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Post by budd on Apr 2, 2024 8:43:55 GMT -5
I've had one camera out for awhile now. For some reason the solar panel must not be working correctly. Ill have to hike back in there and figure out whats going on with it. My brother in law seen a bear up on the reservation dump 3 weeks ago. A friend said he cut a track mid February. Been the warmest winter Ive seen in the 25 years I've been here.
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Post by budd on Apr 1, 2024 22:57:27 GMT -5
When it’s time to replace I cut the rivets with side snips. Our tick/dog training season is only 5 -6 months so yes they last long enough for me.
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Post by budd on Apr 1, 2024 13:54:46 GMT -5
First sighting of the year.
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Post by budd on Apr 1, 2024 13:51:57 GMT -5
Yeah, got a point there...i sure wouldnt enjoy brushing him out after he runs through a sticker bush! Ah well...😆😆😆 For the time and $$ involved in training a dog, I believe it's pointless to throw that away on a dog that will take a LOT more work to get to a low level of training that a dog that is bred to do a certain thing can attain. I'd venture to say it'd take 50% or more of both of those things to get a non-hunting bred dog to the level that a hunting bred dog would be at. I've seen it in getting Springers to do the windshield wiper pattern to cover a field. One dog needed 3 people to do that over a period of months of training. Most can learn that with 3 people and a few weeks of training, or just the handler and the dog if the genetics are there. I'm sure Budd has seen that in teaching a dog to retrieve. There's also the part about a certain breed wanting to learn and please it's trainer, that's called biddability. And even then it's no guarantee...just because it's a pointer dont mean that it's going to point, or because it's a retriever dont mean it's going to retrieve....but you do up your odds by getting a dog thats bred for what you want to do.
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Post by budd on Mar 31, 2024 9:48:38 GMT -5
Im a fan of seresto collars, I cut them into 6 inch strips and rivet them on the inside of each dogs regular collar. I've never seen a flea on one of my dogs up here where I live. Also I've never, nor has my vet ever seen a dog in our area have heartworm. He feels it is because the larva cannot develop because the temperatures get to cold during the summer nights. I still treat once a month with ivermectin because I have client dogs coming in from southern states. Budd, what do you use for rivets/where do you get them? I have to re-rivet a brass name tag on a nylon collar and that idea with seresto is a good one. Copper double capped rivets, dont try smashing the rivets to flat or you will smash them thru the seresto collars. Another reason I do it this way is that while competing the dog must not be wearing any kind of collar, and those seresto's can be difficult to put on and off. Also I can use one collar for two dogs by cutting it in half.
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Post by budd on Mar 31, 2024 9:43:12 GMT -5
Can anyone on here recommend a good book or maybe a video series for training a dog to hunt? Got a little guy, still young, very smart, trained in "standard" commands(sit, stay, fetch, etc), high prey drive, but as far as hunt training i wouldnt know where to start. Thanks! Joe buckmaster Good place to start is with what breed is it? If Im going to coon hunt Ill use a coonhound, rabbits a beagle, ducks a retriever. I turn down a couple clients every year that want me to make a retriever out of basically a nothing.
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Post by budd on Mar 29, 2024 9:39:31 GMT -5
Im a fan of seresto collars, I cut them into 6 inch strips and rivet them on the inside of each dogs regular collar. I've never seen a flea on one of my dogs up here where I live. Also I've never, nor has my vet ever seen a dog in our area have heartworm. He feels it is because the larva cannot develop because the temperatures get to cold during the summer nights. I still treat once a month with ivermectin because I have client dogs coming in from southern states.
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Post by budd on Mar 29, 2024 9:26:09 GMT -5
I've owned close to 100 dogs, couple names that stick out. A beagle called Mr. Weenie, my partners daughter in Canada named him. My latest one is a lab named Dirt. When I had my last pond dug a retriever enthusiast 10 miles from me happened to drive by and see the pile of spoils, he had just had some ground developed for retriever training and had need for my dirt to make several mounds on his property. He traded me this pup for 1,000 yards of black dirt. I name most of my dogs after the kennel from where they come. With labs I never name two that sound anywhere close to the same as I make them honor each other in steady drills where each dog is released by their name. I was running in a field trial a couple years ago and was doing the honor with my dog Lilly, a good friend came up to run the working dog and her name was Milly. We both chuckled afterwards wondering how we got out of their without my dog breaking when he sent his dog by name.
