Opinions are very welcome. He is doing pretty well with basic commands and obedience so far...sit, lay down, come, get off the dang couch and if you eat another flip flop I'm gonna knock you out. I work with him before I go to work in the mornings. He is doing well with the training collar, it only took a couple times of tone + zap for him to figure it out. When I call him to me and say let's go hunt he'll come right to me and when he sees the collar in my hand he'll sit right at my feet and wait for me to put it on him. I try to tone him the least amount possible, but when I do he immediately comes to find me as fast as his big clumsy puppy feet will let him. That also works well with my son...he and the pup are inseperable so if my son gets too far out I can tone the pup and they both come running.
That makes sense on the deer. I was just of the mindset from the hog dogs we run that we break them off deer and varmints from the start. I made a few stands Saturday night…played fawn distress, then baying hounds and then both at the same time. The first two stands brought hard chargers with dogs and fawn at the same time. On another stand I played that scenario with nothing showing until I played the baying hounds + coyote challenge at the same time, had one fly by from behind us and about run over the call. So yeah…after that I can definitely see that letting the dog run whatever he wants is better than laying down next to me or waiting for me back at the truck.
