Pheasants for green-broke dogs?

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Should a green-broke pointing dog be taking on early season wild pheasant hunt?

Good idea
11
58%
Bad idea
5
26%
Other
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16%
 
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Pheasants for green-broke dogs?

Post by mountaindogs » Fri Sep 30, 2016 11:58 am

Okay let's assume you want an ultra-steady pointing dog who will hunt both wild and pen raised birds in their life. Steady until you SEND them for a retrieve. You have done the training or had the dog trained and they are green-broke. For this poll I will define green-broke as holding birds that walk in training dragging CC, stopping to flush in training dragging a CC, steady until release dragging a CC. All while wearing e-collar with minimal but some corrections as needed. Should your first (or one of first) "real" hunt be a pheasant hunt on early season wild pheasants?

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Re: Pheasants for green-broke dogs?

Post by mountaindogs » Fri Sep 30, 2016 8:46 pm

Nobody even wants to vote? Come on. Live a little! :lol:

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Re: Pheasants for green-broke dogs?

Post by DonF » Mon May 29, 2017 3:38 pm

Depend's on what your calling a green broke dog! Pretty sure of one thing, if your dog is pointing training bird's well, pheasant's will keep it honest.
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Re: Pheasants for green-broke dogs?

Post by Kjcpoint » Mon May 29, 2017 9:16 pm

Take them to the birds.

In a month I will be on my 4th "started pointer," change there names and let it get use to its new surroundings for a week.
Then is right to wild pheasants. Early mornings when the birds are on the road, drop the dog out down wind and let them go. After a couple weeks of that and getting in shape take them to bigger ground and cut em loose. Fortunate to have access and the number of birds. Dogs are 10-11 months old. First season is fun as it's all about finding birds, dogs are tough and can hunt hard. Just the way I do it, we shoot lots of birds over fine dogs.

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Re: Pheasants for green-broke dogs?

Post by bustingcover » Wed May 31, 2017 2:15 am

Depends on what you want todo with your dog. Pheasants kinda suck at keeping a dog steady but a green broke dog has enough Wild in it todo well on pheasants who like to run on ya.
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Post by Dakotazeb » Wed May 31, 2017 5:58 am

Take 'em. The more wild bird contacts they have the faster they learn. If they are not preforming to your standards you can work on that in the off season.
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