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About 5 years ago we were on 18 cast from December 1st through feb 28. We drew pkc world champions, super stakes champions, 2 ukc world champions, truck hunt winners. In other words we were drawing some of the best coontreeing hounds alive at that time. However 125plus points would have won 15 of those cast. So all a dog had to was tree one coon and hold its points within 2 hours and it would have won 15 out of 18 cast. Now I like speed but what I will not tolerate is a dam dog that gambles very often . You wade through swamps, cut through cut overs,or walk up and down mountains for a dog that often takes 30 min to a hour to get to that shows me a tree that looks like one in my yard with no coon in it. The most accurate dogs I’ve owned and hunted were trailing-running dogs that will tree but don’t want to, or hot nosed ambush style dogs. I’ll feed any dog that I feel confident in being accurate. What most are winning with are dogs that run ewaks and fall off on a coon. I wish I had one of those.

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Originally posted by N Williams
About 5 years ago we were on 18 cast from December 1st through feb 28. We drew pkc world champions, super stakes champions, 2 ukc world champions, truck hunt winners. In other words we were drawing some of the best coontreeing hounds alive at that time. However 125plus points would have won 15 of those cast. So all a dog had to was tree one coon and hold its points within 2 hours and it would have won 15 out of 18 cast. Now I like speed but what I will not tolerate is a dam dog that gambles very often . You wade through swamps, cut through cut overs,or walk up and down mountains for a dog that often takes 30 min to a hour to get to that shows me a tree that looks like one in my yard with no coon in it. The most accurate dogs I’ve owned and hunted were trailing-running dogs that will tree but don’t want to, or hot nosed ambush style dogs. I’ll feed any dog that I feel confident in being accurate. What most are winning with are dogs that run ewaks and fall off on a coon. I wish I had one of those.

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I prefer one that takes a track as they come to it, opens on the ground with a decent nose. I have had hot nosed ambush style dogs in the past and I am not a fan of them.

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I hunt Clover bred dogs, my most recent litter is Clover with a touch of Wipeout mixed in, my opinion comes from hunting the same line of dogs 25yrs all which were born in my kennel.

IMO a trailing type dog which is what I hunt = PREFERS to have a track to trail/run vs. just moving around checking trees. That doesn't mean they must have a track to get treed just that treeing isn't the first thing on their mind.
My trailing dogs aren't going to spend hours on the ground, they aren't going to backtrack or spend a whole lot of time in one spot looking for where the track went. But they will show you how a dog can trail up a coon

Trailing type dogs don't make near as many dens because they don't get distracted by those old stinky dens, they keep working that track until they show you where the coon is instead of where is was. Another thing trailing dogs don't have to do in my part of the country is end up a half a mile deep every time you cut em because around here if a dog is looking for a coon track (ANY KIND OF TRACK), he'll generally come across one within 600 yds.

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