Results 1 to 16 of 16

Thread: Life saver

  1. #1
    Join Date
    Mar 2002
    Location
    Florence
    Posts
    9,025

    Default Life saver

    Keep cool and save your dogs life.


    https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....L._SL1000_.jpg
    Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Mar 2002
    Location
    Florence
    Posts
    9,025

    Default

    Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Mar 2002
    Location
    Florence
    Posts
    9,025

    Default

    Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

  4. #4
    Join Date
    Dec 2010
    Location
    Summerville
    Posts
    14,557

    Default

    Thought about buying one of those the other day.

  5. #5
    Join Date
    Mar 2002
    Location
    Sullivan\'s Island
    Posts
    12,865

    Default

    I use a big camo golf umbrella stuck in a short piece of pvc pipe. It helps with the heat but doesn't look very natural. Even though it's camo, it looks like a big shiny dome. I wish someone would come out with one made with leafy camo or at least loops so you could attach brush.

    I set mine up high enough for the dog to get under but not really high enough to do me much good. Any higher and it would get in the way of seeing and shooting birds.

    If it's as hot on opening day as it was this past weekend, I might have to give the dog the day off. Not sure I'm tough enough either.

    This reminds me that I need to stick some jugs of water in the freezer.

  6. #6
    Join Date
    Mar 2002
    Location
    Florence
    Posts
    9,025

    Default

    I put mine on a leash on opening day so it will not overheat chasing a wounded glider or picking up someone else's bird.

    I sit on a stool under the umbrella with the dog. I don't shoot until she is called down. I don't worry about a dove coming from the blindspot of the umbrella. I wet the dogs head after every retrieve. Despite all efforts there is risk of a heat stroke, for both of us.
    Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

  7. #7
    Join Date
    Jan 2002
    Location
    In my own little world
    Posts
    20,979

    Default

    Best thing to do is use your damn head and leave dog at home if you have any questions about the heat. There will always be more days to hunt.
    RIP Kelsey "Bigdawg" Cromer
    12-26-98 12-1-13

    If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever.

    Missing you my great friend.


  8. #8
    Join Date
    Sep 2014
    Location
    Certified Piedmonster
    Posts
    8,859

    Default

    Yep, if you cant walk 40-70 yards 15 times to pick up a dove you need to get on an exercise plan or quit being lazy.
    Quote Originally Posted by cajunwannabe View Post
    Man is merely a two legged locust, devouring wild lands, developing and prostituting wildlife and fisheries under the guise of "use of the resource" for tremendous profit and moving on. Will it ever end?

  9. #9
    Join Date
    Jul 2008
    Location
    In the middle of it
    Posts
    8,166

    Default

    You mean a dog that was designed to pull in fishing nets off the coast of Nova Scotia has trouble hanging in a SC dove field in the afternoon of September. I don't believe it.

  10. #10
    Join Date
    Jun 2010
    Location
    charleston
    Posts
    8,600

    Default

    Quit keeping them in the A/C and they will roll opening day-without heat stroke. It's a little thing called acclimation. Office workers need it too.

  11. #11
    Join Date
    Nov 2011
    Location
    Manning, SC
    Posts
    10,712

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Bad Habit View Post
    Quit keeping them in the A/C and they will roll opening day-without heat stroke. It's a little thing called acclimation. Office workers need it too.
    True on both accounts. But too late to acclimate them now.

    - signed guilty office worker

  12. #12
    Join Date
    Nov 2009
    Location
    Spartanburg
    Posts
    1,690

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by LabLuvR View Post
    Best thing to do is use your damn head and leave dog at home if you have any questions about the heat. There will always be more days to hunt.
    Agree

  13. #13
    Join Date
    Mar 2002
    Location
    Sullivan\'s Island
    Posts
    12,865

    Default

    Mine is acclimated and old enough to know his limits. If I hunt, he'll hunt and if it gets too hot for him, I don't want to hunt without him.

    It isn't about saving me from walking to get the birds, it about his joy at retrieving and the fact that my sense of smell isn't good enough to find the ones I can't see.

  14. #14
    Join Date
    Nov 2009
    Location
    Spartanburg
    Posts
    1,690

    Default

    I'll take the Black dogs when we can hunt mornings/

  15. #15
    Join Date
    Nov 2001
    Location
    Columbia, SC
    Posts
    47,887

    Default

    my dog will go with me bc he's not a wussy.
    Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.

  16. #16
    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Posts
    668

    Default

    100qt cooler full of water works well


    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •