re: Catch dogs for non fatal shots

Do they have Cliks and Geoupies like the Field Trial world does with labs?

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I had a BMC that would run down perfectly healthy deer, nip them on the arse in stride then bay them. I didn't even know that was possible till I saw him do it.

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Lots of egos

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No ego here, but I was proud of my dog last weekend. My son shot a deer that had a pretty good trail that we would have found anyway, it ran about 100 yards or so. But the thing was, there were 4 deer when he shot and she only got on the one that was hit. My deer was a little different, made a bad shot and the guts plugged up the hole, no blood (that we could see anyway). There were 5 deer and all ran the same direction. She put her nose to the ground and only tracked the hit one. She went straight to the deer about 300 yards away twisting and turning through some thick stuff. No way we would have ever found that deer.

My dog has no formal training other than us taking spray bottles of watered down deer blood to the park when she was a puppy and making a trail with it and putting a treat at the end of the trail.

She did well for a dog that spends 300 days/year sleeping on the couch. But when her nose hits the ground on a wounded deer, she turns into a different animal.

Obligatory pic of deer dog:

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Did this last Sunday got a call guy shot a deer couldn’t find it asked for me to bring out the dog. Did we were on the ground maybe 25-30 min on the trail found it alive walking around GUT shot crossbow idiot. He finished it off the dog just looked at me like what the frick is going on? It’s always the crossbow guys that need a deer found never recurve or compound archer it’s the crossbow guys. It’s every Sunday morning also practice fellas

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That's what they do. The deer that's hit leaves an adrenaline scent on the ground that the others don't. You could have 100 deer and shoot 1. The dog knows exactly which deer to track out of the 100

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That’s what I’ve always been told, but I didn’t know my couch potato would be so keen to pick up on it like that.

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My question would be how did he go 7 miles without crossing multiple property lines and needing to make a ton of phone calls

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You'd have to know a ton of property owners and their numbers. No way. 7 miles was probably the deer meandering in a 1 mile area.

They didn't go 7 miles. 7 miles straight north from tiger stadium is scotlandville.