Registered: Apr 2012
Location: Mo.
Posts: 291

I am a pleasure hunter I like a dog to go 400-500 yds then circle back to me if not struck. And the dog I am hunting likes to get deeper.
My question is if coons are not stirring can toning it back to me on a regular basis be damaging to the dog for a lack of a better way of saying it?

I am in thin coon population and allot of the ground I use to hunt has been bought up by non locals so I need to try and control where my dog goes. To keep me and my dog out of trouble.

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Registered: Jan 2007
Location: Central Va
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Im no dog trainer by any means, but i have been hunting hounds since i was a kid. I have 7 bear hounds and every one of them are tone broke, when i tone and yell they check back in with me or at least come back to a reasonable distance, however i started this when they were pups, tone and light shock should not ruin a dog as long as it's not overdone or done to harshly, with that being said every hound is different and you kinda have to figure out what does and doesn't work for each hound ....Good luck!!

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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: 3515-38st-moline ill.
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Im no dog trainer by any means, but i have been hunting hounds since i was a kid. I have 7 bear hounds and every one of them are tone broke, when i tone and yell they check back in with me or at least come back to a reasonable distance, however i started this when they were pups, tone and light shock should not ruin a dog as long as it's not overdone or done to harshly, with that being said every hound is different and you kinda have to figure out what does and doesn't work for each hound ....Good luck!!

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Location: SWVA
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Originally posted by VAPOSSUMHNTR
Im no dog trainer by any means, but i have been hunting hounds since i was a kid. I have 7 bear hounds and every one of them are tone broke, when i tone and yell they check back in with me or at least come back to a reasonable distance, however i started this when they were pups, tone and light shock should not ruin a dog as long as it's not overdone or done to harshly, with that being said every hound is different and you kinda have to figure out what does and doesn't work for each hound ....Good luck!!

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Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Chattanooga, Tn
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Start out in an open area in the daytime. Call them and then tone them. Teach them that tone means come to me. If they don't, then a light shock. When they know that tone means come, then progress to nighttime and longer distances.
If you just turn them loose at night and go to toning and shocking them they won't know why.

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Registered: Dec 2020
Location: SE Central Louisiana
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Originally posted by Richard Lambert
Start out in an open area in the daytime. Call them and then tone them. Teach them that tone means come to me. If they don't, then a light shock. When they know that tone means come, then progress to nighttime and longer distances.
If you just turn them loose at night and go to toning and shocking them they won't know why.

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Registered: Aug 2014
Location: WI
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have pup on rope so you can pull it in if the pup don't come on their own. With the number of houses you have to hunt around , you have to be able to call the dogs in with the tone. Makes life so much easier. If you wake up the neighbor, you can tone your dog into you and be out of there before they turn on the outside light. Ask me how I Know.

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