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Location: Anderson co Tennessee
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Originally posted by l.lyle
Maybe I'm lucky but I haven't had one i'd called finished till they were at least three or four years old. I've had sone less than 2 that i could count on getting coons with but they kept getting better so they weren't topped out yet. JMO

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Location: illinois
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well started dog should be able to tree its own coon most of the time. a dog that with boot leather that can be easily finished into a broke coon dog. i've tried many well started dogs that weren't even close. guess folks who put a well started price on a dog figure it must be so. i think most don't have a clue or are a bit crooked. it'd be nice if folks were honest.

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Also, a finnished dog should still have four or five years left in him at the top of his game before he starts slowing down. I think a finnished dog to some people means he's finnished as a coon dog. LOL

If I was a comp hunter I would expect to pay top dollar for a well started dog , polish him up some, and put some titles on him, and get all the credit for it.
If I was like me, not a comp hunter, That has to train around the gators , I would pay decent for a pup that is just started, not well started. All I would be buying is age and the feed that got him that old, also the fact that I don't see any serious flaws in him , such as treeing butterflies up a swithcane. and has some "want to" in him.

And I agree with most of ya'll. A pup yapping at a cage cone is not started yet.

I'll never forget the words I heard from a fellow that was not even a coon hunter but was out with us none night when the young dogs worked a track about 30 minutes and lost it. He said, "Started, farted, stumbled and fell".

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Originally posted by l.lyle
Also, a finnished dog should still have four or five years left in him at the top of his game before he starts slowing down. I think a finnished dog to some people means he's finnished as a coon dog. LOL

If I was a comp hunter I would expect to pay top dollar for a well started dog , polish him up some, and put some titles on him, and get all the credit for it.
If I was like me, not a comp hunter, That has to train around the gators , I would pay decent for a pup that is just started, not well started. All I would be buying is age and the feed that got him that old, also the fact that I don't see any serious flaws in him , such as treeing butterflies up a swithcane. and has some "want to" in him.

And I agree with most of ya'll. A pup yapping at a cage cone is not started yet.

I'll never forget the words I heard from a fellow that was not even a coon hunter but was out with us none night when the young dogs worked a track about 30 minutes and lost it. He said, "Started, farted, stumbled and fell".

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Originally posted by GA DAWG
My papa used to use that phrase all the time LoL. I've not thought of it in yrs till now. I'll have to get somebody with that.

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