How to Introduce Your Hunting Dog to Gunfire | Scott Linden

Never, ever take your bird dog puppy to the trap club or on a hunting trip to introduce it to gunfire. We’re here to turn a squirming, mewling ball of fluff into a gung-ho hunting dog - performing at his peak - eager to find, hold, and retrieve birds for you for a decade or more. So, let’s start on the right paw!
Scott Linden of Wingshooting USA explains the best way to introduce your hunting dog to the loud BANG of gunfire so it becomes associated with FUN.
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[@acheeseburger7367]

I’m more impressed that he had a pigeon in his pocket just for that one skit

[@nexusSix_237]

Me too!! 😅

[@ScottLindenOutdoors]

Don't you carry an extra one just in case?

[@D_A_D_]

Nah he just always stays strapped.

[@nexusSix_237]

Wow lots of patience and finesse. Very informative

[@xlambs]

Great tips. Fun for the pup and fun for the human. Thank you

[@rickyshultz2051]

I don’t have bird dogs , I have Heelers ! All of them 4 at this time are home raised, and get very exited when they see me pick up a firearm, the fun is about to begin! I start at a very early age , softer noise from a empty pellet gun randomly while playing and progressing to 22 , then shotguns as they progress ! There is no , blasts or even fireworks that scare them. 🐕🐕🐕🐕

[@michaeljones-qm4wq]

I agree- all this is far too complicated. All my springers, starting pistol, start outside and work closer, at mealtime. So bang = sit=food. They have all been totally unfussed by gunfire by 12 weeks. Then you take the dummy, still the 22 pistol, and its sit to shot. Then the dummy launcher with the ballistite blank. Then cold game. This last one had to stand in for mother at 7 months. Sat on her first day out behind the guns, no leash picking up. 106 live/field type retrieves by the time she was 8 months and our season ended. Never gets excited about gunfire - gunfire means food or sit, so she is dead steady. (Like her mother) . Its not difficult. I never use pigeons early days because they are loose feathered, and over here people reckon they can put a youngster off. Cold game is much better.

[@masonraley4585]

Thank you for all the help

[@ScottLindenOutdoors]

You're welcome.

[@Jak1481]

I would take my lab out for walks in the woods and I would shoot squirrels when he was a puppy now he’s 12 yrs old and when I get a gun out of the safe he gets excited because he knows somethings going to die. He loves it.

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