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Just want to find out what age is a good age to start hunting a young dog in comp. hunts.

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2yrs old by then it is past most of the monkey c and monkey do stage. but i still like to watch what i hunt it with.

Good luck

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2yrs old by then it is past most of the monkey c and monkey do stage. but i still like to watch what i hunt it with.

Good luck

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i remember when you rarely saw a dog under 2 at a comp hunt. i don't care how many titles they win by 2, it takes several seasons to make a COON DOG!!!! i went hunting a while back with a 18 month old grand nite. the owner asked if i would put my dog in there with him....quote " he won't go hunting unless another dog is with him". HMMMMMM the reason you don't see as much HTX going on is because many of Today's hounds cant do it alone. when you have to put a dog in there and it has to perform and show a coon all alone.........well it separates the junk real qwik. jmo.

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Soon as its ready. NO SET AGE!!!!! You should know when its ready without asking

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Soon as its ready. NO SET AGE!!!!! You should know when its ready without asking

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just woundering my young dog is 13 months and if the track is hott she will tree it. if its an cold track she may open on it but want tree. she is 100% rat atack bloodline. and what people say if it aint hott they want hardly bark.

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just woundering my young dog is 13 months and if the track is hott she will tree it. if its an cold track she may open on it but want tree. she is 100% rat atack bloodline. and what people say if it aint hott they want hardly bark.

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I think I know what you are saying, but it is NOT 100% Rat Attack.........LOL.........

You cant go by a dogs age to determine if it is Competition ready, if you are young or are new to Coon hunting then you need to tag along with some hunters that have been doing this for awhile.............good luck..............Tim

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If she can't tree every track she opens on. She ain't ready.

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My rule of thumb is they gotta be straight..no trash running...

Gotta be doing it alone and accurately...not just smokin hot tracks..it starts showing me it can iron out feeder tracks and tree coon on bad nites, it might be ready

Maturity...gotta be a hunter and when the leash comes off it goes hunting..can't be a puppy actin dog...can't be a follower...


Your turning loose with 3 strange dogs...if there's a gator in the pack, it could ruin a dog..especially a young dog...and if there's trash runners, tree leavers etc, young dogs are more prone to pick up bad habits IMO...more than an older dog that's been hunted a bunch...


I rather take the dogs to the hunts, do our fair share of hunting and winning and get the titles and that's that...don't take many registered hunts to get to the nite champion level so long as your packin a coon dog...the female I run now is a good example...got in, got our first and the next nite I put a nite champion win on her..she was hunted by my buddy earlier a few times and had a few 2nds on her..she was ready for the nite champion class when we started hunting her...and made going through easy enough...I like competition hunting most nites but don't care to hunt a dog that ain't ready to win...

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some dogs are never ready. if they cant take pull pressure while another dog is still tracking, your in for alot of disapointing hunts.

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When a dog has been singled out and hunted by itself enough that it has confidence in itself. Even if I thought it was ready before, I always liked to get at least one kill season on it before any competition.

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