Do your dogs react to shooting this way?

[Paladin]

I have two dogs, one 14.5-year-old Rodishan Ridgeback and a 17-month-old Belgian Shepard both hunt with me at times, and if you put a laser dot on something they will go after it. I normally lock them in the fenced area around the house about an acre to keep them from chasing bullets. Today I was sighting in a 10.5-inch suppressed AR and left them out as the sound would not hurt them. I fired four shots at the target 125 yards away, Each time they ran down to the target and then came back.

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[AJMD429]

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They probably heard the bullet impact and wondered what was going on.

Either that, or they were just checking your group size to see if you were still a good shot...

[Grizz]

I have two dogs, one 14.5-year-old Rodishan Ridgeback and a 17-month-old Belgian Shepard both hunt with me at times, and if you put a laser dot on something they will go after it. I normally lock them in the fenced area around the house about an acre to keep them from chasing bullets. Today I was sighting in a 10.5-inch suppressed AR and left them out as the sound would not hurt them. I fired four shots at the target 125 yards away, Each time they ran down to the target and then came back.

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my springer would do exactly that. he was a barrel of laughs.

[gamekeeper]

My ex had a little dog that did that, used to drive me nuts

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Chinese crested cross aptly named Rebel.

[Grizz]

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They probably heard the bullet impact and wondered what was going on.

Either that, or they were just checking your group size to see if you were still a good shot... :D

either that, or maybe they need glasses :D

[GunnyMack]

My Lady, 96lbs of Labrador would sit next to me when shooting paper. Each shot she would creep forward. One day when I was shooting my 338WM she kept creeping and eventually she was parallel with the muzzle. That Win Mag muzzle blast cured her from creeping! Boy I wish I could have cloned that girl but I've now got very good birds dogs too!

[OldWin]

We lived in town, so when I was a kid I used a pellet gun. It was a constant companion. When I was in 2nd grade a stray cat followed me home and my parents kept it (I was married when it finally died).
This old cat was quite a hunter, and one day I was sitting on the steps and shot a red squirrel out of a maple nearby. That cat was sitting beside me, and when that squirrel hit the ground the cat had it. Something must have clicked in his pea brain, cause from that day forward the cat took notice if I had that pellet gun. I would sit on the deck out back and that cat would stay right there. If I fired a shot, that cat would run to where the pellet hit every time. Nobody believed me, so I would have to demonstrate. The cat never failed to prove up. Every time I shot something, he got a free meal. If I missed, he would look all around for a victim. He at least, thought I never missed.

[Rockrat]

I had a cat like that. When I got out the pellet rifle, she would come over and start looking in the trees to see if I was going to shoot something that might interest her. If I missed, she would give me a disgusted look and walk off.

[ywaltzucanrknrl]

My hunting dogs always do that---I hunt birds, rabbits, coyotes and bobcats with them, when I fire a shot, they watch and will run down and get the critter or at least smell the impact site if I miss. Or in the case of a wounded critter, follow it and hold it or retrieve it.

[Bronco]

I had two Schipperkes that went ground squirrel shooting with me. If I grabbed a rifle they would get excited and when I pointed it they would look in the direction I was aiming. They would go get the critter and start stacking them somewhere around the truck Wasn't bad in the cold weather but in the warm weather had to move the truck, every so often, a hundred yards or so to get away from the flies

[Paladin]

We lived in town, so when I was a kid I used a pellet gun. It was a constant companion. When I was in 2nd grade a stray cat followed me home and my parents kept it (I was married when it finally died).
This old cat was quite a hunter, and one day I was sitting on the steps and shot a red squirrel out of a maple nearby. That cat was sitting beside me, and when that squirrel hit the ground the cat had it. Something must have clicked in his pea brain, cause from that day forward the cat took notice if I had that pellet gun. I would sit on the deck out back and that cat would stay right there. If I fired a shot, that cat would run to where the pellet hit every time. Nobody believed me, so I would have to demonstrate. The cat never failed to prove up. Every time I shot something, he got a free meal. If I missed, he would look all around for a victim. He at least, thought I never missed.

When I was a kid on the farm in Ohio the barn cats would follow us when we were cleaning the birds out of the barn and granary with BB guns.

[OldWin]

We lived in town, so when I was a kid I used a pellet gun. It was a constant companion. When I was in 2nd grade a stray cat followed me home and my parents kept it (I was married when it finally died).
This old cat was quite a hunter, and one day I was sitting on the steps and shot a red squirrel out of a maple nearby. That cat was sitting beside me, and when that squirrel hit the ground the cat had it. Something must have clicked in his pea brain, cause from that day forward the cat took notice if I had that pellet gun. I would sit on the deck out back and that cat would stay right there. If I fired a shot, that cat would run to where the pellet hit every time. Nobody believed me, so I would have to demonstrate. The cat never failed to prove up. Every time I shot something, he got a free meal. If I missed, he would look all around for a victim. He at least, thought I never missed.

When I was a kid on the farm in Ohio the barn cats would follow us when we were cleaning the birds out of the barn and granary with BB guns.

While we always have a couple dogs, I've always had a cat too. Keeps the mice out of the outbuildings and out of vehicles and machines. They have surprised me on a few occasions as to their ability to figure things out. They are excellent hunters for their size.

[horsesoldier03]

I had a yellow lab that I took shooting once. I shot a Model 44 Mosin Nagant. I left the door open on my truck and immediately upon my first shot she ran back to my truck and took a huge SH!7 on the front seat.

[Grizz]

I had a yellow lab that I took shooting once. I shot a Model 44 Mosin Nagant. I left the door open on my truck and immediately upon my first shot she ran back to my truck and took a huge SH!7 on the front seat.

too Funny !

Dad had a cocker once that wouldn't stay out of the truck unless he put a cushion on the hot desert sands. He used the sill of the open door for a rifle rest. That dog would levitate almost to window height straight up and down when Dad touched off his rifle. Coulda been a money maker in a circus. Hilarious to watch. Dog didn't last long in our pack.