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Hours per week

Okay I know most everyone hunts all night every night. But just for fun to compare thoughts. how much time in the woods do you think the average hound gets on average? Not driving time not thinking of hunting time not made up time, true woods time.

The avg hound or our personal hound?

My dog probably gets somewhere around 15-35 roughly. Depends on how wore down I am more so than the dog.

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Hill Country Kennels Itty-Bitty
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Average hounds get 5 hours per week...if it's lucky

If you are talking about everyone that identifies as a coonhunter and has a dog or two and your talking about year round, it will average less than an hour per night and probably less than an hour per month. When you call about half of the dogs for sale you will be told they are pen stale and need to be hunted up.

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Tom Wood

If mine don’t get at least 10 hours a week I don’t feel like I’m doing my job

Went last night we hunted what I thought was a long hunt when we got through I told my buddy if we were still hunting in the 3 hr hunt days we would just now be finished lol.


Tar

Dogs in the woods and hunting 2 hrs a night, 5 nights a week every week is only 10 hrs a week. Do 50% of coonhunters do that?

On another note, how many trees does everyone's dog make in a typical night or on average?

What matters most quantity or quality.....time spent or tracks run/trees made?

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Originally posted by Richard Lambert
Dogs in the woods and hunting 2 hrs a night, 5 nights a week every week is only 10 hrs a week. Do 50% of coonhunters do that?

On another note, how many trees does everyone's dog make in a typical night or on average?

What matters most quantity or quality.....time spent or tracks run/trees made?

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Well I hunted last night from 7 to 2 am. My young female only made 2 trees, she backed on a porcupine and treed a coon. The other dogs we were hunting managed to tree 8 singles and a double.

Monday I hunted similar times and treed a couple with her. Saturday hunted from 8-11, treed 1. Sunday hunted from 9-1 treed 2.


But I'd say the avg dog doesn't hunt but 1 night a week at most. And they probably only hunt for an hour or 2.

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Eric DePue
Hill Country Kennels Itty-Bitty
PKC CH Wax's Late Night Boom
And
Partners on a few common trashy young dogs

Gone but not forgotten

GrNtCh, PKC Ch Hillbilly Bildo
Pr Broken Oaks Wild Blue Gypsy

I don't think it is really about the amount of hours the dog spends in the woods at all. It's about how you and your dog handle the time spent in the woods. Weather it is just minutes or hours.
I hunted some dogs way to many hours that never made worth while coon dogs.

So Eric, that is 14 hrs and 7 trees.

Tarbaby, that sounds like 3 hrs and 6 trees.

I hunted 4 hrs last night and my dogs made 1 tree and 2 holes.

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Originally posted by Richard Lambert
So Eric, that is 14 hrs and 7 trees.

Tarbaby, that sounds like 3 hrs and 6 trees.

I hunted 4 hrs last night and my dogs made 1 tree and 2 holes.

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Originally posted by pamjohnson
I don't think it is really about the amount of hours the dog spends in the woods at all. It's about how you and your dog handle the time spent in the woods. Weather it is just minutes or hours.
I hunted some dogs way to many hours that never made worth while coon dogs.

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Originally posted by Richard Lambert
Dogs in the woods and hunting 2 hrs a night, 5 nights a week every week is only 10 hrs a week. Do 50% of coonhunters do that?

On another note, how many trees does everyone's dog make in a typical night or on average?

What matters most quantity or quality.....time spent or tracks run/trees made?

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? And being serious

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Originally posted by novicane65
Well I hunted last night from 7 to 2 am. My young female only made 2 trees, she backed on a porcupine and treed a coon. The other dogs we were hunting managed to tree 8 singles and a double.

Monday I hunted similar times and treed a couple with her. Saturday hunted from 8-11, treed 1. Sunday hunted from 9-1 treed 2.


But I'd say the avg dog doesn't hunt but 1 night a week at most. And they probably only hunt for an hour or 2.

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Sounds like some needs to do more hunting and some training in woods!! and less time on the internet.

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C.JONES

Aimed at me

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Originally posted by CHEWBACH
Sounds like some needs to do more hunting and some training in woods!! and less time on the internet.

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Originally posted by Dogwhisper
Average hounds get 5 hours per week...if it's lucky

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Originally posted by CHEWBACH
Sounds like some needs to do more hunting and some training in woods!! and less time on the internet.

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I don't have the energy to hunt more than one dog a night. So I'd say quality is more important to me than quantity. I'm usually in the woods by 7 try to get 2 treed and to the house 4 to 5 night's a week. Most night's I'm heading out of the woods by 8 and 9 on a bad night. I keep 2 dogs hunted up and ready for competition this way without any problems.

I can’t remember the last night I missed and If I could I’d QUIT!!! 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

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jason

It depends on the time of year. April 15th to July 8th is our quiet time (can't have a dog in the woods), but we can competition hunt. This is the least hunting my dog gets. Summer time once or twice a week. Fall, I hunt pretty much 4 nights a week. Winter I hunt as much as the weather allows. This year it has been pretty close to 3 nights a week. Deep snow and extreme temperatures will keep me home (well sometimes). Cabin fever can be a really bad thing. A couple of years ago, I stepped off the road and was waist deep in snow.

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Larry Atherton

Aim small miss small

Re: ? And being serious

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Originally posted by nextcoonhunters
Not being rude in any way. Just curious. When you gave these times is that dog in woods time or home to home time?

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Eric DePue
Hill Country Kennels Itty-Bitty
PKC CH Wax's Late Night Boom
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Partners on a few common trashy young dogs

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GrNtCh, PKC Ch Hillbilly Bildo
Pr Broken Oaks Wild Blue Gypsy

Re: Aimed at me

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Originally posted by nextcoonhunters
If that was aimed at me, strap your boots on and come on boy. Day or night I'll take off to hunt with you. Bring your dog and let's go. I don't hunt all night every night, hunt when I can. Hunted last night made it home about midnight. Buggs only hunted for maybe an hour. Between driving and cutting different dogs.
If it wasn't aimed at me, yes lots need to spend more time in the woods.

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C.JONES

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Originally posted by Richard Lambert
So Eric, that is 14 hrs and 7 trees.

Tarbaby, that sounds like 3 hrs and 6 trees.

I hunted 4 hrs last night and my dogs made 1 tree and 2 holes.

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Eric DePue
Hill Country Kennels Itty-Bitty
PKC CH Wax's Late Night Boom
And
Partners on a few common trashy young dogs

Gone but not forgotten

GrNtCh, PKC Ch Hillbilly Bildo
Pr Broken Oaks Wild Blue Gypsy