Oak Ridge
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Indiana
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I am not saying that anyone who has responded is like this, but the majority of folks that are talking about "track dogs" are talking about what I call ground pounders....those dogs that open freely on the ground, but make little to no forward progress...or they bark here, bark there, open somewhere else and really are not "connecting the dots"....those are NOT track dogs....
And in reality there was someone promoting a certain line. I've hunted with several of those dogs...and the one that really did most of the winning, I judged in a world hunt. He scored high, but didn't run a coon track all night....ran junk and fell off on a coon to get treed....went back out and ran a coyote the whole next two hours and did not advance any further, not what we are talking about here. If you like that kind of dog...that is fine with me...but that is not a track dog.
Truly when you have seen a "heads up" moving a track forward kind of dog you will understand. I had one, one year at Autumn Oaks is was incredibly dry....Lots and lots of dogs were struggling to even move a track. We were pleasure hunting and there were three big named stud dogs pecking on a track in a bean field....I sat and listened to them for about a half hour....I went to my truck, put a tracking collar on my old Spring Creek Rock bred male and turned him loose in the bean field. He went over to where the other dogs were pecking around, opened quickly and was treed with a coon in less than three minutes. He ran that track across the bean field only opening about 10 times and never twice in the same spot.....I am telling you he RAN that track...not straddled it RAN it.. the other dogs simply could not smell what he was smelling....no junk, no pottering, just pure track power
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