shooting over dogs

Craig,

A couple years ago Des aka MR HG made some real good posts about shooting over dogs and desensitizing them to being shot around. The #1 thing I picked up was to shoot a small caliber gun during feeding time. Might be worth searching some of his old posts.

Last year I shot at a couple porcipines while hunting. Two of my dogs loaded up on the mule and they were done hunting. I mean DONE!

Fast forward to this year, I had a couple dogs staked out at Jesse Paul's place ( one of them was the same dog from last year), we were sighting in a 22 hornet before a hunt. The dogs did not seem to concerned. The next day, we had a small boar hog bayed in a cedar pile. He walked up and shot the hog with a 30/30 and it didn't phase the dogs, they just piled on the hog. Hopefully this weekend we'll get to see how they handle being shot over again.