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How do you Guy's Determine if a Coon has been layed up?

I hear all the time ( that coon has been up a long time ). Some go as far as saying its been up 9-10-11-12 hrs. Most all the time its because the dog never Barks on the ground Just Falls Treed.

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The biggest part is knowing your dog. For example two nights ago I was hunting my female who is wide open on track, She treed a coon and opened probably 100 times on it. I re casted her and she went 400 yards and fell treed never giving 1 ground bark. It was around 1 a.m. and by the looks of the coon and tree I would say it had been up there a good while. That to me is a dog laying up a coon.

Some guys "claim" that there dog can tree a coon without it even being on the ground by the wind scent pattern. I however do not believe that. They say thats laying up a coon.

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When one trees a coon and no others have a clue its there. That's a lay up. You can usually tell by a dogs actions if it can tree them. If you've hunted it long enough. Just going through the woods and falling treed without a ground bark certainly don't mean its a lay up. You just kinda know. I recken.

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Some guys "claim" that there dog can tree a coon without it even being on the ground by the wind scent pattern. I however do not believe that. They say thats laying up a coon.

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by GA DAWG
[B]When one trees a coon and no others have a clue its there. That's a lay up. You can usually tell by a dogs actions if it can tree them.


thats my def. also

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Yep, and if it's your dog there is no better feeling than seeing her there with the meat while every other dog is lookin like she is crazy wandering around trying to see what she is barking at.

I had one that did that to other dogs quite regular. I miss that old girl.

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"Some guys "claim" that there dog can tree a coon without it even being on the ground by the wind scent pattern. I however do not believe that. They say thats laying up a coon" .............................................................................. sir?, How long have you been coonhunting?!

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"Some guys "claim" that there dog can tree a coon without it even being on the ground by the wind scent pattern. I however do not believe that. They say thats laying up a coon" sir?, How long have you been coonhunting?!

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CUZ ITS FACT I DONT KNOW MUCH!!! but it seems hard to believe that you havent been able to observe a dog find a coon that hasnt been down....its neat, ! as bill said, in situations like this it can make some otherwise very darn good dogs look like idiots!! .............. happy huntin to ya!!!

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The biggest part is knowing your dog. For example two nights ago I was hunting my female who is wide open on track, She treed a coon and opened probably 100 times on it. I re casted her and she went 400 yards and fell treed never giving 1 ground bark. It was around 1 a.m. and by the looks of the coon and tree I would say it had been up there a good while. That to me is a dog laying up a coon.

Some guys "claim" that there dog can tree a coon without it even being on the ground by the wind scent pattern. I however do not believe that. They say thats laying up a coon.

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I your dog has never "winded" a coon and then treed it you might want to move from the computer to the woods.
I know of a grand night female that would "wind" while leading her down a fence row(never making a sound but would lift her head in the air) and when you cast the dogs you could watch her hold her head head up turn around to where it was at and get a first and first on you everytime. Most guys wouldn't strike in because they thought she was babbling. So she gets 225+ and you get 75+ at best

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I started hunting this dog this spring and several times i have tryed to send him into a woods only to have turn go 600 to 900 yards no barks the ground fall treed. Had to show Mr. Bellar himself! The dog is a open track dog.

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Originally posted by ronald schultz
as bill said, in situations like this it can make some otherwise very darn good dogs look like idiots!! .............. happy huntin to ya!!!

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The real truth of the matter is I don't care how the dog trees a coon as long as when I unsnap that lead it gets treed quick and it has a coon in the majority of its trees.

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The real truth of the matter is I don't care how the dog trees a coon as long as when I unsnap that lead it gets treed quick and it has a coon in the majority of its trees.

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What we all expect. Just different styles of gettin it done & the reason you may not like my dog & I yours.

Ain't it great to have options in our flavor of coonhuntin companions?

By the way,My Ford can smoke your Dodge or Chevy or Toyota....

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What we all expect. Just different styles of gettin it done & the reason you may not like my dog & I yours.

Ain't it great to have options in our flavor of coonhuntin companions?

By the way,My Ford can smoke your Dodge or Chevy or Toyota....

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I myself think there are two deffinitions to a layup coon there are the old tracks that lead a dog to a tree where u find a coon balled up sleepin in a big fork generally not very high up. Then u have them coon been up there so long there is no track to run and the dog has head in the air dancen on their toes locating and treein off the thermals in the air as Russ descibes. once a guy has had a few of these types of dogs he won't be happy with one that cant tree them ol'layup coons

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Originally posted by Hoosier Man1
Yes but after many hunts I questiion peoples "taste" lol

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I hear that! "Choices"

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how many times have you been sittin in a deer stand watching a deer & it get down wind bust you & turn & look straight at you up a tree? most hounds just aint got the nose & the brains to tree these layup coons.

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Originally posted by Hoosier Man1
Billy Billy Billy, please! Every dog I have had would wind along fence rows and the edge of woods. But guess what? Those coon that my dogs wind were ON THE GROUND at some point. No dog is going to wind a coon in a woods up lets say a huge oak tree. it's not going to happen. Do you know the odds of your dog "winding a layup coon up a 60 foot tall tree" and picking the right tree the coon was actually on? Not good and if you have a dog that likes to stick its head UP and not DOWN then I will guarantee you will walk to alot of slick trees.

Many many dogs give mouth according to how hot or cold the track is. If it's a cold track alot of dogs won't say much on the ground and some won't open a bit. The ones that don't open any think their dog just did a heck of a job and winded a coon that hadn't been down yet.

Yes sir Ronald I have been hunting awhile. Have spent many nights in the woods alone with my dogs and went to hundreds of hunts maybe even thousands.

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Like driving down the road and smelling steak on the grill. Things get winded all the time. Craziness!

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Believe it or not there are dogs that do wind coons, and lines that throw the trait and dogs that have the trait and pass it on. If you have gotten used to the old layup dogs, those trail only dogs will never make you happy, always something missing. I wonder how many dogs have been hit with the shocker and scolded for barking in the box going down the road, when all they were doing was winding where a coon had crossed the road, and the folks didn't know what they had.
If you hunt around rivers, sloughs and full fledged swamps, a layup winding type dog is the only way to go ! There have been many night when I've seen a couple of coons setting in a fork and watched the trail dogs run right past them, then turn winding ones loose and peel them off the tree ! As far as running a track both would be the same, but a true wind hunter will run past very few.

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Wind pattern will attract a dog to the scent but it will NOT show the tree Mr. Ringtail went up. If a dog starts treeing off the air waves then it is guessing.

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so your saying a dog cant be standing on a tail gate of a truck after a hunt and wind a coon oh lets say 80 yards sitting up in a tree???

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Hosier, the little female I am talking about could and DID quite regularly tree coon and have the meat treeing on nothing but the thermals. Never smelling the ground or the tree.

Conditions have to be right for that, with the thermals coming down etc, I've seen her run right underneath coons sittin up when the conditions weren't right too.

But she was the way others here had seen, would run a track with her head up, caught coon on the ground regularly, and treed coons on thermals without ever smelling the tree. Many times she would be directly under the coon in a big oak, never going to the base of the tree, standing straight up on her hind legs treein away. I've seen her come out of a truck, wind a coon and immediately go the other direction of every other dog in the cast and end up treein on her hind legs within sight and her never smell the ground or the tree.

Oh yeah, dogs like that are the opposite of what you would think. If they have that ability they don't miss much at all. They are very accurate.

Hard to believe that unless you had one or been around one alot but they are out there and they can do it if they have the ability.

I've never owned another one with that ability either. I keep hoping but never have had one yet.

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