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Need help gettin a dog to go huntin

I have a 1.5 year old dog that onlly hunts 20 yards..i just started her in january and when she finds a track she does it right but she just wont knock out the country by her self. She will hunt with another dog and go as far as it takes to find one.

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take u a magazine or a book out with u and sit down and read it he will get bored and move out or cut him loose in the middle of a feild so he has to get aways from u to get to the woods...good luck!

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sorry....(her)

Hunt her by herself and just walk hunt her. My pup was the same way when i started him. Took me about 3 months. Now he kicks dirt in your face. I think walking them teaches them tracks dont come to you. You go to them. Good luck.

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Originally posted by Dgillihan
I have a 1.5 year old dog that onlly hunts 20 yards..i just started her in january and when she finds a track she does it right but she just wont knock out the country by her self. She will hunt with another dog and go as far as it takes to find one.

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Originally posted by ole hoss
Hunt her by herself and just walk hunt her. My pup was the same way when i started him. Took me about 3 months. Now he kicks dirt in your face. I think walking them teaches them tracks dont come to you. You go to them. Good luck.

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Originally posted by J.Fox
Have you been messing with her on a caged coon ?

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200 not 20 yards. Never seen a cage coon and it dont matter if you turn her lose with a poodle or a grnite she hunts hard and trees her own just not hard goin by herself

if she goes 200 yrds that would suit me fine but everybody got thier own opion i won't keep a dog thats goes like a race horse and goes clear outa the country but thats just me

If shes going 200 yds just keep hunting her alone. Be paitent and just sit still. She will be going deep before long and you will wish she was just 200 yds when you look down and see .78 on the garmin and not a road in sight.

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Man just keep hunting her you got to be patient with young hounds. They are like a baby they don't know it all fresh out the gate. You have to crawl before you walk and walk before you run. I bought a pup at 6 months old that had never been off the chain. I have hunted her 3 nights a week for the last 3 months. She is just now getting to where she will go with the other dogs. I had her out last Saturday night and she went 900 yards with the other dogs. When she came back I loved her up and made a big deal over it. The next drop other dogs went, she went with them about 100 yards and went over the bank into the creek and stayed in the creek by herself for about 300 yards. When she came back I loved her up and headed toward the other dogs. She went 600 yards to them and ended up about 800 before she came back. I loved her up again and came home. When they do what you want as a pup love her up and make a big deal out of it, they will get the hint. My pup will go every step now with a dog that is running track but still hasn't opened on track or tree yet. I'm looking just any day for her to open up and get after them. But you see what I'm saying, it has taken me 3 months of hunting her 3 nights a week to get her to just get out there. I seen it time and time again, people will get pups and think they should be a coon hound right out the gate. Just be patient if its in her it will come out.

Set up a feeder at 150 yards, if she goes to it 3 times in a row, move it 25 more yards. Keep doing this until you get the feeder 400 yards away and she will consistently go to it. Normally once they will go 400 yards everytime, you can remove the feeder and they will just keep on going until they hit a track. Some dogs you can progress more than 25 yards at a time. Works better if you have at least two places where you can set this up, instead of going to the same place everytime. Good luck

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Let her go. Close the tailgate and get in the truck.

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Originally posted by hillbilly56
if she goes 200 yrds that would suit me fine but everybody got thier own opion i won't keep a dog thats goes like a race horse and goes clear outa the country but thats just me

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Originally posted by hillbilly56
if she goes 200 yrds that would suit me fine but everybody got thier own opion i won't keep a dog thats goes like a race horse and goes clear outa the country but thats just me

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I walk em for a bit...places I know they will find a track...when I think there aughta be a track (creek bottom...corn field edge etc) I have a seat..and wait longer and longer...and don't pet em or talk to them..just ignore them..eventually they learn its runner to go hunting than be ignored...I will tell em go hunting....

A little patience...but they learn to go...then they learn where to hunt and find tracks and it all clicks...

I've never had a dog just blow outta there when I was starting it...but they are my buddy and the love me...they haven't learned what's expected of them yet..

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Well if you have never showed her a caged coon that's good. My theorie on the caged coon and I have seem it happen and have had to try to fix many is they will get to where they will associate you with the coon and it can cause one not to want to go hunt they are expecting you to do it for them because hey you been doing it for them every time all they know is you have the coon you pull it up the tree all they have to do is tree. Now you put them with something they may go seen it happen many times put them by thereself, you have to walk them to hunt another bad habbit you dont want to start, dogs don't think like we do so you have to do it all diffrent Lots of people think there doing the right thing and in your mind you are but in the dogs mind your doing it for them. Same as trash breaking works the same way. Did you raise this female or did you buy her ? And some dogs just want hunt by themself through genetics or what ever it may be they just have to have another dog.

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Re: Need help gettin a dog to go huntin

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Originally posted by Dgillihan
I have a 1.5 year old dog that onlly hunts 20 yards..i just started her in january and when she finds a track she does it right but she just wont knock out the country by her self. She will hunt with another dog and go as far as it takes to find one.

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i thought I was going to have the same problem with my bone collector female at 6 months old she would only go 300 yrds at best and would usually stay about 100 yrds away at 8 months old she would go with another dog out to about 600 yrds and if they didn't hit a track she would be back at ten months old some times she would go deep and other times she would hang around now when I cut her she is going to go until she gets struck had her go over a mile a couple of times and 800-1000 is common now if the coon ain't moving also the little gyp has a knack of knowing which direction to go in order to get struck I have cut the dogs and them all take off in a straight line then all of a sudden her she goes fly by me in the other direction and usually she is the one to get struck first

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