Duck Hunting Dog Training Tips
yeah yeah so just like all the elements we have in the yard here that the dog stand the dog blind us laying down in the layout blind the decoys I think whatever whatever you’re hunting you know take the day before and go through everything and socialize them to it again for for safety like this and and just make sure the dogs ready for it for the next day and that’s what you know it’s cool that we can sit here and riders just you know he wants to go get that real bird bad right now and he’s staying steady and I think that as a hunter with a dog and you know us working with you and a couple other trainers across the country if we want to make sure that the viewers out there and that our followers and the guys that are paying attention to what we’re saying understand preseason preparation whether it’s nutrition diet the health part of the dog getting him in shape making sure that if he’s going to come on one of these South Dakota North Dakota early season goose ons you know the temperatures that he’s going to be running in oh definitely you know everybody says well it’s summertime here comes whether it’s dove season or you know early early fall goose season you know the dogs are the dogs are out of shape for the summer and they go out there and they wonder why they’re not performing well it’s just like a professional athlete these dogs they have to have the exercise writers say if he’s not fat but this same dog could look the same way if he’s been laying on the couch all summer set but you want his lungs just like you or I if we were going out to play racquetball or run run laps we want to be in shape where we can perform in our lungs can perform and if not you know he’s going to get exerted and you know you can go into heat strokes and stuff like that and the of course just like you said you know the water and making sure that you having plenty hydrated and make sure he doesn’t overheat I always find it interesting when you start talking about dry field hunting with labs and I’ve seen some really good ones guys that I finally would from the past and then I’ve seen some that you know you wonder about what would you tell a guy getting into it if he’s going to start running the dry field corn field hunt you want it on the end do you want it right next to his handler do you want it back a little bit as far as the hearing protection goes for the dog what would you say to all that well you hit some key points there you know we definitely want safety for the dog safety for my shooters that’s priority so what I would definitely do is always on the end it doesn’t matter which which end right or left end of your shooters and I wouldn’t remote sitting because then he’s out of the peripheral of the handler so I like it on the end and of course to handler right next to him and bring it back another thing that you know the hearing loss of a dog if you hunt like this a lot and the muzzle blasters are out there in his ear over and over and over it’s going to it’s going to reduce this hearing so we want to make sure the dog we want to make sure he’s good and steady you know do a little bit of you know throw the bump or make sure that he’s not going to blast out of that mutt Hut a lot of them even you even if you have a good steady dog you put them in that mud hut and they want to come out of there pretty fast and when I say get him if that dog goes when I say get him and he’s not trained the right way now all of a sudden you might have three or four geese landing in the decoys and these guys as barrels they’re low gunning for those geese and he becomes right in harm’s way and that’s what I always worry about is that in these dry land situations they have to be trained so well they cannot break they just can’t I’ve seen it so many times where as soon as I say get them the guns come up and they’re fire and that dogs already out there looking up in the air for geese falling they’re ducks falling the dry land field you know they’re conservationist tools you know they they they recover our wounded Birds you know everybody it makes sense on the water but how many times have you shot that wounded goose and he lends out their hundred yards he’ll and he’s he’s running off with a broke wing and if we don’t have a wheeler there you know we’re not catching up with him and he’s going to get away and then he’s going to spoil the hunt for our adjoining properties and then we get a bad name for ourselves and that that’s definitely what we’re not exactly and add to that here’s one that’s real simple is that you with the popularity of dry land corn hunting for mallards you put three or four mojos out and you get a wad of four or five hundred mallards working at once you got five guns going after them and gunning them you think that you’re going to remember we’re all you know eight or ten Birds fall you go out there and you pick up three and then it’s a search party for the other mallards because they blend into the natural colors of the earth they might not they might be deader than a doornail and not crippled and not move it at all and you have a hard time fine you might kill a hen where you’re never going to see you know a dirt cornfield exactly you know the it like I say he’s got to be on the end he’s got to be back and even if he’s not out there in front you you can one shot right by his ear so the the steadiness of the dog out of the mud hut is just as him I mean that’s the that’s the key thing but just like her out here set he’s steady right here in the yard but when we put him in the dog blind is he going to is it going to be steady so here’s a perfect situation scenario right here you’re coming out that muzzle is literally this way 18 inches from him in the end of that muzzle there’s another 14 inches from his nose so one shot right there has you know that has a potential to even be dangerous right there you might even want to move them back a little bit more how far do you think is the right distance that this is pretty good you know maybe a touch back but what I really wanted to do is demonstrate how how quick it can happen I’m gonna set rider up to come blowing out of there I’m gonna give you my hey hey that means his fun command but I just want to show you you know we got an unloaded gun but how close how close he would be hop up hop up well Rider he he’s doing his job but you see I mean he filled a blue outline and you know he knew it was a hey hey it was fun but even as good as he is he popped out and you seen pop out and I didn’t say his name he he was going to go back in and he want to be squeezing the trigger to say what a lot of us he’s over and I mean lifelong companion for for someone and then it happens you hear about all the time I’ve put a lot of the hunting accidents that happened with with the hunter and with the dog and you just you it’ll ruin your hunting career it’ll ruin the memory of it and you just don’t want to take a chance of that come here right come here not dog fetch up I knew there were going to be a bunch of people in the blind and a bunch of people were set a bunch of people we were hunting with so I definitely won’t write her – no it’s the only time to go when it’s his name so Syd Stewart Chad Johnny Brad Frank router so so practice things like that just like you would have in the hell sit Gil just like you would have in the hunting environment because you know if I’m hauling down there at you while you’re calling you’re cranking on the call you don’t see it I’m like Chad you know or you holler back at me because I’m cranking on the car and when we holler rider takes off the next guy right here next to me he shoots rider cuts across because our bird landed over here you know three o’clock we got bad problems so you really want to make sure go above and beyond on your training and make sure that he’s going to only go on his name Frank Chad Johnny CIA backed up to me because that’s what I’ve been teaching back up that mutt Hut that dog line where he where he can’t get shot Ryder got a boy good job yeah yeah sit this is as cool as a gift
