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03-12-2003, 04:48 PM
#2
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Bonneau South Carolina USA
Posts: 48
RE: Training deer hounds
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.
03-13-2003, 11:16 AM
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hampton Virginia
Posts: 1,607
RE: Training deer hounds
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
03-13-2003, 02:52 PM
#4
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
Posts: 10,079
RE: Training deer hounds
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.
