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Loud is ok, but often is Good too, i know some like there hounds to get deep, get treed and get the meat, but what about barks?
do you want your hounds to call all to come along or do you want them to say i have this , go get your own

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id rather have one deep and lonely with a coon. and not say a whole lot on the ground gettin there

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i like a well balanced hound...one that can stand on there head without falling over!!!LOL j/k i like them to drift out on a cold track just opening here and there until it gets lined out then they can open more...but they must be loud and fast..

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99% of everything a hound knows about where a coon has went or is ... comes from his nose , ergo .. nose is extremely important.

Nose = Mouth , dogs with good to cold noses are gonna open ... that's how a dog tells you he smells a coon.

Silent to semi-silent dogs just don't have the nose ... you never hear of someone bragging about a semi-silent tree-er ? You'd call that a weak treedog ... same as a weak track dog is one that doesn't open much.

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I want a dog that barks the second he or she smells coon. They need to open their mouth according to track. They need to be telling me what exactly is going on so I can enjoy the race. They need to have a distinctive locate so this ole dummy can call them. Then they need to stay put. 40 or 60 barks is enough for me as long as they stay. Everything above that is just plain ole gravy.

If my goal was to just kill coons, I would own a silent dog.

I coon hunt because I actually believe it to be a sort of romantic pursuit. Picture if you may my wife and I on one of our first 6 dates. We cut the dogs loose on a hardwood ridge over looking a winding creek bottom. We laid back on the top of the ridge and just listened to the race.

In the middle of the race, I asked her how many times do you think someone sat on this ridge listening to their hounds through the years? She said what do you mean, and I told her I would show her. I let the dogs tree a while before I told her was time to go to the dogs. On the way to the tree I showed her one of many beech trees in the bottom. There were actually dates carved into the bark going back to the early 1900's. I said see we are far from being the first people here. I wonder how many enjoyed the solitude and beauty of the night listening to their ole hounds work out a cold feeder track.

That to me is the embodiment of coon hunting.

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Silent to semi-silent dogs just don't have the nose ... you never hear of someone bragging about a semi-silent tree-er ? You'd call that a weak treedog ... same as a weak track dog is one that doesn't open much.

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WOW! Come hunt with me sometime and I'll show you one helluva semi-silent treedog! LOL

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Silent to semi-silent dogs just don't have the nose ... you never hear of someone bragging about a semi-silent tree-er ? You'd call that a weak treedog ... same as a weak track dog is one that doesn't open much. [/B]

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Justin, iv seen some open every breath hounds that had nose but didnt know if it was between their legs or between their ears.
remember stupid is as stupid does
just because he dont open dosent mean he dont smell either, some dogs just ant gona expell the oxigen it takes to bark.
take a Blood hound for instance,they will trail a man over a paved parking lot but might not open a time doing it.

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Bloodhounds , beagles or foxhounds aint coonhounds ... let's take .. ummmm .. coonhounds for instance ...


How you gonna prove how old a track a silent dog is running ? How you gonna tell if he's in front or behind an open trailing dog ... how do you know he aint just riding the coat tail of another dog and scooping up first tree ?


Coonhounds open when they smell scent strong enough to excite them ... when they aren't opening then they aren't smelling . If they could be scenting coon and silent ... then at least now and then you'd get a silent tree dog .

It's impossible to have a silent track dog but never a silent tree dog IF ... those silent dogs are smelling coon on the ground like they do on the tree.

... even "silent" dogs bark .. when the track gets hot enough to excite them .

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Bloodhounds , beagles or foxhounds aint coonhounds ... let's take .. ummmm .. coonhounds for instance ...


How you gonna prove how old a track a silent dog is running ? How you gonna tell if he's in front or behind an open trailing dog ... how do you know he aint just riding the coat tail of another dog and scooping up first tree ?


Coonhounds open when they smell scent strong enough to excite them ... when they aren't opening then they aren't smelling . If they could be scenting coon and silent ... then at least now and then you'd get a silent tree dog .

It's impossible to have a silent track dog but never a silent tree dog IF ... those silent dogs are smelling coon on the ground like they do on the tree.

... even "silent" dogs bark .. when the track gets hot enough to excite them .

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There all just Dogs Justin and after fooling with hounds of all kinds for the last 35 or 40 years iv come to understand just as sure as you start saying what they will or wont do you will find out that they like to make you out a liar more than anything.
remember there all just dogs

Hey and besides that they know when there on posted land too lol

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i definately dont agree with that. im huntin a dog for a man right now that is really tight on the ground but have seen him work out cold tracks and tree coons other dogs cant smell. that theory is rediculous

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Justin you are missing the point that A LOT of these semi-silent or silent dogs are not barking on track because they are SMART!

