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Button Buck
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I am very new to training,
I have read on other posts about when shooting around your dog, watching out for adverse reactions.
What would these be, and what would you do for it?
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Tracker
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Usually if a dog is gun shy they will run and look for a place to hide. Some people will leave them in a dog box so they can't run and reassure them everything is alright to get them used to it. Some dogs however will always be gun shy no matter what you do. Once they get accustom to the sound and realize it is not hurting them then they are usually o.k.
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Gameskeeper
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I've trained several dogs and a few horses to be around guns.
Adverse reactions? Well, my old Golden Retriever used to tuck her tail in between her legs, run and hide, and throw up all over the place. I guess that's adverse.  Most of the time if a dog doesn't like the noise, the only negative reaction is gonna be some variation of that from my experience. I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but from my experience, I've never seen a dog get aggressive, overly protective, or violent because of the noise. They will usually just shy away.
The main thing is for them to be comfortable from my experience. I start out shooting a cap gun, will upgrade to a muzzleloader with just powder only, maybe use my .45 long colt pistol with blanks and eventually a shotgun and high powered rifle. A dog's hearing is excellent as we all know, so the sound of a gun is quite painful for a lot of them. Some dogs may have had a bad experience with fireworks or something else that they will associate the noise with too. Or like a buddy of mine's dog, he used to get shot with a super soaker water gun quite often by his kids, so it associated the gun with getting wet and would head for the hills anytime a gun was brought out.
Good luck training your dog... 
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Button Buck
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With one of my previous dogs, we took her to a skeet range while others were shooting. That way we could keep her calm and slowly work her in closer to the shooting until she got used to it.
Good Luck
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