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Posted by HOBO on 10-11-2016 06:39 PM:

How Do They Know?

Last week I cut Pride and a female into a piece of woods that has a nice Creek running through it and a cornfield behind it across the creek, instead of hunting the woods/Creek he looped around me and hunted the cornfield and ended up getting treed on the far side of the cornfield with the meat....
Last night I cut him in the same piece of woods in the same place, this time instead of looping around me and heading for the cornfield he they went up the creek over 700 yards before striking and getting treed....

How did he know to go deep last night and get treed and how or why did he not do the same thing last week?

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Posted by RLenhart on 10-11-2016 06:57 PM:

Re: How Do They Know?

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Originally posted by HOBO
Last week I cut Pride and a female into a piece of woods that has a nice Creek running through it and a cornfield behind it across the creek, instead of hunting the woods/Creek he looped around me and hunted the cornfield and ended up getting treed on the far side of the cornfield with the meat....
Last night I cut him in the same piece of woods in the same place, this time instead of looping around me and heading for the cornfield he they went up the creek over 700 yards before striking and getting treed....

How did he know to go deep last night and get treed and how or why did he not do the same thing last week?

For one thing Dennis I think they can wind a coon from allot farther than you realize.

Posted by HOBO on 10-11-2016 07:03 PM:

He could have winded the one last night, but I'm pretty sure he didn't wind the one last week or he would have made a straight line towards it not circle the field.

It's just interesting to me that I cut him in the same woods at the same place and just about the same time and had two different results on how he hunted.

Posted by RLenhart on 10-11-2016 07:32 PM:

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Originally posted by HOBO
He could have winded the one last night, but I'm pretty sure he didn't wind the one last week or he would have made a straight line towards it not circle the field.

It's just interesting to me that I cut him in the same woods at the same place and just about the same time and had two different results on how he hunted.

I know what your saying but when it comes to dumping a dog on a corn field or some other hot spot and they just refuse to go in the direction I want and head straight in there own direction I figure that dog is either winding something now or he did on the way in inside the box IMO and when they do that they always do get struck pretty quick don't they?

Posted by Hoosier on 10-11-2016 08:47 PM:

$$$

You figure that out Hobo and you can quit your day job!

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Posted by N Williams on 10-11-2016 08:51 PM:

A dog with brains will hunt differently according on weather conditions. You don't think a smart hound would use the wind the same way a mature buck would to there atdvantage? Not saying that's the answer but he could have been using the wind to his advantage.

Posted by Larry Atherton on 10-11-2016 09:22 PM:

The female I hunt now drove me nuts when she was young. It took me a while to figure her out. I know some nights she smells a coon while I am putting the tracking collar on her. Then other times she will run at an angle sort of across or slicing through the direction of the wind.

It never fails ... it is in the direction I don't want her to go.

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Posted by Adam Wingler on 10-11-2016 09:59 PM:

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Originally posted by N Williams
A dog with brains will hunt differently according on weather conditions. You don't think a smart hound would use the wind the same way a mature buck would to there atdvantage? Not saying that's the answer but he could have been using the wind to his advantage.

Bingo. I had a female once that always wanted to run with the wind in her face.

Posted by rick brocious on 10-11-2016 10:27 PM:

If i hunted a patch of woods with my bird dogs if i coud'nt work them in the wind they would circle out around and work back to me with the wind in their favor . Maybe take note which way the winds blowing and see if thats not what happening .

Posted by HOBO on 10-11-2016 10:57 PM:

Hoss hunts like that all the time.

Pride on the other hand doesn't.

Posted by Larry Atherton on 10-12-2016 03:26 PM:

Ahh he just figured he would mess with the old man for a night or two.lol

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