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Ideas from guys who hunt thick brush/cutover

I moved to north Florida 2 years ago and decided to get back into coon hunting recently.

Most of my hunting has been done in the mountains of Virginia until now. I have put together what I think, are a couple of decent dogs.

I have about 5000 acres of timber company land that I hunt up in South Georgia. It is planted pines with cypress heads, and creeks with hardwoods. This stuff is the thickest, nastiest, wettest land you can imagine. Not deep water, but just wet everywhere. I think some people call it "cut over".

This property is covered with coons and hasnt been coon hunted in years, which I thought was a blessing. There are several feeders with game cameras that show sometimes up to 6 or 7 coons at a time.

I can cut em and be on a track in less than 5 or 10 minutes every time.
What Im finding, is the dogs have a really really tough time pushing a track through the dense underbrush.

We also usually get a lot of slick trees when we cut em around a deer feeder. I tell myself that it is because there is so much coon activity around those feeders, but I really dont know. I feel like they should be more than 50% accurate having as many coons as we do. Neither dog has been hunted in this kind of environment. This sounds dumb to me, but can having too many coons make it harder for dogs?

Short of finding another property that is not so thick with underbrush and water, what can we do to improve the speed and accuracy of my dogs? I assume keep hunting them and keep recutting them if theyre slick.

I would like to hear from any other members that hunt this kind of property, and their experience.

Thanks!

Carry a machetee! Just hunt and learn how to move around in it.

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Bill Harper
Washington, NC
252-944-5592

Stop turning out on feeders.

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Donald Bergeron

Insigjt

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Originally posted by shadinc
Stop turning out on feeders.

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Re: Insigjt

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Originally posted by Ehill
Can you give me some insight on why you say that? I will say we dont turn out on a feeder specifically, but there are so many, its impossible for the dogs not to come across one no matter where I turn em on this property.

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Donald Bergeron

Transition

I am from Coastal Eastern NC and hunt a lot of the same stuff. I have had some dogs in the past that came from the Mountains and they all struggled at first. Not sure why but some of them adjusted some did not. Good luck!

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Roy Jarman

Florida

Call me I hunt north Florida. 812 381 1130

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Originally posted by Mckinneykraig
Call me I hunt north Florida. 812 381 1130

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