Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Minden Louisiana
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percimon trees killing me
Dog is 2 never hung on a percimon tree before. Now he treed 3 times the other night SLICK on these dudes. Anyone have an answer why it hard for a dog to work off these trees Beside him just being a slick treeing joker I mean?
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The ones on the young small trees are but not on the mature trees I know it early...another thing is we have't seen any muskadines yet either....I am just happy the berries in the cut overs are gone.....
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I walked under 2 persimmons this week. One huge tree out in a feild and one small tree in the woods. Both were loaded with simmons and neither one tree was ripe. Your dog must be a little confused lol and he should quit that on his own.
dont know what a persimmon is... but ive had dogs that almost never slick tree do it on an apple tree.... coon stays there awhile . leaves more scent than whats on the ground. id just yank him off kind of harsh. and send him out again, or walk a big circle around that tree. coon track there somewhere.. pete
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had a gentleman from upstate PA come and go coon huntin' with me a few years back......they don't have Persimmons up there.....................he didn't think too much of the taste of a green one!!!.............I had plenty of water handy for him!!
the coon are probably going up and down those trees checking for the ripe ones. see same thing when cherries or grapes start to get ripe and poplar buds in the spring. later they will all be ripe and the coon will climb and stay for dinner and hunting will be easier on dogs. like pete said the scent hangs on those trees and your dog just needs encouraged to check a little better.
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I saw a persimmon tree here in the Land of Lincoln that had unripe fruit on it while catfishing yesterday. Our wild cherries are ripe and the wild plum tree out by our drive is ripe. Any dog can get fooled on fruit trees sometime. There is alot of scent there and little scent anwhere else so he thinks he may have one. If it gets to be a real problem, a switch will probably work but I personally would give a normally good dog alot of leeway on fruit trees.
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I had a young dog come treed on an apple tree last night, and i didn't find a coon. I agree with Redtick, fruit trees can mess up the most accurate of tree dogs.
I wish we had Persimmon trees here in this part of Kansas.
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I always thought that dogs came up slick on persimmons because the coon went up the tree, and ate the persimmons, then when he came back down his scent was covered by the persimmon smell and the dog couldn't smell the track leaving the tree. I'm not sure if there is any truth to this, but an old timer told me that the bark on the persimmon tree has something to do with this. Not sure exactly what he meant, but this could be some of your problem.
08-14-2003 12:54 PM
