Bruce m. Conkey
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Maybe there is or maybe there isn't a misunderstanding of a dog hunting hard, blowing out of the country, straight line hunter, road runner. Whatever you want to call it.
If a dog hunts hard and can and will tree a coon right out of the truck, then tree one a few hundred yards and his hard hunting ability takes him a mile if the coon are not moving. In my opinion there is nothing wrong with that and that is what separated the winners from the losers many years ago
Like everything else the hard going of the winners are in our genetics today but they are not combined with treeing a coon. The hard going is combined with what I feel should be faults. Going a mile before starting to hunt for a coon, running roads, doing its best to get away from other dogs when there are coon in the area to tree.
Now I know there are areas with fields and wood lines and if hunt those you might favor a dog that works those edges. Nothing wrong with that. As long if they just are not running the edges to get a mile away.
If mine is deep I want him there for one reason. His hard hunting ability didn't find a coon close and he didn't get lonely and started looking for me. He kept looking for a coon.
This isn't rocket science. Hunt your dog and you will know if he is getting deep for a good reason or because it is a fault he has.
Prime example of what I am talking about. Go hunting and dogs tree several coon all around you. You and your buddies think you have found a great spot. All dogs treed, split treed and had coon several times during the hunt. All fairly close. Go same spot 2 days later. Turn same dogs out and nothing. GPS shows a couple dogs working around in the swamp. GPS shows one dog worked the swamp and then started ranging out. The dog ranging out finally found a coon 1.5 miles away and the other dogs are still in the swamp still going back and for and not barking but not producing either. I am not going to fault the dog 1.5 miles away. It is about how he got there on my GPS. It wasn't down the road, it wasn't a straight line. It was hunting. That is what I want as these are HUNTING DOGS.
Back in the late 60's and early 70's I had a hard hunting dog pop up from time to time. There was a problem back then. They usually culled themselves as they would get lost and there was no trackers to find them with. I walk hunted one vast area called the Everglades. 17 miles from one road to another. Turn out in the block of woods and try to keep up with a hard going hound. Our pack was just that. A pack that stayed together and treed coon together. The dog that we are looking for today showed up from time to time but didn't last long. It culled itself. I went back many a night to a place we had lost a dog earlier in the week, just to hunt in hopes he heard the dogs barking and would come to them. So with seeing many of a good one without a tracking collar never come back. I feel it is only my responsibility to go as far as it takes to get one today that is wearing a tracking collar. If it going too far because of a fault. Then it won't wear another collar of mine.
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