Dog training

[Wade.S]

I snuck to the fence as I was home most of the day and had not yet shot anything today. There were a few starlings out in the field behind my house at about 35 yards. I had ran out of pellets last night on a hunt and only had a few of buddy's pellets he let me take home (untested pellets). I made a guess and let it fly, the starling just fell over into the weeds where I could not see him any longer. The others flew off but came right back and landed at the same location, I attempted the same hold over with the 570 fps Mendoza and let fly again. This time there was no rewarding smack sound and the birds flew off again and did not come back. So now I let my dog out in the field as I could not find the bird and within about a minute he brought me my starling. Do you think he will know the difference between starling and duck retrievals?



I am still having trouble posting pictures, I will try again later.

[airiscool]

Good shot Wade.

The Dog would probably know the differance if you've got farms near by. Alot of the Starlings around here (dairy country) must feed on seeds left in manure piles.  I brought in  some of my first  kills to inspect them - PHEW, they stunk !!!!

Paul.

[Wade.S]

Finally the pictures are loading for me.

[Schmidty25]

I have a Black lab Border collie mix, and he'll go after any Bird doesn't matter what it is.  dove, duck, blackbird, But he's a little timid of larger birds like geese.    I train him the same way have him sit next to you when you shoot the bird. have him fetch up.

[only1harry]

Nice shot at that Starling.  35yds is not easy to shoot a bird that small.  Nice game-retrieving canine you got