Originally Posted by
hycohounds
as a dog hunter if have to disagree with jim burns. we have rabbit dogs, deer dogs and fox dogs. you can call anyone of them out of a race. it takes time and training. they will run it as long as you let them. once they get close to the property line blow the truck horn and in a minute they will be at the tailgate. we figured it out a few years ago that if we wanted to hunt with dogs, we had better start taking responsibility. i've never bought into my dog can't read..................tony
I hunt bears in the mountains of Idaho and Utah were it is really thick timbered with lots of draws and ridges, it is nothing like hunting down here in Florida in the flat land where sound travels great distances. A dog can be as little as 200 yards from you and you wont here them and they wont here you, the only way you are going to call them off of a bear in that kind of terrain is by shocking him off. As a hound hunter you should know you dont want to shock a dog off of the animal he is trained to pursue, that is a good way to ruin a hound. That might work on rabbit, deer and fox dogs but they run nothing like a bear, they deffinitely dont run as far. I know this thread is about deer dogs and I hunt bears, but a hound hunter is a hound hunter no matter what game you pursuit.