Jason Baldwin
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Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Rockmart, Ga.
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I haven't impacted him a lot but I have a little bit. The first thing is, I learned to take him new places and don't turn him loose in the same places over and over and over. I changed it up and rotated and took him to one of my buddy's spots on a really really good feeder. Treed one in 100 yards. I kept doing that and he didnt' seem like he ran as far as fast as he was. Also, sometimes, and it is VERY rare, but sometimes he would make a HUGE loop and come back without striking at all. When he does that. I PET HIM AND PET HIM AND PET HIM. Let him know that's OK. Like I said that has hardly ever happened since i owned him but the few times it did happen I tried to make a REALLY big impression on him that it is OK TO COME BACK if you have made a really really big circle in there and not struck a coon. Just these two things have seemed to help a little. Not much but a little. He will tree a coon 50 yards in front of you or he will tree a coon over a mile from you. But If he makes it in there 3 quarters of a mile and don't strike I would prefer the dog to make a loop and come back. But everybody likes something different. Oh also I will say this before it even gets started, if you live up north in the land of many coons and your reading this, just disregard the entire thread alltogether because chances are you have no idea what we poor southern boys are even talking about.
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