l.lyle
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Originally posted by Kevin Jackson
Never heard of him but that doesn't mean anything.
Mr. Lyle, I guess I don't understand what you are saying. I thought how deep a dog hunts and the dogs "range" were the same thing. If a dog goes ten miles coon hunting with my collar on he'll be wearing someone else's collar before long. Going ten miles on a lion track isn't a big deal, the difference is they are on a track. If the coons aren't moving mine manage to get treed anyway, never had a dog go anywhere near ten miles while coon hunting.
We are probably talking the same language. WHEN he gets struck whether it is at my feet or where I can barely hear him from then on I expect him to follow that track and me to follow him where ever it goes. If he Trees across the river means I got to go get a boat but that is part of the hunt. Striking in Range, Most still nights i can hear my dogs a mile fairly easy. Do i want him getting that far in ten minutes most drops,? . NO. I would prefer one to have a range on him that he will make a loop and hunt on back in my direction. I hunt on 10,000 acres where deep is not a problem even running wherever the coon goes to is not a problem and that is on one side of it. If they go out the other three ways there is another 50,000 acres of marsh and rivers and islands no body lives on so it is even less of a problem. It's not a problem but I don't like it. I would rather load up and go to a cornfield if they are not walking in the woods, Or in the marsh if they are not at a cornfield. Or better yet at some one acre chuffas patches planted for turkeys. I don't want a dog to "Just Go". I tried one like that that was supposed to be the GREATEST. The next thing you know, I could not pick him up on my beep beep and I had not tried to pick him up on it because it had only been 15 minutes since I had turned him loose . I know I headed him south so I went and kept checking the Beep Beep. For an hour. No signal . Decided he couldn't get in trouble or get run over down there and decided the beep beep failed or went dead or whatever , we would come back and get him tomorrow. So we started home. We had made seven miles of dirt road before it turned into pavement about five miles from a major road. We were boogying along and me and my friend thought we past something odd. I said that looked like a dog in a gallop. WE stopped and sure enough that tryout dog came trotting up out of breath. I don't need a dog with that kind of range. Don't want one to "pick off a tree, no matter " neither. They better have some kind of reverse if they ain't struck. For that matter a good road hunting pleasure coondog, which I don't do, ought not be out of your headlights but a few seconds. If he is gone longer and makes you stop and listen , he better strike in a few hundred yards. JMO. I realize this is not western dryland cat hunting I am talking about , just regular South Carolina coon hunting. Applies to a Road Hunted Dog , not UKC Rules oriented, versus a roadrunner, purpose to get away and stumble over a hot coon by himself. LOL
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06-23-2012 08:12 AM
I found it ironic that a straight dog was treeing coon within hearing altho not running the "same hard running coon". In areas of plentiful coon I find it ironic....that the tracks don't go near as far or near as fast....for the most part. 
Clyde Murphy 229-344-7308
