ORIGINAL: Mite
I would hesitate to take the dog to a gun range. The dog needs to make the connection of birds and guns.
Well, all I can say is that it worked on the two dogs Ive seen it used on.The dog will get the big picture when hunting starts. He will just have lower stress levels, wichmeans that he can accessmore of his brainpower to the hunting training.
If the dog starts to show inconvienience at a mile away then start the training at that distance. Im sure there are many ways to train dogs.