Hunting Washington Forum
Washington State Hunting Forum and Northwest Resource Site
Please
login
or
register
.
1 Hour
1 Day
1 Week
1 Month
Forever
Login with username, password and session length
News:
Free:
Contests & Raffles
.
Home
Help
Calendar
Advertise
Login
Register
Hunting Washington Forum
»
Other Hunting
»
Bird Dogs
»
Some Pics of my Springer Pup
Advertisement
Advertise Here
« previous
next »
Print
Pages:
1
2
[
All
]
Go Down
Author
Topic: Some Pics of my Springer Pup (Read 3628 times)
Hornseeker
Trade Count:
(
0
)
Frontiersman
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 3097
Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
on:
April 19, 2011, 08:23:06 AM »
Well, Gunner is coming along very nicely. He is still very strong willed, but is being a great pup so far!
This is him and the old man, who is just over 13 now....
I took him for a walk while the kiddo was at soccer practice. This big boxer across the street really had his attention....
He's 11 weeks now and about 4-5 days ago really started fetching good. I mainly play fetch with a dummy,but only had a ball along this day. I get him good and riled first, then when I throw it, he runs absolutely full out then usually grabs the dummy or ball with a growl, then flips over it onto the ground, more growling, then with encouragement from me runs full speed right back to my hand... Lovin It!
He has taken to his crate pretty good and is now spending from about 10:30 to 5:30 in there no prob. He goes in there on his own and doesn't "freak out" anymore. Boy, I'll tell ya. Those first couple weeks he would make a pack of coyotes blush with his yammering!!
I've got him sitting, staying and coming real good. He will lay down "some" of the time, but really just started that. He is my buddy... because I spend the most time with him of course... I also make him sit and wait for his food until I tell him "ok"... the last few days he's been golden on that! I'm real happy with him. Its amazing how "natural" the quartering thing is for him/these dogs. At 11 weeks when I walk him on a lead he'll quarter back and forth if I am not trying to make him heel and he already loves to dive into the tall grass and that little nose is working all the time!!!
Gonna be a fun summer and FALL!!!!
Logged
Chuck Norris puts the "Laughter" in "Manslaughter"
Advertise Here
Machias
Trapper
Trade Count:
(
+5
)
Explorer
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 18929
Location: Worley, ID
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #1 on:
April 19, 2011, 08:57:17 AM »
REALLY nice looking dog Ernie!!
Logged
Fred Moyer
When it's Grim, be the GRIM REAPER!
ORCA_SIX
RLTW!
Trade Count:
(
0
)
Scout
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 456
Location: Snohomish, WA
Bring out your dead!
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #2 on:
April 19, 2011, 09:06:08 AM »
Good looking pup.
Logged
“If a man’s life is not long enough, a dog’s is even shorter and anything you can do to make that fuller is worthwhile"
"Be worthy of your game"
George Bird Evans
Happy Gilmore
Business Sponsor
Trade Count:
(
+1
)
Old Salt
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 5126
Location: Ronan, MT
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #3 on:
April 19, 2011, 12:30:58 PM »
great looking springer!
Logged
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt 1899
10Key
Political & Covid-19 Topics
Trade Count:
(
0
)
Sourdough
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 1024
Location: Bothell
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #4 on:
April 19, 2011, 03:45:14 PM »
Agree with the others, great looking pup! Now get him a hunting-style collar so that dog tag doesn't dangle and make noise and or snag on brush
Logged
Hornseeker
Trade Count:
(
0
)
Frontiersman
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 3097
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #5 on:
April 19, 2011, 06:44:38 PM »
when he gets a little bigger! geesh.... give the boy some puppyhood!!
Logged
Chuck Norris puts the "Laughter" in "Manslaughter"
Ironhead
Political & Covid-19 Topics
Trade Count:
(
0
)
Sourdough
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 1839
Location: Muddy Creek
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #6 on:
April 20, 2011, 07:36:14 PM »
Great looking pup Ernie.
Logged
"The problem with quotes on Internet Forums is, that it is often difficult to verify their authenticity." - Abraham Lincoln
carpsniperg2
Site Sponsor
Global Moderator
Trade Count:
(
+126
)
Legend
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 31527
Location: Goldendale,WA
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #7 on:
April 20, 2011, 07:43:29 PM »
Good looking pup for sure
Logged
Owner: SPLIT DIAMOND TACTICAL
Firearms/Transfers/Parts/Optics
2011 HW Head Competition Winner
Hornseeker
Trade Count:
(
0
)
Frontiersman
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 3097
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #8 on:
April 21, 2011, 11:23:22 AM »
He's fun... I get the biggest kick out of how he fetches... he is just angry as hell at that dummy!!!
I need to video it!
Logged
Chuck Norris puts the "Laughter" in "Manslaughter"
Hornseeker
Trade Count:
(
0
)
Frontiersman
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 3097
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #9 on:
April 21, 2011, 11:26:21 AM »
By the way, the shed hunting training will start asap... I have about 3 fresh sheds that every time he looks at one I say "horn" and my hope soon is that he'll recognize the word and assoc. with the bone... Then I'll put them in the yard in plain sight and tell him to "get the horn" or "fetch the horn" or something like that... Basically like doing multiple retrieves... Then it will go to Blind retrieves with them hidden here or there...
Then when the time comes, next winter, I'll get out the truck and say, "find the horn" and within a few minutes I'll have a nice pile at my feet!
