Big hunting with your dog??

[bagm-n-tagm]

Does any one take there dog hunting for deer or any other big time... not neeasarily to track but for having your buddy with you??? Maby even teach him to track a deer scent???

[husky30-06]

I try to take out my 6 year old husky shelty cross most of the time...... she can do a very good track but for close up she is a little off. great company in the bush.... just like me... she hates to sit to long.:mrgreen::mrgreen:

[Kasomor]

Does any one take there dog hunting for deer or any other big time... not neeasarily to track but for having your buddy with you??? Maby even teach him to track a deer scent???

I know of a hunting lodge back east which is float plane access only so where they use their tollers to track moose, deer and bear. Most of their clients are archery so the dogs are used to track the game a number of hours after it has been shot. The dog is kept on harness and long line because wolves are an issue in the area.

Kasomor

[7mag700]

I took mine several times this year. Love having her along, but I find that just when you're trying to close the truck door as quietly as possible to go for the first walk of the morning, she realizes she's being left behind and barks. :neutral:

Now I only take her road hunting :-D

7m7

[bigwhiteys]

The only problem is he's a rott/bullmastiff cross and doesn't have the coat for cold weather.

Sounds like a big dog!... My dog growing up was a rott/great dane cross. 160lbs when he was in his prime, lived to be 14.

My current mutt came deer hunting with me a few times this year. One morning, I was putting the stalk on two little bucks and she got it right away, slunk down low, crawling along with me quitely...

Then a quail ran across the road about 30 yards up and all hell broke loose!

Carl

[Th0r]

I take mine but very difficult to still hunt or ambush anything with him. As far as company... I love it, especially when I am checking out new territory. If a deer is 75yards away and he does not spot it first you have a chance but if he sees it the barking will start and its gone like that.

[Rev.]

What if you train your dog with a dog whistle. Are deer and other big game able to hear it as dogs do?

[pappy]

I take my lab along with me sometimes. She's really good at being quiet, but also restless. Ive been training her to sit when I stop walking but its a slow process for now. Not enough practice for her although she's a natural when it comes to retrieving grouse.I do really enjoy the company and like all dogs she loves being out in the wilderness.

[blindguy]

I take mine with me a husky lab cross named tikka after my first gun,lol she's great when rd hunting but if she sees deer before me while hiking it's all over.while rd hunting she puts her head on my shoulder and sniffs and looks where ever i do very cool and great company.

[sheep.elk.moose fanatic]

to funny my chocolate lab is named tikka too and he climbs the mountains with me when i go sheep hunting and he helps pack water and his own food and other supplies.. LOVE MY DOG!!!

[Angel]

pics pics!!!

[KB90]

Well I don't know how good of a job my dog would do tracking but I do know that when she does find blood she cleans it up real nice :tongue: I left a piece of blood soaked plastic out on accident and I came back 5 minutes later to a clean sheet of plastic, and a blood stained puppy face :)

[Kody94]

Does any one take there dog hunting for deer or any other big time... not neeasarily to track but for having your buddy with you??? Maby even teach him to track a deer scent???

My buddy used to go everywhere with me, especially hunting (anything). He's too old now unfortunately. Here he is back in his hey-days...

http://www.accuratereloading.com/sdog.jpg

[husky30-06]

SIDNEY!!!!!!
http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp87/swiftwatertech/100_2960.jpg

[spear]

I've got a 4 mnth old blue heeler, he'll be bear hunting with us in the spring. Hoping i can keep his barking to a minimum and take him out for deer next fall.
He's the most intelligent dog i've owned, hard headed and full of piss though!

