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What IF.... you lived in the north and had to move south? Or vice versa? What happens to your hounds? You take em behind the barn and shoot em? Sell em? I mean, they're useless where youre going right? Why take them with you? Yeah id bring em with me too.... Cause I got a decent hound. He trees thin coons in rough conditions. Plus hes real smart, so i feel after a couple days in thick coon, he would adapt. Plus I love the heck out of him, and always does me a good job. Mostly. Cause he ain't perfect. He's just a dog. I'd love to try him everywhere. It gets old hunting the same territory. You guys should thank your lucky stars yall are packing the heat to get you to the world. All you guys are winners to me. Yall all had the grit to train, hunt, and get your hound to the WORLD. Hat's off! Oh.. before you ask, no, I didn't, couldn't, go to the world. All yalls dogs are better than mine. North or south! 😂😂

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If you live in the south and move north, you shoot'em.
If you live in the north and move south, you go right on hunting'em.

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We can't ride buggys down here Jim ! I wanna come north lol !!

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I would welcome the north with open arms, I'm tired of Pine thickets, cutovers, or mud and water up to your knees, and 90 deg nights. But South Louisiana is the hand I was dealt, so I'll keep on fighting it.

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You know I love the land I was brought up around as do outdoor men that live anywhere. You have family, tradition, and adapt to your surroundings. I watch these TV shows of folks livin way up in the Alaskan Range with cold and ice and folks in the South with the heat, swamps, gators and snakes and I say how do they do it and enjoy it.

Dogs get accustomed to the land and availability of game and you hunt them the way you want to hunt where you hunt. Go North or South just like people they have to adjust. I don't care where it is I just love a good smart sensible hound with desire and drive that wants to tree coon and please me. It could be North or South. I just have to laugh when the Northern boys say there aint no coon in the South and the Southern boys think we have coon fallin out of trees LOL. I will be huntin these speckled dogs till I cant get around and then some. Gosh I would love to show anybody from the South our big hardwoods and ravines and love to go for a hunt when I visit my sis down in Tenesee this fall! North or South we are a coonhuntin brotherhood.

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I would welcome the north with open arms, I'm tired of Pine thickets, cutovers, or mud and water up to your knees, and 90 deg nights. But South Louisiana is the hand I was dealt, so I'll keep on fighting it.

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If you live in the south and move north, you shoot'em.
If you live in the north and move south, you go right on hunting'em.

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How can hunting in thick coon be much different from hunting feeders?

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I moved from Michigan to southern Arkansas. Only had one dog and it didn't phase her a bit. Me on the other hand, wore me out. Ive been here for 9 years now and this is got to be some of the worst coon hunting I've ever seen. Pine thickets. I've finally found some hard woods and now ride on a four wheeler.

The dog I have now does decent around here but when I took her to Illinois, she looked awesome. Some dogs are just bred for thick coon. Others are bred for thin coon

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It's my understanding that a dog brought North for any long period of time the thinner air is the real problem compared to the south mostly on an older dog . Now I'm talking a month or longer . And the opposite for a northern dog coming south it doesn't seem to effect them . I have seen dog's loose weight and get sickly because of it . Then some it never bothers . But I'm also saying far south Georgia Florida Alabama going to New York Indiana places like that . 2 completely different climates . But don't for one second think a northern dog won't come down here and run hot **** water for a couple weeks while it adjust . Then the breaking begins again armadillo / hogs everywhere we have bear and so much small game it'll make and does have people pill their hair out or quit all together . I have gotten dog's from several states but most haven't performed how I like down here . It stays green yea I cut grass in December the underbrush is thick the swamps are deep and unlike the North nothing hibernates here sure they go dormant for a few weeks at best . Now a dog that can perform outstanding anywhere is a sure nuff keeper . I have dog's that don't quite suit me buy May be a northerners dream . But since majority of dog's come from up North including anything with giant hills or mountains even what some consider the south just don't seem to be built / bred for these conditions here .

Just my opinion though it's not worth much .

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Used to haul 8 to 10 head to autum oaks every year sure nuff coon treers to sell to hide hunters wouldn't be there four hours all were picked up a paid good money for but they made their money back on hides and then some they liked them from down here.

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If you live in the south and move north, you shoot'em.
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I believe Indiana, Ohio & illinois have a subspecies of coon who have no desire to run far or hide well. I don't think less of northern dogs brought south, When an animal leaves prime habitat with high population of coon and better weather it's gonna take a lot of adjusting & most will eventually get accustomed.

