Vic Stoll
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Re: Vic Stoll
quote:
Originally posted by Dave Richards
I will give you my take on den trees, based on what I have experienced with 4 dogs that I called a COON DOG. Maybe 2 to 3 dens in a month of hunting 5 to six nights a week, rarely treeing a den tree. The more ACCURATE the dog the less dens you will tree. When other local hunters are complaining about all the dens they are treeing and my hunting partner and myself are treeing few dens, hunting in the same weather conditions and same hunting areas, treeing coons on the outside every night, I know it's the dogs accuracy that makes the difference. If you are making a lot of dens every night, you need to look at what's on the end of your chain. I used to hear from other hunters in my area that would tell me how lucky I was treeing coons every night, I told them Luck has nothing to do with it, it's dog power. By the way, we were taking the coons we caught to another local hunter as he was skinning the coons, so he kept all of the hunters aware of how many coons we were catching on nights they were not getting a coon. I can feed a good dog as cheap as a plug. Lol. Dave
Dave, you still never answered my question, what is an acceptable percentage of den trees?
I guess I’ll take a stab at it myself from your last post?
5 nights a week, two trees per night in those thin coon mountains. That’s 40 trees per month, 3 of them being dens. That would be 7.5% dens.
As far as the rest of your post, you’re preaching to the choir. I’ve been fortunate enough to have been able to hunt with a few on a regular basis over the years that were what I considered freaks. Nights when the common dogs were struggling they just seemed to have another good night. Even those dogs den tree percentage would go up some from that mid-late December to when the rut kicked in time frame. Although I never kept track, I would guess their annual den tree percentage was in the 10-15% range.
Years back I used to do some friendly bantering back and forth on accuracy percentage with a gent from Oklahoma named Tom Jones. As a result of those many conversations, we came to the conclusion.that geographical area may be a factor in determining accuracy percentages relative to den trees.
One thing is for sure, the “accuracy” horse will never be whittled down to small enough pieces ..... always good for conversation 
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