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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Gordon martiniuk on December 19, 2009, 09:24:00 PM
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Once had a Cat Named Albert .. lived in the country had a huge archery range set up .. Albert was a Big Tom Cat that would not come if you called him only way I could find him is shoot my Bow When he would hear Bow going off he would run out of whatever his hideing spot was as Albert loved to play swat at the arrow ,, He would climb on top of my bag target at swat at the arrows as they came in after i was done shooting he would jump bown and chew on the feathers and nocks of arrows he never got tired of this game and friends told me that i would shoot my cat one day but albert could see them comming in and it did not worry him or I .. Have any of you had Pets that loved Archery as much as my cat Albert
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One of my dogs loves to wait until the very last second of my draw, just before release, to start barking like mad. I know it is on purpose too. He'll sit beside me and wait and watch. Somehow he knows just when i'm about to let go. I think he's trying to make me better under pressure :D
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I had a Pit Bull named Harley that I was watching
for my daughter one summer.He was the greatest dog.
Anyhow,when I would get my bow and head over to my target he would be right there following me.I would pull an arrow out of my quiver and nock it and that is when he would start to bark,all the way through the release.He use to drive me crazy until I realized that if I could pull off a good shot with all that noise and distraction a real life shot would be no problem.He also use to try and chew the front tire off the riding mower,as I was mowing.What a dog.
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I havent lost an arrow while practicing in the yard for over 3yrs. My lab has found dozens of arrows that have went thru or completely missed targets and hid under the grass. He has saved me and my buddies lots of dollars on lost arrows. It is amazing to watch him get downwind and go right to them. You have to be on your toes though because he has broken a few woodies by grabbing them and snatchin on em. He absolutely loves to hunt them. I guess that he is just happy to hunt anything since we lost our duck and dove huntin spots. We are both happy I guess though!!
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Gota black lab that thinks my woodies are sticks in a high speed game of fetch
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When I shoot inside, my cats like to sit on the couch and watch the arrows whiz by. Occasionally Tank will go paw at them in the target, so I have to stop shooting and wait till he meanders off. They are pretty curious fellows and want to be in on whatever is going on.
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Here's our cat Mufasa. He goes squirrel hunting with me and follows me around when I'm outside shooting.
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Gordon,We have the same cat here.He is a ranch cat.Not much to do with you until you start shoot'n.We have a 3D range set up here,and he will walk target to target with you.Strangest thing.We just call him yella.
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I have a friend with a lab that finds his arrows that miss his target. I found out the hard way; that when the dog gets tired; he chomps the arrow in two. Or three; or three thousand.....
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Awwwww.......look! Mufasa is dreaming at full draw!
My dogs HATE my bows! I shoot in my apartment and it's a bit loud, plus I'm very stern with them about laying down and staying. In a 1 bedroom apartment, we fight for space in the bed. There is NO lenience as far as safety goes though....HAHA!
I need a yard. =0)
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My German Short hair thinks that he is suppose to retrieve the arrows after I shoot them. He runs to the target trys to pull the arrows out and bring them back to me. That old mutt has ruined many fletchings.
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Isn't it just great to have a pet you know is just wanting to please you. I never tried to teach Liar to retrieve anything, he figured out on his own that I liked having the squirrel or coon whichever we happened to be hunting so out of the blue one day he started bringing them to me. I love that dog! But I know it would be hard for anyone not to like a dog named Trouble with the Truth and called Liar for short...lol
God bless,Mudd
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Our cat is hard core Trad Gang.
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Originally posted by Brian Krebs:
I have a friend with a lab that finds his arrows that miss his target. I found out the hard way; that when the dog gets tired; he chomps the arrow in two. Or three; or three thousand.....
My GSP does that for me. He gets so excited when I yell "Find" and point in a direction. He'll run around w/ his nose to the ground and scratch where he smells it.
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Our chickens seem to be facinated with the entire process of shooting, especially the part when the arrows go into the target.........then again, they might just be suspecting that someone may throw some grain for them....can't be a lot of other reasoning going on in those tiny brains..... My wife is always warning me not to shoot one of them!
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I once had a cat named Albert, whom I miss very much! The personalities on the rascals wins my heart every time!
The cat which lives with us now is very curious about the arrows, and wants to smell and chew on them at the target, but me being new and not that confident yet I always have to trick him away!
Really disrupts my shooting, maybe so he knows he'll always stay a better hunter than me ^^
I don't know of many cats that hunt seagulls..
