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What is your opinion of a cold track.

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I also say cold when dog beats around an gets hung up on move the track on out of the area. an when they end up treed all you here is a bunch of long bawls over an over never really want roll it over into a chop. sometime down here in south the hotter it gets seems we strike a bunch of cold tracks an after 30 mins to hour of boo hooing around it gets boring as watch paint dry

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The hotter the nose, the colder the track. The colder the nose, the hotter the track.

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What is your opinion of a cold track.

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Depending on the tracking conditions it may be minutes old or hours old. A friend watched a deer dog cold trail a deer on a hot, dry day. The deer was walking and the dog was open trailing 50 yards behind.

I've treed MANY coons who where asleep in the tree. I've noticed that most coon that were forced to climb were in the very tip top branches. Most coon that were up before the dogs even struck the track were laying in a comfortable spot.

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Originally posted by Richard Lambert
The hotter the nose, the colder the track. The colder the nose, the hotter the track.

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Howdy Bruce,

Why don't ya just ask if ivermectin affects a dog's cold trailing abilities.lol

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I sat in a boat one night and listened to a dog beat and bang on a track that was 30 seconds old. Had I not seen that coon on the bank prior to turning that dog loose, I would have swore that was a 'cold' track.

I also watched a dog scream red hot across a cattle pasture and bomb treed on a track that I watched a coon lay two hours before. I had been sitting in a deer stand, saw a coon come by, and put the dog on it when the sun went down.

Cold/Hot track is relative. But I do think atmospheric conditions and individual dog ability have way more to do with it than timing does...

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Originally posted by Cory Highfill
I sat in a boat one night and listened to a dog beat and bang on a track that was 30 seconds old. Had I not seen that coon on the bank prior to turning that dog loose, I would have swore that was a 'cold' track.

I also watched a dog scream red hot across a cattle pasture and bomb treed on a track that I watched a coon lay two hours before. I had been sitting in a deer stand, saw a coon come by, and put the dog on it when the sun went down.

Cold/Hot track is relative. But I do think atmospheric conditions and individual dog ability have way more to do with it than timing does...

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Go out and hide a hot dog in the back yard wait 7 hours and watch how long it takes your dog to find it lol.


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Originally posted by yadkintar
Go out and hide a hot dog in the back yard wait 7 hours and watch how long it takes your dog to find it lol.
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Doesn't that all depend on how hungry your dog is?

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7 hr old hot dog still smells like hot dog !

7 hr old coon still smells like coon !



What me thinks !

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Originally posted by CHEWBACH
a coon that cant be seen go up !! by a fly thru the woods dog..

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Originally posted by yadkintar
Go out and hide a hot dog in the back yard wait 7 hours and watch how long it takes your dog to find it lol.


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I dont think that is accurate!

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There are so many verbals in tracking condition no one can honestly answer what is a cold track and what is not. Age of the track doesn't always come into play. If you rabbit hunt very long you will have days that you see the rabbit jump and they cant do anything with it. Same dogs 2 hours later can smoke one in the same situation. You would think that high humidity would help but I've noticed it hurts mines abilities.

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If you have a dog that can consistently tree coon in below freezing conditions, I'd be willing to bet that your dog hits far less "cold" tracks than the dog that really struggles in rough conditions. These type are not real plentiful

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I think it is more good tracks bad tracks than hot and cold. But I don't really know what makes the difference. Have seen them cross the road and the dogs couldn't run them, then turn them down a hollow and they run and tree one right. I'm just thankful for more good than bad.

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Originally posted by Cory Highfill
I sat in a boat one night and listened to a dog beat and bang on a track that was 30 seconds old. Had I not seen that coon on the bank prior to turning that dog loose, I would have swore that was a 'cold' track.

I also watched a dog scream red hot across a cattle pasture and bomb treed on a track that I watched a coon lay two hours before. I had been sitting in a deer stand, saw a coon come by, and put the dog on it when the sun went down.

Cold/Hot track is relative. But I do think atmospheric conditions and individual dog ability have way more to do with it than timing does...

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Originally posted by sleepy head
I think your right, I put what I considered a hot nosed dog on a 4 hour old track one time and she smoked it

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I reckon I got Russian Bear Dogs they go Rushing around the house and bear down on 3 day old biscuits. LOL

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my definition of a cold track is when a dog can run it and the other hounds with it don.t have a clue what it is running.Another thing cold nosed dogs are not as plentifull as every one thinks.I have been hunting for 40 plus years and have ownly had one.

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My definition of a cold track has always been a track that starts of as a couple of barks every few minutes while making forward progress. As the track progresses the pace picks up and develops into a running track ending with its quarry treed or bayed up. Where I live, I am always suspicious of old tracks that end in den trees where the track never gets warmed up to a running track before the dog locates and trees.

I can't stand a dog that stands on its head but have to say I thoroughly enjoy listening to a good cold trailing hound that knows how to carry an old track with a powerful big mouth used rightly. What a pleasure to hear that track turn into a flat running track and then that sudden silence when you just know that locating bark is coming followed by the rhythmic chant of his or her tree song. Not sure this type of dog has ever been plentiful.

I don't think cold tracks are the norm. Sometimes people think a dog is cold trailing when if the truth were known the dog is really a poor track dog. Not much more disheartening than thinking you've got a cold nosed dog only to see someone else's dog smoke your dogs cold track like it was looking at the coon.

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Where I live, I am always suspicious of old tracks that end in den trees where the track never gets warmed up to a running track before the dog locates and trees.

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HOW OLD IS A COLD TRAC AND HOW DO YOU KNOW

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