[gutpile]

yah i take my dog out sometimes but two years ago my dog screwed up my hunt. i was up in atlin and i shot a grissly a nice slivertip about 3 hundred yards.i was aiming up hill and wheni shot my dog becky a cross between a german short hair/chesepeak took of after the bear right in my line of fire. so i had to stand up and take my second shot and i shot behind the bear as it's running away i could have killed my dog right on the spot. but i love my dog! i looked for that beast but i couldn't find the bear. my dog was all over the place. it was scary because i was by myself up north. so now iam more careful where i take my dog:frown:

[Sitkaspruce]

I took my Chessie when ever I went guiding or moose hunting. She was very good at just sitting still......until she could hear a bull grunting. She was usually the first to hear him and I soon learned to watch her for a reaction. If she heard the bull, she would start to shake and get a look in her eye and a cock of her ear that told me to start paying attention and in what direction. A couple little whimpers and a whine everyonce and a while was all she would do once the bull was close.

One day her and I were hunting in a nasty wind and rain/sleet storm and I was hunting the really thick stuff, calling along an old road. When we got to the end, I sat on an old landing berm and was wondering what the hell I was doing out here in this crap when I noticed her looking off in the direction we had come and her ears cocked. I looked in the direction she was looking and there standing 100' away was a nice little 4x4 bull. Off went the safety and one shot and we were tagged out. Probably would have seen the a$$ end of that bull when I started to leave the area if it was not for her.

She is also a great bear dog and on more than a few occasions she warned me of bears up a head by treeing them and barking a lot.

She is an amazing hunting dog and still is willing to chase birds with me, but she is getting too old for the big game.:(

Here is a few picts of her

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Sitkaspruce/hunting138.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Sitkaspruce/DSC00239.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Sitkaspruce/DSC00257.jpg

[835]

ok im sold mext dog is a chessie for sure!
thats awsome

[BearStump]

12-02-2009 06:33 PMSSSSterQuote:

My buddy used to go everywhere with me, especially hunting (anything). He's too old now unfortunately. Here he is back in his hey-days...

http://www.accuratereloading.com/sdog.jpgI


sure hope this one got enlarged and put on the wall. what a great picture ssster.

[r106]

The only problem is he's a rott/bullmastiff cross and doesn't have the coat for cold weather.


I got the same type of dog, She is the best dog I ever had. I have not taken her hunting because she freaks out with loud noises. But i'm going to try and break her of that..

This is her at 1 1\2 years old she's 2 now and starting to fill out

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm141/r_106/100_2775.jpg

[spear]

here are a few pics of our pup.
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af76/allisonandandrewspear/DSC_0127.jpg

http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af76/allisonandandrewspear/DSC_0215.jpg

[Evolution]

I love the eye patch!

[Camp Cook]

My dog's have always gone everywhere with me I have major hearing loss and use their ears to my advantage.

Here are some pic's of my last Chessy had to put here down Oct 15/09.

http://www.hunt101.com/data/506/medium/Grizzly_Hunt_June_2008_008.jpg

http://www.hunt101.com/data/560/medium/Sept_Oct_2005_Mesilinka_River_Hunt_059.jpg

http://www.hunt101.com/data/560/medium/Feb_17_2008_Jaidens_first_Snow_Shoeing_Trip_Dewdne y_Creek_014.jpg

http://www.hunt101.com/data/560/medium/Feb_07_2009_Snow_Shoe_Trip_006.jpg

My Akita I have a pic of him with me and a Mtn Goat but would have to scan it but if you look cloesly you'll see the elk/deers rack on the tent.

http://www.hunt101.com/data/560/medium/img0062.jpg

Our newest puppy she will be 3 months old on Dec 27 on her first deer hunt the both of them made so much noise that I gave up and we only went for a walk... :D

http://www.hunt101.com/data/560/medium/Picking_Up_Cocoa-Bear_Trip_Nov_2009_068.jpg

[deer nut]

In BC, aren't you required to have your dog on a leash if hunting big game?

[Camp Cook]

Sure... :wink:

[30.06 Hunter]

If I am just planning on walking a few deactivated roads I will sometimes take the dog along. Unfortunately she is convinced she is a better hunter than I am and unless she is kept on a leash will go crashing through the bush after even the slightest scent. She only gets that excited when the rifle comes out, regular walks very well behaved, knows when there is the possibility of a dead critter to chew on. Good for flushing out grouse, though I have to be quick and get to them first or all I end up with is a mangle chunk of flesh and feather.