T.Beyer
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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Crystal Michigan
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Elvis, I don't count den trees as coon seen. I wonder, if a fella was to keep track of all the trees he made with his dog over a year, would you count den trees in with the total trees made? Or would you simply count trees made with coon in them, and trees made with absolutely no coon in it?
To measure true accuracy, all trees have to be counted, but when you cannot see the coon for leafy trees, multiple holes, just plain making excuses for your dog, how can a person honestly figure the accuracy of a dog.
Personally when I am counting, I count trees made with a coon and trees made without a coon. I also keep track of obvious den trees. If I can't find the coon and there isn't a hole large enough to conceal a coon, ( Not a 3 or 4 inch hole), then I can't honestly say there could be a coon there.
I tend to figure on the low end for any of my dogs, I would rather think my dog missed than lie and say the coon was there.
When I was younger and hides were worth alot mroe, during kill season we killed everything that we treed. I can remember very few times walking away from a tree empty handed. I remember getting a few hung up after we shot them, but we didn't see very many slick trees at all.
The last dog I bought made something like 28 slicks before he finally got on track. If I could not find the coon and there was not an obvious den, I counted them as slick. Once he started getting on track and being corrected, he was not such a bad dog, but he was the least accurate dog I ever owned. Sometimes I did not know if the dog needed shooting for doing what he was doing, or I needed shooting for letting him do it so many times.
He died in January in his sleep. Just think of all the "circle trees" a guy could make in a nite hunt with a dog like that during the summer months. Not one of my smarter purchases.
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