l.lyle
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Re: Treeing den trees?
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Originally posted by Joey
I was wondering what everyone else thought about treeing dens. The dog I'm hunting hardly ever trees a den. I have hunted her for going on three years and have treed less than 10 dens. I mean legit dens not trees with squirrel holes in them. She will run a cold track and does quite often but even those don’t end up in dens. I have hunted with and owned several dogs that tree at least a den tree a night. Are they slick? I'm beginning to think that if we could see in a big part of these dens that are treed we would be real disappointed in our dogs.
I haven't even read the rest of the thread and the bits of wisdom contained therin.LOL . However, If a coondog makes it to a den it depends on only five things: 1)how close is the coon to the den when it realizes the dog is after him, 2)how fast is the dog; and 3) how fast is the coon, for example you happen to get lucky and turn out 100 yards from a creek where a coon is at right now , not been feeding along an hour ago more or less such an such realizing he is in peril and best seek shelter. 4) My coons don't know they are in peril because they do not think about seeking shelter because they are not smart enough to know that they have asecond chance to learn about shelter and all that kind of stuff because they are dead meat if the get treed once and give me a glipse. And 5) the best one yet! is because there are some male rutting coons that hear a dog trailing and trailind in a patch where he has it figured a hotty is , so he does the manly thing and boogies up to the dogs and takes them on a chase just to get them out of her trail. That is what i believer because I have seen/heard a coon come loping through broomstraw, sit and listen to trailing his fixing to be hottie and leave his rutting scent in front of there nose just to plain distract them dogs off cold trailing her. That coon intendes to run like a fox and has no intentions of seeking a hollow shelter. Cause i would smoke him out anyway and he probably knows it. To shorten my long- short story., You will never know untill you have a GPS collar on a coon. To know where he was had a head start on a slow minded dog nor a fasss dog. You can make up a story to suit yourself like I just now did. to make it all interesting . But the fact reamains; untill you know where the coon is at ad when you are just going to be playing with yourself( fantasizing) so to speack. I still say a coon that had one dog on him one time and dead never learns to seek refuge and you are right if we could "see" via GPS alot of empty dens , you are right alot of us would be dissapointed to put it mildly and most of us would do differt than petting up a lying den treeing back tracker. Hail, GPS.
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02-08-2012 04:06 AM
