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don't get tossed....now that's some good advice...keep your heels down and remember to look where you going before asking the horse to do it... and if you think you're in trouble suck her head into her chest...

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now the question is.....where were you hunting? i went to the mountbaker forrest on the other side of sedro wooley and scratched out...not even a bird... but i wasn't hunting with my dog i was just walking

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how many stamps did it take to get him shipped to you in the second picture?

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but we both know how much harder a boots and utes run is than running in PT gear

. congrats on the progress and good luck

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i use to trap the he** out of the pigeons on the courthouse in W. TX and i never allowed time for the pigeons to get use to the trap i just sprinkled a bunch of food around and in the trap and checked a few days later....15-20 birds everytime....I used Horsman's edge horesfeed.....seemed to work out...

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no i did not use a whoa post...i taught him to whoa while just heeling him along with a checkcord on... then when he got it down pat i transitioned to the suitcase handle (checkcord with half hitch around flank) and whoa'd him while out in front of me.... then i started having him come to me and whe...

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he's a great looking dog....My pups name is orion as well....orion gunsmoke------------>
good luck with him

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first off welcome back... '07 i did a cruise to the gulf with the Nimitz strike group and last year i followed some EA6B prowlers out to Afghanistan. I'm a member of the Texas dog hunters association thenewtdha.com/tdha/default.htm they are a good group to get associated with as well as QU and QF. I...

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Westtexas if you lived closer to midland odessa i could hook you up with a bunch of ranchers that would let you hunt and train on their land. Let me talk to my Brother in law he lives in San angelo and they have a ranch somewhere on the outskirts. then you could use a recall pen

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Update: Okay so i took him out yesterday and i left the launcher at home. I carded 3 quail and brought him in downwind. He went on point and i said nothing... my girl walked over and instead of picking up the bird and tossing it she kicked them up. the bird flew i fired a round and he repositioned h...

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wow that does sound good....opening day is Saturday....HOPEFULLY i'll let you know how i like it

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wow tough luck.... I hope the pups alright. my wifes little boston terrier ate abour 6 cups of food (bag was on the ground) before i could stop him....he looked like a little black and white 5 gallon bucket with legs....Worse than a kid

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how much money do you spend on training birds a year?

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i've heard that before..... "how bout you feed that lab" I tell them that he's a shorthair and he eats better (and more expensive) food than i do

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good looking pups....i especially like daisy....i have a soft spot for the mostly liver guys ------------------------------------>
but have been seriously wanting a ticked as well

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BD gamefarms in i think arizona... i'm not saying that they fly a long ways but if you get the small coke bottle they'll fly 30 to 40 yards.... and a plastic cup works good as well....the thing i like about the plastic (disposable) cup is when you go out and retrieve your birds you just poke him in ...

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Sharon wrote:LOL To each their own. My pups have always enjoyed a warm water bath tub splash. never affected their love of the real thing.
October in Ontario is not a time to be introducing pups to water.

unless you are in the mood for a pupsicle

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I didn't know that Iowa let you kill yearling bucks

good looking deer! hopefully i'll get one this year but compared to that bruiser the deer here in WA are labradors

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I get plenty of exercise going from the recliner to the beer cooler and back....

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i've started making kinda like a suitcase handle with my checkcord (rope on collar half hitch on flanks) but before that i was picking him up and setting him back up by lifting him under his belly. I am not whoaing him into a point on birds. he will hit the scent cone and stop the only time i'll say...

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another little tidbit of info: when on the checkcord heeling and i command whoa he does not sit. when he's moving across the field and i command whoa he puts the brakes on and does not sit.

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so i have a year and a half old GSP he's coming along on his whoa breaking. today was the first day that i had him on planted quail without a checkcord. Besides the slow creeping he's doing very well..... except for the fact that when i have my wife walk around to grab the pull cord to flush him he ...

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yeah i had an old timer tell me that you'll see more deer when you're riding a bike down a trail than when you are actually looking for them....so he told me to get a bike and sling your gun over your shoulder and just ride for a while during the morning.

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they are on the "endangered" list up here in WA. but they are cool looking birds. did they hold to cover pretty good? or was it one of those things if you get withing 50 yds they'll break?

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this is not gun dog related but i thought i could put it in the general section. For hunters that are more experienced with Blacktail deer than I am: do you have any tips for me? i got skunked last year and i'm just trying to learn as much as i possibly can. In your opinion is it better to spot and ...

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we've been spotlighting coyotes for a while in west texas... they are a bad problem there, almost as bad as the pigs. the most productive place to shoot them is behind the dairy in the pit where they dump the dead cattle. they have gotten so bad that last year they started dropping rabies bombs... d...

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yes ma'am of course....clean the cut first... i carry around some betadine...and some nolvasan (chlorahexadine) solution at all times

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super glue...it works wonders

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who is charlie rose? the journalist?

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thats the reason i don't use a recall pen...you have to leave it unattended for a few hours if not overnight.. i just don't want one of these animal rights activists taking my recall pen...or even worse a fellow bird dog owner stealing my quail try a coke bottle works great for me

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weims for hog hunting? i haven't heard that. but hey what a weim can do a shorthair can do better

i'm just kidding. just wanted to ruffle your feathers... I'm going to look into the airdales...thank you for the tip

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yeah we take a few bobcats in W. texas so a dog that could trail one would definately be a plus as well as hogs. when you get those old toms that will sit just on the outskirts of the spotlight for hours at a time it would be nice to have a few dogs to send to corner him

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i tie an empty coke bottle (small) they fly a little ways and then come back down to earth

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what do you know about the moesgaard line? i have a few moesgaard dogs in my pups pedigree and i've done some research and haven't really turned up alot of info.....sorry about the thread hijack..

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I hunted with hounds for many years, walkers, plotts and even redbones. We used pits for catch dogs. Now we have DD's that we use on hogs occasionally and one friend also has the little jagds that he hunts with his DD's. They are firey little dogs and if I lived in an area that had tons of hogs I w...

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right now i live in Washington state but will be moving back to TX as soon as the military lets me go...i'm haven't ever hunted hounds with dogs....we've always just used a spotlight... but i really enjoy training my bird dog so i thought i would get into it.... i was leaning towards a a BMC or a mo...

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seeing that this is a gun dog forum and not just a bird dog forum i wanted to get some opinions on dog breeds for hunting hogs. tracking and catch dogs. I have looked at a few Black mouth Curs, ridgebacks, pits, and catathoulas. Anyone have any suggestion or any experience with it?

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congrats on the new addition. i hope he works out great for you

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BD gamebirds on the internet....they shipped to me in 3 days. it cost about 70 or 80 for 15 quail and shipping not to bad and they are in great shape

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get a rascal scooter and hunt off of it

that looks rough... good luck on your recovery... about ten years ago i ran a dirt bike through a barbwire fence....175 stitches and a scar from one side of my knee to the other...

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the ellipticals are great....especially now that i can run my physical readiness test on them...

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are you able to spotlight for varmints?

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we used to use red cell to put weight on sick dogs when i worked at an animal clinic. it comes in gallon jugs and is mainly a supplement to put weight on horses....be very careful if you use it...it'll put weight on them very quickly

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have you ever done 8 count body builders? i did about a million of those when i was going through boot camp...and they dang sure got every muscle in your body in shape... start in a standing position. 1. goto a squatting position 2. push your legs out like you are about to do a mountain climber. 3 s...

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what major town is this by? mapquest and google maps is not cooperating

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nope you don't see very many horny toads anymore...

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thanks for the opinions...he's a good dog and even if he doesn't turn out to be a spectacular hunting dog i'll be just as happy having him as my house mutt.... as long as he stays out of the garbage... anyone else?

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orion is 16 or 17 months. i've only had him for 3 months and he is whoa trained. he heels, he is trained to come and quarter on whistle and is broke to flush. let me try to put the pedigree here on the forum

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if you ever get a chance to hunt north western Wa for blacktails.... you're going to need a couple of machettes and a sherpa guide:lol: so thick it's almost impossible to hunt. everyonce in a while the ground you're walking on collapses and you're standing in a three foot deep hole. it ends up being...

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