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Ive had hard time treeing coons the last few weeks. Before anyone says its all dog power I'll be first to admit mine arnt world beaters or competition dogs but I've had some dang good nights with them. Last few weeks haven't been anything to brag about though. Ive always heard they get hard to tree in the dead of winter. Just curious why ? Seems like its the best time of year to be in the woods in the south with no leaves bugs snakes or deer hunters but we sure have had a hard time finding a good track.

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No matter what answers you get on here the skills of the dog comes into play with it. Weather, rutting boars, rutting trash,fewer Coons available or ground conditions...pick one but dog power will overcome it.

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I have a young dog that had been do'n good. She has been come'n up slick the past few weeks. My other dog still trees real live coons on the outside. Young dog isn't gonna stay here.

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Well when I was young I didn’t just chase girls at night. That why your getting bad tracks lol.



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My measuring stick has always been how good and accurate a dog was in Jan and Feb. This is what separates a coon dog from a dog that is average. If you have a dig that trees coons every night accurately in Jan and Feb. You have a coon dog. Dave

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I expect my dog to continue to tree coon Jan-March but will say that this is the time of year when I may hunt
for 2-3 hours without getting a bark. There will be times when the coon are just laid up. But if he can find a track I expect him to tree it. Does he do that every time? No, but he better be able to do it most of the time.

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Liked your post, very accurate description of the time of year and w hat we expect. What is not acceptable are a bunch of slick trees, not for me anyway! Dave

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My measuring stick has always been how good and accurate a dog was in Jan and Feb. This is what separates a coon dog from a dog that is average. If you have a dig that trees coons every night accurately in Jan and Feb. You have a coon dog. Dave

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Difference in treeing coons every night in the outside, while mist folks are treeing dens or slicks, is hunting a true coon dog. These months separates the digs and the hunters, I love wintertime coon hunting with a coon dog, you don't have any excuses it's there or it's not. Dave

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the half wit and mentally challenged coon are dead... Those rutting and able to carry forward the population are still out there.. They are harder to tree... and should be, survival of the fittest.

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I'm having a hard time comprehending not getting after one in a 3hr time period.Blows my mind!

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What ever yall say your dogs won’t do and you won’t tolerate this time of year. They will do down here this time of year and you will pooch up and go home never to return I seen some big winners look stupid down here lol.



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From February to the first of May is probably my favorite time to hunt. Once they start rutting it is fun if you have a good track dog.

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I'm having a hard time comprehending not getting after one in a 3hr time period.Blows my mind!

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been treeing breeding pairs and taking long walks ,lol the boars will be above the female who will be facing down hill when you tree them dog knotted ,

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Give it a month, the weather will break, conditions will improve dramatically and so will your coon treeing..

You can tree coons on full moon nights, cold weather and howling thunder storms, but not as many as you can on a warm, dark night that all the critters in the woods are moving about..

Not every night is the same in game movement and tracking conditions.. The consistent hound that can handle all of these is a rare bird, and if you find him or her you will be blessed..

Snow, bright moon, lay that sucker up and let him and you rest up and be prepared to hunt the better weather.. Work smarter, not harder..

There is a season and time for everything and sometimes, you just need to relax and let conditions change a bit, generally doesn't take long..

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Give it a month, the weather will break, conditions will improve dramatically and so will your coon treeing..

You can tree coons on full moon nights, cold weather and howling thunder storms, but not as many as you can on a warm, dark night that all the critters in the woods are moving about..

Not every night is the same in game movement and tracking conditions.. The consistent hound that can handle all of these is a rare bird, and if you find him or her you will be blessed..

Snow, bright moon, lay that sucker up and let him and you rest up and be prepared to hunt the better weather.. Work smarter, not harder..

There is a season and time for everything and sometimes, you just need to relax and let conditions change a bit, generally doesn't take long..

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I dot hunt till February , I dont like treeing easy coons, even tho ole kattie still makes em look easy .

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Kattie sounds like my kind of coon dog. Enjoy her my friend they get old way to fast. Dave

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Ron Asbaugh,

I’ve beat enough walls down to finally figure out its easier to go around them.

You hear a lot of talk from these boys about how rough old Rover is on a cold, full moon but you sure don’t see much evidence of it. We can all tree coon on bad nights. Some of us are smart enough to not have to.

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You already know that smart and coon hunter usually do not coexist in a sentence most folks would believe. It easy to pick nights to hunt that increases the chances for success. I just do not want the bad nights to be my excuses for failure. It's all about the dog, good nights or bad nights, stay thirsty my friends. Dave

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Smarts and intelligence don't enter into the equation when we are dealing with ADDICTION!!

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by thomasg
been treeing breeding pairs and taking long walks ,lol the boars will be above the female who will be facing down hill when you tree them dog knotted , [/QUOT

never seen that, your saying they knot up like canines ?

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Ruttinbuck they sure enough do. That coon pecker is shaped the way it is for a reason lol.

Boar on top, sow on bottom. The downhill must be a WV thing. Don’t see it here in the flat country 😱

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