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Training a young dog to check

I have a 16 month old walker gyp, she hunts well with a older finished male. The only problem is when the old dog checks and the coon had tapped and moved on she stays at the original tap even though the old male carried on the track and hard trees on down the trail. The good things is she won't come off tree just because another dog is treed some where else. Is she actually treeing where she smelled the coon tap or just treeing where the old dog bawled on the tap before he checked. Normally he gives 3 long bawls then check's if he doesn't pick up on anything during the check. He lays down slid chop barks when he does tree. He is silent on trail which is fine as I just pleasure hunt. So far she has not picked that up she does bark on track which is what I want.

what does she do when you send her on?
has she ever treed 1st?

Hunt her by herself and then you will know if she is treeing on her own or riding on the older dog's lead. She probably smells the coon on the tree, she just needs more time in the woods. Some guys say leash her and fan out from the tree until she picks up the track, then let her loose to finish it. I lucked out, mine naturally checks, matter a fact when he was young he worked the track to death before he treed.

You'll get many suggestions, just find one that works for your dog

After I pull her off the tap and get her far enough away from it she will go on. I have hunted her 3 times by herself she treed 2, tapped 2, and treed in den trees 3 times which could have went either way. I haven't hunted her by herself much because she's not great around a lot of water yet but she is getting better. When I do hunt her by herself I try and hunt her where there is not as much water.

tapped as she checked the tree?

no she she doesn't check at all she trees at the first tree she smells a coon up. When hunted with the older dog she trees right around where he located before he checks she goes ahead and trees if the old dog doesn't pick up the trail while checking he comes back and lays in with her. When this happens there is a coon there 99% of the time. If he carries on after checking she stays and he trees on down the trail. Some times she does tree first even when she does sometimes the older dog carries on and tree's the coon on down. Sometimes he goes ahead and locates where she is treed, checks, and then comes back to where she treed first and on those occasions there is usually a coon.

tapp slick that makes her 2-7 cull and move on
or except it and hunt money

Yeah, maybe I should just go back to walkers never had this problem with them. Been out of it for a few years and some buddies hunt these blue dogs and I liked there's so I thought I would try them out. But we are just pleasure hunters anyway. I don't need any thing real hi powered any way.

Blue, red, green, pock a dot, there are good and great and the not so good or great. I've seen heinz 57 out hunt and out tree gr. champs in the woods. Its not the trophies its the hides in the freezer. If you like this young dog you can work her into shape with a check cord and a coon in roll cage. sounds like shes off to a decent start. Unless you don't want to put the work in, in that case you may be into the wrong thing.

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