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starting dogs to rig lion?

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:16 pm
by bluewalkers
just woundering if anyone has any tips to get dogs to rig. mostly wanting to rig lion and bobcat but any tricks would help. also how many dogs should a guy throw on the box when starting to train them to rig? any help would be greatly appreciated thanks.

Re: starting dogs to rig lion?

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:15 pm
by DC DOGGIN
RIGGING LIONS PART 3 !!!!!! LETS SEE WHERE THIS ONE GOES. DO A SEARCH AND YOU WILL FIND THIS HAS BEEN TALKED ABOUT ALREADY AND BEAT TO DEATH!!!!!

Most good strike dogs will naturally rig. It takes time for them to get really good and find tracks way off the road. Do a couple set ups for them and encourage them, once they start praise them. Make sure they are striking good game and be carefull how you react to them striking trash.

Re: starting dogs to rig lion?

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:09 pm
by pegleg
A hound rigging is a hound striking a track. Pretty simple stick a trainer along the road and drive by. And as was said you have to be more tolerant of box babbling and trash strikes at first then slowly tighten down
Hounds road hunted in front of you tend to pick up rigging a little faster. However the utah area seems to be very productive for this style of hunting. Most prime lion habitat is road less here or has a two track wash so you can't really call it rigging when a hound hanging on for dear life starts screaming hell the horse probably stepped on him and a cat just happened to be living tHere cause the road was the roughest country he could find. Good luck but horse back hunting is more fun