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Posted by Blktantracker on 06-29-2024 03:40 AM:

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Originally posted by houndsound
I owned a beagle or two who really liked to track deer- despite my encouragement not to, lol. But yes- I hadn't thought of that... a beagle would probably be the ideal dog for that.

Most deer trackers I've talked with have told me the same thing you noticed in your attached quote regarding beagles as deer trackers.

They said their beagles would love to run deer so much that when they were tracking a cold line of the wounded deer from 12-16 hours old, if a live, healthy deer crossed the wounded deer's track, the beagle would often switch to following the much hotter, fresh line.

In rabbit hunting (or coon hunting), that's no big deal. Switching to the hotter track will usually result in a quicker jumped rabbit or treed coon.
Any rabbit or coon will do....

However, when tracking a specific wounded deer, a dog worth keeping MUST ignore all other deer scent and remain glued to the original wounded deer's line of travel.

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