Registered: Nov 2011
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Been coonhunting for many years, looking back on them years I've seen that all the dogs I've had has had lots of trouble treeing when the moon is bright! I mean thay will act like a idiot! Making trees that you want find anything in, making alot of den trees! Has it been the dogs I've had? Has anyone experienced this?
Just lastnite my dog made three trees, found coon in just one of them! He acted an hunted like a different dog all together!

Let's be honest here!!

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A bright moon light night has always been notoriously bad for treeing coons and 90% of the time it does ring true for me but every once in a 'blue moon" I've seen it go the other way and have a really good night on a moon lit night but that's pretty rare IMO.

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A friend of mine has a 3 year old walker female that hasn't been hunted since last February until the last couple weeks...we have took her 3 times this week and three times last week.all 6 nights we have seen a coon in every tree she has made,she's a pretty good coonhound,we went Friday night 3 different drops and she acted like a dog I haven't seen before,treed up on a big hemlock right off the drop and after shining for about 40 minutes we gave up,made two more drops and she didn't do a dang thing just went out about 500 and came right back to the truck...it had to have been the full moon messing with her but I can't say for sure, just know she wasn't the same dog we have been hunting..

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A friend of mine has a 3 year old walker female that hasn't been hunted since last February until the last couple weeks...we have took her 3 times this week and three times last week.all 6 nights we have seen a coon in every tree she has made,she's a pretty good coonhound,we went Friday night 3 different drops and she acted like a dog I haven't seen before,treed up on a big hemlock right off the drop and after shining for about 40 minutes we gave up,made two more drops and she didn't do a dang thing just went out about 500 and came right back to the truck...it had to have been the full moon messing with her but I can't say for sure, just know she wasn't the same dog we have been hunting..

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I went out Friday with the bright moon. Made 5 trees. 4 coons and a den. It was so bright I could see 2 of the coins in the tree before I even turned my light on. I do also think one of the coons was a layup. It was a warm night.

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I went out Friday with the bright moon. Made 5 trees. 4 coons and a den. It was so bright I could see 2 of the coins in the tree before I even turned my light on. I do also think one of the coons was a layup. It was a warm night.

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We were out Saturday night with Dandy, he treed in a den tree and a pine. Last night, Ruby and him treed one we could see. The only thing we thought was odd, was they struck about 200 yds away and then nothing until they treed about 500 yds away....not sure what they were up to for 300 yds.

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We were out Saturday night with Dandy, he treed in a den tree and a pine. Last night, Ruby and him treed one we could see. The only thing we thought was odd, was they struck about 200 yds away and then nothing until they treed about 500 yds away....not sure what they were up to for 300 yds.

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Dogs i have now seem to have a rough time with a full moon but the ones i had 15 years ago excelled in moonlit conditions because they were phenomenal lay up dogs. Lost that layup gene still trying to get it back.

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This is just an observation on my part but here goes. I haven't had much luck on moonlit nights in the winter after the leaves are off but in the summer when the trees are leafed out I don't have any problem treeing coons and seeing them. I don't think they like climbing and looking at the bright moon.

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I have never had much luck on a full moon night...coons typically don't move and many other things do. I usually stay home if when there is a bright moon. Saturday night we treed five coon and seen them all on the outside. One was even in a big hollow den tree that he could have for sure climbed in, but even that one was on the outside. It's been pretty warm here and then we had a rain spell for several days then it got kind of cold again. Maybe they just all moved because of this chain of weather events, I don't know. The first two were not run off of feeders, the next three were.
I also don't know about the squirrel thing either...unless we are talking about flying squirrels. I have had 6 trail cameras out at just about any given time for the last several years looking right at corn filled feeders....after dark I have not seen one, not a single {1} squirrel on any of my cameras in two states. Squirrels might move for maybe 1/2 hour after dark and a cold nosed dog might mess with that track, but gray or fox squirrels at night???? I don't think so, because I have never seen it. Like the "jumping out bobcat"...everybody talks about it, but no one has shot one in 55 years.

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I don't see any difference, treed 5 and a den Friday and 4 sat. Bout the norm, moon bright as could be.

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Just an excuse for poor performance... Jmo

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Some may use it as an excuse, but I think the question is; why do many dogs show this "poor performance" on a bright moon??? The same dogs that did fantastic on a dark night are not able to repeat that performance when the moon is bright. The only thing that changed was the moon. There is no denying that something is different with many dogs when hunted on a full or bright moon. There will always be those few that jump up and later, after the subject comes up claim "nothin' wrong with the way my dog hunts on a full moon!!!" Yeah, okay I believe ya...I bet those same dogs never ran a deer or treed a possum either.
The funny thing is when you have a full moon and say, "hey, lets put that wonder dog of yours in the woods tonight!!!" The scroll of excuses why they cant hunt comes out.

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I guess coons smell different on a full moon too, or they do their super coon voodoo magic to escape them dogs! Lol

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EVERYTHING can see better, that includes predators !! So if I can see better the critter who wants to eat me does too. Changes the habits of the animals out there at night and how they react to the surroundings. Squirrels also seem active later into the night as well, tells you that ole Rough and Miss Ready may like bushytails a bit more than ya like. 42 years of running coon and a full moon at times can curse ya sometimes it is just like any other night. Survival is the factor I see causing a change.

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I think it depends more on what part of the country you live in. Here in Va it doesn't bother them near as much as it does in Indiana. The coon in Indiana don't move much at all with a bright moon.

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Bright as day last night at midnight....

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The only thing i have ever noticed about a full moon is that it is much harder to get them to look.

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i use to think the moon had a role. Which im sure it may in some aspects. Went out last night here in Southeastern IN and treed four coon and a den. Some were KITTEN coon. Also seen a few crossing the roads, in fields, etc.

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Dogs i have now seem to have a rough time with a full moon but the ones i had 15 years ago excelled in moonlit conditions because they were phenomenal lay up dogs. Lost that layup gene still trying to get it back.

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I believe it depends on your coon population.Coons don't move as much during a full moon,so the person that has very few coons in his hunting area feels the moons affects more.

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Full moons I tend to run into yotes and poor tracks, nothing fresh like the coons hadn't been down yet. And tend to avoid the full moon nights.

I was out on Sunday with 2 friends. Made three drops.

1st drop dogs were not finishing tracks and crossed 2 roads and got up by a house so we caught them. One guys dog run three deer in a circle almost back to where we dropped them.

2nd drop we let them go into an adjoining woods but we changed some dogs up. Mine ended up crossing the road again going into the first bush and treeing, he missed the coon by 3 trees.

3rd drop we cut and dogs struck right off the road and went in and messed around in some pines then started back to us and treed on the field edge with 2 coons up.

My male seemed to handle the night better than my female but they are still young.

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This time of year I notice little difference in a bright full moon but in the winter on a full moon clear night I notice a tremendous difference and I'm blessed with great coon hunting.

Several woods that I hunt on a dark night where you'd have a coon treed every 5 to 10 minutes and on a bright full moon can't even get struck. I hunted for 4 or 5 years mostly by myself and liked to think I've had a few pretty decent hounds and anyone saying they tree coon the same on a clear full moon is simply blowing smoke.

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