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Shed Dogs

Post by grant » Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:25 pm

I found this today:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sour ... oq=&aqi=g1

Using dogs to find deer antler sheds... New to me! Has anyone trained for this?

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Post by lvrgsp » Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:33 pm

Grant,
I have never trained any for it but a fellow close to me here does and has a ton of success with it....uses Labs mostly from what I remember..The guy has a hunt club over around Havana ILL. Can't remember the name of it right now I went there once for a hunt and he was telling me about it...interesting stuff for sure...
EDIT::: Clary Creek was the hunt club, cannot remember the shed trainers name though....

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Re: Shed Dogs

Post by twofeathers » Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:30 am

My father is a knife maker and buys his antlers from some amish folks who have dogs that do this. They make a considerable amount of money doing it also. I should ask if I could go with sometime may be interesting to see.

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Re: Shed Dogs

Post by TEX-X » Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:57 am

i'd look up and see my dog latched onto an antler on a deers head :lol: :lol:

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Re: Shed Dogs

Post by twofeathers » Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:25 pm

TEX-X wrote:i'd look up and see my dog latched onto an antler on a deers head :lol: :lol:
That is pretty funny. :lol:

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Post by mountaindogs » Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:49 am

The QDMA (Quality Deer Managment Association) had a shed antler dog trainer as one of their speakers this year at the convention. I did not get to attend but I'm told it was very interesting. This is the speakers webpage:
http://www.antlerdogs.com/AboutUs.aspx?m=1

pretty neat!

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Post by mountaindogs » Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:50 am

The QDMA (Quality Deer Managment Association) had a shed antler dog trainer as one of their speakers this year at the convention. I did not get to attend but I'm told it was very interesting. This is the speakers webpage:
http://www.antlerdogs.com/AboutUs.aspx?m=1

pretty neat!

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Re: Shed Dogs

Post by Ayres » Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:22 am

My wife's cousin has been training his dog to do this. I don't know what breed he is.

He's had plenty of success with the dog in the yard finding shed antlers, but he reports that the dog doesn't stay on task when they walk in the woods and fields. It just runs around.

It seems that finding sheds takes a different kind of drive than a normal, instinctive prey drive.
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