RUDI VAN KETS IS A BELGIAN GAME HUNTER WHO SPECIALISES IN DEER DOG TRAINING AND PREPARING HOUNDS FOR TRACKING TRIALS
It wasn’t long after the opening of the deerstalking season in Belgium (1 October), when I received a call from a member of our group asking me if I could help him locate a deer calf that had been shot during a hunt he was on. He could not conduct the search himself because his young Bavarian mountain hound was still in training.
The phone was then passed to the Gun, who told me what he recalled of the event: “It was last light when I made the shot over a