mjflores
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John Vaught needs to open his eyes and realize that his tiny sliver of America is NOT what's it's like everywhere in the country.
Maybe where JV lives, there's plenty of coon and the possibility of your pup finding a coon track to run are good to very good. Here in my area...you can try your best to turn a pup out into an area where it'll find a coon to run and there may not be a coon within 5 miles. In this situation, not using a feed bucket is FAR WORSE than using a feed bucket to hunt a pup off and get pup running coon. Here's a scenario...pup is 8 months old, and gamey. He's barking at squirrels behind the kennel...winding fox or coyote and striking from the pen at night. He's ready to take a track, and will tear up a cage to get at a caught coon. You take pup on his first solo outing and cut him loose in an area where there should be coon but arent. Are you really stupid enough to think that pup is gonna go hunting, not find a coon, so come back in to you? No...ya know whats gonna take place? Gamey pup is gonna probably take the first track he cuts..or maybe the second. He's gonna cook a coyote, porky, deer, fisher, fox track...whatever he finds because he's a gamey puppy with the desire to run....and run something he will. Now instead of having a puppy that doesnt fully know whats he's looking for, you have the same + a puppy that had a ball running trash and has developed a bad habit on the first trip out. Shock him you say? Yeah right, shock a pup on his first night out. People who do that are the same ones selling pup after pup because they wont cut the mustard for them in the woods. Pup did'nt do anything wrong, the handler did.
Feed buckets keep coon in an area and assure your pup a nice fresh coon track to take. A second grade school room is a controlled environment and so should the woods be where you're tryign to get pup started. After a pup runs and trees a few coon, and knows what he's supposed to run..now you can branch out and make him try to find his own coon. I also agree that once you have a well started hound...you cant be cutting loose on a bucket..make him find coon, make him have to refuse trash and find a coon or come in. Now you can start trash breaking if you need to but you may not because you started the pup right. thats my thought on starting a puppy...and why I use a feed bucket to do it.
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