Thread: Piipi's first deer.

Pippi has just turned 1yr old, was responding to recall and hand signals, time to take her for a walk in the "wild". Sticks to dad like glue, command given obeyed like lightning. Oh so happy to be on an adventure! Just a few hrs walk to get the hang of fast running creeks and swampy shit and tune into the "wild world" vibe.


A few days later, a much bigger walk and she remembers the various diversions off route and she is off ahead to show me the way, checking on me frequently to make sure I'm on message.
Some time later in the day a red spiker meats it's demise, via a 105 Targex at 255 yds, bang/flop and stayed in the sight picture, ridge to opposite face. The 255yd turned into a solid 20 minutes hard work for the human, the 4 legged thing got there first, but wasn't going near it until dad turns up.


Dad turns up and gives the spiker a pat and a friendly word so Pippy come down and has a closer look after checking dad stays close, just in case.


Some little titbits of venison occur, then she gets the idea that I need help with the back steaks........ ummm no! have this instead!


On the walk out, she discovers the fun of chasing high country hares, much to dad's annoyance, requiring more than 1 whistle to return - took two whistles and some choice words at volume!
Happened twice, not impressed, need to work on that. Was a muddy stinky tired and happy wee pooch that arrived home, only to have mum chuck her straight into the doggy pool and get the shampoo going. Has spent a large portion of the day sitting in the back of the truck today, just in case.......

Took me a longtime to even start getting over the loss of my Yeti - the wife took matters into her own hands and forced this thing on me about 11 months ago, I guess I'm just gonna have to get used to it, she is quite sure I'm her property.

Might be looking into GPS collars I think.

GPS collars are great, train them to come back when collar beeps. Awesome better than whistling or shouting and it works from a looooooong way away + you can see where you mate is at a glance.

I know deer dogs are different but when upland hunting its not unusual for my dogs to be 2-3-4 hundred meters from me depending on where we are hunting. GPS gives piece of mind

Originally Posted by mikee

GPS collars are great, train them to come back when collar beeps. Awesome better than whistling or shouting and it works from a looooooong way away + you can see where you mate is at a glance.

I know deer dogs are different but when upland hunting its not unusual for my dogs to be 2-3-4 hundred meters from me depending on where we are hunting. GPS gives piece of mind

That 28g you got can really shoot that far? Impressive.

Awesome mate,great you are back out on hill.

Originally Posted by TeRei

That 28g you got can really shoot that far? Impressive.

No but we have a lot of land to search between pheasants down here in the South Island!!
@257weatherby , thats pretty good going for a 1 year old pooch. My 3 year old pointer many years ago was fine with live deer but did not like getting really close to dead ones.

What a beautiful Lass. Congratulations. They are often really good initially, you've obviously trained her well. They can get cheeky and push things as they develop, so stay on them! I introduced the Garmin TT15 (now the TT25) and use with the Alpha 200i (now 300i) at the end of training - definitely not during. Really helped initially, and use pretty rarely these days, when Kai is pushing distance give him a vibrate command - they have days like that. Also saves the two legged hunter from regular geographical embarrassment in the bush.

Originally Posted by TeRei

That 28g you got can really shoot that far? Impressive.

A decent pointer will do the shooting as well. Probably not something the owners of "other" breeds would see.

A beautiful young lady, ours is now 14 and deaf but still keen for a short walk. Enjoy your time with her.

Beautiful wee dog, had one years ago as a heading dog that turned out to be not very useful for anything other than cleaning his coat. I think he wore himself out at night pulling all the biddibids out and grooming his long flowing lox to perfection, was to tired to do anything during the day. Ha. On a more serious note, a hot collar can be extremely useful if used wisely. A cleaver dog only needs a tickle to get the picture that something shouldn’t be done, and from then on a vibration to remind them “oi, we’ve talked about this before, remember me?”. I’ve got a Gsp that’s not quite 2 yr old whose life is one long over speed event and the collar has been great for him, he loves it being put on, it means we’re going for a hunt. Same with my work dogs, they line up to have collars put on, means something exciting is going to happen.