shed hunting dogs good or bad?

[cincydeerman]

my buddy just got a puppy and is going to train it to shed hunt. what do yall think about using dogs to shed hunt? i dont like the idea because if all these stories i hear about shed hunting dogs finding hundreds of antlers. i work hard to find the sheds i do and feel like using a dog is cheating.

[whitetail_joe]

I love to shed hunt, and anything I can do legally to get my hands on more antlers, Ill do it. Now if I had 8 grand, Id buy myself one from antler dogs. Tried to train my dog, but never kept up with it. There are quite a few serious shed hunters on here, and I can't imagine any of them passing up the use of a dog or seeing this as cheating, but we shall see.

[camptrav]

I think it would take out half of the fun of finding them if i let a pup do all the searchin'

[whitetail_joe]

Just another set of eyes to look. Like going with a buddy, except you get to keep all the bone.:D

[FinelyShedded]

I think it would take out half of the fun of finding them if i let a pup do all the searchin'Until he came backing into the yard draggin' a set of double drops that used to set on top of a booner. I could get used to that.:mischeif:

[medicsnoke]

Finding sheds and the rush that comes with finding them is awesome, but its the same when my dog finds one. Plus I was very proud when he found the one pictured below. I guess the term cheating is in the eyes of the beholder. I feel its cheating if you ride a four wheeler and pick them up out of the fields. I do it though.....walking fields is boring and pointless and done much faster with a quad. IMO Its not a true find unless you walk your ass off, so I guess I like to earn them as well. But my goal is more antlers at the end of the season. And if I had a dog that helped me find every antler I wanted to find.....Ide love him like my first new born...probably more
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[FinelyShedded]

Couldn't have said it better myself Snoke. Team work! As they say.

[hippiehunter]

Just like using a hunting dog for squirrels, coons, rabbits etc. I definitely don't consider this cheating. Although it's a different sense of enjoyment to some degree. I'm sure the dog would be happy to help ya and i would be happy to have trained him to help me. Also you could wear the dog out doing it. Besides it's always better too work smart not hard. A dog can cover 10 times the ground you or i can and when he brings that bone back you'll be smilin guaranteed. Work towards trying to beat the dog if ya wanna challenge. My last dog loved em he'd chew on em like crazy. Never trained him to find them but he would come back with them. No big ones but more than I ever found. Any big ones and he woulda had to go find himself another:mischeif: :D:D

[cincydeerman]

maybe im just jelous i dont have a shed dog.:( i shed hunt at a lot of public land and i know at one of the places i go a guy took his dog and found like ten antlers in a day and in prevous years at this place i usually found three or four. since the dog has been there i have found nothing. maybe a season for the dogs on public land like starting in april would make it more fair tho those without dogs. it seems like shed hunting is getting so popular lately. dou you guys thnk there will ever be regulations on sheds like a limit or something. it would be like bass fishin when you get a limit start throwing the little ones back

[uglykat26]

i gotta walker coon hound from benehunter , his name is bones , maybe that is my clue i should train him for finding antlers

[whitetail_joe]

maybe im just jelous i dont have a shed dog.:( i shed hunt at a lot of public land and i know at one of the places i go a guy took his dog and found like ten antlers in a day and in prevous years at this place i usually found three or four. since the dog has been there i have found nothing. maybe a season for the dogs on public land like starting in april would make it more fair tho those without dogs. it seems like shed hunting is getting so popular lately. dou you guys thnk there will ever be regulations on sheds like a limit or something. it would be like bass fishin when you get a limit start throwing the little ones back

No limit, but i could possibly see a seasonbut doubt it. They already started a season out west in I believe wyoming. This is due to guys on atv's chasing mulies trying to get them to drop or knock off their racks in brush.