Meet the German Pointer

[TheSheWolf]

Got a theoricall question, imagine i have my pointer well trained(around lvl30) and is able to track deer, so now imagine i shot at a deer and is a body shot, the deer flees, there is no other deer track other than the blood track of the after mentioned deer, now i give the command to my dog to find the closest deer, since i have the track right there, would the pointer start tracking that deer and follow until it found it corpse(if is already dead) like if were the scent hound?

I tested this with a coyote as soon as they came out, actually, though NOT with a WOUNDED animal, just a big coyote I'd spotted. The first time, she did just that, and ran to and pointed at the coyote, who hadn't gone all that far--and I was going that way, anyway.

The second time she did not; I assume it doesn't work on SPOOKED animals. She just wandered off into oblivion.

So tentatively I'm going to say no, they can't really be directed that way, unfortunately.

[Commanche]

My thoughts so far is that I've paid for a new hunting companion, that's it. I can do everything she does but in half the time / distance traveled. Hopefully the tracking / pointing gets better and quicker at higher levels. She's level 5 right now.

[DutchHunter74]

Thank you Graham and all members of the EW staff!

This is absolute a great addition to the game! I've hunted last weekend a few hours with my pointer and the way I can hunt pheasants and especially rabbits (those critters are otherwise hard to get) is absolute fantastic!
(now hoping that my pointer learns to retrieve/fetch & flush and that pointing deer etc. is given to my scent hound

EW, keep up the good work!

[RidgeBack69]

Thank you Graham and all members of the EW staff!

This is absolute a great addition to the game! I've hunted last weekend a few hours with my pointer and the way I can hunt pheasants and especially rabbits (those critters are otherwise hard to get) is absolute fantastic!
(now hoping that my pointer learns to retrieve/fetch and that pointing deer etc. is given to my scent hound

Yes please!

[Knut]

(now hoping that my pointer learns to retrieve/fetch and that pointing deer etc. is given to my scent hound

That'd be great and totally make sense!

I fully support this

[Commanche]

Definitely support the fetch part. Same as my vizslas. At the moment I just hate the detours it takes. Spent hours running up and down VDB's river yesterday looking for bunnies... In BR it fared better, but it's almost like the dog takes a pre-planned route. Nevertheless, it's starting to grow on me.

[Knut]

it's almost like the dog takes a pre-planned route.

Before detecting anything, the dog mirrors your movements and always stays ahead/in front of you within a certain distance.

[Pittie]

One thing I do not understand.
If I give the track rabbits command, I get sometimes a exclamation mark and "dog detection activated", but 2 sec. later it disappear. What does this mean?

[EndPin]

That exclamation mark (!) just means that your dog understood your command.

[Pittie]

That exclamation mark (!) just means that your dog understood your command.

Thank you, but why the dog do nothing?