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Used to haul 8 to 10 head to autum oaks every year sure nuff coon treers to sell to hide hunters wouldn't be there four hours all were picked up a paid good money for but they made their money back on hides and then some they liked them from down here.

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Lol your kidding right have you lost your mind. .

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hey doug robinson, tried to pm but your box is full. i live down here in tennessee and anytime you come here for whatever reason just give me a holler and ill be more than glad to take you huntin in these mtns with me. just come on down and give me yell.

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Yes, I was kidding. I thought it was a totally stupid question so I gave a totally stupid answer.
I thought that would be obvious but apparently not.

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How can hunting in thick coon be much different from hunting feeders?

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Ron, I enjoyed your post as it was pretty much spot on based on my own personal experiences. Dogs certainly have to adjust to the different terrain and conditions to be at their best. Dogs are all different, some adjust faster than others and some just do not adjust very good at all. I have hunted in the mts, of Tn, Va, NC, Ky, and in Mich, Ind, Ohio. I love the hunting in each of these places, but I can see where different styles if dogs excell in some places much better than other places. I love a coondog period . Dave

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My experience is this coon real thin where we are and like said in other post boys from here go up north just to kill they can stay a week with their pups and kill more coon then than we will kill in a year some becouse our coon thinner and most becouse if we kill what we have we are out of business. Teri tory changes but I thik ron said it best dogs will if they are true coondogs they will aclamate may take a day or so but they will get used to either haVing to go or plowing through soy beans

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i had a good hunting buddy that was in IN and we traded dogs back and forth some, some were good in IN and some were good in FL and a few were just good. its definitely a different world... im sure same east to west hunting.

the blue dog in my signature DOC, came from IN and he never skipped a beat down here. treed a coon first nite i cut him loose in the thickest tie-tie swamp around here.

one GRNITE dog i hunted with up in IN would really put on a show.... i begged to bring down here and hunt some and when i finally got him down here you could hardly get him out in the woods... too thick of woods and not enough coon i guess. if he didnt strike directly hed be back at the truck blaming you for dry holing him.

i had another pup that was doing excellent down here, took her up north and there were too many coon tracks- shed never finish one before her nose was dragging her off on another. it was too good too her to be able to finish much of anything up there

i learned about those stinging nettle plants in IN... i brushed my hand across one and i would compare the feeling to cutting my hand with a tiny thin razor blade a million times, setting it on fire, then pouring acid on it to put the fire out...

i also had my go at hunting in the Mountains in TN... i was about 100 yards behind a almost 70 year old man, holding on to a tree to avoid rolling all the way back down, huffing puffing and wheezing... with him laughing and asking me if i was gonna make it... if he would have brought my dog back with him id have gladly swallowed my pride and left him with it and waited at the truck LOL

they all have their ups and downs but it sure was a lot of fun hunting up in IN with open woods and thick coon.

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What IF.... you lived in the north and had to move south? Or vice versa? What happens to your hounds? You take em behind the barn and shoot em? Sell em? I mean, they're useless where youre going right? Why take them with you? Yeah id bring em with me too.... Cause I got a decent hound. He trees thin coons in rough conditions. Plus hes real smart, so i feel after a couple days in thick coon, he would adapt. Plus I love the heck out of him, and always does me a good job. Mostly. Cause he ain't perfect. He's just a dog. I'd love to try him everywhere. It gets old hunting the same territory. You guys should thank your lucky stars yall are packing the heat to get you to the world. All you guys are winners to me. Yall all had the grit to train, hunt, and get your hound to the WORLD. Hat's off! Oh.. before you ask, no, I didn't, couldn't, go to the world. All yalls dogs are better than mine. North or south! 😂😂

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Ron, I enjoyed your post as it was pretty much spot on based on my own personal experiences. Dogs certainly have to adjust to the different terrain and conditions to be at their best. Dogs are all different, some adjust faster than others and some just do not adjust very good at all. I have hunted in the mts, of Tn, Va, NC, Ky, and in Mich, Ind, Ohio. I love the hunting in each of these places, but I can see where different styles if dogs excell in some places much better than other places. I love a coondog period . Dave

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hey doug robinson, tried to pm but your box is full. i live down here in tennessee and anytime you come here for whatever reason just give me a holler and ill be more than glad to take you huntin in these mtns with me. just come on down and give me yell.

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