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It was a pleasure to be able to set this seminar up in the first place. My appreciation to George Wayne Lee and Geoff for a great educational day. The commitment, time and distance you UKSHA guys put in to better an injured animals welfare is second to none. Also watching Theckla on track, working out the six hour old scent trail was brilliant in its own right. After all the years of stalking some of the tips at a shot site was another great learning curve.
My thanks must also go to Jon Archer of Criggion Estate for the use of his awesome man cave for the power point presentation and the use of the estate ground for the field demo's etc. Thanks to all who attended which made the day a great success.
One last thought is ; I don't quite know why GEORGE was so shy :rofl:. Regards Gary
 
UKSHA seminar Saturday 13th August 2016 - Wild boar track starring 17 week old Hannoverscher Schweißhund(HS) Thekla with handler Wayne

[video]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwVmHR3Om4qtWlo1a19aazVHanc/view?usp=sharing[/video]
 
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I have spent the weekend up north tracking with Thekla our newest edition to UKSHA and shes coming on a treat. on my way home we had a call out down Hereford way so a quick stop at home to throw some kit out a bite to eat we headed out with the both dogs the shot had been taken on a fallow buck the strike sounded good but the deer ran on fell on the edge of cover and when Joe went down the buck sprang to life and headed into thick cover no sign at the shot site which was an open field recently cut leaving a nice area to see any sign.
no blood or bone so put indy onto the area and she headed off down to a hedge were the buck had come from circled right round then into the plantation.
after going through the cover it eventually opened up a little and the fallow had couched a second time and a happy ending for Joe who was over the moon I think joe will be along later to describe better but the shot was downhill around 125m to 130m the bullet hit high shoulder with no exit not too difficult to find with the dog but it always amazes me how something that size gets into thick cover without leaving big holes or sign lol.
A perfect opportunity to put Thekla onto a real track and something different from red and boar, she carefully made her way through to the clearing and she used a large stump to climb to see down onto the buck before the hackles came up and the baying started, very impressed with how she is coming on at such an early age and how steady she works the track with easy to read signals along the way.
I have video footage of the other tracks to put up shortly but i need to download them, thanks

Wayne


 
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I have spent the weekend up north tracking with Thekla our newest edition to UKSHA and shes coming on a treat. on my way home we had a call out down Hereford way so a quick stop at home to throw some kit out a bite to eat we headed out with the both dogs the shot had been taken on a fallow buck the strike sounded good but the deer ran on fell on the edge of cover and when Joe went down the buck sprang to life and headed into thick cover no sign at the shot site which was an open field recently cut leaving a nice area to see any sign.
no blood or bone so put indy onto the area and she headed off down to a hedge were the buck had come from circled right round then into the plantation.
after going through the cover it eventually opened up a little and the fallow had couched a second time and a happy ending for Joe who was over the moon I think joe will be along later to describe better but the shot was downhill around 125m to 130m the bullet hit high shoulder with no exit not too difficult to find with the dog but it always amazes me how something that size gets into thick cover without leaving big holes or sign lol.
A perfect opportunity to put Thekla onto a real track and something different from red and boar, she carefully made her way through to the clearing and she used a large stump to climb to see down onto the buck before the hackles came up and the baying started, very impressed with how she is coming on at such an early age and how steady she works the track with easy to read signals along the way.
I have video footage of the other tracks to put up shortly but i need to download them, thanks

Wayne


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What a service UKSHA provide. After meeting several members at the Criggion seminar i can only thank each and everyone for their commitment and tiredless drive to promote animal welfare recovery. I know exactly the place where Joe's buck had disappeared into and thankfully from the learnings at the seminar and Joe's actions its recovery was successful and also more straight forward. As a member in the same syndicate as Joe I would like to thank Wayne especially for his (and the dogs) attendance. Kind Regards Gary
 
Outstanding gentlemen well done. UKSHA has certainly come on over the years and is providing a very professional service to stalkers.
 
Yeah a big well done Wayne, you're going to have more miles on that van than the starship enterprise had soon matey !!!!
 
282000 miles now jimmy she's a good un hopefully she will be good to December lol and will be sad to see it go, thanks Malc we have taken on-board a few new members all starting their journey now with training and choosing which hound and route they want to go down this means in the future we have coverage of the uk properly without going too far but the same time if a difficult track is rung in it will always be the experienced hound and handler to succeed for that particular wound this is the correct way for recovery for deer welfare, thanks Wayne
 
No problem the SD site fully supports what you guys are doing and there is no problem with your using the site to promote what you do.
 
Thanks Malcolm,
SD is where it all started.So we have you guys as owners to thank for the conception of UKSHA.
If anyone is wanting any advice or are interested in having a seminar set up nearer to them as Gaz did,please don't hesitate to give any of us a shout.
Good work as normal Wayne
All the best
George
 
Good to see. Interesting to see the one hock still attached. Does that bring another gland into play and is it a transition from dragging a skin to using feet only? I did try the same in shoes earlier this week for the first time (with the hock all smashed up with a hammer to try and simulate a leg shot but I was unsure if the partly dragged hock was giving too much sign (I see this is a young hound). Cheers Ben
 
Aye aye Ben,
This is the first time Thekla was on the shoe,moving on from skin drags,she was only 16 weeks old or so here.
Always make it easy for the dog when training.
When moving from skin drags to shoe,this is a good method to use.
No blood here at all,the pup nailed the indication points as well......
At the Wales seminar the week after she did very well on a track covered in sheep,6 hours old with the sun beating down on it whilst aging.
This pup and Wayne are going to blossom into a very very good team.
You need to get down to me and let's see this GSP of yours:thumb:
All the best
George
 
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Doric actually very close to German,perhaps that's why we have the support in Europe:thumb:
Talking German and Doric,a lot of the sounds are similar......
Gaelic-whoosh over my head.

The natural ability of Waynes pup will be very interesting to see progress,when you can manage to come down past Ben,give me a shout.
All the best
George
 
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I watched the whole thing in Herefordshire and was most impressed with the professionalism of both Wayne and Indy in real action, especially since Joe and I knew that they had traveled a great distance to help us find that fallow buck. A successful outcome made us all feel better and very grateful that we had both attended the seminar held at Welshpool earlier that month. Thanks to Gary for that. Nice to see Thelka performing too. A future star we think.
 
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