Thread: Dog ready to go bush

That's awesome, she is going great mate

Yeah, the slinking behind might not be a bad thing in future. End up at your side when you shoot as opposed to in front.

Looking good.

Out for a walk without the rifle, indicated this one from 10m away, heaps of goats around so lots of scent winds all day. Happy with her steadness, not so happy with her range, constant reminding Ziggy to work in close.

"Here it is Boss, see I found it"



"What you want me to sit, just bloody hurry up and shoot the goat.. go on I dear you"



Put her on a sit to see if I could walk up on them.

Day of two halves, no animals seen or taken ziggy worked really well for the first half, good range, good eye contact, bit of ground sent to a bedding area.

Then we heard a noise over the Ridge, I racked a round up the spout and crept forward, looked back for Ziggy, nowhere to be seen.. slinking 100m back and wouldn't push up no matter what I did.. Put a heap of negative pressure on her and she just shut down.

Time for a sit down think, finally got her in next to me to sit, heaps of praise racked the bolt, dry fire couple of times, more praise. Then we headed for home Ziggy out in front.

We stopped alot ziggy sitting next to me and dry fired a few, slowly slowly but she's very wary of the whole thing... I don't say anything bit of praise now and then. The negative pressure that BGID suggests doesn't seem to be the solution with her.

Shot the .22 last week with her at 50m away, timid but not shut down like today... been through the BGID Blueprint gun training 2 times with her now, always a bit of a flinch with the 7mm-08 on the last stagep.

I thinking she's destined to become the house dog.. ahh well still a great mate to have in the bush.

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Good indication on goats on the walk in, had time to call her behind and load rifle and shoot the young Billy.

Ziggy still not keen on gunshots and took a lot of encouragement to move in on the dead goat, once there she was keen as. More animals needed to be shot over her. Still not sure if she's going to make it as a hunting dog, but good company in the bush.

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maybe some semi quiet loads for the close goats might help??...and from where Im sitting you already have a hunting dog.... a behaved companion is 80% of the deal after all.

Looks like the gunshy issue is the only issue. Shame to not hunt ziggy because of that. Maybe go to subs?

Haha snap

a gunshy dog isnt end of the world...lots of noise at home,banging tin fence/pots at feeding time... shots at distance during funtime activities with NO ONE ELSE worried about them....both help no end.
a quiet 7mm08 load will be no harder to make than quiet 308 load..still deadly efficent on close goats and much easier on both yours n dogs ears.

Thanks for the comments, Ziggy is a pretty cool Mate in the bush regardless, if she finds me the odd animal we can deal with the gunshyness after the shot,

Trying not to shoot directly over her and she has a good in behind hand signal. Looking at going to a 223 suppressed to quite everything down on the small game animals.

Cheers

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I usually take our one possum shooting to get him used to the sound.

Hey mate I've been through all of this with my dog izzie, she's now 10.5 yrs old and still a bit gun shy , it's not a bad thing - Message me and I'll give a call to help if you want.

Thanks Stumpy, appreciate the offer of help.

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Originally Posted by stumpys

Hey mate I've been through all of this with my dog izzie, she's now 10.5 yrs old and still a bit gun shy , it's not a bad thing - Message me and I'll give a call to help if you want.

havent seen photos of the lass lately bud.....love to see some....shit they get old fast,only seems like last week izzie was a pup out getting her first deer with you..Meg is coming up to 10 now...... if we lucky we might get another year or two before retirement looms.