Any Great hunting dog stories out there.

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Here is my story: I was out with a black powder mulie doe tag and hit one. She stumbled into a dry slough bottom and I went into it to look for her. There was no way I could find the deer. I was reasonably close to town so I drove back and picked up my buddies flat coated retriever. When I got back to the slough I called the dog into the cat tails to begin looking but the dog just put its nose in the air and ran in the oppostite direction over a hill. Cursing all the way I went over the hill to get the dog back only to see him dragging my deer back to the truck. ( deer was already dead dead ) .

Boy that pup made me look stupid. If you could only see the expression on the dogs face. We loaded things up and with a quick whistle he jumped in the truck and we went home. He's gone now but will always be remembered.


Anyone else have a good story or two about a memorable dog ?
 
Flash VanDeyulet, my dad's last hunting dog, a German short haired in the late 70's. Won every field trial it entered. The best I've ever seen from him was while hunting partridge on a windy day. He pointed in the most absurd position and stayed there for 12 minutes while we went 2 fields up wind. My dad's buddy was telling us there was nothing there and the dog was nuts... We flushed the partridges about 800 meters from the dog, in four shots=four birds. Dad and I always believed that dog and knew there were birds where he was pointing to! I almost ruined the dog when I was a very young teen, I missed a good dozen woodcocks and he started running after them... Thankfully I regained my composure and made the last 5 shots and the dog did as he knew after that. Lot's of pressure on me that day, my dad was injured and could not shoot and he was going nuts and cursing me, watching me miss bird after bird... I swear that dog was ginving me dirty looks all day!!!

Troutseeker
 
It's funny how they give you that look of disgust when you miss one, isn't it? A few years ago I did a great deal of grouse hunting in the Winnipeg & Interlake area with a friend, his German Shorhair, and his Gordon....man, that shorthair was a grouse pointing machine! Truly a pleasure to hunt over dogs, that's for sure.
 
Greenhorn Beagle

Took my new beagle out after some cottontails in an area that also had Jacks and Turkeys, when she took off making music(it's a beautiful sound). Well she was pretty far off and I thought she was running a Jack when all the sound stopped. After a few minutes I let out a loud whistle so she find me. Then she started making a different sounding baying coming toward me. I get all set to take the first rabbit of the day when I see something brown flash by with my little ##### right on it's ass. When it cleared the brier the big Tom was able to take off , thought she was going to pull some tail feathers out.CAN WE USE HOUNDS IN THE SPRING HUNT:evil:
 
when my 'rents were still together and we where living out west *both parents Navy dad a stoker, mom a fin clrk* and stationed in esquimalt in the early 90's, my dad took me hunting in the mountains just outside of sooke up butler main and walked into leechtown, well the first night we built a lean-to and camped and our yellow lab woke us up growling and snapping at somthing on a stump about 20 ft from the fire, i never caught a clear enough look at it but apparently it was a couger that left a good set of prints the size of my fathers hands. my dad fired a few shoots in its direction to scare it off and we went back to sleep our dog stayed up all night pacing the camp site keeping watch. i'll never forget that trip and it was a shame when she had to be put down.
 
Ever since i was 7 years old my dad brough home this beagle named "Anne". She was the sweetest dog ever, and one hell of a hunting dog. Ever time the fourwheeler would start up she would start going crazy thinking we are going hunting. We used to take her up to our cottage deer hunting. When i was about 11 or so my dad took me along with him and anne on a hunt. when we got about half a mile from the cabin anne started barking like crazy and we finally let her go, she ran like a bat outta hell straight into a thicket. we sat in the corner of a open field listening for anything, anne was barking like i never heard before i knew she was on to something, then all of a sudden 2 gray wolves poke their heads out and then take off full speed across the field, i heard the dog getting closer and then i see another wolf and anne right on its tail, my dad shot the one that anne was chasing about 50 yards away, it was a pretty big wolf....pretty sure it was the alpha male because that night/morning around 2am i was awaken by howls of wolves, must of been the whole pack howling for the dominate male to return. Anne almost ripped the screen door off trying to get outside


sadly enough about 3 years later anne ran away from my house and was never seen again, god damn dog..... i used to go out everyday and whilse to see if she would come back...no luck

since then we have never used anther dog for hunting and i've never gone wolf hunting since. there definatly isnt as many wolfs as there used to be, plus its a cool sight to see one nowadays, don't think id shoot one again less the #'s improve dramatically...
 
