Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: GregB on November 28, 2007, 02:33:06 pm
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For those of you that follow Pappy's "Life is Good" string, you've undoubtedly seen his little hound Sadie pictured from time to time. Sadie must have realised I could use a little extra exercise, because she helped me get some one afternoon last week while hunting at Pappy's.
Pappy had decided not to hunt that afternoon (freezer probably already full ;D), and had put Sadie and Hanna in the pen while Anthony and I went to hunt a couple of stands. Well, after I had been sitting in the stand for 10 minutes or so, I heard an animal running and saw Sadie tracking me to my stand. After just a couple of minutes she came right to the ladder and looked up at me! I waited for a while hoping she would leave, but other then running around the stand and generally just sniffing around, she seemed to be there for the duration. I decided to get down and walk her back to the cabin. She followed for a while and soon was no longer in sight in the woods. I dropped down off the ridge into the creek bottom and saw Pappy riding up in his truck looking for Sadie. He had let the dogs out a while after we had left and couldn't stop Sadie when she took off along our trail.
I decided to try another stand, hoping Pappy and Sadie would reunite...wrong! After a climbing back up the ridge to a second stand site, Sadie again came running up to say hello. :) I got down the second time and walked back down to the creek bottom leading to the cabin. I saw Sadie at least a couple of hundred yards away running full out for the cabin....I thought. So I decided to go to a third stand site closer to the creek bottom. I don't even think I got to pull my bow up before...here comes Sadie...for the third time! ;) This time I decided I wasn't climbing into another stand until I knew Sadie was in the pen. I went back to the cabin, and Sadie had made it there ahead of me...Pappy had her pinned up. Pappy gave me directions to another stand I didn't know about near the cabin. Didn't have a lot of daylight left at this point. I found the fourth stand and had climbed up and settled down. Looked around and saw a dead dog near the stand. Don't know who's dog he belonged too, but I didn't feel very confident of seeing deer with a bloated dog carcuss within 20 yards of my stand, so I got down out of this fourth stand I had climbed and headed for a fifth stand I knew of on the other side of the farm. I actually hunted out of the fifth stand maybe forty-five minutes prior to dark...didn't see any deer. But I got a lot of exercise that afternoon for which I'm extremely grateful to Sadie for allowing me the opportunity! ;) ;D
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lol. :D
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What a sweet thing she is. She just missed you Greg. Reminds me a lot of the mountain cur I have that looks just like her. Justin
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Thats one reason I rarely hunt around my home. Its hard to convince a deer to come close with a dog or 2 laying under my stand. My dogs have never been in a pen or kennel so they wouldn't understand that tactic. Oh well. Thats the life of a dog lover. 8) Pat
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Sounds like ya have a new girlfriend Greg ;D
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;D ;D I love it Greg,Check out the exersise thread,you are half way there.After that I think I'd jump right back on that venison,protien diet.
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Ya I hated that happened but dogs go figure.Anyway Greg got all his calories back at supper. ;D ;D
Pappy
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I thought stuff like that just happened to me. ;D ;D
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I guess it gives you an idea of how sensitive smelling some dogs have...I was wearing rubber boots and unscented everything, clothing, deodorant, shampoo, soap.
I'm sure a deer has close to the same level of smelling ability. :)
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Too bad the deer don't follow you to your stand. ;D I used to use fox pee on my boots for cover scent. I have had quite a few deer follow my trail into a stand with their noses to the ground...that was years ago before they became edumakated. ;) Pat
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I guess it gives you an idea of how sensitive smelling some dogs have...I was wearing rubber boots and unscented everything, clothing, deodorant, shampoo, soap.
I'm sure a deer has close to the same level of smelling ability. :)
Just goes to show that no matter what you try you still stink. ;D
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She smelt you out every time. I bet the deer would to. Saying all that she must be a real sweet heart. My Rosie is in the ending day's of her life. Her bladder has gone to hell. Arther flares up all the time. I spend about 60.00 bucks a month keeping her comfortable. But she is worth it all. Despite all her problem she still can harvest a squirrel about once a week. She doesn't have to be fast just smart. That she is. I love my Rosie. Sadie sounds like a hell of a dog.