Thread: Is she old enough?

My level on knowledge in training a dog around guns is limited to one, he is a Huntaway Lab cross, I had no idea what to do so I just started off with hand claps turned into a game and moved onto blowing up bread bags and popping them, he was about 5 months old on his introduction to firearms, first shots were with a .22mag, he reacted fine and as I had the shotgun with me I pulled that out, he did flinch a little with the louder bang but stayed sitting on his haunches, I either did something right or got one that just doesn't mind a bang, in fact the sight of the rifle coming out excites him and he can hardly contain himself when I pull the trigger, that bit im not too keen on, (I use him while deer stalking to scent if anything may be on the wind) I am still working on how to stop him running towards deer when I shoot them, he comes back with a short verbal barrage from me and to date I have been lucky enough not to miss a deer when I have had him out with me, that day will come and hopefully he will stop if on runs off! The Huntaway in him loves chasing anything that runs.