Tips for hunting feral dogs.

[RoginaJack]

Try tapping the side of a dog food tin with a spoon....

Yes mate, I'm trying to get a stubborn dog to come within range and no luck so far, so I might give your suggestion a go!

Watch this space...

[RoginaJack]

Well, here's what a "tame" Dingo can do! I personally think "kissing" ANY dog is courting disaster as I think dogs see this as a threat & intrusion into their space.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/0 ... ngo-attack

PS Trust the girl is OK.

[darwindingo]

"RoginaJack, I'm trying to get a stubborn dog to come within range and no luck so far"

Tree stand for your safety if you have one and a bitch on heat as bait appropriately located (in a cage for her safety) and wait !

[RoginaJack]

Yes, that's one of my tricks - getting too old for this running all over the bush thing so I sit and call.
Some times you get an answer; like 3 packs - 1 bitch with a couple of young pups and an old dog looking for company.
Patience and don't get in a howling contest with them.
Mick Ott has a couple of videos on youtube that gives a very good example of calling in dogs. Just gotta be well camouflaged, watch wind direction, good field of view, no movement, and tons of patience.
Cheers.

[RoginaJack]

"RoginaJack, I'm trying to get a stubborn dog to come within range and no luck so far"

Tree stand for your safety if you have one and a bitch on heat as bait appropriately located (in a cage for her safety) and wait !

Haven't tried the Bitch trick, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. The tree stand works really well as the dogs seem to scan at their eye hight kind of thing and don't look up that far unless there is movement = Dead giveaway. Don't call when the dogs are looking in your direction! Pay attention to the wind, the dogs have a really great sense of smell and lots of patience.
Good luck

[darwindingo]

The thing I really like with the tree stand is that the scent line is up in the breeze, I once fell asleep in one and was woken by a stag having a rub on the same tree Guess he didn't smell me.

Clearly dogs have a very good nose, it may help if you can get her to piss on something like a piece of lino and pour it into a spray bottle and spray some around the area too.. Hey I wont tell anyone if you spray a mist on your hunting clothes to help mask your scent.. ... .. Be sure and post a pic when you get him



Jeff

[RoginaJack]

Be sure and post a pic when you get him Will do Darwindingo, it's a pack of 3-5 that I'm after and very smart too. Now the heavy rain and local flooding has pasted down, we might get back to business..

Cheers

[darwindingo]

Sorry mate "When u get him" I meant them

[Oldbloke]

I thought I would post this image about dogs vision here too. Can we us this to our advantage?

What calibres do you guys think would be best for dogs? Im interested in havng a go at howling them if the opportunity arrises, but not keen at this stage of working up specialised loads.

I have a 3006 usualy loaded with 180g interlocks?.
Or 223 usualy loaded with 55g SPs.?

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[on_one_wheel]

Dogs are built reasonably lightly, a .223 with 55's will be fine.
Most of the dog's I've shot have been with a .243 and that basically cut them in half.

This is worth a read, not only is it a blody great story but it is full of hints form a old dog trapper / hunter.

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-2 ... er/4917640

[Rifle realist]

Same as on one wheel, used to use a 243 favourite now is .260 with 120 gn ballistic tips. Where I shoot, Northern Gascoyne whatever I have with me. Only rifle failed was my .338 Win Mag with .225 Accu bonds, about 50 yard shot, he ran about 700 yards until he bled out, found the dog the next day after the wedgies hat been at him neat 34 caliber hole through both shoulder blades. Dragging a carcass works the dogs up this way often walk the tracks. Remembering where there are carcasses from previous feral kills ie camels & donkeys is always worth a look,mostly its opportunity,always have a loaded rifle in the cruiser on the station.

[ebr love]

I thought I would post this image about dogs vision here too.

Interesting picture, thanks

[RoginaJack]

Yep, I use a 243w with Speer H.P. or a 12g with SSG and SG. This handles the situations OK.

[Oldbloke]

Yeh, I figure the 180 gn interlock SPs will just whistle straight through. I will use the 223 with 55gn SPs. I must have 1200 of those in stock. (Recently bought 1000 for $55) Ill be shootin them till I fall off my perch.

Thanks for the advice gents. Always good and friendly on this forum.

[Mick280]

The good old .243 does the job for me as well.
70 gn Nosler B/T's smash them!!!

