Thread: training duck hunting pup

hey team

i’ve had a couple seasons duck shooting and have decided to pickup a purebred lab bitch to assist. looking for tips and tricks on how to train her to retrieve ducks once she’s a bit older as she’s only 11 weeks old at the moment

There will be lots of opinions but what I have found is you need to adjust to the dog and work it through the process. I've found that they will naturally want to do it so the main bit I work on is discipline. Making them sit and wait to be told to eat, sit and stay. If you start now with a couple of blocks of wood and bang them together to get them used to noise that helps on the gun shy part of things, it's a learning curve for both you and the dog but the rewards are massive especially when you go home with dry undies and a happy dog. I'm by no means an expert trainer but I do enjoy being dry over duck shooting