15 Terms
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Sporting events
hunting your backtrail/ echo trail
Hunting & fishing; Sporting events
Re-tracing your steps while run and gun hunting in order to strike birds that may have come to your earlier calls.
hup
Hunting & fishing; Sporting events
The command used to stop spaniels to allow the guns to keep up with the dog. On "hup" the dog sits.
horn
Hunting & fishing; Sporting events
1) A permanent protrusion from a game animal's head, as opposed to antlers, which are shed annually. Sheep and antelope species have horns, while deer have antlers. 2) The protrusion from the pommel ...
hotspot
Hunting & fishing; Sporting events
An area of strong scent left where a bird was sitting. Dogs often false point hotspots.
holed-up
Hunting & fishing; Sporting events
Term used to describe a rabbit or squirrel that has eluded the dogs and/or the hunter by entering a tree cavity, hole in the ground or other such refuge.