Turkey hunting with a dog?
01-05-2008 | 04:50 PM
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Fork Horn
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From: NY
RE: Turkey hunting with a dog?
I never have, but here is a website you may want to look at. http://trkyhntr.home.att.net/
01-06-2008 | 05:01 PM
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Fork Horn
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RE: Turkey hunting with a dog?
I had a mixed bird dog mostly setter and a little pointer that worked out really great. It wasfar more fun than hunting the conventional way and was extra special since I had worked with him to make him a turkey dog. He busted his first flock on the very first day that we hunted when he was only 13 months old. He hunted maybe another 2 years with my brother and I and broke flocks for us. Unfortunately he got epilepsy and we battled that for apprx. 15 months before his seizures were too bad. We had him on mega dosages of meds. and they still occurred. The vet said that setters especially those with Irish setter in them are prone to epilepsy. We didn't hunt turkeys his last fall because of his sickness. I sure do miss him.
Jim
Jim
01-07-2008 | 09:54 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Turkey hunting with a dog?
ORIGINAL: redmag
I had a mixed bird dog mostly setter and a little pointer that worked out really great. It wasfar more fun than hunting the conventional way and was extra special since I had worked with him to make him a turkey dog. He busted his first flock on the very first day that we hunted when he was only 13 months old. He hunted maybe another 2 years with my brother and I and broke flocks for us. Unfortunately he got epilepsy and we battled that for apprx. 15 months before his seizures were too bad. We had him on mega dosages of meds. and they still occurred. The vet said that setters especially those with Irish setter in them are prone to epilepsy. We didn't hunt turkeys his last fall because of his sickness. I sure do miss him.
Jim
I had a mixed bird dog mostly setter and a little pointer that worked out really great. It wasfar more fun than hunting the conventional way and was extra special since I had worked with him to make him a turkey dog. He busted his first flock on the very first day that we hunted when he was only 13 months old. He hunted maybe another 2 years with my brother and I and broke flocks for us. Unfortunately he got epilepsy and we battled that for apprx. 15 months before his seizures were too bad. We had him on mega dosages of meds. and they still occurred. The vet said that setters especially those with Irish setter in them are prone to epilepsy. We didn't hunt turkeys his last fall because of his sickness. I sure do miss him.
Jim
01-07-2008 | 10:05 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: Abilene, Texas
RE: Turkey hunting with a dog?
I have read where people use them during the fall to break up grouped birds (the scatter and call back method). They use the dog to scatter the birds in all different directions and then sit down right around where the break-up occured and start making lost-calls and re-grouping calls. Never done it though before.
01-09-2008 | 11:22 AM
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RE: Turkey hunting with a dog?
Wisconsin will have a trial fall hunt with dogs in 9 counties for 2 more years, then they'll allow it statewide after that.
The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources will be announcing plans for a fall turkey hunt in Huron County within the next couple of weeks. Let them know you'd like to be able to use your dog. All wildlife biologists are in favor of it. http://www.am920.ca/news.php?artID=23222
Hunting fall turkey with a dog is allowed in more states than not. Those that don't are the exception, most likely because they don't have a huntable population yet. Read the Turkey Dog News at http://www.turkeydog.org/
The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources will be announcing plans for a fall turkey hunt in Huron County within the next couple of weeks. Let them know you'd like to be able to use your dog. All wildlife biologists are in favor of it. http://www.am920.ca/news.php?artID=23222
Hunting fall turkey with a dog is allowed in more states than not. Those that don't are the exception, most likely because they don't have a huntable population yet. Read the Turkey Dog News at http://www.turkeydog.org/