my ridgeback - from Russia

[AriesKhan]

Hello everybody!
My name is Anna, we are from Russia
it's me and my dogs - Rodesian Ridgeback
We hunt and take a part in the Dog's Show very often

[Rick Hall]

Always admired ridgebacks, but thought them "lion dogs" of little practical sporting purpose for small game. Live and learn...

[DilmunDD]

Welcome to the forum! Beautiful dogs! Looking forward to hearing more about them. Besides ducks what else do you hunt in Russia?

[blathens]

Anna, very nice pictures. Kind of hard to look at the dogs with you in the picture:)
Is that a "Baikal" you are shooting?

Bill

[Bigshrimp]

Anna, very nice pictures. Kind of hard to look at the dogs with you in the picture:)

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Anna, welcome and check out this topic a few threads down in this forum:
The Versatile Rhodesian Ridgeback

[orhunter]

......anybody want to move to Russia???????

[dg]

Already bought my ticket.....

[Calvinator]

Bill,

Only you would say what we all were thinking!!!

Calvin

[AriesKhan]

Hello to everybody
I understand very good your skeptical attitude – me and hunting , it sounds very strange .
I deal with dogs probably all my life. My first hunting dog was Russia-European husky.
When I selected dog for the serious work (hunt) first characteristics should be short hair . But I would prefer hunting dog - strong, powerful, clever dog, but elegant and quite independent.
Ridgeback justified my hopes completely .
At spring-summer period we are hunting with dogs on the different birds. At the autumn-winter season - hunting to hoofed animal: wild boar, elk. Between hunting seasons we take a part in dogs show and results are very successful.
Hunting is usual thing for me, I do something similar during all my live – I mean more “maleâ€

[AriesKhan]

Anna, very nice pictures. Kind of hard to look at the dogs with you in the picture:)
Is that a "Baikal" you are shooting?

Bill

No, it’s not “Baykalâ€

[Blue River]

I don't think they were skeptical, just wishing we had lady hunters as easy on the eyes as you on this side of the world. Great pictures!

[orhunter]

Thanks for the great photos. Those dogs ought to be great for boar hunting.

[AriesKhan]

Thank you for kind response
Here in Russia nothing special when women takes a part in hunting not only for birds and for animas as well. But professional hunter always smiling when see women with gun. But after we get a prey by ourselves under our dogs they are not laughing already .
And my dogs love more elk than boar, but anyway work with boar very good.

[Bigshrimp]

And my dogs love more elk than boar, but anyway work with boar very good.

How do you hunt the elk with your dogs?

Do they track the elk and run them hard to waiting guns? Or, do you track them slowly on lead very quietly so that you (the dog handler) can get a shot? Or, do you use them only for tracking the elk's blood after it has been shot and run some distance?

[AriesKhan]

Hunting for the elk is always different. Mostly we are hunting in group, very rarely along with dog or without. If shooting in group part of people with dogs drive off elk - walk in file (line), make loud noise, - drive to other group of people, which stand very quiet. In this case dog’s do not allow clever and sly animal to leave the circle of people. They are always turn animal back and work with direct contact. If we are small group people who dive off animal do it without dogs and only with loud noise. People with dogs are stand along the edges or wait elk in some place. Some times the place in not very convenient for shot (not free open space) so in this case dog will keep back animal until shot. If only one or two people are hunting we just walking very quiet in forest and looking for elk and than set dogs on the animal. Dogs stop elk and turn for shot.
I usually hunt with small group, so we are walking with people who make noise and “catchâ€