Rip
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Morrison TN
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Jim is right.
I never hunted on feeders in competition mainly cause I didn't have any out since I didn't have a pup I was trainin. Nobody wanted to draw me cause at most we would tree one coon in the two hour hunt and that's if they struck in hearing distance.
I put a feeder out once when I was trainin Candy. I put it across the road from my house in about 10 square miles of woods on a creek. It took 2 weeks, TWO WEEEKS to get one single solitary coon to using it. Do you think that coon went up close to the bucket? You better think again, half the time it would go a half mile down in the gulf after goin over the bluff before it could be treed (if you want to see click on my website and follow the PUPPIES link, thats what it went over). That's where I used to live before I moved here.
When I drew out with other people that had buckets I was very, very happy. I knew we would be able to score on probably 2 or 3 trees before the two hours got us at least. The races were not usually short, they usually ran over a quarter mile even on buckets. The only thing the buckets did was allow a strike within a decent amount of time, it didn't change how the coons ran. The only advantage the home dog had was strike points.
I hunted in Wapokennetta Ohio and saw 17 coons in one 2 hour nite hunt (I think there were 6 trees made and that's countin the ones in the trees made and the ones settin up). Coons settin up everywhere, they was thicker than squirrells at the park. I guess you wouldn't need a bucket there, hell a dog could just pick a tree, any tree, and have a good chance there was a coon in it.
Oh yeah, there was only one real race all night in Ohio, all the others were pop ups, 2 minutes or less, 50 or 100 yard "races".
That almost NEVER happens back up on the Cumberland Plateau, even with buckets the coons gonna run. Course they are thin, long legged and are used to having to look all night for a scrap of food instead of bein short legged, fat, and too winded to run a hundred yards.
Things are different in different areas of the country. Matter of fact coon huntin here in the Smokeys is much different than coon huntin back on the Cumberland Plateau and that's just about 3-4 hours difference in driving. Heck I used to drive about an hour West from home and tree 3-4 and be back home before I could have treed one 5 minutes from home.
There was that much difference.
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