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-- Allen Gingerich (http://forums.ukcdogs.com/showthread.php?threadid=358061)

I agree that some coons will cross. I have seen it. But in all the years I have coonhunted I would dare say that most dogs that miss by one or two trees, well they just simply missed. Maybe they are treeing scent in the air or the coon tapped the tree they were on. I have a nine year old male I have owned since he was born. He has missed very, very few. Most of the time when he missed it was either a low thick fog and he didn't seem to be able to move the track as good as normal. The other times they were bang up coons that were a tree or two over. Again he seemed to be treeing by scent in the air, not on the tree. He is probably a 95%+ dog. Well above average from what I have hunted with. Anyway, there has to be some criteria that has to be met or every tree with a coon two trees over will be plused. Yes the dogs treed but they didn't have the meat, they missed. All dogs do it, take your minus and move on. And just because trees have leaves on them doesn't make all them a circle tree. JMO

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Brian Teague 252-649-3050

While deer hunting out of stand many years ago I watched a coon for as far as I could see cross over from tree to tree until he passed in front of me and then went out of sight as far as I could see. The coon never touched the ground and made it look easy. Another time I was hunting the most accurate coon hound I have ever had. He treed in a fence row one night, and clearly had no coon in the tree he was treed on. A coon was sitting about 5-6 trees away. The coon could clearly cross yet I was fixing to take a minus. After about 2 minutes of serious squalling from an Olt squaller, the coon CAME BACK to the tree my dog was treed on. Plussed. They can and will cross and do it more than we think.