Hello, can anyone recommend a guide to take a group of first time squirrel hunters (3 adults, 3 kids and 2 dogs) out in East Tennessee (Kingston area)? Will Christmas be to late? Looking to do it during a family holiday get together.
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Not to be rude, but how do you have 3 first time hunters with two trained dogs? (Emphasis being on the trained dogs)
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Thanks for the reply. The dogs are untrained as well. Looking to pay a guide.
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Best of luck to you. Are you looking for someone to help train the dogs? Squirrels aren't hard to hunt, and Dec is when they breed...they should be plentiful. Just find a patch of hardwoods and have fun.
Best of luck.
Thank you. Yes, looking for dog training tips but also need to borrow GPS trackers and learn how to use them. Also need to dispose of the kills. But I'm sure there are lots of other tips to help us have better results.
Dispose of the kills?
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MickThompson
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I would leave untrained dogs at home if you find a guide. You'll have a much better hunting experience. Training is a lifestyle, not a half day event.
Work your dogs on your own time. Your dogs won't get much out of running around with someone else's.
Huntaholic
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EXCELLENT advice! Ive worked with dogs off and on all my life. Put your time in and train your dogs yourself! Putting trash with treasure only serves to corrupt the treasure. Dogs are like kids, you put a bad kid in a group of good kids and the bad kids NEVER get good, the good kids go bad PERIOD!
What kinda dogs? I always start my squirrel dogs in the yard. Treeing isn't learned, it's either in them or it isn't. They will start themselves. Also your better off training one young dog alone instead of 2 or 3. They tend to want to play instead of focusing on what your teaching.
I have a 6 year old dog that looks like a Feist (DNA says Jack Russell / Staffy). My brother in law got a rescue that looks like a Catahoula. Both love chasing squirrels. How can we start to train them? My main concern is losing them in the woods.
You need to do basic obedience first and foremost. The dogs need to be recall trained. Once that is done, get a tracker and you can follow them if they get out of earshot/ sight.
@Iglow hunts fiest, We hunt curs, I usually raise 1 at a time in the yard. They naturally want to please and are easily trained. Definitely take @Lt.Dan advice on obedience. Like I said curs are naturally obedient and once they start treeing in the yard I knock a few out to them and praise them big time. After that everytime they see me they want to go to the woods and tree more squirrels.
Here's Bob, he started treeing in the yard. He's treed around a hundred squirrels, many coons, a couple bears been on a few hog bays and treed a bobcat last week. It's either in them or it isn't. He can see the squirrel in this tree.
Love his name. I had a beagle I called Fred. She was a good girl. Yup, female named Fred.
You can check the classifieds. But there are a ton of choices. I have two trackers for a couple of my dogs. They are not hunters, just runners. You can use the expensive hunting ones (I hear they are excellent) or ones like I bought from Amazon. They are called Tractive. They work great. Here is a screenshot of a walkabout Odie took on Patten Island. When it was live and zoomed in you see every place he went. Those big blue lines were fine blue lines and there was a bunch more back and forth, circles, etc. The subscription isn't much and you can pause it when you're not using it. As you can see he went 3.69 miles and was lost. I had to rescue him by boat and go around the island from our picnic spot.
