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Here in North Mississippi it’s been mid nineties an heat index, well am sure I don’t have to explain myself. It’s hot.Call me a sissy, after work, garden work an still mid eighties at midnight. I find it hard to leave the A/C. Someone please convince me if I don’t hunt in this heat my dogs will be culls. Don’t be to hard, am fragile

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I found out many years ago that you do not have to summer hunt to keep your dogs treeing coons. I usually quit hunting when the season goes out on March 10 in Virginia and do not start back until the Fall hunting season. Other than the dogs and myself getting out if shape, I do not lose anything by not summer hunting, a quick tune up in Fall and everything falls right back in place. Training pups in the fall and winter works just as good as summer hunting, it's much easier to see their mistakes and their success. Dave

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I found out many years ago that you do not have to summer hunt to keep your dogs treeing coons. I usually quit hunting when the season goes out on March 10 in Virginia and do not start back until the Fall hunting season. Other than the dogs and myself getting out if shape, I do not lose anything by not summer hunting, a quick tune up in Fall and everything falls right back in place. Training pups in the fall and winter works just as good as summer hunting, it's much easier to see their mistakes and their success. Dave

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Unless you plan on hitting any hunts in this heat then they need to be in shape and conditioned for it. Stay safe out there everyone it is hot and miserable especially in the woods with no air moving!
If you don't want to hunt or hunt as much you can help keep them in a better shape than just laying the dogs up all summer by swimming them. We do long leashes off a short creek bank back and forth. It does help.

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I assumed you were not competition hunting, but just pleasure hunting. When I competition hunted I had to hunt in the summer months to keep my dogs conditioned to the heat, as most hunts were in the summer time. Outside of competition hunting I see NO VALUE in summer hunting, my dogs are inside a covered shed all kennels are inside and they burn up in this heat, even though the temperature is a lot cooler inside. I hate hunting in snakes, poison ivy, oak, mosquitoes, dense underbrush and all the other negative things about summer hunting. Coon hunting should be a pleasure and summer hunting is definitely no pleasure to me as I have gotten older. Dave

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We down to one hunt per month now. The corn around here is ready an the coon is hitting it pretty good. The humidity is what makes it so miserable here. The rope on the dog in the water sounds like a plan to me. As long as I can get in the water with him

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Registered: May 2005
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I live about forty miles southwest of San Antonio Tx. A week ago Saturday it was 106 degrees. It was 90 at 11:00 pm. We managed to tree a coon. Last Monday it was 109,Tuesday it was 108. Down here if you don't hunt in hot weather you ain't gonna hunt much. Deer season starts on 1st of October and it ends on 1st of February . Unless you are really lucky you're not going to find a place to hunt during deer season . Doesn't leave much cool weather to hunt in

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Registered: Nov 2019
Location: IL
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Heat and weeds don’t bother me much. Hard part for me is it not getting dark until 9:30. My 13 month old will tree by himself but is lacking confidence on tree. Likes to run track and then quit and come in cause he can’t finish it. Been hunting him by himself. Getting frustrating but trying to hunt him twice a week with hopes he will put it all together. Maybe I need to put him up for a while not sure. Will not mention breed don’t need to start that war.

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I’m hunting about 5or 6 nights a week. I’m not sure the dogs are benefiting from it other than staying in shape. I pretty much only pleasure hunt. Seems everyone’s dogs are struggling down here in south central Oklahoma lately. I’ve never seen so much track wallering, tree tapping, and missing coon.

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Shoot, the skeeters are not flying around here at night it’s so hot. No breeze, just dead still.

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It' s been 90 to 100 pretty much all the time here. And, the ground is powder dry.

I've turned loose a few times in the morning when I didn't have work that day. First time I've done that in many, many years.

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I've been waiting til 3am to turn my hounds lose and hunting til day light it seems to be working out real good, have been treeing alot of coons. The coons seem to be stirring later because that's when its alot cooler.

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Done something tonight that I have not done in several years and that was going coon hunting on a HOT SUMMER NIGHT. My hunting partner and I just bought a really nice younger brother to his good dog and He wanted me to go and see how our NEW DOG operated. The dog done really good, good mouth and hard chop mouth tree dog. I enjoyed listening to him use that big bawl mouth on track and roll into a hard chop on the tree, looked at 3 coons and called it a night. Wet to the bone with sweat, mosquitoes buzzing me all night, weeds and under brush tall as your head, all these things reminded me why I HATE summer hunting. I told my hunting buddy who owns half of the new dog that I was satisfied with our purchase, but I was through until Fall and things cooled down. I love those crisp FALL NIGHTS in the woods listening to s good coon dog operate, even enjoy the Winter months, but NO Summer hunting for me. Lol. Dave

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Registered: Jan 2005
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Mine is going on the treadmill today.. Me and him both need it!

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