Registered: Nov 2011
Location: lake village, arkansas
Posts: 78

im new to coon huntinand I got a 5 yr old walker and i haven't hunted him in about 3 weeks because i been busy. Is it okay for him to sit up?

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Registered: Oct 2009
Location: s/w michigan
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some dogs need hunted regularly some dont an old time coon hunter around my parts only hunts sept-december and his dog sits up most the year and it dont affect him but i know of dogs that if they sit up lol it makes for along night

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Location: Beaver Springs, Pennsylvania
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Our male lays up for 6-9 mos. without being hunted and trees coon like he had been hunted every night. In fact, when he finished to NTCH he had gone 6 mos., 2 mos., and 3 mos. in between wins, not from losing, but that is the only time he got to the woods and he didn't finish with low scores either. Every once in a GREAT while he will pop up a possum, no porky's, no deer, no fox, nothing. He is 9 yrs. old and can hold his own against a young dog yet.

My female on the other hand needed to be hunted hard and often to stay in coon minded condition. She is 11 yrs. old now and I let her hunt anyway she wants to now, I feel she earned the right to tree a possum now and then and she has never learned in all her yrs. that skunks just don't play nice. Porky's she got into 2 times and leaves the rest alone.

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Registered: Nov 2011
Location: lake village, arkansas
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so i guess it just depends on the dog. lol I'm 14 so alot of mess gets in my way of takin him in the woods.

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At 5 yrs. old I think he will be just fine. If he was mine I would just hunt him whenever I could and just enjoy.

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Registered: Nov 2011
Location: lake village, arkansas
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well that makes me feel alot better. i get worried that he'll forget what to do. A buddy of mine has a female that had pups and she layed up from may i think till like july and she had meat in the tree first night out

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