I would love to do another, but weather is a factor. You can use hides, but I really like to use the full animal carcass. Having a full carcass helps me be able to motivate and pump training up another notch. We can use exotic deer due to there isn't a season on them, but they are expensive and very hard to keep the meat fresh when weather is hot. If one of the hunters pays for the animal, they want to take the meat home.
Whitetails season is over and all the ranches with special permits time has expired as well. October can be good, but then we are getting into bow season and most blood trail people and dogs are very busy. Sept. is still to hot. End part of Feb. has worked at well, but we can only take so many dogs at one time. Trying to figure out solutions at this time.
I will be at the fun day coming up Sandy's fixing to post about. I will be working the blood trail section, but we will only be using the hide and not the full animal. Most people will have already started their dog that come to this section, so a hide and meat will be fine. Those that haven't I don't mind helping and getting as much as we can with what we have and can use.
Chad, can you check with the guy that provided us with hides last year? That was great. He provided so many that Chad was able to provide others to take home for more training time.
If you are interested in Blood Trailing your dog, I highly recommend you getting "Tracking Dogs for finding Wounded Game", book. Here is the link on where to order:
http://www.born-to-track.com/book/order-info.htm
If you start with the book and some of the training, anytime I help, we can go that much further. If we have to start from scratch we can only go so far in one day.
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