Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations Podcast.

Your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting.

And now your host, Tony Peterson.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations Podcast,

which is brought to you by First Light.

I'm your host, Tony Peterson.

And today's episode is all about shed dogs and how to train them.

Today's show is all about a topic that people seem to love.

Shed dogs.

I think a lot of them love the idea of a dog that can find shed antlers,

but it probably won't greatly change the amount of shed you find.

It's still fun.

And if you do have a shed dog, you'll become a better deer hunter,

which might seem crazy, but I'll explain what I mean throughout this episode.

The first dog that I trained to be a shed antler dog was my golden retriever Lux.

She was an okay hunting dog, but simply loved to retrieve.

In fact, I trained her to retrieve antlers, ducks, upland bird squirrels,

and eventually rabbits.

And now I know you're not supposed to take a fesant dog and let it retrieve a rabbit,

but I did it anyway.

And it taught me a couple of things.

The first is that not all rules apply to all situations.

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