These dogs understand that the more they bark, the faster the coon runs when they are behind him!

They know that if they are tight on the ground, they are tracking to CATCH on the ground!

I can show HARD EVIDENCE of a dog that trails over a 1/2 mile and falls treed with the meat on my Garmin every night I take her out.

I can show you when she's trailing and when she's just running to find a track. The evidence is on the screen!

Now I'd like you to come and see that so you will understand what everyone is talking about with a tight nosed dog.

You CANNOT sit there and say the dog is not cold nosed just because it is or is not opening on the track.

Statements like you've made above makes the dogs look smarter than some of their handlers.

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i gotta agree with culler i got one that don't open much so he can avoid hitch hikers. some dogs are much smarter than you give them credit for. i don't think its got anything to do with their nose.

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How can a dog be trailing AND just fall treed ?

How does a Garmin know the dog is trailing , and not winding or just running around ?

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I hunt mountain lion and comp coon hunt I use the same dogs for both. From what I have seen semi silent doesn't mean hot nosed. I have watched semi silent dogs work an old lion track other dogs couldn't, and yes I can see the tracks and know how old they are. The semi silent dog I'm talking about is that way on most every track. He just bawls every so often, not after sticking his nose in the track. Does this on hot or cold tracks.

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You can see cold tracks ? When a dog is sniffing the ground you now it's a coon track and how old it is ?


.. and .... you've got a dog that doesn't open but opens on the tree and trees coon ..... and you wanna argue that he's cold nosed because there are other dogs there that don't open or tree that same coon at all ?

You are comparing silent but trees ... to silent and doesn't tree ? Are you sure that your scenario is what you were going for ?



I've never , ever seen a dog that proved they were cold nosed , extra good track dogs that could tree coon and weren't junky .... that didn't open and open plenty .

I've never heard anyone that had alot of the right kind of experience with hounds voice a different opinion either .


But .. now I have heard someone say that I'm supposed to be impressed with a silent dog that put it on other dogs that couldn't even run and tree a coon .. so , I did learn something new .

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I like a dog that strikes right off , and then opens accordingly.

I do know of a dog that will rig a bad track and you can watch him leave out on a track. Not saying a word till he's less than 50 yards from the tree.
How do I know this? Because I've hunted him enough. With other dogs and alone. It's amazing what you can learn if you spend enough time in the woods. LOL

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How can a dog be trailing AND just fall treed ?

How does a Garmin know the dog is trailing , and not winding or just running around ?

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When you hunt a dog over 300 nights in a year, you know every move they make whether their mouth is open or closed!


I can tell you what my dog is doing just by hearing the tag on her collar jingle and that's no lie.

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.. YOu ever hear of a silent rig dog that is cold nosed , just doesn't actually bark off the rig .. his owner can just ' tell" he's smelling an old track ?

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LOL! I've heard for years silent dogs are "hot nosed" I would have to disagree! The best dogs I have owned or seen go have been mostly Semi-silent. I've seen many of hounds that were suppose to be cold nose, run all night and get blown out by the semi-silent dog. I've personally owned dogs that rarely barked on the ground and were supposedly "hot nosed" that could tree coon all winter long while the "cold nosed" bark every time my feet hit the ground dog, ran all night.

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Coondogs bark when they smell something that is strong enough to excite them or strong enough that they think they have found where the coon went .... that's just how it is and silent dogs are hot nosed .

There might be one out of a thousand that are the exception .. but that has nothing to do with anything ..... because those exception are just someone being silly.

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If I were a modern day competition hunter, I would want a hot nosed, almost silent, go yonder by himself, loud mothed tree dog like so many breeders are breeding these days. But, I hunt in January with snow and ice on the ground, I want a dog with enough nose and brains to be able to work out a cold track fairly quickly, tree with a coon in the tree, not have to go into the next county to do it, and have a loud bawl mouth with a ringing chop on the tree. Folks, these kind of dogs are getting to be real scarce these days. Lots of modern competition hunters do not hunt in the winter, they don't have the dog power to get the job done. They are only out for the titles.

I don't have any problems with silent, hot nosed dogs, my Mt Curs are great at that style of treeing coon! But, I love a good, cold nosed hound that can get the job done right. They are few and far between these days

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Dave, you make a good point.


Justin, if I counted correctly on the Garmin... my "hot-nosed" semi-silent dog treed 55 raccoons from January 23 to March 23 on many cold and snowy nights. That's not 55 trees, that's 55 trees with a coon sitting in them!


Please please please come for a hunt. I think that would be the only way to change your opinion, or hard headedness (for a lack of a better term) on these kinds of dogs!

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