Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Minnesota
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You all know any way of getting a young hound to start opening on track?

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Registered: Jan 2007
Location: West Ky
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Put him on a deer. Seriously though, if you hunt him in a place with a little water standing in it they seem to get more smell. Another way is to get him fired up over a coon in a cage and then turn him loose where his has to run by smell sometimes this will do it.

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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 203

thanks, I am working on trapping a coon now. hopefully i dont have to resort to an old fashioned deer chase.

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Registered: Nov 2006
Location: penna.
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keep him on leash when the other dogs are running.you mite even need to take him to the tree .on the lead he will start to open
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Missouri
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They may open more or less depending on the type of track, how hot the track is, how old they are and various other factors, but imo how much a dog opens on track is almost 100% bred in.

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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Minnesota
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thanks guys for the responses. I will try these out.

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Registered: Jan 2007
Location: Al
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Climb some trees and shake some coon out on your dog if he dont bark then, either live with a silent dog or move him on

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Registered: Jul 2006
Location: Turtle Mountains, ND
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Many years ago, I bought a female about 18 months old that had never been hunted. I started her without a trained dog and she did not open on track or tree the first few coons she treed. Then one day I heard her let out a scream and then sqawl on a hot coon track and she was open from that point forward. I wouldn't worry if the dog is just getting started.

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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Shelby Co. IN
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Originally posted by Rick Ennen
Many years ago, I bought a female about 18 months old that had never been hunted. I started her without a trained dog and she did not open on track or tree the first few coons she treed. Then one day I heard her let out a scream and then sqawl on a hot coon track and she was open from that point forward. I wouldn't worry if the dog is just getting started.

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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: South Dakota
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Hunt it. If it's going to be an open trailing dog, it will on its own. If its going to be silent, it will be. Nothing you do will change it either way.

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Originally posted by Josh Flatten
Hunt it. If it's going to be an open trailing dog, it will on its own. If its going to be silent, it will be. Nothing you do will change it either way.

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Location: North GA
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I'd rather figure out how to shut some of them up nowdays myself lol.....

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Registered: Jan 2008
Location: icard , North Carolina
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sometimes it happens. i hunt with a male walker dog that wont open on track. i could turn him into a night champion real fast if it wasnt for that. hes a lock down tell em all tree dog and he'll bark on the chain but not on track for some reason.

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Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Eastern MN
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let me know if you find anything that works, im hunting a 1.5 year old blue that opens at the tree alone and opens once or twice with company.

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you can do it is in the dogs gens,,some things can help but it is 98 percent in the blood as gens

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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Shelby Co. IN
Posts: 444

Hunting them with a dog that chases or tracks the other dogs will shut them up a little. I don't know about getting them to open. I think the guys that say its bred in are completely right.

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