I got "the look" from my brothers shorthair after taking out a new shotgun I bought that I found out didn't fit me very well. It was all I could do to stop him from breaking point after I downed 1 Hungarian Partridge out of 6 coveys he pointed out. So I sold the Beretta and went back to my old faithful Browning.

Ivo
 
I have a very young (6 to 10 week) cocker spaniel at home right now. I'm trying to convince my better half to keep the little bugger... He was sadly abandonned and I picked him up, he has short hair and I believe is of the field variety. I would be hoping to get him hunting grouse, pheasant and some partridge...

Troutseeker
 
Growing up we had Gordon Setters, dad never was a rifleman strictly birds. Looked forward to Saturday mornings going out look for Grouse and Woodcock.
Once I got married and my own home I could not find any hunting breed Gordon's???
Went to a few field trials in the ottawa area and ended up getting an English Setter pup, she was great, good nose, solid point and patient. After 8 hunting seasons with her had to give her up....my daughter had developed allergies!!!!!
My daughter is now 12 and only 6 years until University and a new bird dog.

Not that I want my child to leave but I do want another bird dog, not quite the same grouse hunting without a dog.
 
jimmyjazz said:
Growing up we had Gordon Setters, dad never was a rifleman strictly birds. Looked forward to Saturday mornings going out look for Grouse and Woodcock.
Once I got married and my own home I could not find any hunting breed Gordon's???
Went to a few field trials in the ottawa area and ended up getting an English Setter pup, she was great, good nose, solid point and patient. After 8 hunting seasons with her had to give her up....my daughter had developed allergies!!!!!
My daughter is now 12 and only 6 years until University and a new bird dog.

Not that I want my child to leave but I do want another bird dog, not quite the same grouse hunting without a dog.
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if it were me i would have kept the dog and booted out the daughter :D

but thast just me
 
dog stories

A fellow I knew was out fixing fences, and he folded up his glasses and tucked them into his shirt pocket. An hour later, he realized that the glasses must have slipped out of his pocket into the long grass - somewhere in the 1/2 mile of fence he just walked. Looking for them seemed hopeless.

So instead, he went home, picked up a spare pair of glasses, and took his bird dog back to the fenceline. He showed his dog the spare glasses, and then pretended to throw them down the fenceline - and gave his pup the "find'em" command.
Off went the dog, nose to the ground - and retrieved the lost glasses.

Thought that was pretty clever of both of them!

Andrew
 
if it were me i would have kept the dog and booted out the daughter
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Naw, she's okay not into hunting but will come to the range and hang out with me, also likes fishing and camping........ so she ain't all bad.

Cheers
 
Why my dog is mans best friend

A couple of years ago I decided to take one of my brothers out hunting and also brought the dog out too. My dog is a pure rotti and she is just amazing in the bush. Anyway we were just hunting for birds at the time so we decided to split up. The trail was roughly five km long both ways so we split up and went to work. Why I decided to let my brother take my dog I still don't know but it sure worked out for him in this one. He accidently went off trail chasing a couple of birds and lost his way. I didn't know this until about two hours later when I realized he wasn't there or even close to my call for him. He said he had been walking circles in the bush for the whole two hours basically. Anyway what happened was as soon as I started to call for my brother to see if I would get a response I couldn't hear him. It turned out that he couldn't hear me either. Now comes the best part it seems that my dog heard me calling and did a 180 and started to run through the bush right towards me. My brother just chased after her for about 15 minutes and she led him right out to me standing on the trail. He was quite releived to be out and luky to have my dog with him.
 
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