Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Water Valley, MS
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How many ppl use their hounds for squirells in the day and coons at night. I have a young B&T female that I think is treeing squirells. I have thought about taking her in the daytime just to see. If she is can she be broke without ruining her for coons?

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I would think it would be ok for a pleasure hunter but it would surely burn you at the worst time in a comp hunt.

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Registered: Aug 2007
Location: Greenup County Kentucky
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I use my walker on squirrels and coons.

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Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Central Illinois
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I have squirrel hunted some of my coonhounds for over 40 years. The key on whether to do it or not is the nose of the hound. If it has fairly hot nosed stock behind it, squirrel hunting and then coon hunting the dog will work. If it is out of cold nosed stock, starting the dog on squirrels won't work because they will be treeing cold squirrel tracks way after night has fallen. I have started many, many coonhounds on squirrel, made good squirrel dogs out of them, then just showed them a couple of coon, and had a decent coondog then. Any dog that can consistantly tree squirrels and have the meat, can tree coon. Again, the key is the dog's nose. It doesn't work with cold nosed dogs.
You might look at my Mini-Mouse thread on this board. Mini only needs $35 to finish as a PKC Squirrel Dog Champion and I am confident I could win Nite Hunts with Mini. She would split tree with the meat just like she does in the day hunts.

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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: New Market Va
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I squirrel hunt all of my Hounds and they are very Cold Nosed ..
And I can Honestly say that they have (that I can Rember) never treed anything but a ligitment Coon tree at night weather a den or the meat. But with leaves on the Trees that could be hard to prove or I did'nt see a Den Hole or Coon.

I just tell them What were Hunting ..
But I also run 4 Critters with all my hounds, Bear, Coon, Squirrel and Bobcat.

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