Shannon Senter
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Mar 2007
Location: Clintwood, Va.
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Hunting style. Is it trained or in the breeding?
Let’s discuss it....
I’ve dealt in hounds for 30+ years and one of the hardest things to find, outside of accuracy, is hunting power. Back in the day I didn’t want a reverse, I wanted him to go til treed every time. Any more I would rather a dog hunt 600-800 yards, covering a lot of ground, it’s hard not to strike a coon like that, no need in one going a mile now days, if he can’t find one in that distance it doesn’t hurt my feelings a bit for him to come back, we’ll go somewhere else. Is that bred in them or are they trained that way. It’s almost impossible to make a dog go hunting that doesn’t want to, so buying one that has no hunt and trying to fix it is about impossible, for me anyway. So what do you do? When ur training a dog how do u hunt them to try to create the style u want?
In my country we generally walk our dogs. Turn um loose and just go in the general direction, well we used to, a lot more coons now than it used to be. It’s easier for us to cut them from the truck now and just wait. I know a lot of you hunt that way. How do u train your dogs to hunt from the truck? Do the dogs u have just automatically cast like that from a young age? Are u hunting them with another dog that’s pulling them in there? I’m just curious if this hunting style is taught or are they bred for it??
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Shannon Senter
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