Registered: May 2011
Location: wv
Posts: 74

I used to bear hunt and coon hunt the same dogs.My black and tans would tree bear or coon.But I just coon hunt now and I do see a difference in their tracking and treeing ability but when I was bear hunting we trained all year.Where as coon hunting Ididnt have them in the woods as much.But I think it most definitely has an effect on how quick they start and how hard they tree.Not so much on the trailing though.

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Registered: May 2008
Location: n.c.
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Cold trailing depends on when u hunt and where you hunt.
I coon hunt more in the daytime than at nite and my best trailing dog ( a walker ) could smell a two day ( coon ) trail and when he treed or bayed as often happened, well he had the coon. This type of dog is rare but i have had more than one and different breeds too. I had a plott female that has tracked coons for miles and hours and have the coon as well. Not many coonhunters would want a dog like this but mine are trained in the daytime and if they make it when u go nite hunting they will show you alot of coons.

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Registered: Jun 2012
Location: Titletown, WI.
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Originally posted by Smoking_Bluedog
I'm a coon hunter. not a bear season where I hunt. but do ya'll think a bear hound can improve track driving ability of the average coon hound? I don't comp hunt just enjoy the hunt/race


Kenneth

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Registered: Dec 2003
Location: kellogg mn
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Smoking Bluedog, I'll give ya my opinion for what it's worth. I got a utchman dog that just might be the best I've had in fourty years, but my cameron will smoke him on a bad track. On a good track it's a horse race, but on a rough one the Cameron will pick up his head and blow outa the country and the Utchman will labor the same track. The Camerons mom was a cat dog and two of his brothers are bear dogs. All I've ever run him on is coon. He's getting old now and he'll die here, he's earned it.

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Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Dobson, N.C.
Posts: 361

Thanks fellas if my female takes this time I think I'll try to breed her to some big game blood next time around and see how I like it


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Registered: Jun 2012
Location: Titletown, WI.
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it doesnt matter on breed to me. we had 2 very good Utchman dogs that we ran on coon and bear. they were quick and i liked them alot and would of kept the blue line also but when we bred them, only one turned out. so i guess it wasnt the right cross.the male was a big lanky dog and the female smaller and streamlined. i like all hounds and red is where it worked for me. always wanted a cameron dog also but just never happened across one at the right time. i like a good dog and i dont know if its luck that the red dogs worked for me or wut. i keep them in the woods alot and that sure helps. i just think a guy can run them on coon,cat, and bear with success and the more you keep them in the woods the better they are. i dont think the hounds these days are missing anything. but maybe a certain dog is. they are not the same and you can get a good one and then a average one. heres a pick of the 2 we had. the female died of old age and her and a pup treed a bear at 13 and the male had a bear bail out when coonhunting and landed on him and broke his back. i do think if u r missing drive that a biggame line may help. jmo and there are alot of very good big game blue dogs to choose from if u decided to go that route. take care

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