Missing GSH's near Ulysses

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A huge post on Facebook right now that a younger hunter lost two German shorthairs near Ulysses yesterday off highway 160. They both have collars with his number and one is dragging an orange check cord. His name is Slayden Ruzicka, phone# 417-597-1722. I am passing this along I don't have any connections to what happened, phone number appears he is from Missouri. Anyone near this area be on the lookout, sounded like he was hunting walk-in east of Ulysses.
 
Bird Buster said:
A huge post on Facebook right now that a younger hunter lost two German shorthairs near Ulysses yesterday off highway 160. They both have collars with his number and one is dragging an orange check cord. His name is Slayden Ruzicka, phone# 417-597-1722. I am passing this along I don't have any connections to what happened, phone number appears he is from Missouri. Anyone near this area be on the lookout, sounded like he was hunting walk-in east of Ulysses.
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Yeah I saw this. Hopefully he finds them I lost one for a few days once. Made me sick till he was located.
 
carptom1 said:
Yeah I saw this. Hopefully he finds them I lost one for a few days once. Made me sick till he was located.
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Just curious, what happened? Did he chase something? This is my first year with my own dog and I haven't had any situation or scenario where I couldn't see him or could even lose him. He wears a bright orange Scheels vest that I can see a long ways away and just seems hard to lose him. I am just wondering how to make sure it doesn't happen or things to be prepared for. I hunt in the exact area where these dogs were lost
 
One of the sickest feelings you can ever have. It can happen for a number of reasons. I swear, I've seen older dogs take younger ones away in hopes they'll get lost and never come back. Old dog came back three days later. 4 days later a guy a few miles away called me with the young dog. Also saw two young dogs hit the ground racing, found them two days latter.
 
AceKS said:
Just curious, what happened? Did he chase something? This is my first year with my own dog and I haven't had any situation or scenario where I couldn't see him or could even lose him. He wears a bright orange Scheels vest that I can see a long ways away and just seems hard to lose him. I am just wondering how to make sure it doesn't happen or things to be prepared for. I hunt in the exact area where these dogs were lost
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There is no info on what happened, only thing I saw was he had been training them and perhaps being in a new area they took off unexpectedly. Both are pointers so they range quite a bit. If it were me I would have GPS collars on them, not cheap to do though.
 
Last year in Socks's first year, we were hunting down by Arlington. It was taller CRP and the wind came up enough Socks couldn't hear me very well. GPS collar had him at 100, then 200, then 300 yards and moving. Soon it was 500, then 700, then my collar went from yards to miles. We don't know if he started chasing something because we couldn't see him even with his orange vest. He got over two miles away. The GPS signal got a little wonky as we hopped in the truck to drive to the north. We drove around a section twice before we finally started to gain ground on him.
I finally saw him about 250 yards away in a field and yelled as loud as I could. He heard me and came scurrying back as fast as his tired little black legs could.
He was shaking when he got to the truck, because he was freaked out as he couldn't find me. There wasn't any punishment, just a lot of reassuring petting to tell him he's ok and he's fine.

It can happen even with a GPS collar.
 
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If it were me I would have GPS collars on them, not cheap to do though.
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GPS collars are way cheaper than a dog will cost. The peace of mind is worth it. The reduced noise while hunting is worth it. The confidence to run two dogs at once is worth it. I saw the value pretty quickly when I replaced a lab with my first vizsla. And Vizslas don't even run like some breeds, but they are almost the exact color (in the fall) of little bluestem, big bluestem, and some varieties of switch grass.
 
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