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Originally posted by Justin Smith
I've had times where I thought coon were thing , or a certain places was jynxed ... but the truth is , if you are hunting where there is coon sign and your dog is being honest then they should strike within hearing most of the time.
You could be hunting on the moon , but if there were coon tracks and food/water/shelter where you cut loose .... the dogs should most often strike within hearing .
What you don't seem to get is there are areas of the country where there ISN'T the population for dogs to be striking within hearing.
Like I said, I have the same dog different territory/coon population. Where I used to live she struck out of hearing regularly, not because she was doing anything different then than now, but because there were very few coons there. I put out a feeder bucket to help with training her when she was a pup, the area of woods is about 10 square miles or so roughly. I put it on a creek that runs year round. It took TWO WEEKS to get a coon to find that feeder and another week or two before he was using it regular. One coon. The coon population was just that thin there. I lived there for several years. Never had a problem with her striking out of hearing when I drove an hour or so to an area with more coon, but where I lived coon were very few and far between and you had to have a dog that would hunt deep to consistantly tree coons there.
Now my dog still does the same things, still hunts the same way, but consistantly not only strikes but strikes and trees within a quarter. Same dog, more coon. If she could have struck and treed within a quarter where I used to live she would, but the coons were so thin many times she was out for 45 minutes or an hour before they ever came across a track to run.
There are plenty of areas in the country that if a dog strikes out of hearing it passed over coon. But there are also areas of the country where if you don't have a dog that hunts for an hour or so you won't be treeing many coon. It's just that simple.
Don't make the mistake of assuming what happens in your area is universal.
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