Shed Hunting | Shed Dog Training Tips
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It’s that time of year again when the snow is starting to melt (at least on warmer days) and the winter seems like it’s closing up shop soon. Before you really make plans for spring food plots or morel mushroom hunting, there’s another deer hunting-related activity that’s probably at the forefront of your mind. Shed hunting!
Some of us have many fond memories as a child of roaming the late winter woods with our fathers. On a pleasant sunny day, we would roam the forest following deer trails, and keeping our eyes peeled for sheds. It was mostly an excuse to get out of the house after a long winter. But there’s nothing quite like stumbling across a shed tucked halfway into the snow; its tines reflecting back the mid-morning sunlight. As a kid, you most likely played retriever for these shed hunts. But if you have a puppy that’s going to serve as future duck master, pheasant chaser, grouse flusher, or just plain old house pet, you can have a shed hunting dog with a little training.
What Type of Dog?
While you could technically train almost any obedient dog to be a shed hunter, some breeds will just learn the ropes a lot faster. Retrievers (e.g., Labradors, goldens, Chesapeake Bay’s, etc.), for instance, have deep instincts that help them perform very well for this task, which probably makes them the best breed. However, pointers, setters, and spaniels also learn very quickly and are very obedient dogs. If your pup is a hunting dog, it’s probably one of these breeds anyway.
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