specks are here the who...
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 3:00 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: male or female puppy
- Replies: 51
- Views: 20392
Re: male or female puppy
The bottom line remains that even waiting beyond two cycles, the rate of mammary cancer is very dramatically reduced by spaying. RayG I have had two females with mammary cancers. Since then we spay all females as soon as we decide they will no longer be bred. They all die sometime, but we haven't h...
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 12:31 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: male or female puppy
- Replies: 51
- Views: 20392
Re: male or female puppy
The rate for mammary cancers in dogs is about 8%. So roughly 1 in 12 female dogs develop mammary cancers. Of those, 1 in 4 will be bitches spayed after the second heat cycle.
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 12:26 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: male or female puppy
- Replies: 51
- Views: 20392
Re: male or female puppy
Spay before the first heat cycle is the biggest reduction of chances of mammary cancer. It is also the highest risk of complications. (I can't find a reference right off for the increased risk of Urinary Incontinence pre and post first heat cycle, but it does exist) "The risk of a dog developing a ...
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 11:04 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: male or female puppy
- Replies: 51
- Views: 20392
Re: male or female puppy
https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article-a ... 249/910225averageguy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2019 10:02 amSteve, I would be interested in reading the study or studies behind those stats if you are able to post a link. Thank you.
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:57 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: male or female puppy
- Replies: 51
- Views: 20392
Re: male or female puppy
So as long as spayed before 2 yrs old you reduce chances of mammary cancer? Does it make a difference if done before or after first heat cycle? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Spay before the first heat cycle is the biggest reduction of chances of mammary cancer. It is also the highest risk of c...
- Mon Feb 11, 2019 5:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Brittany nose color
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11182
Re: Brittany nose color
That is definitely a fault in the breed standard. Dog can be shown and may even win depending on its other traits. Most breeders would not breed it.
- Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:19 am
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Sitting on "WHOA"
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10031
Re: Sitting on "WHOA"
The dog is telling you that you are trying to progress too fast.connorj wrote:but am trying to move off those and let her learn to whoa without any item around her waist.
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:32 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Hybrid vigor, or just an outlier?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3807
Re: Hybrid vigor, or just an outlier?
If it were hybrid vigor producing the size then you would see the same in all the littermates.
- Sun Jan 06, 2019 9:00 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: male or female puppy
- Replies: 51
- Views: 20392
male or female puppy
I would assume the diaper is because of the heat cycle
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- Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:19 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Seek dogs with the hearts of American soldiers:
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- Views: 9859
Re: Seek dogs with the hearts of American soldiers:
You said that like it was a bad thing. :roll:mnaj_springer wrote:
Yesterday, one of my dogs ate my toddler's vomit off of the floor.
- Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:06 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Labs vs. Goldens
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10525
Re: Labs vs. Goldens
Having studied the Labrador retriever in a book or two about the breed and having owned them in the past, it even has some hound in its ancestry. Some hunters use them for trailing wounded deer so maybe there's that hound gene. Can you give a reference for which book you found this information in? ...
- Wed Dec 05, 2018 12:58 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Brittany nose color
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11182
Re: Brittany nose color
Pink - no issue. It is only if there is white on the nose it is a problem.
- Tue Dec 04, 2018 5:47 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Labs vs. Goldens
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10525
Re: Labs vs. Goldens
Unless you are going to compete in trials, the average owner looking for a solid working dog would not really have a problem with a good dog of either breed. The problem with both breeds lies in their popularity. There are more pups of these two breeds available than most any other - but if you are ...
- Sun Dec 02, 2018 2:27 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: I am very disheartened about hounds in America today.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15998
Re: I am very disheartened about hounds in America today.
Well, I will grant you the pretty part on the foxhounds, but where do you come up with the "American way"?JonBailey wrote:
But the American way with deer recovery is always with a hound breed. Tricolor American Foxhounds and Walkers are oh so pretty.
- Sun Dec 02, 2018 9:57 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: I am very disheartened about hounds in America today.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15998
Re: I am very disheartened about hounds in America today.
Well, you still have a few things wrong. I would say that Labs and Golden Retrievers are the most popular pet breeds in America today and they are sometimes used as gun dogs as well (by comparison of numbers). Having two dogs of different sexes and different breeds will invite trouble if they are no...
- Sat Dec 01, 2018 11:33 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: I am very disheartened about hounds in America today.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15998
Re: I am very disheartened about hounds in America today.
I never claimed to know everything. I rely on Google a lot. These dogs must be very private and under the table if Google doesn't readily reveal breeder information. According to ACK website, no breeders in America exist. Why are hound breeds so special and secretive? So, where and who are all the ...
- Sat Dec 01, 2018 6:56 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: I am very disheartened about hounds in America today.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15998
Re: I am very disheartened about hounds in America today.
I never claimed to know everything. I rely on Google a lot. These dogs must be very private and under the table if Google doesn't readily reveal breeder information. According to ACK website, no breeders in America exist. Why are hound breeds so special and secretive? So, where and who are all the ...
- Fri Nov 30, 2018 1:58 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: I champion the use of dogs for all kinds of hunting.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 54450
Re: I champion the use of dogs for all kinds of hunting.
I take it you've never hunted a full section of Kansas CRP. Good luck spotting and stalking pheasants and quail there. And you're on the wrong forum if you're advocating upland hunting sans dog. This is the Gun Dog Forum. For me the thought of upland hunting without dogs is heresy. The entire point...