[Oldbloke]

A couple of decent videos here


https://vimeo.com/156385239

https://youtu.be/mioD47T8-YM

[Oldbloke]

Found this on another forum. Feral dog attack in WA.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-23/d ... section=wa

[nightforcenxs]

.223 will drop them fine 30-06 will split them in half which i dont see anything wrong with just they will be super dead i seen a picture of a dog shot with 7mm08 and one side of its skin was torn away from neck to ass with a 3 inch hole in it. its just gonna be a waiting game and calling them

[albat]

Found this on another forum. Feral dog attack in WA.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-23/d ... section=wa

I posted an article a couple of weeks ago about a fella in queensland getting bailed up by a feral goat, and bigfella was saying its a good case for carrying a handgun on the farm,now this is a whole different ball game ive shot these buggers and in a pack they dont seem to have that much fear of a bloke they come in real close until you get one down the tube They should revisit the handgun argument especially for farmers alone in the bush that bloke could have sorted that out quick smart

[Member-Deleted]

I know its an old thread but it is an interesting one and one that is what I like doing
I've read from the first post last year and agree with everything what will bring wild dogs in
With the amount of ways that are used shows how adaptable the wild dog can be in choosing his prey
These are the animals that will adapt to survive if ever there was one and adapt they do
The post with the young girl that was bitten by a wild dog or dingo is I see she probably moved her face very close to
the dogs face and went to give it a peck on the nose and smiled at the same time as do most dog owners
But the smile alone or the showing of teeth at close quarters with a wild dog means aggression to the other and a snap
will follow
I'VE observed this many times over the years with dogs in play and around dead carcasses these rangers that kiss and cuddle
these wild dogs in zoos flirt with being bitten themselves although its wether they were reared in captivity or not even so you won't get the wild
out of them its always it the back blocks of their mind it is a naturally occurring instinct
Wild dogs can and do train their pups not to take baits this I have watched through bino's a bitch belting her pups every time they went near
a bait tied to a fence post she eventually walked away with her pups but not before they would sit and stay away from the bait
If only I had a video camera that day since then I've seen it twice more
This area she was in had been heavily bait for years almost to the point of too much because the programs were not working
and i'm presuming she was the end result from that hence the puppy training
I have found over the years there is no single thing that makes a good dog shooter I think most wild dog shooters would agree because
too many things come into play like LUCK, WEATHER, INFO on dog numbers WHERE to find them, HOW good of a shot you are, KNOWLEGE
OF THE AREA, AND the list goes on but A couple of good factors are QUIET, no movement and don't let the wind give them your scent

Cheers

[Member-Deleted]

A FEW THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT

[Member-Deleted]

There are 55 others on that page alone but won't send them too many these couple will do

Cheers

[marksman]

nice skins grandadbushy, them dogs look pretty healthy
I've always had problems shooting dogs as most I can hear but cant get them out to where I can shoot them
I had an encounter once when I shot a fallow deer and got my mate to open the gate while I left him there thinking I was pranking him as he had to walk to me and the car at the deer, as I got out of the car with a knife to bleed the deer a dog come out and started to bark at me, I froze as it growled and barked, it ran back into the bush when my mate came around the side of the car, the dog looked to be a blue healer gone wild
and yes I needed to change my jocks

[Oldbloke]

What calibre grandadbushy?

[Member-Deleted]

I mainly use 22-250 Oldbloke but for the big shots in a breeze I use 25-06 the one with the hole in him was facing me
sitting on his haunches at I think 362yds if I remember rightly it exited between his shoulder blades , getting a lot of half grown
ones lately I've given the older ones a good doing over the last 3yrs and the younger ones are easy pickings not street savvy as yet
shoot the bitch and I bet within 4 months or so you would have shot all her pups, they tend to hang in the area where they're born
until they're kicked out by the bitch or if young they stay in the area they last saw the bitch before being shot , they become cagey but stupid
I have actually shot the last two of a litter of five shot the first one 6 weeks ago all about 9mths old

[Oldbloke]

Well done. And thanks for the input.

[Member-Deleted]

Yeah Marksman they're healthy alright they eat enough calves up here but they are some of the better ones I put on here
When I figure out how to get some photos from my mrs phone to the forum i'll send a couple more photos of the different
coloured ones I have shot I actually saw an albino dog about 4yrs ago and had seen him several times since but not long enough
time to get a shot away but 2mths ago I had the cross hairs spot on him he just stood there about 270yds out he looked so clean
and white ( as he'd just come out of the creek water ) he looked almost Majestic and guess what ? DIDN'T HAVE THE HEART TO SHOOT
HIM yeah I know what you're thinking '' PUSSY''
The mrs didn't mind me not shooting him because she was with me the first time I saw him he wouldn't have been any more than about 9-10
weeks old he looked like a little pink piglet you could see the pink skin under the white fur '' BUT '' IF he gets the hairs on him again his nine
lives will disappear instantly no fear of that
Cheers

[Member-Deleted]

There ya go Oldbloke my tools of trade the black one 25-06 the other one is 22-250 both are Sako

Cheers

[Member-Deleted]

I tried to flip them horizontal but they kept ending up the way they are i'm still non a learners for this contraption

Cheers

[RoginaJack]

Yep, know what you mean. Grandaddbusky.
I have a big feral dog I've been after for a couple of years now and had him in as close as 25yds. I'm sure he brings his own Lantana bush as cover with him, Golly Gee, he's hard to get a clear shot on.
I've only been out a few times this year and haven't sighted him as yet. The neighbours baited heavily about 6 months ago and I think that cleaned up a few stupid ones.
I find the 243w. using 70gr Speer H.P. sorts them out real quick.