rance56
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Jacksonville FL
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"all your dog had to do to win was get gone and tree one lousy coon. If he can't do that then he don't deserve to win."
could not agree with you more, but just feel neither does a dog that all he does is slick tree right off the bat. there are some dogs out there that have way too much tree bred in them and they imo can do pretty well in summertime pkc hunts. we dont have alot of coons in my part of the country, in a 2 hour hunt, lots of times a first strike first tree will win you the hunt alone, so you are really behind the 8 ball with one of these dogs in an hour hunt. especially if the guide gets some quick circle points and goes to a pine thicket for the final drop. this fella i hunted with the other weekend was bragging on how well his dog was doing in pkc. at thsi particular hunt he had 500 circle points and like 175 plus points. thats way too many trees in the area we were hunting. a good amount if not all of those circle points were slick trees.
never did i think my dog should have won my pkc cast, just felt niether shoud the other dog and the owner knew this dog wasnt accurate at all, but knew he would get out and bark up a tree pretty quick and stood a decent chance of winning without honestly treeing a coon. in my post i made sure to point i believed there were really great dogs in pkc and its pbvious there are. there is no sour grapes over losing just pointing out a fact about their scoring system, heck you can win wiht minus points. for me its not about just winning, its about how the winning was done. the dog i was hunting is a older dog im going to use as a pup trainer. i just want to get experience in hunts for when i do have some legit dog power, which i will. ive only been coon hunting a few months but im taking steps to somewhere in the hopefully not too distant future have me a top dog(s). instead of buying three young females and a pup trainer and all the accesories that goes along with that many dogs, i could have went out and bought me one $2500 dog, but hat isnt the route i wanted to go. good luck to ya all and no hard feelings
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