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When pleasure hunting, how far do you like a dog to hunt before checking back? 400-500 yards is a plenty for me.

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I want to get them off the wood!!!

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I want to get them off the wood!!!

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I want mine to stay out until I tell them to come in

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Anyone who answers with a certain yardage is most definitely not a competition hunter.

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I don't want mines to check in .

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I walk hunt, 200 to 250 yards is about right, want them to check in too. If my dogs didn't hunt like this, I would be very limited on places to hunt until after deer season.

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If I truly was only pleasure hunting I think 400 yards and to check in and hunt out again if I was walking in big timber. I still like to go to some hunts so I like a little more "go" in them. I don't want them passing up coons (it is a fine line of "go" and passing coons sometimes) but to go till they find one.

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This is strictly going to depend on where you live and hunt. I want mine to go as far as he needs too, or until I call him back. I don't need him checking in. I know where he is. I'm hunting right now with a couple of friends and if theirs went as far as mine does they would be in trouble pretty quick. So it all just depends on where you live.

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Only as far as they need to, not one step less or more...

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I like dogs that are indifferent to what wvery thing else is doingand cover the ground they are on quick looking for game, not necessarily about how far they go.

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I want mine to go until they are treed. Something about going out hunting at night that makes me wanna walk 2 miles through the woods. Lol yeah right. I just want them to go hunting, 1 mile is almost to far. I like when I read on here where they say that their hound got treed at 1.7 miles and they live in Ohio, Indiana. The Coon capitals of the US. To me that dog ain’t worth a ****. In thin, thin Coon I can see that.

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I want mine kicking!! It's nothing for mine to be a mile in minutes.

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I like a dog that hunts out an area not in a straight line, 1/4 to 1/2 a mile no strike come back load up go somewhere else. I also like dogs one can road/rig hunt where and when possible lots of fun.

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If I had that much land and room to hunt I would too buddy. I should of reworded my post lol. 400-500 yards is about all the room I have most places I've got to hunt without being on other's land or getting close to a road.

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If you think about it, some people can run a mile in less than 5 minutes. So, how long would it take your dog to go a mile if he hadn't struck a coon? I've had different kinds of dogs, one was a straight line, get through the country type of dog. One would go 2 miles, but he might be in the opposite direction I cut him. One would only hunt about 3 or 4 hundred yards, and check back in. But the best I ever had, would hunt about 45 minutes, and if he didn't get struck, or was treed out of hearing, he would come back in. The best thing I ever got was a shock collar, because I was able to control how far my dog went!

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to me it is not a pleasure to spend all night looking at the garmin and not being able to hear my dog. my answer is different if you ask for comp hunters how far should a dog go, compared to for a pleasure hunter how far should a dog go? yeah some comp guys want their dog a mile before it puts it's head down ( alone treed with coon). most pleasure guy's want a dog that hunts the area it's turned loose in. most pleasure dogs I've seen hunt no more than 1000 yards without either striking or checking back in. now once a dog strikes it should not come back regardless of how far it has to go to get the coon treed, in any world. the type of hound I want is not what everyone would want. but if it will tree coons almost every time out, and I like the dog then I don't care what everyone else wants. if it's at my house I'm the only one who has to like it (well me and the kids). last year a started a dog that got to deep for my liking, so I simply sold him to a guy looking for a deep going dog. yeah might have been able to break him but he was treeing coons in his own style and looking good but it just didn't match my style. Not sure why the ?, if you are worried about what others think, or if your unhappy with what you have, or just wondering. but to me if the dogs are coonhounds and I like him than I don't care what others who hunt with them maybe once a month say, the other 29 nights out it's just me them.

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i predominately pleasure hunt. but i want my dogs to go hunting- most nights they won't strike any closer than 500-600 yards. and i want my dog to hunt where the coon are- stick around the creek or bottom or whatever... i dont mind them checking in after they have hunted an area through but im not going to fault them for hunting on. i dont like straight line hunters and i dont like dogs that are too busy getting out of the country where they run by coons. i want my dogs to take tracks as they come.

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Get around the field and get back.

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I want mine to go until they are treed. Something about going out hunting at night that makes me wanna walk 2 miles through the woods. Lol yeah right. I just want them to go hunting, 1 mile is almost to far. I like when I read on here where they say that their hound got treed at 1.7 miles and they live in Ohio, Indiana. The Coon capitals of the US. To me that dog ain’t worth a ****. In thin, thin Coon I can see that.

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Everyone is different. Jason, that just shows that one man's not worth a crap can be another man's $25, 000 dog.

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Well it depends on the place i drop him, the weather, my mood that night etc. Guess mine needs to be a mind reader. Lol. But sometimes that's how it is. Sometimes 600 yards isn't too far and sometimes it is. Sometimes 900 yards isn't too far and some times it is. Poor dog doesn't know what I'm thinking at the time. I will say this: If your dog is a mile plus deep in 5 minutes or so, a coon dog will tree coon behind him.

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That’s funny you say that I watched a dog go 3 mile one night here i’ve got prime hunting. That dog had already won Super Stakes he went on to win a truck and the PKC National championship this year. Lol Just because you’re in Indiana doesn’t mean the coon move all the time. When we drop with snow on the ground it’s worse then hunting thin coon sometimes. When they go through a woods and there’s not another on that block they may have to go another mile to get to the next one.

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You boys must hunt some big country. I've got a decent amount of hunting around me but no where near enough for my dogs to go a mile before striking. Don't get me wrong I wish I did. Now if I hunt the gameland yes, they can really get out there and strain the Alpha if they want but on a regular basis I just dont have the room to do it. Well I got the room just not the permission lol. Land around me is big country but its broken into tracts of anywhere between 50-200 acres. Hard to get permission from everyone.

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At times I want one to go til it trees. However, a lot of the properties I hunt I don’t have permission to be on adjacent land. So 500-700yards is the most I would like for one to go.
But, I never have to worry about this mine are scared of the dark don’t want to leave my light. LOL

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