I have a question about scent and article training. Not for tracking
but for another hobby of ours.

Last evening I was talking with Reznor's first trainer who has
become a pretty good friend. I told her we hunt and collect
indian arrowheads. We are surface hunters not diggers. Anyway
she went on to ask if we used detector device, well no
as these are flint. She said well you could teach one
of your dogs, ie Blade would be perfect.

So what types of books, videos etc would help teach
this? What are the possibilities of a dog smelling untouched
flint under the ground say 2"-4" and digging them up? Is that
possible? I am sure it is, but I am not sure where to start.

Any suggestions in regards to this would be greatly appreciated.
She had a few but nothing that would advance us to outside
untouched artifacts. I would think it is one thing to teach using
arrowhead your hands had been all over for years and a whole
other thing to teach in which no one has touched it for maybe
100+ years.

Gwen