Registered: Nov 2011
Location: Alabama
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Ive seen over the years that each night is completely different in the coons moving or not! You can go one night and get on some good tracks and the next time you go the dog hunts out and covers lots of ground and never draws a bark!
Last night I went and my dog hunted out and did the best she could do and never drawer a bark!
The time before that hunting the same block of woods she treed two!
Sometimes the coons aren't moving at all!
I wish we could know what there going to do before we left the house!

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Registered: May 2019
Location: Ohio
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My dad used to say "if old Smokey is not barking when it is time to load up, you might as well stay home." Wish Dad could have seen the equipment we have today. We carried a kerosene lantern and a six cell flashlight. As a kid, I used to warm my hands over the lantern. Dad was still leading a dog well into his eighties.

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You have to admit though the good down deep feeling ya get when your pot licker trees one or two on those bad nights despite what mother nature throws at ya.

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Listen to the old dogs! I had one years ago that I would ask him if he wanted to go, if he barked at you, the dogs would tree coons that night, if he just wagged his tail you would not. He would hunt as well as the other dogs but find no tracks. Other hunters you met would have had no better luck.

Don't listen to the young dogs, they just want to go!

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Somewhere, someplace, every single night a coon is moving....just have to have a dog with the drive to go find it.

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I have always heard from old hunters( even older than me) that barometric pressure affects all animals tbe same. Fishing, hunting, farm. Ever had nights coon shouldn't be moving, but had a great night. Or a really nice night and hunting was tough? If you leave and cows are up feeding... You're gonna do good. If cows are all laying down... Be prepared to walk. I know, what if half are up and half are down... pressure is adjusting, either you are hitting start or finish...
Take note sometime. You might be surprised

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Heres what I know about coon movement, if I'm hunting big creeks, and I'm not after coon, I move to the branches off of them, if still not treeing coon, I move to the hills and oak bottoms. If I'm packing a descent dog some where he will get after a coon,it may take a few drops, but we'll eventually tree some.

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I know every night there was a full moon ...the dogs would throw locates all night long...and it would take foever to hook the right tree ...but those super dark nights they would tree em quick...

Guess the moonlight made the coons more likely to tap trees...

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I think coon move a little every night but we as hunters sometimes give up and call it a night. An example : a couple of years ago I was visiting a friend in bloomington In we started hunting around 6pm, man the dogs were covering a lot of ground I think we treed a slick and a hollow tree that was probably slick . I told my friend Tim this is not our night, it was around 1 am Tim said one more drop and we will call it a night it started from there and we got back to the truck at 7 am we had treed 19 up 12 trees one of the best nights I ever had. You just never know when the coons will move!

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Originally posted by FLYbyNIGHT
I know every night there was a full moon ...the dogs would throw locates all night long...and it would take foever to hook the right tree ...but those super dark nights they would tree em quick...

Guess the moonlight made the coons more likely to tap trees...

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