Training the Hunting Retriever [Hardcover]

Jerome B. Robinson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1993

Training the Hunting Retriever is a collection of the most successful training techniques used by some of the best professional hunting-retriever trainers in the country.

These methods are not only used for competition, but also for hunting, and offer fundamental advice such as how to pick a gun-dog pup; how to use electronic training collars; how best to introduce and drill come, sit, and heel commands; and advanced drills including the cross pattern, double cross pattern, and mixed lining and handling.

Here you will learn how to train your dog to turn its head with our gun, so that it will see which bird you are shooting at and mark where the quarry falls. You'll also learn how to steady a retriever without force, how creative fencing can help solve training problems, and how to train retrievers for upland work.

Hunters and trainers return to this classic work year after year for its practical advice. It is a complete guide that will teach beginners to train exceptional retrievers and show experienced gun-dog hunters how to maintain them. (6 X 9, 256 pages, b&w photos, diagrams)

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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From the Back Cover

Training the Hunting Retriever is a collection of the most successful training techniques used by some of the best professional hunting-retriever trainers in the country.These methods are not only used for competition, but also for hunting, and offer fundamental advice such as how to pick a gun-dog pup; how to use electronic training collars; how best to introduce and drill come, sit, and heel commands; and advanced drills including the cross pattern, double cross pattern, and mixed lining and handling.Here you will learn how to train your dog to turn its head with our gun, so that it will see which bird you are shooting at and mark where the quarry falls. You'll also learn how to steady a retriever without force, how creative fencing can help solve training problems, and how to train retrievers for upland work.Hunters and trainers return to this classic work year after year for its practical advice. It is a complete guide that will teach beginners to train exceptional retrievers and show experienced gun-dog hunters how to maintain them. (6 X 9, 256 pages, b&w photos, diagrams)

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Jerome B. Robinson is the gun-dog columnist at Field & Stream Magazine and author of Hunt Close! and In the Turkey Woods. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 232 pages
• Publisher: Lyons Pr (June 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558212639
• ISBN-13: 978-1558212633
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,216,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jerome did it the right way!, November 22, 1999

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David Engel (Stanwood, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Training the Hunting Retriever (Paperback)

Training The Hunting Retriever wasn't written by Jerome Robinson the dog trainer, it was written by Jerome Robinson the interviewer. He talked to all the reigning authorities: Omar Driskill, Jim Dobbs, D.L. Jones, Ron Mathis and others, then wrote this "interviewed" knowledge down in a beginning to advanced, easy to follow, fun to read format. Great for the beginner, first time retriever owner! You get the best of all the methods, ideologies and thechniques for training retrievers to be hunters.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great tool, January 2, 2002

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Fritz L. Vaupel "Dirthill" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Training the Hunting Retriever (Paperback)

I've read a half dozen gun dog books over the years and this one is by far the best. Most of the others were written in the 60's and 70's and tend to be pretty corny. The author has compiled techniques from trainers across the country and organizes them in a readable and efficiant manner. He also uses training methods designed for hunting dogs, not trial dogs, and duplicates realistic hunting situations in his training sessions.
This book impressed me so much that I bought a couple copies for two of my hunting partners so that we can all train our pups together using the same methods.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good book for the Hunting dog, August 20, 2007

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Patrick E. Totzke (afghanistan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Training the Hunting Retriever (Paperback)

this book is a good book to read if you are training a hunting dog and dont want to waste your time with al lthe field trial garbage........combine this book with game dog and look out
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