dog vest

[greatlawn]

This is for those of you that use dog vests. Do you think that the noise from the vest going through the cover spooks the birds? When hunting a couple of weeks ago I was starting to think about all the noise the vest was making. I am thinking about going to longe sleeve orange t-shirts instead of vests.

Jeff

 

[Hoosier Gsp]

I have ran my dog with and without the vest and really haven't noticed a difference in birds pointed to birds that flush wild. I think that I make as much noise with my brush pants as the dog does with his vest.

 

[Dakotazeb]

I have ran my dog with and without the vest and really haven't noticed a difference in birds pointed to birds that flush wild. I think that I make as much noise with my brush pants as the dog does with his vest.

You are way over-thinking this. Don't worry about the dog vest. There are a lot more factors that will effect your pheasant hunting than your dog's vest. Dog vests, brush pants/chaps, bells, whistles, beepers. Hunted with them all and never seen any have a material effect on my pheasant hunting.

 

[jeffstally]

I do try to be as quiet as possible when hunting and have thought this same thing myself. I would think that it could, but I would rather my dog have the protection so I don't have to go through what Steve Smith did. He is the editor of Pointing Dog and Retriever Journals. His pointer was stabbed by a stick and bled out internally. Any protection helps.

 

[BirdBocx]

Not worth worry.

 

[koja48]

Plus other noise . . . doors closing, coughing, talking, shotgun actions closing . . . I guess I'd hunt my dog without a vest only if I were willing to hunt nekkid (now that I tailored his to fit right . . . Hank's a short-coupled little bugger & the back of the Skid Plate covered his plumbing . . . not a good thing.).