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Tess (Springer) fetches when I stumpshoot. Now, soon as touch my bow, her head wrinkles waiting for the shot. If not fast enough she'll go nuts barking and spaz dancing. Always fetches by the fletch.
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At Twig Archery here in Ohio, he has a Friday night shoot every week when deer season is not in force. He offers a 30 target course that is not for the faint of heart!! We always joke that anyone who shoots his course can figure out that hes specialty is arrow-making!!!
Anyway, his yellow lab, "Capri", always follows that gang around the course and is quite helpfull. 1 target is skylined on a small saddle with a long pond behind that can't be seen from the stake but you KNOW it is waiting to swallow your arrow. IF you miss-------Capri joyfully jumps into the pond and by using a well thorwn rock, you can direct her to your arrow and she will bring it back to shore!!! Some how----the area has become devoid of rocks lately and worried shooters may have to bring their own from the driveway :bigsmyl:
She will also help look for your arrows that miss and go into the brush, but you usually don't wnat her to find those as she is not teh most delicate as she yanks them out of the ground and runns back to you through the woods!!
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I used to have three English Setters. Whenever I would shoot the Setters would go on point as I nocked and drew the bow. After the shot they would run around the yard looking for the arrow or whatever they thought I had shot. As I repeated the process they would go on point again, it always reminded of the childrens game red light green light.
Al
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After a fresh snow, when I put my bow and quiver into the truck my bassets all know it's bunny time and start to roar at the same time ... I have to get them loaded and out of town before the neighbours complain!!!
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i have two boxers that will bark and jump on me everytime when i draw my bow back. if i just hold the bow they are fine but as soon as i draw it back they jump on me trying to get the arrow
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I have a beagle - "Brandie Buttski" She has two particular talents:
First, the talent for which she got her second name. If you've ever been around dogs long enough, you've witnessed that one. Brandie is just good at it.
Second, she always manages to come out of the house when I'm shooting and sits in front of the target! Dang dog, she'll come if you call her any other time but when I'm shooting! Drives me nuts! (I suspect she knows it.)
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Had a black lab on Adak named Bou. Used to take her jumping Ptarmigan. Only lost one arrow in many shots at flying birds. She found them and you had to be close or she would gnaw on the feathers.
Now I have a Boykin named Bit who sits at my feet and at every shot she runs to the target and goes up on her hind legs to sniff the feathers, then comes back for the next shot.
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Our little yorkie (Nikki) loves it when I go shoot in the yard. She will stand behind me until I am done shooting and chases me to the arrows. I think she stands behind me because she has seen me hit the shed tooooo many times! lol
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Had a tom cat that use to love to go for walks. Whether I carried the bow or not, he was by my side. That cat was more obedient than some dogs that we have had.
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My Brittany, TooKo, loves shooting my bow almost as much as i do!
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A few years back we were in camp doing some shooting, and this very brave, yet very stupid barn cat decided it wanted a better view of the action.
He crawled up and sat on top of the block while we were shooting.
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I was hoping someday someone would ask about this so Icould top their stories. I swear this to be true. For several years I hunted mule deer at Sugarite Canyon in northern N.M. Several guys always camped next door. One of them Russ. owned a golden lab. First I must describe the campground. We were in the bottom of a canyon and both sides went up at least 45 degrees, and the walls were covered with oak brush so thick that at times you had to crawl through it. They always placed a dollar bill on a pine tree at least 100 yds uphill, and placed some sort of bets on hitting it. The lab showed no interest in the shooting, however after everyone had shot Russ would tell her to fetch, and one at a time she would find and return all arrows. I found that amazing. Of course she didn't get the ones that inadvertantly stuck in the tree. They were all shooting wheeled bows, but as far as I know the currency was always intact.
Larry
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My labs Josie & Sunny love stumping as they get to retrieve the arrows. They practically wet themselves when I grab a bow and head outside...
Note both marking the arrow and how they are ready for the send command...
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Dadgum Terminator. That's good stuff. Mine just dances in front of me and tries to catch them then can't find them and gets mad at me and starts growling at me cause I shot it too fast. :help: (http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac55/cachambers/Photo353.jpg) Thats him looking for one.
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My old black and white tom cat loves it when I shoot.If i'm shooting in the yard he either sits on the bale or sits on my foot while i'm shooting.If i'm stump shooting he makes every track I make no matter how long I shoot.
