New hunting partner

[9.3mauser]

You can use dogs to track big game in Ontario? That is specifically outlawed in the hunting regs here in AB

Depending on the unit, you can run deer ( and moose and bear) with hounds. It seems to be a dying tradition though. Used to be you would hear hounds baying everywhere, now it's rare indeed. Returning lost hounds used to be a yearly event too, sometimes 10-12 miles from home.

 

[hunter5425]

My grandfather used to run dogs on coyotes, he had 4 , 3 pursuit hounds and a big killer. It's no longer legal here.

 

[brybenn]

This is my dog. She is a blue tick cross and looked very similar to yours as a puppy. I take her up the mountains for goats. Couldn’t ask for a better dog

Very close in pattern. My pup has the floppy coon dog eats. Definitely hound attitude

While I don't have any mountains where I live I'm hoping she will hunt. I'm already planning a sidecar sorta thing for my kayak for her

 

[brybenn]

New dogs are always an adventure. My hunting buddy got a new pup Duke that Boone took a liking to , gonna be a fun season.

I've always had beagles and labs growing up. Then rescued a litter of Basset hound puppies someone tied in a garbage bag and left in a ditch. I kept the weakest one and he gave me the best 5 years of any hound before the cancer took him

After that I moved on to mastiffs as my lifestyle changed. I'll always keep a mastiff breed but I've decided to make more time to hunt and want my daughter to experience hunting over a dog. Until now she's only known dogs as guardians and protectors. Her and this puppy are separatable and my mastiff follows them everywhere keeping overwatch

I've never had a true bird dog. Always liked the looks of the Gordon setters though