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I’m talking about pleasure hunting . What are some advantages and disadvantages on hunting a dog by there selfs?

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Putting it simple, you learn fairly fast if you have a coon dog or not.

The down side is that some, not all males and females alike have a tendency to become aggressive when they get with other dogs when hunted alone all the time and many coons are being shot to them.

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The biggest and best thing hunting a dog alone is build confidence in a young hound.

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I've hunted every dog I have had by it's self around 75 -80 percent of the time up to about 2 and half years old after that about half the time . But until you hunt strang ground with strang dogs, maybe about 10 different dogs you never know really what you have !

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I’m talking about pleasure hunting . What are some advantages and disadvantages on hunting a dog by there selfs?

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Hunting one alone is really good for a his confidence. Nothing like knowing what you are feeding. I have a redbone male and when he is with my Walker female he looks really really good. Strikes and trees ahead of her quite often. Alone he just lacks the confidence to get it done.. Just did not have the time to do him justice when he was a young hound and give him that alone time he needed...I just like hunting two hounds that work good together.. Just a preference I guess plus I have two boys and they both want to hear their dog tree...All Pleasure Hunting for us!

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Hunting one alone is really good for a his confidence. Nothing like knowing what you are feeding. I have a redbone male and when he is with my Walker female he looks really really good. Strikes and trees ahead of her quite often. Alone he just lacks the confidence to get it done.. Just did not have the time to do him justice when he was a young hound and give him that alone time he needed...I just like hunting two hounds that work good together.. Just a preference I guess plus I have two boys and they both want to hear their dog tree...All Pleasure Hunting for us!

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Hunting the pup by himself and you won’t have worry about him getting chewed up by an alligator at the tree...that could be a major setback for the pup...

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I got a young hound a couple years ago, I've hunted him 95% of the time alone. This is the first hound I started 100% alone- with no older hounds to show him how to do it.

The good has been that I never had to worry about him picking up bad habits from other dogs. He was able to develop however his instincts told him to. He very much sees me as his alpha and really wants to please me.

The down side- bear in my mind I hunt in very very thin coon- You really are not sure what your dog is doing without a measuring stick of a good mature hound. Let's say your young hound is pushing tracks really slow for a few weeks, just not doing a good job on them. Is it really old tracks he is running? Is it hot tracks and he is a sorry track dog? Or, if your young dog is out hunting and does not jump a coon- were they not moving or is the young dog not good finding tracks? You will figure these things out- but when a good trusted dog does certain things well you will know what conditions are and what results should be. With just a young dog alone for about a year anyway you will not know if the dog is doing something wrong or if the conditions are just poor.

I think if you hunt where you have a good chance of hitting a hot coon track every night it negates some of this.

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Hunting any dog alone you'll know a few things. You'll know it can track and tree a coon. If the dog will trash without any influence from others. You can have an idea on how fast a dog is on track but not really. You can't always tell how fast the dog is if there's no competition on the same track. You won't know if the dog will pull from pressure at a tree. Or if the dog has "big ears" and will quit what its doing to go "me too".

Best way I've seen to hunt a young dog is (under 15 months) is alone, then start hunting it with others 50% of the time when it has enough confidence to tree coons consistently. Then you know what you need to work on or if the dog just won't suit you.

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I agree with you, I want to see my dogs do it alone enough times to know they can, then I want to see them operate with other dogs. I want to see my dogs operate under pressure like split treeing, not running trash with other dogs and do their own thing while under pressure, then I can say they are broke. Any dog can act decent by themselves, it's under pressure that really counts, at least for me. Dave

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