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hey guys, want to take, a minute to , introduce you, to Belle, my 8 year old , female lab Belle, is a shed antler dog , trained by, Roger and Sharon Sharon , Ziegler, at antler ridge kennels in , Kansas City Missouri , they were featured, in North American , whitetail the year before, bought her I , read their article and was just, really , intrigued, by their, their training , program and, their success of producing , really good quality antler dogs , I ordered Belle as a puppy and picked , her up when she was about, three, months , old, and, they laid a fantastic foundation , through, the reward-based, training that, I , basically just built on and just , exercised her over the you know the , years following, that and just developed , her into a really awesome shed dog not , to mention, she's just the best , sweetheart, we'vie ever had of a pet some , of the early training, things that they , start these, puppies at, a really young , age four to six weeks of age the very , first thing they do is is take tennis , ball and put a small piece of, antler , through it and roll it across, the ground , and the puppies get excited because, the , ball moves around alto, and they, still , kind, of get the texture and the, smell of , the antler and, then they they soon , graduate, to a small piece of, antler like , a four pointer or a small six-point, off , of, a year and a half ER, and you know , short tosses and the, puppy brings it , back but, what I wanted to, sort, of build , on is the fact that they use the reward , based, program when, the puppy brings the , antler back or the ball back and, gives , it to you and, you're, pleased and the , dogs, done Good, job, they they make a , sound with, either a clicker or, you use a , word that, that's going to, be very , unusual, that the, dog won't hear all the , time and I actually Use, the word , excellent when I was training Belle , because that's, just, word that, you , don't use, on, a day-to-day basis, you know , when you're talking to, your dog, good , girl , excellent good, job, good job see, she put , it in the hand and, she heard that word , Hey, look at, her eyes like, health intent , go get it again , good girl good, girl , excellent way, to, go that's my girl how , about that, hmm good, girl , way to go yeah, well it is Saturday March , the fifth, and, we are down in, New Haven , Illinois which is the about as far , southeast, in the, bottom of Illinois is , you can get down, herein, the, river , bottoms of the convergence, of, the little , and big Wabash Rive rat, a good friend of , mine Matt Duffy'country, Lodge , he runs an outfitting business here, for , her, obviously, for deer hunters, I, met , Matt years ago through, thew DMA at the , national conventions that we'vie been , very good friends ever, since and, this is , really, a great tradition coming down , here every yea rand, bringing Belle, you , know she kind of ISS, big reason that , lot of people are, interested, in, joining , in on the shed hunt just, to watch the , dog work and we tried to, do this hunt , every year last year was, the exception , because, the riv ergot, up so high most, of , his ground that heat controls and hunts , on was underwater, on, some places you , know four or, five feet of, water and, this , year Old Man, River tried to do the same , thing as you can, kind, of see there, over , over my back shoulder that that, water , out there, is that's normally dry dry , ground we're probably at least, a , quarter, mile from, the river, here and the , water is up in these bottoms now the , interesting thing about, that is, the deer , obviously you're, going to seek, the, high , ground once, that, water starts, to come in , here and, if the river times this height , with the with the shed of, the antlers , all, those deer are packed in really , small pockets, to cover up here on this , on these high ridges just off the river , I don't remember seeing a big , universality, look at that, good, one , so we'Webern, covering this, cornfield , that, Matthias, been seeing, a lot of the , deer wintering here and feeding in, this , cornfield how many of the night , sometimes, out here W deer up, in this , field, that, we, just covered so, we're just , coming down, this, draw on these little , heartwood, humps inhere, these little , high ridges that are, nice and, dry and , the sun shining, in here on a you know on , the, afternoon, these deer just laying in , this, these warm leaves and soaking up , that sunshine, no need to go far from the , food if they don't ha veto , so we'vie already found this is the third , antler right here on this little fifth , of an acre, little knob, so very cool , it's, just what you would, expect, and , since all the water is up behind Matt's , camp and, the river bottoms, there, a lot , of these deer up, here, on this high , ground, right now, still, work we're unable , to get into some of, the areas that, we , want, to, but nonetheless the deer are , concentrated on these, high spots so that , helps us out too , smells it here, we do good girl, good girl , Belle , no here it is middle of March and this , is something we try to schedule in , Matt's area down here, in Southern , Illinois about that same time every year , but, alto, of guys get started, in, my , opinion too soon when, they're out , thinking about walking their properties , and going into, their bedding, areas and , some of their sanctuaries that, they , don't go int oat, other times of the, year , some guys are in, there as early as , January and, this is a matter of opinion , bu tin, the Midwest , I really don't start till, after , Valentine's, Day February the Th and , the reason, is I'm sure you guy shave , seen, a lot of Bucks, carrying antlers , beyond that time and, if you're in there , walking through your sanctuaries and , some, of those spots that, you reserve and , wait for sheds, season to go into you , know those mature bucks don't take very , many intrusions, before they'll vacate , and possibly not come, back the worst , thing in the world is, that you can, do , was get in there and, push those bucks , off your property, and have, them drop on , your neighbors, sou, know you're anxious , and wanting to get, started but, a little , bit, of patience, at that time of the, year , can, really go a long way for you so , you're setting up hopefully from, a , distance or through your trail cameras , you're watching your deer feeding in, the , areas that you, know that they're in , those late season food, sources they're , not going to be, far from those, bedding , areas unless they're, being, bumped around , so think about south-facing, slopes thick , areas of course up above wet areas they , want to, have some elevation, where they , can see smell and, hear and have it , escape routes but typically those spots , are on south-facing slopes where they , can absorb, that late season Sun, coming , in warming them up and, a short track, to , the food sources the exception is if , there are none, nearby and they'vie got to , go a long way well then you just know , those travel routes and those corridors , the next couple days, here, at Matt's , we're, gonna, be, concentrating on, cut , cornfields cut bean fields where he's , been seeing, these large herds of deer , basically Harding up in big numbers, and , again we'vie talked about, the floodwaters , pushing them up here, on the, higher , ground this, cover that, we're talking , about, covering here for as far as , walking, is not, big blocks timber, we're , talking about draws and ravines , that are basically fingers that work , their way out into the end of these crop , fields and really there'seagoing to be, a , lot of, deer packed into as mall, area , this may not Bethe, case for, your, at, but , here in the Midwest especially here , we're at at Matt's property we're, gonna , be walking these, narrow draws and these , fringe areas this, little warm season , grass field right here, there's deer , bedding in here it's, high and, dry it's , warm they're, getting the Sun this, is, a , great spot to, cover for fresh, sheds but , once again, those thickets south-facing , slopes areas, close to, food of, course , where you're seeing the, deer and the , food, plots if you're not seeing any, deer , feeding in, those areas probably, not , gonna, have much luck looking, for sheds , on, those adjoining cover areas so keep , that in, mind, when you're, making your , plans, forgetting, out and going, after , him, okay, so obviously, got the duffer , bag out of the, backpack and, she knows , it'stymie, to hunt but, watch this , wait what watch what she sees this Hey , well, you want to find a shed, you, want to , find a shed oh, yeah hey, you want Togo , get, this huh , yes girl Atwood, girl , excellent good job good job see she, put , it in the, hand and, she heard that word , Hey, look at, her eyes look, how intense , she, is on that, you want to go get it , again , good girl good, girl , excellent way to go that's my girl , Oh take, what you need, and pass, it on , down , sacred , your own sacred, ground.
