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The inborn trait is to run with it's head up. It is't born knowing how to drift. If it naturaly runs with it's head up it has to learn to drift to find any thing. Well drift or air scent.A dog can't track with its head up.
Other than that it would have to be learned by a dog that naturaly runs with it's head down from experances of catching a hot trail in the air while it's head is up and learning to work it.
Personaly one that knows how to do both would be my choise. A natural track dog that has learned to trail and air scent.

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I think old Dave Dean gets some credit for gettin the blue dogs nose outa the mud Rumer had it there was a little bird dog blood involved. MAYBE,,,,,,,,,

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I think old Dave Dean gets some credit for gettin the blue dogs nose outa the mud Rumer had it there was a little bird dog blood involved. MAYBE,,,,,,,,,

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I think old Dave Dean gets some credit for gettin the blue dogs nose outa the mud Rumer had it there was a little bird dog blood involved. MAYBE,,,,,,,,,

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Hey if it Made better Dogs u should Thank him
i wouldent be above it my self if i thought it would ad somthing Beneficial to the Dogs abilitys to Persue and Tree game with an open trail...........

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Hey if it Made better Dogs u should Thank him
i wouldent be above it my self if i thought it would ad somthing Beneficial to the Dogs abilitys to Persue and Tree game with an open trail...........

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Lets remember too that some of this ability comes from the old foxhounds that produced what we hunt now. The fox hunters call a dog that drifts a track a cutter because they would get ahead by circleing out ahead and cutting the track ahead of where a lose was made.. Where ever it comes from it sure is neat to have.

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Lets remember too that some of this ability comes from the old foxhounds that produced what we hunt now. The fox hunters call a dog that drifts a track a cutter because they would get ahead by circleing out ahead and cutting the track ahead of where a lose was made.. Where ever it comes from it sure is neat to have.

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Lets remember too that some of this ability comes from the old foxhounds that produced what we hunt now. The fox hunters call a dog that drifts a track a cutter because they would get ahead by circleing out ahead and cutting the track ahead of where a lose was made.. Where ever it comes from it sure is neat to have.

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Lets remember too that some of this ability comes from the old foxhounds that produced what we hunt now. The fox hunters call a dog that drifts a track a cutter because they would get ahead by circleing out ahead and cutting the track ahead of where a lose was made.. Where ever it comes from it sure is neat to have.

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What exactly do people mean when they say "drift a track"

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What it means to me is a dog following a faint scent in the direction he knows it is going picking it up here an there until he is able to tree the animal.

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What it means to me is a dog following a faint scent in the direction he knows it is going picking it up here an there until he is able to tree the animal.

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What exactly do people mean when they say "drift a track"

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I'd like to see some others' descriptions of what they think a track drifting dog does.

I am in my third generation of Blueticks that do it. I think it is bred into the lines that have it. My dogs got it from those before them I think. I don't think they learned how to do it but pulled it up from within. We are not talking about track straddling or wandering all over the woods trying to follow a scent.

I have seen it in the field, not read it in someone's book or had it told to me by someone else. I do not have snow to prove the route the dog follows to get it done...but I have been in the right place at the right time and seen it with my own eyes and I know what I witnessed

Lets hear from some other experienced hound people.

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I'd like to see some others' descriptions of what they think a track drifting dog does.

I am in my third generation of Blueticks that do it. I think it is bred into the lines that have it. My dogs got it from those before them I think. I don't think they learned how to do it but pulled it up from within. We are not talking about track straddling or wandering all over the woods trying to follow a scent.

I have seen it in the field, not read it in someone's book or had it told to me by someone else. I do not have snow to prove the route the dog follows to get it done...but I have been in the right place at the right time and seen it with my own eyes and I know what I witnessed

Lets hear from some other experienced hound people.

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Well this hyars what I think since you axed for it. In snow I recon you can see a coon track and a dog track and do real good and even better if you could annalize those tracks to see if the coon was five minutes ahead or an hour. But that's just my guess cause I ain't seen much snow. But now lets take Garmin, It tells you where one dog is compared to another dog and how far that dog was ahead of another dog. Now lets put Garmin on a coon too and , guess what ? you see two sets of tracks in the snow, so to speak, and Garmin will tell you (don't need to be no GURU) how far the coon is ahead of the dog. And we can get rid of all this BS hypothesizin about sniffin. JMO.

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Well that sounds good to me but accomplishing it ... well that might be harder to do. It would however clear up some of the "Smoke Blowing" so to speak.

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Heck, I can't even afford a Garmin for my dog much less an island worth of coons to watch tracks on. LOL

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Heck, I can't even afford a Garmin for my dog much less an island worth of coons to watch tracks on. LOL

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...and if i did I might not see what I THINK I SEE!

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I know the vampire blood is about to show up in me . It's dang near daylight . I gotta go.

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After further thought Mr Lyle Sir... I think I'll search E Bay for a dog book on the fine points of dog doins written by a dog. I'll shoot it across the river to you as soon as I learn all I always wanted to know from it.! Might take a while now!

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I know the vampire blood is about to show up in me . It's dang near daylight . I gotta go.

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I was hoping to hear from Ray and Loui but I guess they are skeert!

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Larry???

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I'm just going to mention dogs not ever talked about on the board.

These were all out of GRFCH GRWCH GRNIECH GRCH FARONY'S BLUE STEEL RUGER (out of screwdriver) and a Jet 5xscout female. They are
GRFCH GRWCH GRNITECH GRCH LOLLY'S POCKET BLUE ROCK
FCH GRWCH GRNITECH GRCH FARONY'S BLUE STELL REMINGTON (1field and she will be quad grand)
FCH WCH GRNITECH GRCH FARONKY'S SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL (4 field and 2 water races towards quad grand) he was way ahead of my female at her last field trial
NITECH GRCH FARONY'S BLUE STEEL RUGER 2 (has 3 nitech wins)
I hunted with special last week and he treed 3 layups and no other dog opened its mouth. Loud with a super fast chop.

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