Scary Creek
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Registered: Aug 2012
Location: West Virginia
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quote:
Originally posted by john Duemmer
I dont believe they learn a thing from an old dog except maybe how to get gone.
60 nights alone in the woods or 60 nights with the best "pup trainer" out there, and the pup that has been hunted alone everynight will be way ahead.
The challenge is loading that pup and leaveing the dog that will show you coon every night at home, and tellin your huntin buddys that you are huntin alone.
And i firmly believe the ones that are started and hunted alone mature into more independent dogs. They are used to gettin the job done alone.
i agree with this statement to a extent . my best hunting buddy is my 80 year old uncle . he hunts and trains all his own dogs til about 3 year ago when he had a hip replacement and slowed him way down , now he don't fool with any young hounds , but he used to get a pup started with a old dog til they got the basics of hunting and going down and then he'd branch them off by themselves . he used to take a old dog and a 6 month old pup and start them out , he walk hunts the placed he hunts , so he cut em and take off walking but if they wondered off he keep on a trucking , if old dog treed he go to the tree even if the pup wasn't around , if they took off on junk , keep on walking . he never used a shocker or tracker in his life til I started putting tracking collars on them . he'd just say " they gotta learn to like the dark on their own " he work young pups by themselves on drags, cage coon , etc. but he would hunt them and train them basically on their own . ive seen him get a pup and it wanna run deer , or might tree a possum , he let em do their thing but when they were done they got a good switching , then he put em up a day or two . but one thing I noticed about this style of training was his young dogs tended to be alittle growly toward strange dogs til they got used to them , I always guessed it was just were they were used to hunting by themselves or after they were running and treeing he'd start pack hunting them again but just seemed like they were alittle ill at strange dogs at first . but this method seemed to work for him cause hes had some of the best walker dogs at the end of a lead you could ask for , they weren't real comp. style hounds but if you want to tree a pile of coon then they were your ticket !
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