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My dog loves my practice sessions. He runs to the target when I go to retrieve my arrows and then he sits at heel while I shoot. My neighbor dog takes off as fast as he can as soon as he sees the bow, it's as if he thinks I'm going to use him for a target.- Steve
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My lab border collie mix loves when I shoot. She's saved me a ton in finding lost arrows and found a few for friends. She loves the feathers, likes to lick and paw them.
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Terminator, you may want to start breeding arrow retivers. If they can find a bird or two all the better. Loved the photos thanks very much.
We have a Decker Rat Terrier(they are 35 pound Rat Terriers). When I first put the 3D targets up in the spring he sees them and tries to kill them. He will rip a good Deer or Hog target to pieces in seconds. Every year now I just take one of the old tore up ones out and let him have at it a few times. After a day or two he lets them be.
I should have added he does like to watch me shoot.
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Originally posted by Doug in MN:
Terminator, you may want to start breeding arrow retivers. If they can find a bird or two all the better. Loved the photos thanks very much.
Training gundogs is another one of my passions...
Josie & Sunny are fully Finished labby-girls, both as good waterfowling from a field blind or boat as they are at digging late season roosters out of the cattails or finding sharptails in the buffalo berries.
Josie has better than 1000 hunting retrieves, Sunny around 500. In addition to birds & arrows, they both are trained to blood trail big game, find sheds, and article search (Josie is better at blood & articles than Sunny, but she's had a few more years of practice).
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Gordon,I have a tom cat called Oscar,we also have 6 dogs that he gets along with just fine, but most of the time he prefers to keep to himself.
His people time is mostly with me while I shoot in my back yard,,and he does much the same thing your's does.
He lays on top of my target bale an watches the arrows come in,doesn't swipe at them but you keep see him following their flight in like he's about to ponce on them.
Turns him from a mean old tom cat into an instant kitten,,,,funny as heck,but freaks out visitors that see him up there while I shoot.
The Mrs just shakes her head an mutters "your both nuts",,,I'm ok with that ;^)
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Also, our flock of guineas all come out to watch & scream when we shoot the oudoor target. Of course, guineas pretty much scream at everything...
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Originally posted by NDTerminator:
My labs Josie & Sunny love stumping as they get to retrieve the arrows. They practically wet themselves when I grab a bow and head outside...
Note both marking the arrow and how they are ready for the send command...
(http://www.gondtc.com/~jontoni/Arrow2.jpg)
(http://www.gondtc.com/~jontoni/Sending1.jpg)
(http://www.gondtc.com/~jontoni/Retrieve1.jpg)
MAN I NEED A DOG LIKE THAT!!!!!
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This is my Abby she lives to go shooting with me. She beggs to go shooting as much as she dose hunting ducks. Everybody in the archery club knows her probly better than myself. If I rattle and arrow in my quiver she gose nutts. (http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss248/barebow13/IMG023a.jpg) this is Abby at her favoite place (http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss248/barebow13/FH000018.jpg)She learned more comands at the archery range than anywhere else. When not shooting a bow with me she still likes to hunt ducks. (http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss248/barebow13/IMG_0116.jpg)
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Here is my boxer Brutus.This was 4 yrs ago,he is a little slower and grayer but still hates it when I shoot.My wife says he doesn't want me shooting at the deer.Who knows maybe she's right(LOL).
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Diamond, being a Pit, doesn't sniff out or point but she always manages to be where my arrow ends up. A good clue when one (arrow) is hiding from me at times.
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Selwyn, Sounds like Oscar and my old cat Albert were cut from the same cloth ,another day when I went out to shoot at starlings (nasty small Birds) I came out my back door came to full draw and released a arrow on this bird I hit it, it fluttered a little , to my surprize my Albert came running faster than I had ever seen him go he pounce on wounded bird finished it off How he saw what was going on, and how fast he reacted was truely amazing !! All I needed to get that cats attention was to have a Bow in my hand! :wavey:
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Interesting, my dog hates it when I shoot. When she sees me pick up my bow She will go under the house.She's not gun shy,just dont like bows.
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I have a yellow lab named osage that has found his share of lost arrows, not just my wife & I,but friends & other people that has missed at 3-d shoots,he also finds sheds.
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They called her a Jindo, but I swear Spirit is part Ferengi. She does like to hunt! (Once she figures the critter won't kill her.)
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Killdeer :rolleyes:
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Good lookin pup killdeer
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Heres my arrow finder.