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Just wondering, last nite, my Son and I hunted our Young Started dog, and one of our Old hounds, thats never been completely streight. They struck a track, Running wide open, drove it through a pine saplin thicket, and out of hearing.
We figured it was trash, we got in the truck and drove around to cut them off, we found them about two miles from where they struck the track, treed. The leaves are on now, and it was a huge oak, in a swampy creek bottom.
Those hounds went through mature pine plantation, cut over thicket, and ended up in that creek bottom.
As fast as they were running, it seems they would have caught a coon on the ground.

How can you tell what happened?

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i would say they ran a deer and fell off on a coon. but ive hunted with guys that got mad at me for saying that. i still go with my gut and call it what it is.


i dont know of anyway to tell for sure but from experience with coon dogs and coon tracks it dont sound like a coon track.

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I figured it was something like that, mabe a deer or a hog.
there are alot of them where we turned them loose.
I sure would have liked to see the critter they left with.

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I turned loose my young dog last night. He struck ran one mile. A buddy pulls up, and my dog was crossing under the bridge. I told him to cut his female loose too get on the track. So now both dogs our running hot. They went 2-miles and still never treed. All the time they were ON THE CREEK BOTTOM... Now you ask how do you know if they switch tracks ? I asked him the same thing last night. My dog that I was hunting is 9-months old, he has treed his own coon by his self many of nights, this past month..And we have hunted these two dogs together many of nights, and have treed coons.. Was my dog running the same coon that he struck 3-miles up the road ? I personally don't think so.. But you ask your self why did he switch tracks ? Especially when both dogs have treed lots of coons together.. My young dog is also a very independent hold pressure type of dog, he's set in his ways.. He will split from the other dogs and never look over too them.. DON"T KNOW WHAT THE REASONING WAS...

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Shelby, It sounds like you had the same hunt I did.
My two hounds were at a full run, just like a fox or deer race, It didnt take them long at all, our first attempt at cutting them off was on a creek crossing that we have measured with a GPS, and that crossing was a mile away, when we got there they had already passed it, and we heard them blowing through the woods behind us, so we drove to the area they were heading to, there was a mile that would get us where they were heading. It was a long drive to get to that point. Thats 3/4 mile further, we pulled up, and when we got there, and got out of the truck, we heard them treeing. they were really hammering. That was one of the strangest tracks I have ever seen, and as fast as they were moving it seems they would have caught a coon, and I know they couldnt have run it like that if it were a cold track.

Here are a few Cell phone pics of the treed hounds.


Chester the older hound
Ruby the young hound

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Richard;
Our dogs was not moving fast on this track.. They were working it just like a coon race.. But they never fell treed, We thought they were treed a few times, But about the time we would start too them they were back on track.. We finally ran out of land we had permission to hunt. And drove up to the next bridge too catch them.. I don't under stand why they couldn't put it up unless it's like you said, they were skipping to new tracks. This creek was full of coons...I have know doubt that it was coon{s} they were running...
It's a mystery huh ! ? !

Nice looking hounds Richard !!!!!

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fox track maybe or a bobcat if they hit trees. alot of dogs will cold trail a coyote for a long time and never warm it up.

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