Train Your Hunting Dog With Either a Bird Launcher or Bumper Launcher

Training your gun dogs to hunt, whether it’s for flushing, pointing, or retrieving, there are great tools at your disposal.  Bird and Dummy Launchers are available with remote control devices that can be used together or separately to fill your training needs.

Remote Bird and Dummy Launchers

Whichever launcher you’re using (bird or dummy), you can use a remote control with it, allowing you to train your dog without having extra trainers to run the launchers for you.  Without a remote, you’ll need a person at each launcher to “man the switch.”  This can be distracting for the dog. 

Other extras with bird launchers include bird calls, sounds, and beeps that can be used to train your dog in field craft and hunting.  Which kind of launcher (bird or dummy) will depend on the specific type of training you are doing with your dog.  Your goal is to make an effective and confident hunting companion and launchers can be an essential tool towards this goal.

Remote Bumper Launchers

Teach your dog to retreive using a dummy launcher. This is the perfect tool if you like to work on your own, and the dummies will launch much further in height and distance than throwing it using your strength. This is helpful because your dog will be able to learn to retrieve game that is farther from you. The purpose of the dummy launcher is to train your dog to retrieve because launching by hand is too close. It will be a sort of fetching game for your dog versus real-life training. For added convenience, remote launchers can emit sounds to teach your dog to behave as if you were out on the field hunting game, like ducks or pheasants. 

Bird Launcher

To train a pointer or flushing dog, bird launchers are almost essential.  A significant advantage with these is the ability to set up multiple launchers in the field to simulate an actual hunting area.  Dogs are natural hunters and honing those skills is most easily done by mimicking what their skills were bred for.  Training a dog to honor another’s point for the flush and to be effective in finding and pointing are much more easily done while using a bird launcher.  Pointing dog trainers have been using them for years and now flushing dog trainers are seeing the huge advantages these tools can offer as well.  Using the low-ground spring latch, these launchers can effectively train for quail and pheasant as well as high-flying birds like fowl.