Thread: Deer dog training

My current dog is a Lab. A beautiful dog to have around home. Hunting line bred and very wired into hunting and water. Winds deer and very good at tracking. My training approach is solid basic discipline, then lots of exposure to hunting, and praise and repetition.

Here she is tracking at 12 months on a lead (as it should be done). Not set up; a genuine shoot and find: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jBT4Ffx7vwM?app=desktop

Here she is with me last weekend (20 months now), just letting her go to find a downed Fallow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9a5wpDAFAs

Training tips, if you know nothing (plenty of people think they know something and often they don’t) invest in the deer dog blueprint. Solid basic fundamentals underly everything though at the end of the day. A rock solid sit, heel and recall to a looong way by themselves.