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There are a lot of things out there that are fun to run with a hound. I know most of us stick to Coon and shake at the thought of running something else. Not talking about the accidental Possum or Diller. Not your buddies Prokie Dog.

I am talking about intentionally using your coonhound bred dogs for say also Bobcat, Yotes. Bear or even Hogs and maybe Mountain Lion. I have seen Gary on TV that visits this board have some blue dogs that probably are used on three of those animals named.

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I had a buddy in West Virginia (Raymond Louke) that ran his on bear and coon. Would rig them up bear hunting and hunt in different areas for coon. Had some decent hounds.

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WAAAY back, as a teenager, I had a little walker female that was one of the best squirrel dogs around. I'd squirrel hunt her by day, and tree coons with her at night. She was by far a better squirrel dog, but also a pretty good coon dog. Her only fault at night was not getting deep enough, probably from being walk hunted after squirrels. I'd love to have another just like her!!!

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My Walkers have never been on a coon. They probably won't take a coon track if it was smoking hot. Not many coons out here in the desert. I run mine on Bobcat and Lion.

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Deer hunt and ran a few bobcats while deer hunting with them coyotes bear we deer hunt with trail hounds we find buck tracks and turn them loose on them they take off with it and jump the buck thats buck hunting i guess you would call it my dads dogs last hunting season had 21 bucks killed in front of them any dog can jump a deer but it takes a special dog to jump tracks you turn them loose on and not jump does or yearlings all the time and we coon hunt them to the smart ones you deer hunt and run deer all day and take them coon hunting at night and wont mess with nothing but a coon at night

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jparker I had one like that back in 1980. He was actually the Famous Lippers Uncle. Half Brother to Clint. As I look out my window now I see 1,000 acres of land I turned him out on back in 1980 and 15 minutes later we collected a nice 7 point in front of him. I hunted him in some of the thickest deer woods at night and he just wouldn't run them. He treed coon. I would not attempt to do that today and I didn't train him to do that. I just hunted him on what I wanted to hunt and when I wanted to hunt and he responded well.

I think the bottom line in hunting is just do it. The right dogs are smarter than you think.

Yotes are getting awful thick down here and I bad want to try running them with hounds. Just not sure I can get me a yote by day and coon by night type of hound. But I will never know till I try.

I still haven't went totally crazy. Here is how I do it. I don't wait around for a dog to be two to figure out if it is going to be a coonhound. I can spot it pretty early in them. If you have one that is not responding to the coon, I see nothing wrong in finding out what will stir its interest. You can always try the coon again in a few months. You would be surprised how much a coon dog can learn about running a track, getting stretched out behind some fast game that wants to run.

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Yea ive even seen hounds my cousin had that he bear hunted during bear season and when the season goes out took them coon hunting in the day time in January and February and he would put a hurting on the coons here and the bear with those dogs. And yea we had hounds that would flat out run coyotes here had a dog last year that ran some while deer hunting its fun killing them they run like a rabbit in circles we are loaded with them things and turkeys even seen dogs tree a turkey once lol

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run coons in the sumer lions and bobs in the winter

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i bad a english female you could kill rabbits to all day long . at night she was coon only . used her twice to find wounded deer . i was a teenager then and had all the time in the world ..if a dog has any brains at all and you have the time you can get them to do about anything you desire . she would also sit stay shake play dead and fetch a ball .

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Used to have an old Walker female that was a decent squirrel dog too. The guy I bought her from said she's work cows a little. I never tried that though.

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I've run one of the hounds I coonhunt on bobcat as well. Bobcat is the only creature I would run my coondog on, I will not intentionally run one on coyote, fox or bear.

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I have had some that Coon hunted and bear hunted. Also had and have one that Coon hunts as well as squirrel hunts

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in over 20 yrs runnin coons only treed 1 lion at night and that was with a young dog he stayed at tree till i found him 3 pm in the aftternoon so dehydrated could hardly walk i know there are bobs and lions in the river bottoms but dogs seem to know we are coonin but wait till dec and there all about the cats in the day time thanks Tim

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Up here the coonhound breeds just don't have what it takes to push yotes 30 miles a day in the snow. The runnin walkers are what it takes, they are just tougher and faster.

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I've run one of the hounds I coonhunt on bobcat as well. Bobcat is the only creature I would run my coondog on, I will not intentionally run one on coyote, fox or bear.

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Now Autumn I told you guys that was a fisher track not a cat track before you ever dropped the tailgate lol.

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Down here we run dog's on hogs and bear regularly and i know some guy's that use them running walkers on deer and fox and coyote in pens some do well some don't . Some dog's no matter how they are bred just don't cut it for coon hunting usually a dog that won't stick the tree makes good hog dog's . Now though I'm a coonhunter I've probably got the best armadillo dog this country has ever seen .

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I actually thought of that as I wrote this but does that really count when the dog we turned out wasn't mine?!?! Mine stayed in the truck remember? Haha

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John Dummer how do the yotes run up there. From talking to several guys up north i got the impression they covered a lot of ground and you needed a dog just like you described. I have been talking to several people down here whose deer hounds get on them going and they say they run this thick stuff in circles.

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I run mine on the bench some and then hunt them some

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I remember two male dogs I thought one was Prancer

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when I was younger I had a half feist half bird dog who would hunt anything tree rats rabbits point birds tree turkeys anything but a deer hunt all day then grab a light and tree coons and opussoms all night when I would get off the school bus he would be waiting and before I got my gun he would be treed now I'm lucky if my hounds will chase a biscut

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Went out this morning trying to find a Yote track. Found several but they each traveled several miles right down a road and never could find where they went in the woods. My coon hunting soul won't let me cut a dog right down a road. I get on them for running roads. lol

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Great topic...have a cur dog that hunts moles in my yard by day,point him to the tree line and he will tree a squirrel then for fun send him down the creek on a dark dark night he will tree a coon..Is that something close to what you are talking about??

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Originally posted by Bruce m. Conkey
There are a lot of things out there that are fun to run with a hound. I know most of us stick to Coon and shake at the thought of running something else. Not talking about the accidental Possum or Diller. Not your buddies Prokie Dog.

I am talking about intentionally using your coonhound bred dogs for say also Bobcat, Yotes. Bear or even Hogs and maybe Mountain Lion. I have seen Gary on TV that visits this board have some blue dogs that probably are used on three of those animals named.

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