20 Best Hunting Dogs For Deer (2023 Updated)

I bought these as my daughter’s two girls love them. The first two antlers were a Christmas gift to my boys, and one antler did not make it to New Years!! Mind you, 4 dogs were having their turn on chewing, but these are a HIT!! I would give my dogs marrow bones, but these antlers, I find, are better! The last, do not splinter, and the dogs just LOVE them!!!! When the one antler became just a very short nub, I had to wait until the dogs were distracted to toss out the little piece.

They don’t like me throwing out their toys, even when they are to the point of shredded and choking hazard. These antlers are a wonderful alternate to regular bones, no mess, no smell, and the dogs just go crazy for them! They are a huge hit in our house!!!.

Fast ship. Professional packaging. Great communication. This is the only chew that my European Dobermann (Yes, spelled with 2 n’s) cannot destroy in 2 minutes. Great for his teeth, yet keeps him occupied for a while.

The only thing that I wish that they were a little thicker. Will recommend highly. A JOB WELL ORCHESTRATED FROM START TO FINISH. Just perfect! Thank you. Anthony. H Burlington, MA.

I’m on my third antler with my dog. She has graduated to the larger antlers as her first two have gotten to be too small for her even though she still gnaws on those. My only issue is that some antlers breath apart and some don’t.

It’s a roll of the dice. Her current larger one has stayed mostly in one piece save for a few chips early on. I found the pointy ones to be better as there are fewer parts to access the “marrow” if that is what it’s called in antlers.

When she gets to that the antlers tend to break off at the site of entry. Still love them for her as she is a major chewer and they have outlasted toys of other materials, I just worry about the chipping.

No splinters yet which I’m glad. If she likes them and safety is not an issue I’m happy. Just nerves of a dog dad.

I will never buy from another brand again. I typically don’t wear shorts with liners because 1) they bunch, 2) they aren’t comfortable, and 3) I can’t re-wear shorts without washing them. Two of these three are no longer an issue with Birddogs.

They’re super comfortable and stylish. I’ve received more compliments with these shorts than any others I’ve owned.

I bought these for my son (who loves them). He started with the shorts and now we bought pants for the winter! I had never really looked at them until they showed up at my house last week. The quality is amazing and he loves the lined pants.

Now I will buy some more for Christmas and also for my husband. Great product!.

I live in these shorts. They are the most comfortable, durable, stylish shorts on the market and they still have 4 pockets. A little expensive but totally worth it. I get a lot of compliments whenever I where them.

the liner is a gamechanger. I have 8 pairs and will continue to buy more!.

The box clearly states that this fan uses 3 “candelabra” bulbs, and the image shows the fan using candelabra (E12) base bulbs. I purchased a package of these bulbs and they do NOT fit. The fan uses a typical E26 base bulb, however, the decorative glass jars do not support a typical light bulb (my local Home Depot has no LED bulbs that can fit this fan).

It appears that when they updated this fan from E12 (Candelabra) to E26 (standard base), they did not change the decorative glass jars accordingly to match the new bulb type. So this makes two problems entirely caused by the (incompetent?) manufacturer.

1. Don’t sell products with incorrect information on the box. Seriously, if you are selling a light fixture, the least that a consumer can expect is that the packaging doesn’t lie about what bulbs are used in the fixture.

2. Don’t sell a product that requires some obscure type of LED light bulb without making this clear on the packaging. It is pretty bad that I can’t get an LED bulb to fit this fan out of a very large selection at my local Home Depot store.

3 (bonus). Aside from the light bulb, the fan seems to be pretty good quality with the exception of the downrod. The threads on a ~1″ diameter piece of metal shouldn’t strip out as I am threading it in finger-tight.

I have emailed Hunter Fan company with this complaint. Hopefully they are willing to make an effort to correct their error. I see from the other reviewers that I am not the only one who encountered this problem.

YIKES. I can’t believe I spent over $200 on this. What a disappointment. The ceiling fan is supposed to come with bulbs; it doesn’t. FYI it takes E24 (standard base) 40 watt tapered/chandelier-style bulbs.

You might have a time finding them, and they aren’t inexpensive either! Standard bulbs won’t fit inside the mason jar sconce. (And don’t buy E12 base ones — they’re too small. I see in the replies here even Home Depot got it wrong when asked!) None of the blades have grommets installed; you have individually install each and every one (3 per blade; 4 blades total).

The height of the fan (nearly 19”!) is NOT adjustable / changeable AT ALL despite what the description says. The housing/mounting bracket are fixed and cannot be changed. Did Home Depot screw up and put the wrong description with this product? Because basically everything in the specs here is incorrect.

Do not recommend at all. For the price point, you should be getting a much better unit. Spend your money elsewhere.