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Post by budd on Mar 28, 2024 9:20:22 GMT -5
I think our (Indiana) and numerous other states biggest problem is access to hunting areas that have deer It’s pretty well a pay to play pastime anymore. When I first started deer hunting one could deer hunt just about anywhere. Those times are long gone. Agree, growing up a farm kid I had more private land than I could hunt. When I moved up here 25 years ago, I still had more private ground open to myself and my family than I could hunt. I now only have a handfull of spots. All the land has changed hands. I had one farmer that would call me every time he purchased new land with woods, I stopped to see him 5-6 years ago and he had me talk with his son (that I was friends with in school), he offered to lease me land...LOL
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Post by budd on Mar 28, 2024 8:44:46 GMT -5
The biggest problem with deer hunting in Wisconsin, especially the northern zone is the horrible deer numbers. Wolves, bears and a couple of bad winters really put the hurt on deer numbers. They haven't bounced back. I haven't hunted in Wisconsin for 2 years due to the cost of going and not seeing deer. Hunting the same ground. Historically us 4 hunters would average 50% - 75% success rate or higher. Last 4 or 5 years I think now 6 hunters have shot a total of 2 deer combined. The deer population flat out isn't there. The property is 1,700 acres. A mixture of mature woods and tamarack swamps. With light snow on the ground we may cut 1 or 2 sets of tracks in the 200-300 acres that we typically hunt. You'd think there were more deer there than that, but we just don't see them. I stopped hunting there because of not seeing the deer, tags costing close to $200 then all the other costs associated in hunting close to 10 hours away from home. This is the worst year I've seen up here for deer numbers as well. The day I posted pictures of those sap collection bags in the small game refuge, I drove around and thru the whole refuge (3600 acres) with a two day snow on the ground and I cut 5 deer tracks, 9 wolf tracks, 1 coyote track and several fox. We finally have a group that started up last fall and they are making a LOT of noise and getting attention on the wolf problem we have in northern minnesota. Problem we have is our governor has said "there will be no wolf season on my watch". Hopefully Hunters4Hunters can change that! We shall see but I believe it's to late even if we do get a season on wolves in the next few years. I think the wolves will thin themselves out by eliminating the deer herd.
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Post by budd on Mar 27, 2024 22:00:42 GMT -5
Yep, what ice we got is trashed. Good thing is I can finally get my new ice fishing sled out and crews the trails tomorrow.
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Post by budd on Mar 27, 2024 10:33:41 GMT -5
Time to start shoveling and plowing.
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Post by budd on Mar 27, 2024 7:28:13 GMT -5
Wasn’t even fair today. Just one after another. Worms couple feet down. Rooster tail for bass. Stack on a wind blown hump. Nice fish!!
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Post by budd on Mar 26, 2024 13:11:55 GMT -5
Buddy two hours north of me got 2ft!!
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Post by budd on Mar 25, 2024 18:17:01 GMT -5
Yeah, we got some snow last night and today.
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Post by budd on Mar 22, 2024 9:25:15 GMT -5
10-25 inches starting Sunday morning. Winter had 6 months to show it's face...get the hel out of here!!!!
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Post by budd on Mar 15, 2024 16:14:17 GMT -5
Put equipment away to soon!!! Highs below freezing next week 😎.
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Post by budd on Mar 15, 2024 6:54:03 GMT -5
WOW!!!!!!! What does she do with the sheds? She keeps all the elk sheds, but has a website where she sells all her moose sheds. She has a stack of moose sheds that she keeps in a temperature and humidity controlled room. All picked by herself and husband, withing a few hours of where they live. justantlerz.com
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Post by budd on Mar 14, 2024 7:12:29 GMT -5
Good friend and training partner that lives just across the border in Ontario keeps track of the wild elk herd that stays on her property. She found this guys shed’s. She calls him Spike. Claims he is the smallest of 3 bulls that live there and that the other two have not dropped yet.
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Post by budd on Mar 13, 2024 23:10:05 GMT -5
Everybody in the Ranger get out safely? Yeah, everyone good. I was working in the yard and left my phone in the house on the charger. I had 17 missed call’s, everyone thought it was me that went through.
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