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I've only ever heard people say that on this board. Do they really want a dog to check in, or is it their dog just checks in when he won't hunt? I don't have a world beater but I better be pulling my dogs off a tree somewhere or they will be worm food. What's the deal with a dog that checks in? Why?

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iv got one that gets treed somewhere and one that will check back in after about 30min depends on what kind of mode im in or how far i feel like walkin on which one i take it works out good for me

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I hunt with my 12 year old son more than anyone else. It is nice when they check in after 30 minutes or so. Homework, bedtime, keeping Mama happy.....all very important to us both. Sometimes I would prefer a 20 minute dog because in my country, they can get a long ways in 30 minutes and we have just enough hills to make it suck if you have one with a jet engine. I guess that I will have to break the news to my boy that we are not as cool as others and must be inferior. I wonder how he'll take the news? We may just have to sell our boots, hang up the collars, and just read stud ads in the magazines.

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Originally posted by mngodwin
I've only ever heard people say that on this board. Do they really want a dog to check in, or is it their dog just checks in when he won't hunt? I don't have a world beater but I better be pulling my dogs off a tree somewhere or they will be worm food. What's the deal with a dog that checks in? Why?

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How yall get em to check in? Born in em or what. The couple good ones I've had would never check in. Not in a million yrs. Now I've had a few that just wouldn't hunt much that I guess you'd call checking in. They wouldn't go but 2 or 3 hundred yards. Come back if not struck. Bad thing is. Here in 2 or 3 yards. 80% of the time your not struck. Feeders or no feeders. Id like one to go about a 1000 yards. Then circle back. Yall got one like that?

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My dog checks back to me. And he goes a lil further everytime. So if you don't feel comfortable where he's headin you can catch him. And no its not bred into him not to hunt.! Most of the places i hunt if my dog strikes at 1000 yards I'd never hear him. Your talkin two farms over, or 4 ridges over. If you wanna garmin hunt all night thats your business and i wont knock you for it. To each his own.

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Originally posted by Carl Mac
Quit drinking coffee at the truck and go hunting!!!

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I DO!!!

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these days dont like a dog that checks back in 20 or 30mins they think thier no account but me i always liked a dog that comes but i started hunting back in the 50s when dogs wasnt bred to go outa the country like they want them today

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If they are wasting time to come back to see what im doing they are not looking for a coon track. NO THANKS. Theres a difference between a dog that is hunting for a track and a dog that will run one if he just happens across it.

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If they are wasting time to come back to see what im doing they are not looking for a coon track. NO THANKS. Theres a difference between a dog that is hunting for a track and a dog that will run one if he just happens across it.

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When i was younger I gave away a very good tree dog because he checked in. He would circle around 200 yards out there a time or two and then come back by and then go back out. Good track dog, good tree dog. 16 months old. I gave the dog away cause he didn't hunt deep enough. Now, thats the EXACT type of dog I will look for when and if I start hunting again !

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When i was younger I gave away a very good tree dog because he checked in. He would circle around 200 yards out there a time or two and then come back by and then go back out. Good track dog, good tree dog. 16 months old. I gave the dog away cause he didn't hunt deep enough. Now, thats the EXACT type of dog I will look for when and if I start hunting again !

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I could show you on the Garmin but the wife has my truck with my hand held .. It clearly shows my hounds making huge 1/4 radious out from me and they get out quite deep 250 to 500 yards then you can see a bee line back to me and their usualy just running by me and then headed out in a different direction then start the same type of hunting for tracks ..


But I never "Tought" them to hunt like this ... It maybe the way I raise out my pups .. I start walking them at 5 weeks old and we may only walk 50 yards before they lay down and go to sleep in the woods .. Walkouts get longer and longer and at times I just stop walking when they get out of site .. Well in a few min.s the Pack of pups will come running back then I start walking again ..

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Yep mine are the same way.

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my dog goes the way I cast her. she can strike a coon right off the tailgate or a 1000yd she makes a big circle and then she will go right trough the middle of it. then she will swing to the left or right of that area and do the same thing again . she will cover at least 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile wide area in front of you this is in heavy timber Ive seen her be gone as long has two hours before getting struck but she is still in hearing. Now if you take her in the summer time when its hot I can take her to creeks an rivers and send her down them and if she does not get struck she will come through to the next bridge to be handle. Or I can send her up over a hillside and she will hunt it out. We dont have very many nights that we dont see a coon. She has the brains to know what I want her to do and the desire to tree a coon.

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Jason Baldwin is that cause you've got older and lazier or what I know that's the only reason Id think of changing. Well you could add to fat to mine now to lol. I know some folks don't understand where we hunt. We have thousands and thousands of ac in places. Now how you gonna hunt a 200 yard circler? Your not. I just got rid of one. Like to have drove me crazy. Im sure you will start back one of these days to!!

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Originally posted by mngodwin
I've only ever heard people say that on this board. Do they really want a dog to check in, or is it their dog just checks in when he won't hunt? I don't have a world beater but I better be pulling my dogs off a tree somewhere or they will be worm food. What's the deal with a dog that checks in? Why?

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I train my to check in and this is how I do it. I hunt a small island on our local lake. Start at the waters edge and soon if coon are not stirring about you will see them again in a few minutes. Hope this helps!

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I train my to check in and this is how I do it. I hunt a small island on our local lake. Start at the waters edge and soon if coon are not stirring about you will see them again in a few minutes. Hope this helps!

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its easy for you flat landers to say you want a dog that gets out over a 1000 yards and then keeps going. come to the mountains I hunt then I want to hear you say that. I want a dog that goes out and comes back in so I can cast in another spot.

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One the best hound i had would check back in, 1st drop she hunted about 30 to 35 min. send her back or make another drop she was a 45 min. then check back in if she didn't get struck, after that she was over an hour, most of the time she would strike and be treed. She would tree coons that the st. liners would run past. She would take'em cold track, hot track, or laying on a limb did not matter. I never run a tracking collar on her, never had to. Never had to put a leash on her either if i didn't want to, what a pleasure to hunt

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its easy for you flat landers to say you want a dog that gets out over a 1000 yards and then keeps going. come to the mountains I hunt then I want to hear you say that. I want a dog that goes out and comes back in so I can cast in another spot.

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i want mine to hunt until struck but come when i call.... i have called them off trees over half a mile on several different occasions for one reason or another.... called a pup off her tree the night she turned one year old at .62 because she was across the river

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Each of us has our own idea of what our perfect hound would be. Each to his own, and it's no need to talk down to those who do not agree with your idea of the perfect hound.

I, like so many others, have very limited hunting areas. I want my dogs to "check back in" in that 20 to 30 minute range. If they are not struck, I want to be able to call them in. If they tree across the river or deep creek, after a while, I want to be able to get them to come to me. I don't always get what 'I WANT', but that is what 'I WANT'!

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