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I have read that for years in Stud Dog ads. What does that mean to you.
Have many of you seen a dog that has several different styles of getting the coon up the tree.

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I would think that means he trails whatever kind of track he comes across first. Cold or hot or in between. Doesn’t look for just one particular track.

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To me there are very few that accurately fit that description. There was a bluetick in this country back in the 90s that was the only one I ever saw that I would really describe that way. If you hunted him out of a boat, he'd run off and leave other dogs on those hot tracks off the bank, and regularly catch those coons on the ground. On frosty winter nights he'd drift and peck and cover long stretches working feed tracks out along hardwood ridges, and eventually produce that coon balled up somewhere. Sometimes he'd be skipping through the country and fall treed on a legitimate layup that other decent dogs couldn't even smell. I'm not sure he was even full-bloooded. He was registered, but was all blue and had birddog course hair, shortish ears and a short snout. Who knows really, but he was exceptional in alot of departments and really impacted my thoughts on how dogs should operate from then to now...

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To me it means they don't run wide open through the country passing up cold tracks while looking for a hot one.

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To me it means they don't run wide open through the country passing up cold tracks while looking for a hot one.

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I picture several things when I read this. Number 1 thing is a gob of colorful lines on my garmin, #2 I picture a long eared bluetick #3 I picture a beagle beating a thicket!!

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I think Corey has the description that I was thinking of. Just one of those things you have to see to believe it.

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Must be a bunch of them cause I see it all the time when there is one for sale

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Opens off the strap can run a cold track most can't smell just like an eyesight chase.....Coondog!!!!

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They finish or try to finish a particular track, usually the first track they come across. A good dog where coon are few and far between (winner). A low score dog in thick coon (looser). That's what I think of.

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How can anyone know how many bad tracks a dog passes up before he opens on one? That's my first thought.

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Opens off the strap can run a cold track most can't smell just like an eyesight chase.....Coondog!!!!

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Reading Jeremy Kidd's description of Joe Black on Friday night describes that dog. Treed a coon within 50yds and the last one of the five was 3/4 of a mile.

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Couldn't have said it any better. Do you know where one is that reproduces the same kind?

Now is the time of year and conditions are right to check your dogs ability in Wisconsin. THE SNOW DOESN'T LIE!

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I have read that for years in Stud Dog ads. What does that mean to you.
Have many of you seen a dog that has several different styles of getting the coon up the tree.

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When you read "Takes His Tracks as they Come"

I would think it would mean that a dog would open on a coon track he/she was able to smell depending on the age or difficulty of the track. All dogs aren't able to open on every track they come across. A scent may have a different effect on different dogs. I would say a so called cold nosed dog would open on minimal coon scent where a more medium to hot nosed would need more scent to excite them enough to open. I believe most dogs can smell most coon tracks but not all will be excited enough to open hence watching a dog trail around for quite a while before they open. I've noted this many times when I had my old female who was very cold nosed. There are so many variables in this department that it's very hard to make a concrete evaluation, IMO. It sure is a good subject to discuss though.

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Just because a track is cold doesn't necessarily mean that the coon is a long distance away. I've seen coon cross the road in the daytime and brought a dog 3 hours later and treed the coon in less than 10 on a fenceline 1/2 mile away.

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Lots of people say it's code for a track straddler, and some seem to think that a dog that is able to handle any type of track in a timely manner and produce a coon can't compete. I can't tell anyone what they should think of when they hear that particular phrase, but I've seen state leaders go and I've drawn world champions. I've seen dogs that win off of gimmicks, and some sure enough coon treers. But a dog that can honestly pick up an old track and move it better than most, and can also move a hot track abnormally fast is something you don't see every day. Or every ten years if you're honest with yourself and have a critical eye.

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There is some body on here can not remember who , who says of it has fur and climbs it ain't trash. That is taking their tracks has they come. LOL

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Reading Jeremy Kidd's description of Joe Black on Friday night describes that dog. Treed a coon within 50yds and the last one of the five was 3/4 of a mile.

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To me it means the dog isn’t blowing through the country looking for a hot track, he will take the cold track he comes across first and warm it up and get it treed.

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To me it means the dog isn’t blowing through the country looking for a hot track, he will take the cold track he comes across first and warm it up and get it treed.

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Prefer the dog that takes the first track they can get going without getting dog knotted

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