Thread: Kaimanawa Forest Park.

Originally Posted by Snoppernator

Yeah that's a big call saying they are "deer dogs". Most deer dogs are trained to stay within 10-20m of their owners, and definitely not bolt after deer. I guess there are some that use dogs to chase deer down, so it's feasible. I was down there about two months ago and a guy from Helisika kindly drove me and the pup from the stone gate literally to the fence line. He said there were two pig dogs that had made their way down from Taupo and to shoot them if I saw them. A bit uncomfortable with this - but strange that neither would have a collar on? My two other mates that use their dogs deer hunting use collars, mine's got a garmin e-collar on. He did mention a black and white dog.

A few mates were in the Kaipo a week ago and found four dead deer with no obvious wound marks, and found one other a trip a few weeks prior. They met some other hunters that had found 8. Not good. Not good.

Why's it's strange for deer dogs not to have collars on for. On my dogs I don't run collars if I need tie then up iv got rope in pack but been indicatoring dogs they always close. Are yours dogs used for indicatoring & are you running the Garmin e-collar on then when hunting