Registered: Dec 2012
Location: Pennsylvania
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Hey guys, I've just got back into the sport. I have a hunch that the young dog I'm hunting right now may be pulling up short on den trees. What are some clues that I can look for that he would let me know if he is. Also how do I correct this, or is it just genetic.

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Registered: Feb 2012
Location: west virginia
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Is he treeing on a den every time? If he is he may be running backwards

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Registered: Feb 2012
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could be a training error. train it with a drag?
could be in bloodline genetics too, some don't need to see a coon 2 or 3 times at most in a cage pull up.

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Registered: Apr 2013
Location: Pea Ridge, Arkansas
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We are hunting four young dogs right now and I know this sounds like BS, but in the last two months have not treed a blank or a den. They have the coon everytime. Ive never seen anything like it. I figure its just been luck, but they are accurate. Some dogs can figure out if they running a track backwards and some just have trouble their whole life figuring that out. I would say if they are treeing a den everytime that is what is happening. Or if the area you are hunting in is hunted to death the coons get pretty wise. when they hear a dog they all head for cover. Ive seen areas where you could strike a coon every time you went but wouldnt tree one and see it. Everybody hunted that spot. Go tree a den everytime.

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what % do you thank are laying up with kittens?i would
climb 1 and see dont anybody climb trees anymore?

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Registered: Dec 2012
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 2027

No its not every time. For a little while he was pulling up short on slicks, I gave him some correction, and he seemed to learn and would start to locate some and then move on and find the coon or a den.

It seems like a lot of the time but not always, when he trees a coon, its usually a hot short track.

I have had one area that Ive hunted a couple times, and he has treed nothing but dens.

The last time out, I did get out a little late, 2 hrs after sunset give or take. He treed a coon. I pulled him off, he then struck a cold track, got hung up a bunch, but seemed to work it out,and lined it out. Sounded like it was starting to warm up, but didn't sound like it was hot yet. Then he came located and treed. When I pulled him off, it seemed like he had picked up a track right away again leaving the tree. I didn't let him run it because it was heading in the direction of a road. But It made me wonder if he had pulled up short, on the den just because of a lot of coon scent being there.

I don't think he is back tracking, because sometimes he has the coon, and sometimes he has a den. It just seems like a couple times here in the past week he has pulled up on dens, and it seemed to be a little early, and he didn't appeared to be treeing as hard. So I was thinking he may be pulling up and treeing on the first den tree that comes along that has coon scent in it, even if the track continues on. But due to my lack of inexperience, Its hard for me to know, and always understand what he is doing.

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