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[sxshooter]

My dogs have been a big part of my time lately. I also dabble in photography a bit. So, I take a few pix of the dogs from time to time. Here's some of the pix I've taken.

Let's see yours.

My first dog on the trip home from getting her in Yuba City in 06.



In the lobby of the hotel/convention center in Huron, SD the first year she hunted. These folks are hunter/dog friendly back there.






She always retrieves to hand.



Yuma late season dove.



That hundred mile stare of a predator.





Buffed up pretty good before she got some injuries.


The new dog.

[DirtyDave]

Joey my Jagdterrier @ 6 weeks old. She just turned 1 year on saturday


6 months old




Tree'd coon



10 months old



Little piggy didnt make it to market...

[hoghead]

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two hog day

[tawnoper]

Some nice looking dogs!

[bowlfrogg]

My Hunting Pal Smith, hes a 2 year old German Wirehaired Pointer~

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[sxshooter]

If I had a GWP like that, I think I'd name him "Stauche" .

Cool lookin buddie, BF.

[GSH]

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[stephen722]

nice looking wires, here's one who hangs out at the pool all summer


but she tells me she is ready to rock! saterday we will play fetch the dove's

[sxshooter]

Some great looking dogs you all have. After having hunted birds for many years without dogs, I bought a partially trained lab out of a known hunting/field trial line about 6 yrs ago. She is amazingly birdy, it is her pinnacle in life. Last year, I bought the pointer.

I can't even imagine hunting without dogs now. I'd rather leave my shotgun behind than my dogs. It would not be anywhere near as rewarding without them. I have even gone out and handled my dogs for friends and felt well rewarded just knowing we did a good job.

[hoghead]

I take my dogs out for friends as much as possible. it is very rewarding my dogs love to hunt. if anyone has a spot with hogs and wants to run dogs let me know I don't care to be the shooter just love to get my dogs out wile I still can in these state.

[bunktheclown]

[64ssking]

here is a pic of lady holding point on a pigeon

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[KNOCKED UP]

The black lab is Cody,
He gave me 13 good years.
I still miss him a lot.
The yellow lab is Billy B, He will turn one year old in
two weeks.
Tom

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[lenny]

Taking the new pup out this weekend

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[Rico]

The hardest Hunting pointer i have eve owned is my 3 year old male GSP Thunder. Upland Bird Locator and Fur killer. this guy never gives up ..

[GSP4Runner]

My first hunting dog. Currently just over year and a half. German Shorthaired Pointer named Trooper.

[DirtyDave]

A more recent pic of Joey. Her first Real Deer Track. Been using Blood in a Squirt bottle or dragging a piece of Hide for training her to track.
Jumped this deer at about 60yds and couldnt get a shot. She popped out of the brush on the next hillside at 265yds. Shot her and she ran about 30yds then cut back and ran another 40yds diagonally up the hill. She dropped close to the top of the hill. I knew where she dropped but wanted to see how Joey would track her. Took her to where we first jumped the deer and she lit up when she got the scent. She lead me perfectly to where I shot the deer then I took her off the leash when she found blood. The blood trail was faint and was a large V shape, she tracked that perfect too and found the deer right away. Total length of the track was around 300yds, much longer than any track I laid for her in training.

[sxshooter]

Dave,
Pretty cool. Nice shot too.

Jon,
That middle pic looks like the south end of the Carizzo.

[CoyoteHuntress]

What a bunch of gorgeous dogs German shorthairs are my favorite hunting breed by far... I just have my german shepherd LOL... She is my gun dog though... but its geared for guarding not so much hunting ....Though she does go hunting with me LOL

[sxshooter]

I think I read that GSP's are the most popular pointing breed in the US. I almost got one but don't need a dog that can waterfowl so I went with a pointer (English) for my upland hunting.

A pointer (English), is generally better suited to my arid open southwest quail and chukar hunting areas. I traded more the versatility of a GSP away for more running capability in the English Pointer. But English Pointers have a rep of being headstrong and hard to train. I can understand the rep. But I think it's really just that they have such a strong predatory drive. I've found training my pointer can actually be easier than training my Lab. The Pointer learns much faster than the Lab in all new things. I gotta admit, going from a local bred field trial Lab to a nationally competitve bred English Pointer is like me stepping out of my pickup into a F1 car. I was barely hanging on. Now I'm really starting to get comfortable handling the dog in the field.

I can see why people recommended a Lab for my first bird dog. But I would not go that way again due to the heat limitations of Labs and where I hunt. GSP's may be a more balanced choice for the all around hunter.

[Iwantto....]

I a just curious but does anyone know anybody that hunts with a pit bull? I know people use them for boar hunting as the bite dog but anything else?


I'm asking because I used to have a pit bull that was brindle in color and worked as good camo. He was decided to have a high prey drive. The more I read about bird dogs and the way they flush, im realizing that the way he naturally worked rabbits, and would on the occasion with birds, seems like the tendencies of a good hunting dog. His nose was actually pretty good to boot. He found everything I ever hid from him...


Just curious.

[sxshooter]

I think you can train most any dog breed to hunt all kinds of game. That said, there are some breeds better at specific game than others. There's huge differences in scenting capability, speed, endurance, heat tolerance, etc..

Birds are small and have a small contact with the ground and low scent emission. Small birds like quail, very much so.

Classic upland dogs have been bred to have excellent scenting ability, good endurance due to light frames, tall legs, big lung capacity, and be bidable.

My take on the pitbull is that it is an incredible athletic breed with speed and agility. But the ones I've seen lacked endurance and focus. But hey, they all have A.D.D. .

If you want to hunt a particular game with the dog you have, all that's required of the dog is a decent predatory drive. Without that, the dog won't pursue any game. If the dog you have has it, you can train it to hunt your chosen game. But there will be limitations. Maybe pretty significant ones. A pitbull nose is short to minimize exposure to injury when fighting. That characteristic was bred into the dog irrespective of scenting capability.

[ehd]

here is a couple of my potlickers

[Thumper Dunker]

I WANT A PUPPY!!!. Real great dogs. Been a couple months now so Im going to start to look in jan when i get back. Life sucks with out a dog.

[sxshooter]

... Life sucks with out a dog.

[rob b]

Hastings Island last weekend

[sxshooter]

The picture made me think about how it drives a young dog crazy to pose in these pix with birds right under their nose. 

 

My older dog leaves them alone and the new dog is getting better about leaving them alone, but recently, a bird got up out of the bag and was running all around the truck. My pointer was in hot pursuit.