Matt McKinney
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Registered: Jan 2010
Location: Greene County Ohio
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quote: Originally posted by aw52
this is kinda crazy. there is'nt anyone that enjoys coonhunting more than i do. i'd rather be in the woods than being at home, i have a good ole lady and nice house, but still i'd rather be in the timber. i hunt 4 to 7 nights a week and i enjoy every minute of it. about those cold tracks that take forever to tree. if my dog can't tree one every fifteen minutes, then i'm not feeding it. i don't know what cold tracks are. maybe it's not the nose that the dog has, it could be that the dog has brains enough that makes him/
her able to run a track hot or cold. it comes down wheather you have a dog that is a track dog and can run any track they come apond. usually my dog is treed within five minues, maybe ten. about the night hunts, i've been in final fours, top tens of the world hunts back in the early years, but there's no comparison to yesterdays hunts and todays hunts. about dogs, some people may disagree with me but let's say in the 70's and 80's there were alot less coon than today due to hide hunters. i actually think we had better dogs back then, we did'nt have the babbling and slick treeing idiots. most important, all hunts were NON-HUNTING JUDGES !!!bring the non-hunting judges back and you'll see a world of difference.
Treeing a coon in 5 minutes is not a track dog to me, cause aint no way a dog can finish every track in 5 to 15 minutes everytime with the coon, if so he is passing up a cold track to find a hotter one.My dog trees in 5 minutes sometimes, but certainly not everytime..... A track dog to me is a dog that takes tracks how they come, hot or cold, that can drift a track, and end up with a coon no matter how cold or hot the track is, or how long it takes to finish the track. My dog starts a track she finishes it, wether she has to go 100 yards, or 5 miles. Yes its irratating sometimes but to me that shows she has a nose to be able to track coons other dogs cant even smell, and dont even open up on. I cannot jusity knocking a dog that wants to finish a track, and that is accurate as she is, she just has no reverse, she dont know what quit means. She aint no slouch, but she is a track dog, she isnt a tree happy dog, when she trees, you can cock the rifle. How can you say the dog is too smart to run cold tracks, maybe that track dog cant smell the track????
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