Registered: Jan 2009
Location: pana,ill
Posts: 534

Since we are on the subject of comp.dog vs pleasure dogs,why does nobody really enjoy the pleasure dog anymore?That the only reason i still hunt too pass on a family tradition

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I do. Lord help us if all breeders start focusing on breeding for competition. Some of the best winning hounds wouldn't earn they're feed at a pleasure hunters house.

I competition hunt. I like to haul a dog I feel gives me a chance to win, but I gotta be able to stand hunting that dog during the week and during the fall.
At the same time, I like to hear a dog run a track, but I don't want to listen to it waller around all night. I like a dog to tree with accuracy, but I don't want to listen to hit locate and check and locate and check and locate for 5 minutes before it settles in to a tree. I like a dog to be treed, standing back is just fine, but milling around here and there 1/2 hearted treeing ain't gonna cut it. Just a couple things some pleasure hunters might overlook.
I like a dog to leave me hunting, but I want it to have enough sense to start hunting the woods I put it in and not the next section over. I want a dog to be independent enough to tree its own coon, but I don't want to constantly walk to trees by myself everytime I go hunting with my buddies either. I like a dog to go hunting and get treed, but I don't want it treeing blanks or just pop up coon either just for the sake of getting treed in the first 5 minutes either. Just a few things competition hunters might overlook.

Top pleasure dogs can and do win in competition. And some top competition dogs are a pure joy to pleasure hunt with. But there are extreme examples of both types too.

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Registered: Sep 2009
Location: MO
Posts: 460

i hear u it more fun just to hunt with other guy. and have a good time. u pick on my dog i pick on ur dog lol. it all about that fun of it. i comp hunt to but it all about one thing getting that nite ch. at one time comp hunting was fun but not now. to many want to cheat . that take all the fun out of it. im not saying there not good guys out there. i have drawed out with good guy. slim tho but when u do u can have fun. win lose or draw.

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Registered: Mar 2009
Location: western pennsylvania
Posts: 142

Thats all I am is a pleasure hunter. I enjoy going along on nite hunts as a spectator, but I never plan on putting any of my dogs in a hunt. Now a hunt test maybe, but not a nite hunt. I enjoy going out for 2 or 3 hours and listening to the dogs run a track and come treed. Its such an adrenaline rush when the dogs give out that first locate. But I refuse to chase a dog all over the county. If I put a dog a 100 acre patch of woods, I should pick that same dog up out of the same patch of woods. JMO!

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Registered: Jan 2009
Location: pana,ill
Posts: 534

now i dont like walking too slick trees any more than anyone else,and i like for my dog to let me know that he/she has the coon,it just don't matter too me how fast they do it or if they do it first or last it is just good ol fashioned fun for me.I don't care if it takes a half hour or if it takes 2.Some might call it babbling,maybe it's just an old cold track,i just want a dog too run a coon hot or cold don't run over em too find the hot ones a mile into the timber

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