- Thu Nov 29, 2018 3:44 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: I champion the use of dogs for all kinds of hunting.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 54450
Re: I champion the use of dogs for all kinds of hunting.
Simple. If you hunt right the deer will come to you. No dogs needed to drive them. But pheasants and quail won't come to you. You must find them. Thus a dog comes in handy then. The same methods that are used to get the deer to come to you will work with all manner of game birds. I grew up spot and...
- Thu Nov 29, 2018 6:59 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: I champion the use of dogs for all kinds of hunting.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 54450
Re: I champion the use of dogs for all kinds of hunting.
While I fully support that there is no logical case for the banning of dogs on furred game, thinking that the practice would work equally as well in all parts of North America as it does in the deep south is naive and romantic. If you noticed the scale on the monitor in the truck it was set to 500 f...
- Wed Nov 28, 2018 9:31 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: I champion the use of dogs for all kinds of hunting.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 54450
Re: I champion the use of dogs for all kinds of hunting.
If only it were so.KCKLH wrote:Common sense and sound data always prevail in the end.
- Wed Nov 28, 2018 9:28 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: I champion the use of dogs for all kinds of hunting.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 54450
Re: I champion the use of dogs for all kinds of hunting.
Folks like yourself are the hindrance.Mountaineer wrote:
Please channel your implied concern in a direction that helps rather than hinders....thanks.
- Tue Nov 27, 2018 8:24 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: I champion the use of dogs for all kinds of hunting.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 54450
Re: I champion the use of dogs for all kinds of hunting.
Jon: How did your bird hunting project go? Just so you are aware dogs don't " merely chase deer", Dogs kill deer. Anyone who lets their dogs run at will should be liable for the damage they do. It is legal for anyone who sees dogs running deer to shoot them in the winter months in Minnesota. It is ...
- Thu Sep 13, 2018 7:10 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Here are some ideas I have about designing dog enclosures.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8220
Re: Here are some ideas I have about designing dog enclosures.
I once reported a neighbor that had a Brit and 2 Weimaraners that did not have a drop of water anywhere in their yard and was 100 degrees out. I called animal control right here in Boise. I took my garden hose and filled their dish right through the chain link fence. Animal cruelty is against the l...
- Wed Sep 12, 2018 11:04 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Dogs and barbed wire.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10552
Re: Dogs and barbed wire.
In my country there is barb wire everywhere - literally. I have had more injuries to my dogs by porcupines, deadfall and any other hazard imaginable than barbwire. If barbwire is a serious worry then you may as well keep the dogs kenneled or in the house because if you let them out there are hazards...
- Fri Sep 07, 2018 5:51 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Silver Spur Knocking Birds *VIDEO*
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3624
Re: Silver Spur Knocking Birds *VIDEO*
To me, the dogs most important function is to hunt for and find birds. I can't teach that - the pup needs to learn that on its own - ranging, using its nose, trusting and following its nose. All the manners in the world mean nothing if I have to find the birds for the dog. When I am satisfied that t...
- Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:27 am
- Forum: Health and Nutrition
- Topic: Why Purina Pro Plan?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 42731
Re: Why Purina Pro Plan?
The problem with that website is foods I know work very well for feeding working dogs at the highest level of performance have a 1 to 3 star rating and foods that I know do not work at all for working dogs at the highest level of performance have 4.5 to 5 star ratings ..... so the basis for the rati...
- Thu Jul 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Why do we want retrievers to run 500+ yard marks and blinds?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 13396
Re: Why do we want retrievers to run 500+ yard marks and blinds?
Scott, averageguy's given a great précis here - Retriever Trials are run on grounds which have been selected and groomed for line of sight that is uncommon in many areas of the country. The Marks are thrown by persons wearing white jackets to make them visible to the dog. At 500 yards it is highly ...
- Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:58 am
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Why do we want retrievers to run 500+ yard marks and blinds?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 13396
Re: Why do we want retrievers to run 500+ yard marks and blinds?
When there is a fence every 800 yards it is pretty easy to be relatively sure about the distances as being discussed in this thread. You are absolutely right if, I say if, the average hunter knew how far apart the fences are I hunted 6 states and one Canadian Providence last season. Not once did I ...
- Wed Jul 04, 2018 8:27 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Why do we want retrievers to run 500+ yard marks and blinds?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 13396
Re: Why do we want retrievers to run 500+ yard marks and blinds?
I use a Leica Rangefinder routinely associated with my archery practice and hunting. I think without using a range finder many 150-200 yard retrieves will be retold years later as 300, 300 as 500 ... Military training has well documented our inability to accurately judge distances with the naked ey...
- Sat Jun 23, 2018 8:12 am
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Why do we want retrievers to run 500+ yard marks and blinds?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 13396
Re: Why do we want retrievers to run 500+ yard marks and blinds?
It is not a common occurrence, but I have certainly had winged birds that covered a good 400+ yards while out hunting, both in the uplands and waterfowl. At the time I was heavily hunting waterfowl I had a lab that would mark "way out there" and it was a treat to simply send the dog and wait. None o...
- Fri Jun 15, 2018 6:49 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Deer Question
- Replies: 57
- Views: 17419
Re: Deer Question
EAM, Hopefully you will follow the advice I gave. No need to start that dog out at level 18 on the Alpha when based on our exchange a level 10 or close to it will likely accomplish the training goal. If it does not break the dog off then raise the level. As I posted, stay silent so the dog associat...