Logged
Chuck Norris puts the "Laughter" in "Manslaughter"
quadrafire
Past Sponsor
Trade Count:
(
+5
)
Old Salt
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 7121
Location: Spokane
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #10 on:
April 21, 2011, 11:29:58 AM »
Except you forgot that he probably won't recognize the word----Horn--- as all his buddies taught him they were ---antlers----
PS. He is a solid looking springer
Logged
Hornseeker
Trade Count:
(
0
)
Frontiersman
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 3097
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #11 on:
April 27, 2011, 07:20:45 AM »
I thought 1 syllable was going to be easier! He wont go get the horn when I say it yet though, so maybe he is thinking "what the hell is he talking about? There's an antler laying right over there, but he keeps asking for a horn???
"
Kid is doing real well. Still fetchin like a fiend.... loves to root around in the brush and tall grass... hasn't had any bird action yet...except for a couple robins he chased off the street the other day!
Logged
Chuck Norris puts the "Laughter" in "Manslaughter"
buckhorn2
Trade Count:
(
+1
)
Frontiersman
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 3511
Location: grayland wa.
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #12 on:
April 27, 2011, 07:33:11 AM »
Smart looking puppy Ernie he sounds like a hunter they are fun to work with whats the oldtimer think of him.
Logged
mulehunter
Washington For Wildlife
Trade Count:
(
0
)
Frontiersman
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 3367
Location: Hobart, Wa
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #13 on:
April 27, 2011, 08:05:45 AM »
Very cool. I miss one of mine when I grew up.
Mulehunter
Logged
Hornseeker
Trade Count:
(
0
)
Frontiersman
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 3097
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #14 on:
April 28, 2011, 05:47:13 AM »
The old timer thinks he's a complete pain in the ass.... and... he is. That pup Pesters Oscar to know end and Oscar wont lay the hammer down on him...just kinda takes it....
Logged
Chuck Norris puts the "Laughter" in "Manslaughter"
Skyvalhunter
Washington For Wildlife
Trade Count:
(
0
)
Explorer
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 16006
Location: Sky valley/Methow
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #15 on:
April 28, 2011, 05:54:39 AM »
Thats a nice looking dog you have there Ernie!!
Logged
The only man who never makes a mistake, is the man who never does anything!!
The further one goes into the wilderness, the greater the attraction of its lonely freedom.
hermiston
Trade Count:
(
0
)
Tracker
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 32
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #16 on:
April 28, 2011, 12:29:01 PM »
Great looking dog. Gotta love those Springers. My female is 3 and is a really good hunter. Wait till you see him hunt and jump like a bunny! That's why they call them "springers".
Logged
upwind
Trade Count:
(
0
)
Scout
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 366
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #17 on:
April 28, 2011, 12:47:20 PM »
Nice dog i have a liver clored one love to fetch hopefully ready to go this year had to get him over been gun shy hes not afraid of the boom but was afraid of the gun it self.
Logged
Hornseeker
Trade Count:
(
0
)
Frontiersman
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 3097
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #18 on:
April 29, 2011, 12:32:15 PM »
Thats wierd upwind... huh?
I am psyched to get him going....gonna get hold of some pidgeons...hopefully alive, real soon!!
Logged
Chuck Norris puts the "Laughter" in "Manslaughter"
upwind
Trade Count:
(
0
)
Scout
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 366
Re: Some Pics of my Springer Pup
«
Reply #19 on:
May 01, 2011, 08:24:21 PM »
I think the previous owner kids were not very nice to him but he coming out of his shyness .
Logged
Advertise Here
Print
Pages:
1
2
[
All
]
Go Up
« previous
next »
Hunting Washington Forum
»
Other Hunting
»
Bird Dogs
»
Some Pics of my Springer Pup
Advertisement
Advertise Here
Quick Links
Front Page
Donate To Forum
Advertise on H-W
Recent Posts
Articles
Forum Rules
Recent Topics
2025 Draw Results
by
bow4elk
[
Today
at 05:14:40 PM]
Antlerless Moose more than once?
by
geauxtigers
[
Today
at 05:11:58 PM]
2025 OILS!
by
geauxtigers
[
Today
at 05:07:00 PM]
Son drawn - Silver Dollar Youth Any Elk - Help?
by
VickGar
[
Today
at 05:02:44 PM]
Observatory quality bull rifle
by
gee_unit360
[
Today
at 04:46:01 PM]
No Draw! Good luck!
by
TexasRed
[
Today
at 04:43:36 PM]
September mule deer velvet
by
teanawayslayer
[
Today
at 04:38:33 PM]
AKC lab puppies! Born 06/10/2025 follow as they grow!!!
by
scottfrick
[
Today
at 04:37:37 PM]
SE raffle tags holder
by
trophyhunt
[
Today
at 04:26:02 PM]
New to Mule deer hunting where to start
by
bigmacc
[
Today
at 04:16:08 PM]
My wife drew quality deer DESERT rifle 10/18-10/26!!!!!
by
KNOPHISH
[
Today
at 03:43:32 PM]
Nooksack Muzzleloader Bull Tag
by
Bucks2Ducks
[
Today
at 03:16:01 PM]
Unknown Suppressors - Whisper Pickle
by
pickardjw
[
Today
at 03:08:51 PM]
Hoof Rot
by
jbeaumont21
[
Today
at 02:39:47 PM]
Pearygin Quality
by
vandeman17
[
Today
at 02:27:12 PM]
Riffe Lake
by
metlhead
[
Today
at 02:13:10 PM]
Great Starter Home in Lakewood
by
pianoman9701
[
Today
at 12:35:40 PM]
SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal