Travel
Tips
Both Wingshooting Wisdom books have travel tips and other tidbits
for the savvy hunter. Here’s a travel tip I came up with years
ago and still find useful today.
Traveling long distances by vehicle with a dog requires commitment
and planning. And carrying numerous dogs requires ten times that.
But no matter how many canine travelers make the trip care and devotion
should be foremost. First, make sure to bring their familiar food
and water along and never deviate from their home feeding, exercise,
and pit-stop schedule. At home, my dogs’ exercise and cleanout
twice daily once in the morning and again late afternoon, and when
traveling I stop approximately on their scheduled time, not mine.
Don’t change the dogs schedule if driving though a different
time zone. Wait until after you reach your final destination to
make the change.
If making a long journey, each morning you are on the road, let
the dogs have time on the ground before starting the next leg of
the trip, then twice throughout the travel day and once upon arriving
at your target stopover. If moteling it, while traveling, I find
an adequate place to exercise the dogs before I check in. That way,
I already have a place to exercise them before retiring for the
night and first thing in the morning. Remember, a dog’s needs,
come first, for you are their keeper.
Hunter’s Tidbits
Ben
O. Williams’s Gravity Fed, Canine Watering Container
Here’s a neat easy to build project, that’s low cost
and extremely useful in the field or when traveling. Any local plumbing
shop will have the components and tools and most are happy to assist
or assemble it for you.
Parts and Instructions:
1. Cut one length of sewer light-wall 6 or 8-inch diameter schedule
30/34 pipe (or PVC pipe). The length is determined by how and where
it fits into your pickup or SUV.
2. Two PVC end caps, 6 or 8-inch diameter pipe. Glue end caps to
pipe.
3. One boiler drain, 1/2 male valve for water intake and outlet.
Drill hole, tap threads, screw in valve and seal. The placement
is at bottom on front cap. Made sure, valve handle is above the
bottom of the end cap and hose outlet is at one side (left or right).
4. Air vent. One, PVC short nipple, size 1/2 or 3/4-inch diameter,
drill hole, tap threads, screw in nipple and seal. Placement is
on top of front-end cap. One brass cap (brass doesn’t rusted).
Note: A boiler drain valve can also be used for the air vent in
place of a nipple and cap.
5. Small can of PVC glue
6. 20 feet of 3/4-inch garden hose for filling container. (Both
ends must have female fittings or add female/female coupling to
main valve hose outlet)
7. Three or four feet of 3/4 garden hose for watering dog on the
ground. (One end female fitting, the other end cut.) Click
here to view the final illustration
Ben's
Suggested Web Site Links
Alberta
and Saskatchewan upland bird hunting outfitters.
Coming
soon! Other Travel Tip and Hunting Tidbits
For the dogs:
Finding good places to stop to exercise dogs when traveling.
Traveling with multiple dogs takes a completely different playbook.
Moteling it with dogs
Field time before making a trip
Canine Obedience before the hunt starts
To do or not to do watering dogs in the field
Inexpensive/ideal watering pan for traveling and field use
For the Hunter:
Shooting Tidbits
Tips When Wingshooting
Best guns and shot shell sizes for each species
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