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We all like to talk about the good nights our dogs have. But mine also have bad nights. Last night I took my 3 1/2 year old out with a friend who had just got a young dog given to him. First turn out my dog goes about 300 yards in, makes a couple of circles the swings around behind me about 250 yards and strikes, makes a tree and it is a den. So OK not the best deal but OK. Move to new spot dog goes about 300 and strikes, friends young dog gets caught in a trap right where my dog is working. By the time we get her out he is back where he struck and trees on a den tree. Not sure about all of that. Next turn out He gets struck, about 3 barks, next thing I see is a streak on the garmin with him headed to the road and then coyotes yapping after him. Move to new place, he doesn't want to hunt but after I get after him a little makes a fair round without striking anything. Friend goes home. Stubborn me, I make another turnout, moon is shining and pretty cold. He finds a cold track and tries for 20-25 minutes to make something happen but I finally toned him and went home. Sounds like fun, huh? But if it wasn't raining I would go again tonight.

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Back over 40 years ago when I first started hunting I had a bunch of bad nights and After a while of learning how to train a dog. I quit talking about the bad nights. Now don’t take it the wrong way I am not afraid to admit my dogs faults and believe me my dogs over the years had faults. I just brush the bad nights off and learn from them and try to improve my dog if not we just don’t talk about my bad nights in the woods especially the times I fell.

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Now Tom just as a friend now mind you and don't tell nobody I just might give you $47.50 for that big beagle you know at depression era prices and all. Glad I was not there might have ruined our streak but that last hunt we had in Spavinaw was not much better covered a lot of ground without a bark and they finally grubbed out a cold track and treed on a den tree.

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Me and 2 buddies didn't have a great night either. Trees 6 times, 3 dens with coon you could see, 2 dens we couldn't see the coon, and a bone slick (which the dog was a tree off from a den). I've had much better nights but much worse also. Coyotes here are starting to get aggressive this time of year. Makes for some miserable nights from now until mid may when their pups are big enough to venture.

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Donmills65 I know what you mean. Just wipe the bad nights out of your memory. I do try to see if there was something I could have done to further the training of my dog. Chuck guess I'll keep him for now. He has a lot more good nights than bad. Saturday night I thought he looked as good as any dog could.

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I figured you would Tom.

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If it wasn't for bad nights we wouldn't have good nights. They would all just be nights.

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I'm hunting a 2 year old, that isn't fully broke but can flat tree a coon, hunting rough terrain where coons are thin and off game is plentiful. So as you can imagine I have some bad nights as well. To hear some coon hunters talk they don't have many bad nights! They either don't hunt enough to care, don't know better, or can't tell the truth haha!! If you hunt hard bad nights are inevitable! When my dog makes a mistake i'll be the first to admit it, haha and I admit it often.

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Much better night tonight. Get deep, get struck, get treed on the right tree. 3 times. That's what I like.

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I have a decent Walker female that is usually does fairly well. I didn't advertise her for sale but a man heard I might sell her so he called and set up a hunt. He drove almost an hour to try her. We made a drop and the dog walked over to the man smelled of him , he reached down petted her and she must have really liked him because she never left his side! What you going to do!!! I offered to pay the man's gas bill and a little extra for his time but he was a gentleman and would not accept anything. But it sure was embarrassing! Lol

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Originally posted by Preacher Tom
We all like to talk about the good nights our dogs have. But mine also have bad nights. Last night I took my 3 1/2 year old out with a friend who had just got a young dog given to him. First turn out my dog goes about 300 yards in, makes a couple of circles the swings around behind me about 250 yards and strikes, makes a tree and it is a den. So OK not the best deal but OK. Move to new spot dog goes about 300 and strikes, friends young dog gets caught in a trap right where my dog is working. By the time we get her out he is back where he struck and trees on a den tree. Not sure about all of that. Next turn out He gets struck, about 3 barks, next thing I see is a streak on the garmin with him headed to the road and then coyotes yapping after him. Move to new place, he doesn't want to hunt but after I get after him a little makes a fair round without striking anything. Friend goes home. Stubborn me, I make another turnout, moon is shining and pretty cold. He finds a cold track and tries for 20-25 minutes to make something happen but I finally toned him and went home. Sounds like fun, huh? But if it wasn't raining I would go again tonight.

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In all my years of hunting coon I've only had 3 really bad nights. the first one was around 1980, was in a UKC hunt. Non hunting judge NT cast. I was hunting a male dog out of FR Banjo, had 3 wins to Grand, small dog, 4 dog cast. Had a LARGE female in cast and she was MEAN. My dog was a loner and hadn't been with the rest of the cast. Anyway the female chewed up the other 2 dogs in the cast. Judge wouldn't scratch her and the other 2 handlers withdrew. Leaving only mine and the female. My dog treed about 700 yards from us , The female got to my dog before we did and I found hin under my truck about 11/2 hrs. later. He did live, but he was never in another comp. hunt.
Second bad hunt a drunk driver driving down a back trail ran over my dog killing him. Best pup I ever owned . I had a red blinking collar on him and the drunk said he seen the lights and didn't know what it was. Pup was coming down the trail and the drunk ran over him from behind.
Third one was another UKC hunt my female was out about 800 to 900 yards by herself. She caught a big coon in a small pond and the coon drowned her. She also had 3 wins to grand.

Any time I go hunting and I and my dogs come home alive and ok I call a good hunt. I've been shot at, they missed, fell out of a tree, and more things I can recall including bad dog work. I'm now 79 years old still hunting and hope to be able for a few more years.

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Well I have had bad hunts like everyone as far as dogs having an off night but last August I lost a HOUND who had passed away while treeing then in December my 10 year old son walked in to his 13 month old English pup who was dead in a snare so I haven't had a good 2018

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