Okie Dawg
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Location: Tonkawa Oklahoma
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quote: Originally posted by l.lyle
Your two sound independent and also work together enough to suit me.
Yes, all my trained and started dogs can tree a coon by themselves. If they couldn't I wouldn't have them.
It's not a matter of having two dogs to do the work of one to me. It's the fact that I, myself, have six good trained dogs and I also have friends come and hunt. When hunting by myself I might turn out two or all six. I'd hate to have four, five or six splits I had to try to get to. Also, the people who let me hunt their land require that I kill every coon I tree. So, when they split, I only have one that I'm sure is "stay put" enough to be squalling and shooting around. The reason this dog won't pull is because he is old and nearly deaf.
When I hunt with a person that has an Independant, has to be by himself type dog, sometimes I drag around putting on my boots and stuff and tell him to go ahead and turn loose. Maybe if we're at a place where coons ought to be he won't just blow out but maybe get struck in a hundred yards or two. If he strikes close, I'll turn in one dog. Both of us thinking, now, we'll hear a race. But, if my dog gets ahead, or even caught up, his might "go silent" for awhile and then you hear him a half mile over yonder across a piney ridge while the other dog is still charging for all he's worth. Then, If my dog trees first or second it doesn't matter cause we are going to go to the closest dog first (that's just the way it is when you're really coon hunting). My buddy almost begs me not to shoot the coon out cause he knows he'll pull to a rifle. So I let him take off to his dog.
Sounds like me and you have the same idea of what a good hound should do.........It would be a pleasure to hunt with you.
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