LOVE my fan! My dad thought I was crazy based on the size of my room and the size I picked for the fan, I couldn’t find something I loved in a smaller size, so I bought this and have no regrets. Its beautiful.

Both blade colour choices were great even. I installed LED light bulbs. Bulbs DO NOT come with this item even though the listing shows they do. I would have gave it 5 stars if it was listed proper and I didn’t have to go shopping for the proper size bulb after installation.

I’ve been using Evolved Habitats Deer Cain for almost 15 years. Deer absolutely destroy it. I’ve had the best results when I neatly stack arm sized 4′ sections of well seasoned to rotten tree limbs and pour the powder right on top of them.

I’ve had mixed results if I just randomly dump it on the ground. The soil type seems to effect the deers willingness to use the product. Stacking old tree limbs never fails. Some of my mineral sites are now the size of a car hood and over a foot into the ground.

Bucks hit it all year round but especially hard from May to September.

If you can’t follow instructions, leave it on the shelf for those of us who can. I have one site which has been untreated for 3 years and the deer still come to it and tear up the soil. For the rest who say it only works for a few months out of the year, do some whitetail research.

Deer mainly crave minerals for a particular time period of the year. It happens to be during antler growth for bucks which also happens to be the time of year when all deer are eating a lot of green leafy vegetation which is high in moisture content.

My father had a mineral block in the same spot since the early 70’s and I am continuing the tradition with the pictures to prove the timing and results. Wish he was still here to see my trail camera pic’s from this summer so far.

I have been using this product for years, as well as trying multiple other commercial attractants and after at least 10 consecutive years of using mineral attractants I can easily say that the Deer Cain concentrate and block give the best results both immediately and over the long term.

After putting it in a month later you can expect a noticeable hole in the ground. I only put this in on an annual basis, so when I return the following year at the same time (around thanksgiving every year) the hole is large, deep and always has fresh tracks at it and beds around it.

All other mineral supplements I’ve used work ok to start, but by next season the site I put it in is always overgrown and clearly not visited by deer, in contrast to the “Deer Cain” which is always trampled and heavily visited.

Over the years the deer in my area have created new trails from multiple directions to my “Deer Cain” sites. I would highly recommend this product to anyone interested in establishing a consistent mineral supplement site.

Unfortunately, I was very disappointed with the craftsmanship associated with this collar. They offered free engraving, which was nice, but when I received it, the brass plate was stamped instead of being engraved.

the text was crooked on the plate and the lines of text overlapped in places. It looks like human error which indicates a lack of pride in the work. Again, really disappointing.

So glad I invested in this collar; it’s so well made and great looking too. Love the rubber stopper so the collar doesn’t come undone. If it’s as good as it looks it should last longer than I anticipated.

Will still/always continue to do my business with this company because I have not had any complaints of any kind at all.

We love this collar and leash combination. It’s very sturdily built and the orange camo color looks great on our yellow Labrador. Shipping was pretty fast, less than a week. We’ll order more of these for the other dogs we have.

I’ve always used liquid lures and scents for training, and this was the first time using a stick type lure. I will say it has an odor, but whether that odor is of waterfowl- I cannot say. It might to my dog, but not to me.

It definitely allowed my dog to find training bumpers faster in the grass because it is potent, and put out more scent than a real bird would. So don’t know how effective it actually is in training a dog to use their nose more in thick veg and brush, since you can smell it from quite a distance away.

Takes very little product applied to a bumper or wing to be very effective. Gets my Brittany’s attention everytime. A great tool for creating a “scent trail” for your dog to follow. Just put a little on a bumper, drag it along the ground (keeping your dog out of the immediate area).

Turn your dog lose at the start of the trail and watch him follow to the reward (bunper). Excellent for teaching your dog to track. I’ve tried the liquid scents, but found them messy (stained everything it came in contact with) and inconvenient.

Thus stuff stays put and there is no mess.

This has worked great to train my dog to trail pheasants. Now 1 ½ years old he trailed a downed pheasant more than 30 yards from where the pheasant went down. Saved my bacon because I was looking where I found the feathers.

We ordered this elk antler for our dog 4 months ago, and she’s still chewing on it! Talk about durable. Our dog is a 55 lb. Lab-mix, and I wouldn’t classify her as an aggressive chewer, but she chews on it daily and loves to play fetch with it.

I have purchased elk antlers for her before from the local grocery story, and not with the best results. One she went through in about a week and the other started splintering so bad, we took it away so she wouldn’t get injured.

This Deluxe Natural Elk Antler has not splintered at all, and she loves it! I would definitely recommend this for anyone’s dog.

These are the best and only elk antlers I will offer to Daisy (and I’ve tried many different ones). She loves them! Daisy is an aggressive chewer and these antlers hold up. I cut off the ends as she chews to sharp points (use an electric saw to do so).

