wildbill
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quote: Originally posted by hillbilly 81
I have 2200 acres to hunt right here at my house and I have seen 3 game wardens here in my life... I could very easily knock a coon out to this pup but I wont do that . Thats why I have plenty of coon when everyone around me struggles. I just wanted different ideas on training with out killing a coon.
if you still have some coon in the freezer from hunting season
(game warden told me i could keep them in the freezer for however many yrs i wanted to as long as i got them in legal season)
flesh one out and salt cure it and get one of them small stirefoam boat floats about appr.8-10 " diam and sew the hide around the float so pup has something not real hard to chew on ,so as not to hurt its teeth and tie a rope onto it and use it as a drag and drop it out to the pup to chew on after it gets treed,,
that would be the legal way to use a coon in the summer..(stuffed hide)
for no more than what they are worth,you could stuff one full of plastic packing peanuts ,sew it up tight and stuff that one inside another hide and sew it shut and would last awhile if you didnt get a pup with razer sharp teeth to cutting it open...
back in the day the old farmers used to catch and use woodchucks to train pups with in the summer,
they said after a good kill season on coon ,the pups would forget about the woodchucks since most would be chased into the ground
and after they figured out they wouldnt get to chew on them when it went into the ground ,
they would tree only what they knew they would get to chew on..
but with they way better than half of pups are bred these days ,they might not be smart enought to figure that out anymore..
good luck..
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