Registered: Jun 2012
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Have a dog that when hunted alone just doesn't take off when I cut his loose like I want him to. He goes on, but is slow about it and takes a few minutes to get deep. I don't like it. But when he's with another dog he takes off (not just chasing each other).

How do I encourage him to go and stay out of my sight until he gets treed? I vocally encourage him and say HUNT or GO and he will pick it up a little but still is a little slow.

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Registered: Sep 2003
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It's hard , you can get rough on em' but that don't mean they are gonna go find a coon any quicker ... one trick is to send em' where the woods are a good chunk away .. acoss a field or something ... or down creeks where they gotta hook it to get to timber ....

When it's all said and done ... it's the desire to find coon that has to be there ....

Some dogs need to be hyped up like boxers or athletes warming up ... can't blame em for that .... if you have some kind of scent rag or hide that you can amp them up on at the house or road them a bit just before turning out ... get their adrenaline pumping .

Our Jericho is like that ... unreal in company , but alone he is just hitting his stride when you wanna go home .. his deepest turnout will be when you are worn out and he strikes through a bottom ,lol .... but if I work hm up and get him excited before that first turn loose it seems to work wonders.

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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Edgar, Wis
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Take him to a spot were you can get him on a coon quickly. Examples, near a used den tree, creek bottom or a frog pond. Kind of walk him in there and let him hunt it by him by himself. Once he starts getting tracks going and finishing them in that area, start turning him loose a little further and further away. Once he gets his confidence built up, he will start firing in there.

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Registered: Apr 2006
Location: DEEP FORK VALLEY, OKLAHOMA
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this is why I START pups alone. hunt him by himself for 30-45 days. I like to cut them across a big field that they have to run through to get to the timber. imo turnin one out where they can tree a quick easy one to much will just make them hunt short. also you can take a switch and whip on your chaps a lil and tell em to hurry but this just gets them away from you a lil quicker.

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Registered: Jun 2012
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Thanks fellas

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Registered: Mar 2009
Location: OKLA
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Unfortunately, hounds are victims of their genetics, I don't care how much you hunt them, some just don't hunt deep, and some don't hunt at all by themselves. You see lots of hounds on these boards for sale, because they don't hunt by themselves; chances are that something in their three generation pedigree didn't either. I raised and hunted a GRNT dog 'til he was eight; he wouldn't hunt very far by himself, put him with anything and he was gone; he probably treed a thousand coon in his life time, but that was his "fault". His sire was a dog that didn't hunt very deep either, but he treed a ton of coon. So some things you can live with, some you can't. Tom

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