Dave Richards
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Originally posted by Paul Frederick
In Canada it wasn't uncommon at all for a cast winner to have 2000+ or more. I've never hunted up there but the coons are big and slow-moving so they get treed fast and are easy to find.
If I remember correctly the highest score in a 2 hour UKC hunt here is the states is right around 2600+. It was at a Black and Tan sectional in northern Ohio back in the late 90s.
I don't know about that hunt in particular, but racking up a big score is easy if a few things fall into line.
1. Your dog has to be a first and first dog.
2. They can't run a mile before putting their head down. Tree the close ones.
3. Get down to a 2-dog cast as soon as possible. You can't score a big score by yourself, you'll burn up the clock waiting the 5 (now 3) on each tree.
4. Dog 2 in the cast has to be a me-to follower, but not good at it. He can't accidentally get first strike or tree at any time. He also can't get treed by himself or it'll mess up your high score by wasting scorecard time.
5. Find the coon as quick as possible. Big northern coons when leaves are off are great for this. They basically look like a bear cub in the tree.
6. Re-cut or call time out as soon as the tree is scored. Make sure you conserve every minute of hunt time. Patch hunting is perfect because you know you're moving as soon as the tree is scored so timeout can be called.
It is hard to imagine if you spend your life hunting down south, but the coon population in some places is just unreal. We were hunting in central Michigan one night and a couple guys from East Tennessee were with us. Around one 10-acre hay field we counted 17 sitting up! The guys from TN had never seen that many on any given night, let alone in that close of proximity to one another. That was just one drop we made, but there were coons everywhere like that. If you're in a place like that, and you get the right breaks, a legitimate high score isn't out of reach at all.
Paul, I have hunted in thick coons before several times in Indiania, Michigan, and other coon zoos and I still say it is near impossible to rack up a 2400 score in a 2 hour hunt. That is a minimum of 11 coons scored and an average of less than 11 minutes per coon. That's striking, treeing and scoring each coon in less than 11 minutes, the math does not lie. Dave
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