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Thread: Anyone hunt with a Jack Russel?

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    Anyone hunt with a Jack Russel?

    I’ve been thinking of getting a dog for squirrels and rabbits and whatever other small game I could go for.
    I have a beautiful English pointer but the stocked upland game in my state is about as bad as it gets.
    I figure moving into a small game dog I could open up my hunting a little more.
    Seems jack russels are pretty mean hunters.
    It also helps that the wife likes them and my son wants his “own” dog and this would fit the family dog department too.
    Any experience? Any good breeders?
    Thanks everyone!

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    I know the owner of Coyote Gods Forum uses a Jack as a decoy dog to hunt coyotes
    but that probably isn't what you are wanting
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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael J. Spangler View Post
    I’ve been thinking of getting a dog for squirrels and rabbits and whatever other small game I could go for.
    I have a beautiful English pointer but the stocked upland game in my state is about as bad as it gets.
    I figure moving into a small game dog I could open up my hunting a little more.
    Seems jack russels are pretty mean hunters.
    It also helps that the wife likes them and my son wants his “own” dog and this would fit the family dog department too.
    Any experience? Any good breeders?
    Thanks everyone!
    I'd think a Beagle would be a better choice. Mine, with no training, can follow a rabbit trail blindfolded. I don't hunt her because she has no training and I could never get her back if she was let loose, she gets on a trail and loses her mind trying to follow it, so there is that.
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    Great thought! I also wanted a small Fiesty dog & went with the Mountain Feist. Having a good time with her. Good Luck in your ventures!

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    I just lost my last jack russell terrier and he was a great little squirrel dog . He was a mold diggin machine. Jiggs lived almost 15 years and gave us alot of happiness and service. Feist dog are great little hunters as are mountain curs. I have a blackmouth cur female now and she is a great bloodtrailing dog. The man that i got my jack russels from was from Vienna Illinois and he raised some very gamey little dogs, bad thing is he isnt raising anymore. I am looking for another jack russel now and im not having much luck....................Curdog

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    i used a brittany spaniel (brandy and lacie) for pheasants and grouse. they liked to hunt more than i did!!!! brandy was 10yo when she died and lacie was 14yo. i never hunted squirrels with dogs, just pick a place and my 22lr and we would have fun. my state ,PA, doesn't like to do ringed neck anymore. they go to a state game lands and release 40-50 birds and say thats good enuff. i quit pheasant hunting and small game about 15 or so years ago. i remember that the squirrel opener was just as exciting as the deer opener. oh well, just chalk it up to "those were the days".
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    We had a generic "rat" terrier (last one from a litter that got dumped behind the hardware store) when I was a kid, before anyone around here figured out what a Jack Russell Terrier was. She was death on rats in the feed crib, and loved hunting rabbits. I don't remember her ever really looking for a squirrel in the trees, makes sense, terriers are a ground hunting dog.

    They are lively little dogs; if they figure out that you will throw their toy, you get no rest until they are tired. They also aren't the easiest to house break.

    My best friend had a dachshund that was a good rabbit dog (they were originally bred to go in and fight badgers in the ground).

    Thing is unless you get one of the hound breeds, they aren't likely to sing out when trailing, and might not bark treed with squirrels.

    Robert

    If you have a daughter that has Barbie dolls, a Jack Russell will take great delight in converting them into "Tragic Farming Accident Barbie". I can still remember my six year old daughter chasing Prince through the house screaming "Prince, you little blank head."

    Sorry to say, I was laughing to much to get on her about the language.

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    And then they don't get tired. For some reason, ours thought she was a big dog and would try to kill small foo dogs. Wouldn't back down against anything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Martin Luber View Post
    And then they don't get tired. For some reason, ours thought she was a big dog and would try to kill small foo dogs. Wouldn't back down against anything.
    My son has a Jack and Australian Shepard cross. They have to be careful as he will take on anything anywhere. He is going to get himself badly hurt or dead one day. But he would give his life to protect there 5, 3 and 1 year olds so I’m good with that.

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    What caliber do they come in?

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    I Think small caliber, & way over pressure.

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    Well I used to hunt with Jack Russel, but he got cranky and now I hunt with
    his son, John Russel

    But all that said he was one L of a guy
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    I saw a dachshund /Jack Russel mix the other day up for adoption, My first thought was Man I bet that's one mean little.......dog lol

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    skeetix, you should have been hunting with his sister, Jane!
    Never trade luck for skill.

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    MJS, Have you given your faithful companion (the English pointer) the chance to hunt squirrels and rabbits with you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BMW Rider View Post
    MJS, Have you given your faithful companion (the English pointer) the chance to hunt squirrels and rabbits with you?
    As a matter of fact, no I haven’t.
    I was also looking for an additional dog but I guess I should try the girl on squirrels first.

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    Well now I dont want to break any rules and I am not trying to "SELL" dogs. I have a Lynch dog bred male Duke that weighs 30 lbs. They are old style treeing rat terriers. Next we had a litter of little registered rat terriers from a registered mama elite squirrel dog. Tried to sell them off . Tried to give some away. The "pups", are nearing four years old in October and have become a part of my family. There are no two with the same personality.. Four of my dogs outrun the border collie across the street. May
    have to rehome some of them as I am getting older than 86 years. I read where the Pit Bull was not as fierce as they wanted in the beginning so they introduced some Rat Terrier blood an got what they needed. Oldtimers saying " Not the dog in the fight that counts, it is the fight in the dog."

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    Jack russell terrorists are a special kind of dog that need outdoors. They are not apartment dogs. Beagles are good hunting dogs but terrible pets if you have near by neighbors.

    My sister lives out in the country and has need for dogs to take care of vermin. She has two Jack Russells and feeds and houses them in the barn in an attempt to keep them of the yard. They have eliminated every ground hog, possum, vole, mole, turtle and snake within a quarter of a mile radius of her homestead. While useful in certain circumstances, they are not pets.

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    I heard about a jack russell hunting boars with a bunch of bigger dogs..at one stage the little dog was biting into the underside of a stationary really big pig And the little dog had all his four feet planted against the underside of the boar .... the boar took of running and the dogs owner watched it runaway like that ....eventually the other dogs grabbed it and the little dog was still lugged up in his original spot

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    I’d go with a feist


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