l.lyle
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Re: Going 100 mph
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Originally posted by Rob Reid
I prefer mine to stay within hearing but if that is not possible, deep as necessary to tree a coon. Most importantly, I want them hunting on the run, I hate a slow hunting hound.
I agree to a point. Let me elaborate on what you said and please correct me if I am wrong. On a crisp night I can hear my dogs about a mile and a half. On a breezy night I can hear them about a quarter mile. I prefer mine to Strike ( to heck with how far they hunt or trail or run) within hearing. If they get out of my semi deaf hearing to STRIKE, and I need to wean down, that one STRIKING out of hearing will be the first to go on the selling block.. Once struck I expect them to trail and run anywhere, no matter how far. Where I hunt a dog can go 6 miles northwest bound before he hits a road that liable to have tarfiic, 8 mile Northeast to a farm to market road, If he goes southeast he will end up in Africa. If he goes southwest its 9 miles to a farm to market road and 12 miles to a major road if he can swim that far. I still cannot stand a go yonder idiot. It is utterly ridiculous to have a dog just go. I get SH-----n and might turn out a decent dog from that drop and have him STRIKE within a couple hundred yards. That's when I KNOW who is FOR SALE. But that's OK. I can sell him to somebody as a real GO Getter Split Treer LOL for twice or maybe 10X the price of his worth, depending on how you look at it. I have pretty thick coons on most nights.. It's very seldom one comes back without striking fairly close. One night I turned out two dogs on a couple of acres that had not been burnt off that same afternoon. one dog came back in 30 minutes the other I tracked down 3 miles away still hauling it down a fireline. Guess which one stayed and eventually died in my pen.
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