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How often do you have to hunt your dog to keep it coon minded and only treeing coon?

Option #4 should read 1 time a month or less, meaning 1 or 2 times in a 6 to 9 month period.

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IMO it would vary with age, exposer, and from dog to dog.

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Very true. I'm just curious to see what the results of the average coondog is.

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to keep it coon minded wouldn't have to hunt one much to keep one treeing coons and able to compete needs hunted 5 to 7 nights a week

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keep one treeing coons and able to compete needs hunted 5 to 7 nights a week

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When coon were worth somthing, and people kept dogs just to put up hides, most dogs only got hunted in Oct.- Nov.

They still treed coon, I dont recall thinking they were better at the end of the season than the beginning.

All dogs are different, but most any dog that can tree a coon without too many serious flaws can be cometitive at local hunts.

Bet your a$$ the most competitive dogs in the country arent going to fit in ANY of these catagorys.

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I run my dogs a min. of 3 days a week untill the snow falls here in NW PA.
I'm sorta new to the UKC coon hunts and want two good dogs that will win or at least hang with the other dogs they are competing againts.

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i been laid of since sept i was hunting 3 hounds i hunted almost every night untill deer season camein

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I agree that is varies dog to dog. I have one you can put up for a long time take him out and still impress people. I have another that needs to be hunted to stay super accurate. Laid up she is not as accurate as I like but still as good as most I have hunted against. I am very picky and if I can't go hunting but one time a month, I want a dog that can still tree coons on this schedule until time permits me to hunt them more. It still depends on alot factors. But if you got one that can tree coons consitently no matter what the hunt schedule, you got something.

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If it"s a young dog hunt it as much as you and it can stand it every night if possible but if it"s an older broke coondog you can get by 1 or 2 times a week or even the same a month if you want ! But here i am talking about a GOOD Broke SEASONED Hound !

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When I was younger I thought you had to hunt a dog every night,but as I got older, I learn you don't have to. I say hunt your dog when ever you feel like it and you will learn they will tree you coon right on.This may not apply if you are going to hunt the world hunt,they will need to be in good shape for this.

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Before I got Zam back, he hadn't been to the woods in 2 yrs. We had planned on selling him, we decided to take him out and see what he was like. The first night out, he treed 4 coon in less then 2 hrs. and nothing else. So we took him out the next night, 3 coon in 1 1/2 hrs., by this time, we were thinking we just might keep him. Best decision we ever made. He is the easiest keeping dog, with a super laid back temperment, quiet at home and has thrown some awesome pups. He will be 7 yrs. old in March, I'm hoping to get a few good pups off of him, before it is too late.

I was just really curious to see how many others have dogs like this and if it is more along the lines of normal then not. Zam hunts to suit himself, he loves to split tree, but he does work well with any dogs he has been cast with.

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Before I got Zam back, he hadn't been to the woods in 2 yrs. We had planned on selling him, we decided to take him out and see what he was like. The first night out, he treed 4 coon in less then 2 hrs. and nothing else. So we took him out the next night, 3 coon in 1 1/2 hrs., by this time, we were thinking we just might keep him. Best decision we ever made. He is the easiest keeping dog, with a super laid back temperment, quiet at home and has thrown some awesome pups. He will be 7 yrs. old in March, I'm hoping to get a few good pups off of him, before it is too late.

I was just really curious to see how many others have dogs like this and if it is more along the lines of normal then not. Zam hunts to suit himself, he loves to split tree, but he does work well with any dogs he has been cast with.

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If you hunt them enough to keep them in shape it should be enough to keep them coon minded.

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