Registered: Feb 2012
Location: airville,pa
Posts: 2078
opossum breaking
has anyone ever done any proactive opossum breaking with there pups or young dogs? another words broke them before taking them out hunting or before it becomes a issue. i would like to hear any good or poor results from your experiences.
Registered: Jan 2007
Location: monroeville OH
Posts: 2685
lol
what your asking is can you break a pup before you hunt it !! lead/load/sit/come when called about all !! try to yard break one from off game is a no winner BEFORE its hunted !! they will just get confused !! JMO dosnt mean much tho !!
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Yadkin County NC
Posts: 1671
Hey Carson don't you have the drugstore coonhunters bible, Walk with Wick? Now Uncle John would just take a possum and hang it from an electric fence........
Registered: Jan 2007
Location: monroeville OH
Posts: 2685
quote:Originally posted by yadkinriver Hey Carson don't you have the drugstore coonhunters bible, Walk with Wick? Now Uncle John would just take a possum and hang it from an electric fence........
LMBO !! never read wicks book !! But I bet Yadkintar has the first issue tho !!
Registered: Feb 2012
Location: airville,pa
Posts: 2078
I thought about asking Mr wick.
I don't know about you fellows but the pups I start that stay away from possums have a easier time progressing. The pups or young dogs that gather a liking for possums it seems like thay get set back 1 way or another. Mostly from me trying to break them I understand but none the less set back.
Maybe it can't be done? Idk
Registered: Jan 2007
Location: monroeville OH
Posts: 2685
quote:Originally posted by yadkinriver Hey Carson don't you have the drugstore coonhunters bible, Walk with Wick? Now Uncle John would just take a possum and hang it from an electric fence........
I have done that with deer glands back yrs ago with pups !! you could see sparks fly from there nose !! never done any good !! they would take off like shot out of a gun just screaming !! ruined a few !! I guess
I don't care if there 6 weeks old, or 6 months old I catch em under or around a opposum I beat them like I got beat for being around the well box. I don't go around the well box no more
quote:Originally posted by pamjohnson Do you break them later
Most of mine break themselves when you aren't shooting them out. But, I don't competition hunt and I walk hunt my dogs. So, it's not a big deal if they tree a possum every now and then. I'm not getting minus points or walking a half mile to a possum tree.
When I have a hound that trees a griiner I knock it out, beat them with it while my partner lights them up, then I take it back to the truck throw it in the box with them and light them up every mile on the way home... After 1 night of this they are usually broke
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quote:Originally posted by MR.RATMAN When I have a hound that trees a griiner I knock it out, beat them with it while my partner lights them up, then I take it back to the truck throw it in the box with them and light them up every mile on the way home... After 1 night of this they are usually broke
i was on a cast years ago . caught a possum on the ground . one of the guys with drew . cut the possum belly open held his dog down while holding the possum over his nose and mouth till dog passed pumb out .lol we all just stood around not saying anything cause we didnt want to be next .lol drew the same dog and man about a month latter . 2 possums were treed on the cast and his dog had no part of them .lol must have worked .lol i have found most will quit on their own after getting a few coon down on them . i just leash my young ones up give them a good scolding and go on .
quote:Originally posted by pamjohnson Jason would you agree that it can be the thing that is most difficult on many of these young hounds not all youngsters but plenty of thems progress?
Breaking one off opposum can be very difficult to impossible I think it's how long there let by with it. That's why the first time is key in my opinion to breaking one. The ones I've corrected there first time I had good luck with. The ones I thought were to young for the correction turned into a REAL headache. So I don't care how old they our if they live here they better not let me catch em around no slick tails I'd rather them run junk
Registered: Nov 2013
Location: Moundville, AL
Posts: 21
quote:Originally posted by thomasg i was on a cast years ago . caught a possum on the ground . one of the guys with drew . cut the possum belly open held his dog down while holding the possum over his nose and mouth till dog passed pumb out .lol we all just stood around not saying anything cause we didnt want to be next .lol drew the same dog and man about a month latter . 2 possums were treed on the cast and his dog had no part of them .lol must have worked .lol i have found most will quit on their own after getting a few coon down on them . i just leash my young ones up give them a good scolding and go on .
I have try this method an it works. dog hasn't treed an possum again yet.
Registered: Jan 2017
Location: mccomb, ms
Posts: 181
quote:Originally posted by yadkinriver Hey Hoss, would you define junk? Kinda like Bill Clinton saying "define sex". Just wondering what catagory possums fall in.
Well in a competition hunt it's hard to minus for anything except a possum. I have had several trashy dogs that would realize what they were doing and end up under a coon. usually young dogs won't quit a possum track for a coon.
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Yadkin County NC
Posts: 1671
I see what you're saying. I always considered anything but a coon as junk but I can understand why some think a possum is in a category of it's own. But it's still junk to me.lol
quote:Originally posted by yadkinriver I see what you're saying. I always considered anything but a coon as junk but I can understand why some think a possum is in a category of it's own. But it's still junk to me.lol
most deer dogs are never broke . they run them anyway just dont open on track .lol
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