Squirrelhunter, mainly you just have to keep them in the woods enough nights. If they have the instincts it will come out and they will almost train themselves. The handlers job is mainly to correct faults like running deer or foxes. However, if you have an older trained dog that is even tempered, it helps a lot to hunt a young dog with them until it has an idea of what it is supposed to do. Then you start hunting the young dog by itself until it is fully trained.