The antlers I bought my “kids” for Christmas came promptly and as ordered. The giant antler is, indeed, giant! Since Christmas has not yet arrived, I can’t tell you how the kids like them.

I have 2 dogs that I’m training and neither responded to the wax well. When they eventually did find it (with help), they just wanted to lick the wax off. I tried the liquid antler scent and they find it quickly and can’t really lick it off if you let it soak in for a little while before letting them find it.

I’m not a fan of “use liberally for best results” because I don’t want my dogs to only find the extremely fresh antlers. I want them to pick up on the slightest scent so I train them to do so. Plus you will go through it very quickly if you are very liberal with it.

Even when I was aggressive with it (after I grew frustrated with it), they still had a hard time finding it. Your dog may react differently, but it didn’t work for either of mine.

rack wax works like maker said it would have my black lab finding sheds where ever i hide them.even in the woods.have all summer to refine him.cant wait for shed season 2023

My 9 month old pup didn’t have much intrest in the sheds I’m trying to train him with. Once I applied the wax his nose went straight to them. He definitely noticed something was different. While he doesn’t know what a “fresh” shed is suppose to smell like, maybe he will pick up this scent in the fields this winter and think it’s his play toy.

This collection is simply beautiful! I have started a Thanksgiving set of dishes and chose the Spode Woodland collection. There are so many options and if a plate gets chipped or broken it is easy to replace.

These plates can go in the microwave and the dishwasher. I also love the fact that there are so many options with additional serving pieces. I plan to add and grow my collection every year. All of the plates (i have the turkey, the rabbit, the fox, the deer and the duck so far) match each other beautifully even though I have bought some at another store.

All of them have a sticker that they are made in England. The art work of this rabbit plate reminds me of a old children’s storybook- it is flawlessly beautiful!.

I love the horse collection and was happy to find it here. Spode has been around for a long time which is why they have excellent products. The Woodland collection is one of my favorites. The horse collection has been discontinued so I was thrilled to find one of the plates I was missing.

The plate is very high quality with beautiful colors.

I love animals, especially dogs. This along with two others is displayed in a plate rack in my formal dining room. Previously I had some heirlooms of my Mothers displayed, but put those away for passing along to the next generation.

Our 5. 5mo Lab/Boxer mix turned into a chainsaw during the last few weeks of her teething (premolars coming in) and anything softer, like the digestible teething rings, was gone in no time. So I picked these up to see if they’d last longer.

They DEFINITELY do. But as with any natural product, you’re going to get some variability. Some of the sticks are more solid-core/thicker than others, and these last the longest. About a day or more for an aggressive chewer like ours.

But some sticks are thinner and sort of hollow, and she basically eats these in an hour. Still though, they keep her entertained longer than any other chewing product I’ve found, I can actually get work done at home, and they’re digestible, so I’m happy.

Finally, they do smell a little, but it’s not awful. Kind of like a rawhide, really. And they don’t leave stains on our light-colored rugs.

I have 4 dachshunds varying from 9 to 30 lbs. Their teeth were getting BAD tartar (calculus) buildup and we were getting warnings from the vet about having to pull teeth. Also their breath was getting worse.

We started brushing nightly with the Petsmile toothpaste but it wasn’t helping. Then we added a nightly light tooth swabbing of a 50/50 mix of aloe vera juice and hydrogen peroxide after brushing. This combined with the toothpaste seemed to soften the tartar but would not remove it.

There needed to be an abrasive action. I tried several products but these were the only ones that seemed safe enough to me. Bones, antlers, chicken feet, rawhide all seemed to come with dire warnings.

The dogs get 15 minutes with these per day, that’s all. After 2 weeks, in conjunction with the nightly brushing and aloe+peroxide swab the tartar is coming off and their breath has improved significantly.

Sometimes the dog’s gum’s get sore due to the aggressive chewing. We back off and give them the Virbac CET Veggie Dent Tartar Dog Chews. These are softer and the dogs chew them up quick but they still get some plaque removal benefit though these are too soft to remove the tartar.

The smallest dog (9lbs) ONLY gets the VeggieDent and not the bully sticks as the sticks are too much for him. Lastly, when these bully sticks get short enough that the dogs might swallow them whole, we drill a hole in the end of the bully stick and bolt on a piece of PVC water pipe so they can’t swallow the whole thing.

During their 15 minutes of chew time we monitor them so they don’t swallow anything whole. I wrote this to help other owners worried about their dogs teeth like I was but not wanting to shell out thousands for a dental cleaning and putting the dogs under anesthetic.

