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What is the longest you heard a hound run a track?

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this was a eleven month old pup (choppin axe) he ran a track for one hour and forty five minuts before he got mr coon. but this was in a swamp. he was in water about the whole time, hitting spots of ground every now and then. the pup finaly did what he was susposed to do...

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2 1/2 hours started in the river bottoms, though the hills and hollows. Treed up on the hill over cliffs and thickets. Had the meet! The dog was 9 mont. old. When he treeds now most the time you are going to see meat.

This pup wasent in a corn field. The dog is one of the fastest track dogs I seen yet. Catchest coon on the ground fairly often.

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DANG I SEEN A COON RUN IN A IRRIGATED CORN FIELD FOR OVER 3 HOURS WITH 3 YOUNG DOGS RUNNIN HIM HARD. THEN I FELL ASLEEP AND WOKE AND HOUR LATER WITHTHE DOGS TREED WITH A COON LOL......FIRST AND LAST TIME I FELL ASLEEP. BUT IT WAS LIKE I WAS DREAMIN WHEN I AWOKE AS I HEARD THE RINGIN OF BLUES TREEIN MR RINGTAIL...

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Longest I ever seen personally was 3 and 1/2 hours in a cornfield running HARD. Our farmers don't weed them and the johnson grass is just as thick as the corn. Really beats a dog up too, looks like you shaved their face. They caught that coon in the first three minutes of the race but he got loose from them and he didn't aim to be caught NO MORE LOL. He run them hounds to death. He came by us several times.

I know a guy that had a nice Walker ran one for over 4 hours before the coon got stupid and tried to cross a pasture. Dog caught him and that was the end of him.

Now I ain't talking about dogs boo hooin either, I mean really gettin it. It seems the coon can get through the thick stuff easier than them. I also think those long runners may be coon that ain't from the area just drawn to the corn and they get turned around in there and ain't sure how to get out safely is why they stay in there so long. It would also explain why the ones thar run so long eventually get caught when all the had to do was come out on the other side of the field and go up.

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before treeing them, but the most unusual thing I've had happen was when my dogs ran one for about two hours in a grown up corn field. They treed the coon up a small pine near the edge of the field. Interesting thing was, the coon was just hanging onto the tree trunk with his legs -- panting. He had no front feet due to steel traps. The coon jumped as soon as I shined on him and was caught on the ground.

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I've never had a running track go an hour, even in a rice field. Had some cold tracks go for, well, quite a while, but nothing up and running, at least that could climb a tree anyway.

I guess I'm in the minority...

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>I've never had a running track go an hour<
Me neither.
I had one go for about 45 minutes once.
I thought the dogs were running deer or fox.
Turned out to be a coon with a front foot missing.
He finally climbed a big leaning tree that was easy to walk up.

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I will say that those were the exceptions. We hit cornfields really HARD around here because of the lack of coon. That's the only time of the year you can count on getting a race.

Matter of fact, you have to get there before dark as the hunters are competing for a spot to turn out. I have seen two or three truck loads of hunters with their spots staked out AROUND the field BEFORE dark LOL. I picked another field.

The races are usually good, and we get enough of the long ones to warrant bringing a lawn chair.

It usually works like this, if he is gonna climb he will do it in the first 20 minutes. If he runs longer than that the odds that he will ever climb go down and he is either caught on the ground or put in a ground hole. Now this rule isn't solid, I have had several climb after 45 minutes or an hour, but the longer they run the less likely they are to want to climb.

Before you start thinking this is off game to run like this, the coons come past you alot and you can see them or hear them and know it is coons. Some of the longer races are the result of knowing where that coons ground hole is and knowing where he wants to come out of the field at. Then you park there and turn him every time he comes around so he either has to climb or find another way back to his hole.

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In August we turned my dads black dog loose and he run for about 20 minutes and treed. We backed the coon down the tree some and proceeded to shoot him out well we must of missed cause he bailed and the chase was on. This was a full moon night it had rained during the day and had cooled off some. This running chase took another 50 minutes (I was watching my watch because this was a work night) and that coon ran straight towards the moon and through some of the worst stuff you could go through. When the dog treed again we finally got to him and the coon was there again. Overall we chased and treed that same coon twice and took 2 1/2 hours before we got to shoot him out. That was one mad black dog when he got a hold on that coon. This same dog placed 4th on friday night when my husband hunted him at the TX. state hunt. But was killed last week on the road. So I wanted to brag about how good a chaser he was. Not many women put their .02 in when it comes to hunting. I know everyone in my family especially my dad will miss Set Em up Boomer.

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DID YOU HUNT THE CHATSWORTH HUNT THIS PAST WEEKEND? IF SO DID YOU HUNT WITH A BISQUIT EATING JILL DOG? IF SO THEN HI

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About 1.5 hours on a coon,about 12 hours on bear,running walking, and fighting! We got 3 boar bear opening day in south Georgia one crossing the road,one in a tree,one walking and fighting .9 dogs cut up so bad they could not hunt the next day. Waiting for friday and saturday!

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Hello hunters

this past monday night me and my hunting partner went we turned loose and 1 1/2 hrs later they treed well we go to the tree and sure enough there is the meat but the limb he was on was hanging over the river so we started squalling and the coon started running up and down the tree so we tied the hounds back and we were going to squall him out that we did and turn the hounds loose and 2 1/2 hours later they treed him again. but let me tell you mr.coon put some stuff in the game he tapped more trees than u can count but he could'nt stay on the ground long after they got the track good and hot and mr.coon went across afield and had to climb the frist tree he came to.
end of hunt
i was so glad. because instead of going back to the road and getting the truck and driving the road to go in we started walking and lord or lord we should have gotten the truck.
what happened we started walking to the frist tapped tree. wrong anwser!
but an outstanding hunt it did my young hound all the good.

charles

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