rance56
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Originally posted by ICB
If you will notice in my first post I said that my concern would be that we may be possibly losing some cold nose ability. Which would be what you are saying above.
I raised more Jet V pups than anything else. The Quail Creek Jet dog had a 1st place win in Feb at 7 months of age on snow if my memory serves me correctly. These werent easy coon. They were so rough that the other dogs had no clue they were there type of coon. I also hunted against him down here in competition in MO when he was about 11 or 13 month(one or the other just cant remember for sure RQE I think) The other three dogs in the cast would open once in a great while, but QC Jet was moving the tracks and putting the coon on the end and had the meat. The other dogs never barked once on the trees.
I have never hunted down in South East MO but I have heard that this is the toughest place to tree coon in MO. QC Jet treed something like 8 coon down there in the early 90's to be king of hunt. They were once again tough coon....made to look easy.
I never have understood why some won't believe others when they talk about early starting pups.
My first hound came from OK....almost in Texas. Straight from Haslouer's. He ran track some his first night in the woods at 10 months old. By his third night out he ran and treed his first coon. He was never hunted with another dog or teased with a coon or anything else....he was a natural!
He never slowed down, was a deep hunter, all night tree dog. Got a 2nd on him the 2nd hunt I had ever been to. Basically got cheated out of first with him the next hunt. He located on the last drop of the hunt with about 5 minutes to go and one of the 65+ yr old guys immediately said your dogs stuck on that elk fence over there its 10 feet tall. Had I not been naive and called him treed I would have had a 1st on him. He had the meat.
His down fall was he didn't have as much nose as my later hounds did. 12 week old pup 1st drop in the woods never seen a coon ran a treed a 1/2 mile track with the meat. He never opened on it.
Why is this so hard to believe?
i dont think a good track dog necessarily means it has to be cold nosed. i dont want a cold nosed dog.
no one is saying they dont believe in early starting pups, but there is alot between early starting pups and a coon dog, just like there is alot of difference between hunting in texas than indiana.
as far as qc jet, when i got back into blueticks from a younge days, i went up to eds and bought a dog off of warrior creek cw which was off of qc jet. larry harvey had her. we won the pkc state hunt one year and placed second the next with a pup off of her. not many other blues can claim anything like this. with that being said, i still fealt i wanted a better dog. the blood you are refering to, i have hunted with many of them, both ones i have owend and ones owned by others.
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