Fisher13
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Originally posted by POTOMAC
I have seen a couple older females and have one now and actually it's the daughter of my old female and gopher and her mother consistantly tree the sow and that's alone with out any other dogs !!!!! So he only thing I can figure is that coon smells stronger are they smell the same and after she puts kittens up these type dog circle checking tree and smell where a coon went on and assumed they tapped ??? Don't know for sure but was just adding to previous posts about coon smell !! Abviously boars are stinking a lot more most the time ! So that def tends to the theory that all coons smell different and maybe the sow is just a stronger smell ????? Remember the sayings natures way of protecting the little ones ??????? Don't know for sure but it opens up some different thought !!!
I think in poor scent conditions, a lone kitten can be tough to tree.
I had a coon patterned last year, in an area of pretty thin coon. It was some bigger woods, so the only time I would hunt there was to drop 2 dogs. For a month or so, they would strike in the same area, one would tree in the same tree and the other would always continue on in deep and get treed on a den. I never knew if there were 2 coons there or one. However it would always be the same 2 trees, but I never knew which dog would get treed on the coon and which would get treed on the den. But these particular 2 dogs would always split. I would like to believe that there were 2 coons, and they knew it and were splitting up to get them both treed. So I started drop them by themselves on that coon, both dogs dropped by themselves would tree and lock down on the first tree, and have the coon. Neither went on to the second tree, the one with the den.
However after much thought,knowing it was thin coon, and hearing the dogs running the track, it would seem the track was always hot to the first tree with the coon, then after that tree the track would start to die off, and sometimes they were struggling to run the track by the time the dog reached the den. So I believe what was happening was that every night the coon got down, and would take the same trail,down to the area to the feed. When my truck would pull up and i would begin to make a racket unloading, the coon would head back towards the trail he used and climb this same tree. The dogs would track to the tree, and due to the fact of the coon using the same trail over and over it would often fool the other dog into thinking he could go get his own coon.
Both dogs were from much different blood lines, one would drift the other straddled one was medium to cold nosed the other was drifting type dog,but either could go on to what I believe was backtracking.
Not sure I gathered much from this experience, it pretty much left me perplexed, but I did learn that coon can in certain times of the year use a game trail to travel from point a to point b and they can be patterned.
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