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Re: Training a tracking dog
[Re: StateLine]
#1123351
10/24/14 02:48 AM
10/24/14 02:48 AM
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Get yourself plenty of blood this year during season for training. You may be able to use him some in January to get a little experience.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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Re: Training a tracking dog
[Re: StateLine]
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10/24/14 11:59 AM
10/24/14 11:59 AM
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StateLine
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Thanks for the suggestions. I had already figured the best experience was going to come from getting him out there in the woods. I have mixed feelings on training him with or without blood. I understand that some wounded deer may not leave a blood trail and I see where that would be a downfall if you trained him with blood. However if you do not train with blood I can see where he could get on the wrong deer and lead you on a wild goose chase.
Last edited by StateLine; 10/24/14 12:21 PM.
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Re: Training a tracking dog
[Re: StateLine]
#1126538
10/27/14 05:53 AM
10/27/14 05:53 AM
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SilverBandedLabs
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However if you do not train with blood I can see where he could get on the wrong deer and lead you on a wild goose chase. X2
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Re: Training a tracking dog
[Re: StateLine]
#1126658
10/27/14 07:00 AM
10/27/14 07:00 AM
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BhamFred
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start em young. tug-o-war with a piece of hide. Drag it in his sight and let him chase and catch it. Later drag it further and drop it where he can see it, let him get it. Praise the snot out of him. As he gets older/better drag the hide and make a turn where he cannot see it. Drag up/down/across the wind..make him get his nose on the ground and not air scent it. I've always used a ten foot stick to drag the hide off to the side of where I walk...don't want him tracking you to the hide.
I've never used blood or bone to train.
When he trained....never....ever....NEVER...second guess where the dog is tracking. He's 10X better than you at this tracking.....
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: Training a tracking dog
[Re: StateLine]
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10/27/14 04:13 PM
10/27/14 04:13 PM
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Blood dog is truly a bad term as the dog picks up on dander, inter digital glands, blood and other bodily fluids. Stick with blood on the training. Even when you can not visible see blood there is blood that the dog can pick up on to track.
With a young dog you can do liver drags. These liver drags are the only time I would be dragging something as never will there be a solid track in the woods. The liver drags I would do for two or three weeks until you have worked up to 150 yard long track with one 90 turn in it aged two hrs. After this I would switch over to blood trails.
I like to have something at the end of the track as a reward. For the pups a small piece of the liver works. For older dogs I let them find a deer leg. About every 4-5 time I use the leg as a reward I give it to them to have and chew up.
Blood trails will start off fairly consistent in every few feet. Gradually get to where you and dropping just tiny drops every yard or two. A 6 month old pup should be doing 1/2 mile long tracks aged 12 hrs with no problem if you stick to the training and make it fun.
Remember to mark the tracks so that you will know exactly where to bring the dog back to when they make a mistake.
Since you are starting during hunting season also get your dog on as many deer as possible that you know where they are. You want there to always be something at the end and to always finish a track as a pup. This teaches them that when you say track there is something out there to find and it is there job to do it. As they get older they will learn that not every track end in a find.
practice further than you think you will track, lay lines in places that you never think you will be tracking, age them older than you think you will ever want to track and remember to make it fun. This way when the time comes and you go three miles on a 2 day old track the dog will have practiced this and you will have confidence in your dog.
Good Luck with the training.
Allways trust the Nose becasue the Nose knows. Hillock Kennels
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Re: Training a tracking dog
[Re: StateLine]
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11/01/14 08:04 AM
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Posts: 4,231 Central Alabama
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You can start as simple as dragging pieces of cut up hot dogs on the floor of your garage and hiding it at the end of the scent trail. This teaches the pup to follow his nose instead of his eyes. Later, when you move to blood, you can still leave a piece of hot dog at the end of the blood trail. This helps teach the pup that there is a reward at the end of the blood trail. There's nothing like a good tracking dog.
"When there was no fowl, we ate crawdad, when there was no crawdad, we ate sand."
"YOU ATE SAND!" - Raising Arizona
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Re: Training a tracking dog
[Re: StateLine]
#1134899
11/03/14 01:59 PM
11/03/14 01:59 PM
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Posts: 14 Trussville, AL
BlackPrarieHunte
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Read the book "Tracking Dogs for Finding Wounded Deer", it will tell you everything you need to know and more. For this season you need to keep lots of blood and hides. I would take the puppy with me and let him get fired up about finding the deer as well. http://www.born-to-track.com/book/order-info.htm
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