Registered: Nov 2006
Location: Virginia
Posts: 566

Been hunting 1 and sometimes 2 dogs at a time...It's awesome to hear both hounds work a track and tree like crazy..Thats the good points...Now what I consider the bad..When you drop these 2 dogs, they are going to go till they tree..Never checking back in. That may be 2 miles, may be 2 hundred yards..Anyway, I like to go at 7pm. and be home within 2 or 3 hours...I can generally do that if it's just 1 dog out...It'll hunt close by itself...But not with company. I know a lot of guys want to turn em loose and not see em again till under the tree, but as for me, I am going to hunt 1 dog..Put it in the box, then hunt the other. Just talking....

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Registered: May 2006
Location: Gauley Bridge,Wv
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you could take 2 dogs 1 dog per drop make sure to lock your box tho thats how we do it just a thought

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Lumpkin, Ga
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I hunt that way for the same reason.

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Location: Western Virginia
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I was hunting by myself when I was 13 yrs old leading 3 dogs carrying my rugar 10/22 and hold a light at the same time. Tell me I wasn't out there in the dark because I didn't love it. haha. The three dogs I had was 2 started young blueticks and their mother. There mother was a finished coon hound when she barked it was good as gold you knew it was a coon. She was tight mouth she never said a peep until she winded a coon. I would let her loose and let her hunt. She would hunt close. Once she striked and started the track. I would point the younger dogs in the right direction and tell them to listen. Then i would tell them to hunt'em up and un snap them. They would shortly open up with there momma trail track and tree. Thus making them more accurate and they could watch and learn from momma. This embeded into their brain what they was supposed to run and tree. As they got older and they had it down I then started letting them loose one at a time to hunt with the finished hound. Now that momma dog has past away and I still have the once younger pup which is now a 7 and a half yr old finished hound. And now when she strikes its good as gold!.......This just my experience. Besides letting them both off to hunt. Let your best hound loose to hunt and keep the other on the lead and pack it onto the track once the other dog strikes and you can tell that he/she is working a good track. It just a way I train my dogs to be more accurate. And this way you can still hear that two dog sounds out thur the hardwood without being out all nite looking for dogs. I'm not a competition hunter. I'm a pleasure hunter that hunts ALOT. You don't have to take this from me but it works for me.

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Registered: Oct 2008
Location: Western Virginia
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have always had good luck doing this with a older dog to help make a pup more accurate and to start them out on the right foot. Haha and not a prolonged aggervating nite running thur the woods chasing dogs.

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Location: Lumpkin, Ga
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I like to start pups by themselves. I like to hunt several older trained together and watch them go too but they tend to go too far -- farther than they have to when hunted that way. I don't mind going half a mile to a tree and pulling the dogs and doing it again several more times rather than going all over the country finding dogs treed 3-4 miles away when they could be treed 1 mile away.

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Good to see I'm not the only one.

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Registered: Jun 2008
Location: willard,ohio
Posts: 255

Out here in northern ohio you don't have the big sections of woods you do in other parts of the country. Also you have a very healthy coon population. So dogs that go 2 or 3 miles are usually just racing each other through the woods on a straight line. I'm not saying the dogs don't get out of pocket here but it shouldn't happen very often. I hunt a small 14 acre patch of woods that I have never turned a dog loose and not got struck in that woods. It's my favorite spot!!! So easy to hunt! Also I hate leading 2 dogs out of the woods.

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