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Guess it is just one of my ways. But when I hunt just one hound by itself. I tread the experience just like I would in a comp hunt. I put the leash on the dog coming out of the box. Walk him a short distance and send him. When I get to a tree. I put the leash on him. If I have energy left. I walk him a short distance and recut him. If not he is on the leash headed back to the truck.

I will admit that with me and one dog. I don't need all that leash stuff. But someday, I may want to comp hunt him so I prepare as if it was tomorrow.

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When you only hunt one dog it's hard to train them for a hunt. Before I start hunting them in competition I hunt them with the worst junk I can find to see where they are at but that's just me.


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Agree with you on other dogs. In the past couple weeks he has been out 6 times. Four alone and twice with other dogs.
Mix and match with other dogs and alone is good in my opinion and the only way to see what you have and to know what you need to work on. As far as the leash. I want every night and every time taken off the tree or out of the box to be be the same for him. I want him to know when he is under control and when he can slide off into the darkness. Just too old for a dog that won't stand still to be collared up and pulling to get loose or go back to the truck.

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I understand that Bruce fully !! I only have two dogs if you don't hunt babe at least 3 nights a week she is a handful ! The longer the night goes she just gets stronger. I may hunt that many nights and I may not when I chase the little dogs during the day. My young dog is now ready to be hunted by himself but his owner has bad legs and nobody wants to go just to listen to your dog. I can see what's coming just don't want to give up yet.



I bred them up to tuff for an old fat guy lol.


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I like to hunt one by itself. There’s only so much you can do though hunting it alone. I like to hunt with people that hunt the way I do. You can’t set one up by yourself. From the time there started there turned off trees and i don’t walk them 2-300 yards. I snap them and tie them back when I get to the tree. When I’m ready to leave that tree I untie them point them in the direction I want to go and recut them. If I’ve got one with big ears I’ll cut a dog and let it get treed them cut mine the only easy to work on the big ears issue hunt with other dogs. I’ll probably take some grief on that comment but I don’t want mine to run 6-700 yards to cover another dog treed. I have no problem with my dog covering and treeing with another dog if they ran the same track. I just don’t want mine breaking it’s nexk getting to treed dogs and don’t want them coming in to a tree 5min after dogs are treed.:

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Rea you are correct about them listening for another dog. I think that is where hunting them by themselves gives them the confidence to go their own way. You turn out together and a closer track keeps them together. That is fine with me also.

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Work or train mine to suit me that’s most important to me but that being said most things I like will work in a competition hunt.

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I don't "work" my hounds any more. I just go pleasure hunting. Maybe that is why I don't win any more.

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I just pleasure hunt no matter what.

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We know they learn from repetition. The same thing over and over, from the way you handle them around the pen, the way you load them, cut them, handle them at the tree and recut them. Do it the same over and over. We hunt them by themselves because you cant completely control how you interact with them with other dogs out there. You have put many many nights of that on them THEN you put them with other dogs to see if something needs work. If they are a good hound and you did your job right there normally isn't much to work on. Dogs are put in hunts way to early and then way to often.

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