Anyone out there do any post-season scouting with their dog? I am a enthused bowhunter and would like to train my bitch (which I bring home in late March) to find shed deer antlers. I have found much more info on bloodtrailing wounded game than I have finding shed antlers. Anyone got any pointers or suggestions? Thanks!
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Stephan R Weber Webboard User Reg: 02-16-2004
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Tig finds them with no trouble -- getting them away from her before she chewed them up was the problem! She was finding them on her own, just like any other animal "trash". I just had to teach her that I wanted them instead.
I used a couple of the old shed antlers and trained with them like any other object indication. Look in the SAR and police tracking threads, I think there's detailed information there. I started hiding them on tracks like other articles, and later in random locations, and praising her finds (she'd rather have the tug than an antler).
Later I had other people dropping them for me where we walk. It took about a week and she was indicating any antler, as well as fragments of deer bone and antlers. She found one last spring that was suspended in some scrub trees.
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