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Old 10-24-2018, 05:14 PM
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mrbb
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first off welcome to the site!
I would suggest getting yourself some good reading about training a hunting dog, and READ up, and then after reading a few good books, ASK yourself if you have the TIME to put into training correctly and can afford the costs
there is a WELL trained dog and then there is a welel trained HUNTING dog, and there is a BIG difference in what a dog does for itself and then what YOU ask it to do!
countless dogs have desire to hunt for themselves and that doesn;'t always make for a GREAT hunting dog
same can be said with what ever training the dog has NOW<
as many PETS have already learned a LOT of bad habits that don't end up working well in a hunting dog
DOn't have aclue where your from, but there are a LOT of great hunting dog trainers all over teh USA, find some, go visit some and even ask if you can watch them train some, and see!
do you want a PET that just hunts, or do you want a finished hunting dog,
two totally different things!
here is a decent place to get yourself some decent hunting video/books to learn fron
but training a dog is all about TIME and being consistant, it takes patience and YOU sticking to things, making sure dog learns and KNOW"S one step before you move forward and then always going back and forth on training to make sure they stay in the game
you GET what you put into it!
keep it fun, keep it short at first and then go longer and more detailed, but always make it fun as can be, its SHOULD be fun, or what's the point for either of you's!
and again, buy more than ONE Book and video, not everyone trains the same way and some ways MIGHT appeal to you more than others!

https://www.gundogsupply.com/trainingbooks.html

https://www.gundogsupply.com/books---videos.html
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