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Anyone ever had any experience with a dog that possibly hunts too hard?

Got a 2 year old female that will strike quick and once she starts she is running and zig zagging all over the place. It looks like she is trying to go so hard at running the track that she is constantly over running it so much that it makes her slow on track. A few times i have seen her have some stretches where she can line it out and cover some ground but that has been rare. She reminds me alot of a beagle that smells a rabbit close by but hasnt jumped it yet.

If anyone has had one like that, did they ever get better on track?

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I had a redbone like that when I was 16 I thought his nose was broke but he just hubted the scent he was on....it could be several tracks in one spot and the dog trying to find the easiest one to follow it could be a lot of things or the dog has a broken track frome where soething rustled though the woods and wore the scent up some....this is what all I've been told for this situation idk for sure but I know the dog I had that did it I dropped her in the woods more frequently and she eventually got on the right path but I know my buddys dog does the zig zagging a lot and he's just a few months older than ur dog so who knows....good luck on fixing the issues happy hunting

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Has she been hunted much? If not, lots of hunting is needed.
It would be interesting to see what she does on a live trap coon released across a big open field to a woods. Usually those run pretty straight. Don't let the dog see it. Give the coon a 10 minute head start.
A friend of mine had a walker female that ran too fast on track and made a lot of mistakes and would have to circle back around and pick it up alot. She was young. He was patient and hunted her a lot. She made a real fast track dog that treed, and could win easily in competition hunts.

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I just got her about a month ago and i was told she was just started this past winter. She has been hunted quite abit this summer before i got her and I have had her out 3 nights a week since.

Your right about the cage coon, ill probably try that and see how she acts too.

Boy if she can get it figured out i think she will be a fast track dog but if not im gonna have to move her.

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ID SAY SHES STILL LARNIN HOW TO RUN A TRACK, AND WHEN SHE FINALY FIGURES IT OUT HOW TO DO IT ,SHE WILL SMOKE THOSE TRACKS AND BE A GOOD TRACK DOG,,GIVE HER TIME ,I THINK YOU WILL LIKE WHAT SHES LARNIN,IVE HAD A FEW DO THAT IVE BEEN FOLLOWIN THESE OLD HOUNDS FOR ABOUT 40 YEARS NOW,,HAVE A BLESSED ONE FROM THE RIVERBOTTOM,,,RON

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her nose is bigger then her mind at this point give her some time iv seen them like that ,

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i thought that was the way a dog ran a track makeing sure it didnt turn in differnt direction

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Well i think it is to some degree. I watch other dogs on the garmin and they do it to but not as severe. Problem is it causes her to be slow while the other dogs get way ahead of her. Last night she struck right off the leash and seemed to be a hot track but she got out in the middle of a cornfield with it and litterally painted the screen on the garmin with her tracks. Finally it seemed to get cold and i had to call her in.

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It has been my experience that dogs have a track style and a tree style, almost from the fist time they do either. Some times it will change, but mostly what you see from the beginning is what you get. Tom

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Well i think it is to some degree. I watch other dogs on the garmin and they do it to but not as severe. Problem is it causes her to be slow while the other dogs get way ahead of her. Last night she struck right off the leash and seemed to be a hot track but she got out in the middle of a cornfield with it and litterally painted the screen on the garmin with her tracks. Finally it seemed to get cold and i had to call her in.

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ive had dogs to do that so bad that i believe a basset could beat them to the tree.the ones i had never got much better.

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