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Offline troyspinetar

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Wanted: ratty old antlers for training my dog
« on: December 31, 2013, 04:34:44 PM »
Looking for free or cheap antlers to use as training aids. Nothing pretty, gnawed up ones would work just great.
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Re: Wanted: ratty old antlers for training my dog
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2014, 06:58:05 AM »
In my opinion the fresh ones are better for training. I have trained my dog with newer sheds. I will keep you in mind. Where are you located

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Re: Wanted: ratty old antlers for training my dog
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2014, 07:51:30 AM »
In my opinion the fresh ones are better for training. I have trained my dog with newer sheds. I will keep you in mind. Where are you located

 :yeah:  Fresh sheds and keep your scent off them......the dog will just run your scent if you handle them with bare hands.  Even if you walk out and hide them, he will learn a game where he follows your scent to a prize..........way more to it than a dog learning to play with chewed up horn...I know you know that, but nothing beats dog in the woods work. 

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Re: Wanted: ratty old antlers for training my dog
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2014, 08:02:50 AM »
Right on guys that makes a lot of sense. Hopefully I will start finding my own, and have a couple of fresh training sheds.  :tup:

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Re: Wanted: ratty old antlers for training my dog
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2014, 08:52:44 AM »
I bought the dog bone training dummy and scent from cabelas. Not to bad of price and I hear really good things :tup: i pick up my pup in 3 weeks.. cant wait!

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Re: Wanted: ratty old antlers for training my dog
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2014, 07:55:08 PM »
Good luck!

Have had my little chocolate lab for two weeks. He loves antlers. His only toy. He really likes the fresh ones. Make it fun for the pup and he will love it for life!!
If we were supposed to be vegetarian God would have made broccoli more fun to shoot!
"HOYT" why would you even consider shooting something else?

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Re: Wanted: ratty old antlers for training my dog
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2014, 08:26:50 PM »
Those of you that have trained dogs does the antler matter between species? say I wanna hunt BT sheds but have a WT shed to train with as far as scent goes?

 


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