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with all the stud dog ads you hear a lot of claims, including they throw "young starting pups" which made me think, that could mean different things to different people.... some start hunting their pups at 4 mo, some wait until a year or so before they take their pups to the woods.... so what do you consider "young starting"?

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You have two questions there. What is "young" and what is "starting". First you have to define just what you mean by "started".

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true...

but just for arguments sake well say going out hunting, with a finished dog and putting in on decent tracks and treeing.

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Some pups "start" joining in on tracks and some "start" putting in on trees. And then there are a few that "start" just treeing all by themselves. I have had all types. And I don't think that one type is any better than another. They are all just different. But I would say that less than 15 mos was "young" and less than 12 mos was "very young".

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I like to start my pups alone. When they can tree an easy coon off a feeder, alone, I consider them started. With my last 4 it's been before 8 months. Pups today are amazing compared to 40 years ago.

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I like to start my pups alone. When they can tree an easy coon off a feeder, alone, I consider them started. With my last 4 it's been before 8 months. Pups today are amazing compared to 40 years ago.

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I always start them alone, 5 of the last 7 run and tree before 9 months, 2 of them did it the first time out at nite at 6 months

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I think it depends on when you get the pup usually raise mine from weening age those start faster than if I were to get one at 4-6 mths old. Most at a yr. old are very well started and can be hunted any way u like. But it all boils down to who has them not so much the pups.

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I took my female to the woods for the first time at 4 months she started treeing coons at 6 1/2 months,now she's 11 months and trees just about every night we go...

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I like early starting pups but won’t start them with the big dogs until they can keep up In a 2 hour race...

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I took my female to the woods for the first time at 4 months she started treeing coons at 6 1/2 months,now she's 11 months and trees just about every night we go...

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Do you hunt near Elberton?

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