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This is probably some of the best advice ever given to me. But it has been easier to follow , like before fuel was $4.00 a gallon. So I am just curious what some of your on a budget training tips are. I will start off with some things I do. I check my live traps on the way home from work. I try to involve my family with the dogs as much as possible, after awile bringing dogs along doing every day activities seems normal. I do not take cats close to home. I am sure there is a long list of stuff, I never thought of. I would like to hear them. Thanks in advance, I have a few more. But I'm holding out until more of you share. Thank you, John.

I shopped around for the best bang for my buck in dog food, I prefer taking a snowmobile or 4 wheeler over my truck, used old wood laying around to make my kennel, I got 50 gallon plastic barrels from work for houses, used double u graphics to get my gear would of cost more at other places, I hunt out of a 6 cyclinder now but a 4 was better mileage but couldnt tow a trailer well.

I keep reminding myself that all I need is a hunting dog, a hunting license, and some means to get to the woods in order to catch game. All the extra stuff are just wants, not needs.
I hunted without telemetry for a long time, I use it but don't need the latest and greatest. It sure is comforting, but I truely don't need it at all if it comes down to that.
A nice 4wd truck is nice, but a tercel will get a guy to the woods. From there on the old legs can get it done. Heck even before that I walked from the house and did the best I could.
Radios, fancy clothing, dog boxes, shocking collars, registration papers, and on and on. All stuff that surely isn't needed to get the dogs in the woods. I have most all of it, but if something is broke, unavailable, lost, etc; it really doesn't matter at all when it comes to getting into the woods. So I guess I would say, keeping them in the woods is a matter of perspective. Excuses are just that as long as the dog isn't dead and my legs work.
Pat