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Location: North MO
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Originally posted by Fisher13
True but just because a dog sounds fast doesn't mean he is as efficient as well. To much speed not enough sense and accuracy, you have a dog that is blowing by coon and tracks and coming up short.
I pattern my coon, this makes it pretty apparent when a dog will switch tracks. By far the heads up track driving dog that most claim to have the most speed, IMO is extremely inefficient. For example...

Say dog A gets cut get struck quick drives it 650yards and gets first tree. Dog B gets second strike and straddles a track at an average pace but only runs it 50 yards and trees. Now which tree will we check first probably the closest one.
So we have now walked a total of 50 yards dog b has a coon. Cut dog b loose and head out to dog A. But before we can take a couple steps dog b strikes again this time a 100 yards from us, runs the track 150 yards and splits again. We now have 550 yards to A and 250 to dog B.

I realize these scenarios would only happen in the north probably, but a dog that can tree all types of coon, and has that extra knack for treeing coon, will beat a fast track dog more often then not because they tree more coon per yards travelled. Even though there not travelling as fast. Now at some point if the dog is so slow the fast dog would win more often or vice versa if the dog is so fast it could balance out. But my point is this if a dog can tree a coon in 50 yards why should it travel 600 to me that is extremely inefficient. Not to mention you would also want to calculate the time traveled to the tree. Idk about you but it takes me awhile to travel 650 yards in big country.

So hence my post, from what I have seen nose down straddle type dogs are more efficient and more accurate generally then a heads up type dog. They will tree more coon in less distance traveled. Yes there are con's like beating an old track or having more noise then brains. However as far as I can see speed isn't everything. Just was wondering if anyone else has made these observations. Like I said earlier I have only trained a hand full of dogs, so I don't want to jump to conclusions.
I do like John's answer though. A dog that can do it all, makes a lot of sense. I also realize I'm splitting hairs, and at the end of the day its the brains that matter, but part of me thinks one track style could be superior over another.

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