I ordered some really large “trachea” chews as well for big dogs and these smaller ones for my little indoor dogs and they were the BIGGEST HIT for all of them. Granted one dog is a 4lb Chihuahua so the chew was as big as her head but she didn’t care, she pranced all over house with this “big” chew in her mouth and it lasted her about 1 week, clearly because of her size.

my other indoor dog a 9lb Pomeranian, again, huge fan, she made her’s last for a couple days. Lastly my old senior 15 year old 18lb Shih-Tzu, luckily he still has all his teeth, but his lasted a good 3-4 hours.

Overall, extremely happy with the size and product in general. I highly recommend these for anyone who has a dog they love. They do smell, clearly its a dead dried up animal part, but I don’t recommend you let your bed sleeping dogs bring them into bed to chew.

plus they get wet/slimy and release “oil” or ?? whatever is in them, and it’s not the best thing to find on your pillow, under sheets or just in the middle of your bed in general.

TranslateShow in original languageTengo una bodeguera de 13kg y una mestiza de border collie de 16kg, y el tamaño mediano les viene perfecto. No se lo puedo dejar mucho rato porque le empiezan a sangrar las encías, pero lo recomiendo, dura un montón.

TranslateShow in original languageLe deja los dientes muy blancos cada vez que se come uno de estos cuernos. Le encantan

TranslateShow in original languageLe gusta bastante aunque solo a ratos, pero cuando se pone… Se está un montón y le encanta

This is a nicely designed product. Easy setup and takedown using internal springs and retention buckles to hold everything in place. Appears to be very durable as well. As others have mentioned if you have a larger lab it is pretty low; however, you can open both ends (doors Velcro back) and dog can enter from one end and exit from the other.

My dog picked this up in two attempts and it provides plenty of coverage when he’s laying in it. I suppose if they made it larger it would be less compact and weigh so the size is worth the trade off.

With all of that said, I’d buy this again so I highly recommend it!.

When hunting with 2 dogs one experienced and a the other inexperienced the older one owns the permanent blinds dog door so had to hide the puppy somehow. The field blind works perfectly and the pup brings the bird to field blind.

almost every time as he was trained to do.

Excellent dog blind – A+ design. Will likely never need to purchase another one. This blind is an ingenious accordion-style construction, built with durable yet lightweight materials. The built-in sleeves for ground stakes and fold up ground mat are also clever incorporations.

Total game changer; would highly recommend it!!.

My dog got very good at finding sheds smeared in rack wax. Had to go back to using fresh sheds stored outside to get her past the initial stage and her finding them in the field. I think it teaches them to follow the nose at first but the scent isn’t quite right on for field work.

Also they don”t tell you what type of horn it is. My experience from shaving horn and using that, elk, moose, whitetail, and mule deer all smell a little different to a dog. Good start up help beyond that lots of work is the only way.

It came in a much smaller tube than I expected but the rack wax really works. My dog is now finding sheds within five minutes of leaving the pickup. Excellent training tool.

I have tried everything I knew with this dog, built a relationship with him, treats, toys, praise and I wasn’t able to find anything that would motivate him to actually follow the commands that I knew he knew.

I was afraid to use a “shock collar” because I thought it was going to be cruel but it had been 5 months where this 3 year old pit was with me and there seemed to be no progress. I really was not able to find something that worked.

I was at a loss and willing to try just about anything. I watched some of the training videos on sportdog’s page. I ended up buying this and I charged it up like they said. I then tried it on myself first.

I was very surprised, it reminded me of a tens machine that the chiropractor uses, not what I thought it was going to be at all. It’s been 3 days since I started to use this collar (425XS) and he is responding to voice commands now and the “beep” function on the collar.

It is a pleasure taking him out and I’m sure he enjoys not having to be on just a 6’ leash and he gets to run around.

Does exactly what it says on the tin, the dogs know straightaway when the smell it, good for laying scent trails and hiding the dummy to get the dogs to use their nose rather than sight. I trained my first dog with it and now I’m training his son with it and he’s picking it up very quickly.

Training my lab to find and retrieve rabbit and pheasant and the scent has made a huge difference. Definitely recommend it for putting on dummies 👍

An excellent tool. My only ‘gripe’ is that it is not easy to control the flow when applying to a dummy

My oldest son approved the keychain hunting design I selected for my 16 year old. It was a perfect gift for his first set of car keys upon completion of drivers ed and getting his license. Thanks for making this milestone more memorable for him.

He absolutely loves the keychain. It has held up well and the orange background makes it easy to find the keys no matter who is looking for them!!.

A very fun and unique way to show your Paladin Pride! A very well made, attractive and must-have accessory for any student or alumni of Furman University.

Such a great brand and a great stocking stuffer! LOVE everything from this brand. Excellent quality!

Nice mat. My dog loves it!

TranslateShow in original languageGroße Klasse bei Reisen mit einem mittelgroßen Hund. Wurde sofort angenommen.

TranslateShow in original languageDie Unterseite rutscht nicht, der Hund hat sich sofort daraufgelegt 🙂