Anyone using Dachshunds for Deer Hunting

[SPEEDY]

Oh well, let me know if any of you start breeding, be good to get one from hunting parents.
Then again with the dog, snakes and the lizard I'm probably all petted out.

[mchughcb]

Ha, the missus had them neutered. Keep at it with the whippet. I trained mine basic, hunting was natural. Either kill rabbits it bail cats, foxes and goats. Also would catch ducks.

[SPEEDY]

I have been teaching her to trail, and to fetch game.

But teaching with party poppers in the back yard is one thing, how she goes around rifle shots is yet to be seen.

[stokesrj]

Hi speedy,
I have a long history of training gun dogs and introducing them to the gun. If done correctly, they will accept the gun and rate it to good things with nearly 100% success. I begin with an air rifle, a simple bb gun at feeding time. I wait until they are enjoying their food and fire the bb gun in a safe direction, usually into the soil if it is soft enough to capture the BB. Usually they stop eating and look up. I then wait until they resume eating and do this over and over until they pay it no attention. I then move to a .22 with BB or CB caps, and then to .22 full power loads, to a blank starter pistol, to a shotgun.
This usually takes a couple of weeks but after that, they pay a gun no attention whatsoever until the associate it to game, then it's all smiles.
I hope this helps.
Bob

[mchughcb]

I'm a bit lucky. Taking the dogs out on the driven hunts they hear the shots in the distance and eventually one near them. Been a bit lucky, dachs are aren't scared of much. Mire likely to bark and investigate a loud noise.

[stokesrj]

My background is training pointing bird dogs, which have shotguns go off right over their head at the flush. But I have trained trailing dogs as well, and have always been very careful not to have a bad experience. I've seen dogs ruined over careless introductions to the gun but in your case at a distance first will surely not be a problem.
Bob

[mchughcb]

Agree. Most trailing hounds are not that close to a gun when it goes off.

[Twinn]

In sweden we have a real old tradition to hunt with dogs that is following its prey barking. Its real exciting!
The dogs that is most common is: german doxin (swedish name "Tax"), Dashbraken (swedish name "Drever") and french basset. Drever is number one one deers and hare, Doxin number two, so on. If you want a dog that will work seven days a week and a big portion of hunting will, I will say Drever is formula one!

[Twinn]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vKs2J4yRCxQ

not me or my drever. But i have a drever and just wanted you to show how it works.

[Twinn]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UrxwBQa6RRk

[mchughcb]

Thanks Twinn. That first video is awesome. I wish it was that open when I hunt deer with the hounds. Nice sound by the dog and working solo as well.

[Gun Barrel Ecologist]

Seeing this thread reminds me to ask if you've seen this book?

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The British deer society flyer is there as they will ship it to Australia

[mchughcb]

No but just put an order in. I saw Guy Wallace's book this week but couldn't retain the copy so I ordered one of them as well.

[mchughcb]

There is a guy out there in Norway with a D99 and dachsund

here's the dachs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EENjtDI ... MdYx4kZuOA

here's the D99 - good shot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-ItvjIKc2c

[mchughcb]

Another successful hunt with the snagger dogs a couple of months ago. They put up this spiker about 50m in front which honked them jumped across the track. They started to track it but I called them back as I didn't think the deer seemed that disturbed and met up with my mate. He came in downwind with his pointer and I went back on the marks with the dogs. I thought they'd lost the scent but then I found fresh scat. I thought can't be far now and then kaboom, my friend dropped the spiker about 100m in front of us hiding behind a tree.

Have no fear the black one knows what sambar tastes like