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Well, last night was my first experience with a Blue dog. Guess I figured out why I hunt with Walkers. We turned a buddies blue dog out last night that is about six years old along with a seven month old walker. They both split up and the blue dog is gone, and I mean long gone. We spent the rest of the night trying to track and find the old blue dog. Guess I will have to say that last night was my first experience with a blue dog and very well will probably be my last. I mean a six year old dog should come when called, especially when he has a shock collar on and you are close enough to shock him. Guess the new kind of hunting is blue coon dog hunting... you turn a blue dog loose and spend the rest of the night hunting him!!!

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You're right.

You can always tell how good an entire breed of dogs is by going hunting with just one of them.

I would sure stay away from Blue dogs for good.

I can tell by your intellect and perceptiveness that you must be a born Walker man.

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Well Jack, that kinda reminds me of a lot of hunts I been on with them spotted dogs. First you fire the dog , then you turn on the tracker and spend more time hunting dogs than coon. I guess it all depends on your personal experience.

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I'm a Walker man, and that is the most stupid post I ever saw!

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YES!!! It took less than 1 hour to make someone irritated. Last night was a really fun night. The blue dog that we took had been laid up for about a year and only hunted once in the past three months. My buddy and I went and picked his dog up to hunt it for him and new from the get go that he would be a wide open ranged dog. I honestly have to say that if I ever bought a different breed it would be a blue dog. That dog last night is a good dog, just been laid up a bit. I told my buddy that this would be a good post to get some people stirred up about blue dogs.

To blue dog owners and fanciers... I am not judging blue dogs by this one dog. I do kinda like em.

Truse!

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HAHA.....told ya they wouldnt like it Back...Folks the dog we hunted last night is a nice hound, but he had been laid up for a couple months and the moon was so bright that we walked most of the night with out a light..woulda been hard on an old walker to as bad as i hate to say it... Back & I were just kidding around last night about a new kind of hunting where we turn a Blue dog loose and play hide and seek with him.... He had us stumped for about 3 hours of Tracking!!!!

Light'en up fella's!!!

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I HAD A WALKER FEMALE OUT OF CROWDING BILLY BLOODLINE THAT LEFT THE COUNTRY RUNNING A DEER IN 1995 IN ANDERSON COUNTY AND NEVER HEARD OF HER SINCE. YES SHE WOULD TREE A COON BUT DAM SHE LIKED TO RUN THE HAIR OFF A DEER AND I SUPPOSE SHE IS STILL AFTER THAT DEER IF ONE OF THEM HASN'T DIED BY NOW.

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I have two border collies that WILL NOT tree coon! worthless ##$%^%$$

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In all reality none of us are coon hunters. We are really coon dog hunters. The dog hunts the coon and we hunt the dog.

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I HAD A WALKER FEMALE OUT OF CROWDING BILLY BLOODLINE THAT LEFT THE COUNTRY RUNNING A DEER IN 1995 IN ANDERSON COUNTY AND NEVER HEARD OF HER SINCE. YES SHE WOULD TREE A COON BUT DAM SHE LIKED TO RUN THE HAIR OFF A DEER AND I SUPPOSE SHE IS STILL AFTER THAT DEER IF ONE OF THEM HASN'T DIED BY NOW.

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I agree with you RedBones4me and this time a year we tend to have to hunt a little harder!!!

Back, I will call you tomorrow about next week!! I amy be at a PKC hunt, but you could go!!

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In all reality none of us are coon hunters. We are really coon dog hunters. The dog hunts the coon and we hunt the dog.

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In all reality none of us are coon hunters. We are really coon dog hunters. The dog hunts the coon and we hunt the dog.

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hunters used to be coonhunters but tracking collars has destroyed that type of hunting but the biggest thing that has changed is the kind of houd that people hunt, years ago I hunted dogs that hunted and area out and they had enough nose to tree coon any where but know dogs are hot nosed and just blow into the country and find a easy one, 30 or 40 years ago we would've killed the stud dogs that people rave about today. Voyd

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hunters used to be coonhunters but tracking collars has destroyed that type of hunting but the biggest thing that has changed is the kind of houd that people hunt, years ago I hunted dogs that hunted and area out and they had enough nose to tree coon any where but know dogs are hot nosed and just blow into the country and find a easy one, 30 or 40 years ago we would've killed the stud dogs that people rave about today. Voyd

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Larry the point that I wanted to make was that the tracking has allowed us to hunt a different type of dog than we hunted years ago and the type that is primarily hunted now isn't anything but straight away hunting hot nosed popup treedogs, this type of dog is what used to be called a possum dog or cur.

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In al reality that is true! We are coon dog hunters!

Lance-sounds good, just give me a call.

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YES!!! It took less than 1 hour to make someone irritated. Last night was a really fun night. The blue dog that we took had been laid up for about a year and only hunted once in the past three months. My buddy and I went and picked his dog up to hunt it for him and new from the get go that he would be a wide open ranged dog. I honestly have to say that if I ever bought a different breed it would be a blue dog. That dog last night is a good dog, just been laid up a bit. I told my buddy that this would be a good post to get some people stirred up about blue dogs.

To blue dog owners and fanciers... I am not judging blue dogs by this one dog. I do kinda like em.

Truse!

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I HAD A WALKER FEMALE OUT OF CROWDING BILLY BLOODLINE THAT LEFT THE COUNTRY RUNNING A DEER IN 1995 IN ANDERSON COUNTY AND NEVER HEARD OF HER SINCE. YES SHE WOULD TREE A COON BUT DAM SHE LIKED TO RUN THE HAIR OFF A DEER AND I SUPPOSE SHE IS STILL AFTER THAT DEER IF ONE OF THEM HASN'T DIED BY NOW.

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IMO a little too much "go" is better than not enough.

Too much "go" is just plain misserable. Espesially if their "go" is misdirected.

You will see dogs of every breed with not enough, too much, and everything in between.

All dogs have faults of some sort or degree, some folks cant live with some that others will tollerate.

A dog that gets alone and deep quick, and is good about having a coon and staying treed will win its share of casts......a pleasure hunter may want somthing completely different, thats what makes the world go 'round.

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hunters used to be coonhunters but tracking collars has destroyed that type of hunting but the biggest thing that has changed is the kind of houd that people hunt, years ago I hunted dogs that hunted and area out and they had enough nose to tree coon any where but know dogs are hot nosed and just blow into the country and find a easy one, 30 or 40 years ago we would've killed the stud dogs that people rave about today. Voyd

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Voyd, there's still a few guys around who cull them for such faults.

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not enough to make a difference.some of
these guys like to talk about yesterdays
dogs.1965 acha world monday night a
grade dog was high scoring dog with
650+ 0- and 0 circle what kind of
score won the worlds this year.

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Originally posted by blueticking: it
not enough to make a difference.some of
these guys like to talk about yesterdays
dogs.1965 acha world monday night a
grade dog was high scoring dog with
650+ 0- and 0 circle what kind of
score won the worlds this year.

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when I think of hunting dogs I think of dogs that can work together and acheive more more than a single dog, wolves have proven that a pack is better then solo, everbody seems to want a dog that only trees by itself now, the best doesn't win now it's the dog that babbles first and whips the other dogs off of the tree, dog hunters call it adjusting for position coonhunters call it fighting.

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