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Just keep doing what you' re doing, I usually try to do the same thing at least twice a week with young puppies. Make sure you stop & give them a chance to smell the fresh poop & any fresh tracks that you come across. Eventually they' ll start to wander off on their own a little, at which point it is a good idea to get an older, slower dog that you know will trail & run a deer to put with them & teach them a little more.

We always start them off with running dogs from the year before and let them watch them. We also do small circles that start at one end of a field and then go in the woods and come out at the other end of the field dragging a scented rag on the ground and then turn them out and see if they make it to the other end. Again we use a running dog the help out. It takes work and most of the work is fun. Good luck.Ä

Best luck I had was using an old beagle. The beagle would jump and the puppies would usually take over and run ahead of the beagle a hundred yards or so before they lost the track, then the beagle would straighten it out and they would take off again. Don' t take long till they are working the track out by themselves. By the way, welcome to the board.

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