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Took a break from hunting and along came a deer hunter and we were visiting when he pulled out a hand held game finder with lights on it. He said it would find a deer, live or dead and he finds them in the
cut over hiding in the bed with it where he would normally walk on by and miss the deer. I jokingly asked if it would find a rabbit and he said it would find a dove lost at a fall dove shoot, so it should find a rabbit.

I tossed a dead one in the weeds and he showed me on the arrow where it was. I laughed, but he then walked around and said there is either a rabbit or some small animal or bird in this clump of vines. I stomped in there and sure nuff, a rabbit ran out. He said it works best the colder the temperature as it detects heat differences. It was about 40 degrees.

Anyone use them for a jump dog? Looks like it would be good for the trials where the gallery jumps a rabbit for the dogs.

Sounds like it really works but i have never used one. The way I look at it if the hound don't have enough hunt to find a rabbit then I don't care where the rabbit is. Takes the fun out of it I think. It might be good for training pups to hunt to find the rabbit and get in the brush after it. I wouldn't care to use it for that. I don't field trial any yet and never have so some of these trialers might think different.

How close would you have to be to a rabbit to be able to find it with the game finder?

I haven't used one personally, but I know of a guy that uses one solely for waterfowl hunting. I know I have lost a few ducks in the marsh grass before. They are used mostly for recovering lost/wounded game. I have a little bitch that finds my bunnies though

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These are illegal to use for hunting in Indiana, but I bet they would work great locating live rabbits for a pup to chase


Randy

i bougt one to help in finding deer , if you dont know how to use it it is worth less dont take me wrong it has helped find one deer that a buddy of mine shot but i truly think it was hand granade luck . i have picked up heat from a oak tree with it and not just once or twice it pics them up alot . now i am not saying that thay dont work i am saying try to read all the directions a few times . i still dont know how to work it all that well .
if any one buys one let me know . thay are all so about $200 if i remember right . if any one wants one let me know i might trade it for a good broke female or male that is about a year to two years old . i whould prefer a bluetic or redtic but will consider any good hound . it dont have to be a trail dog just be able to bring a rabbit around in a full circle . i like a med to fast dog . let me know .
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i wonder how one of those would be for the coonhunting night hunts ,when the leaves are on

thay whould probly be prety good for them if you can figer them out . i whould try to find some one that has one and knows how to use it and have them tag along with you one night and see how it does .
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