Registered: Jan 2013
Location: Chelsea Oklahoma
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I've got two young hounds I've been hunting together and the past two weeks I seen quite a few coons. Beginning to think I had a couple of coon dogs. Then last few nights out nothing, maybe tree a possum or last night dogs ran a track good and then lost it. I thought they were doing good and boom just wound up standing on their head. It was around some coal pits and lots of water where they lost it. I hunt quite a bit 3-4 nights a week but maybe an hour and a half to three hours, I don't hunt all night any more. I had been really proud of my english dog but last few nights wanted to knock him in the head. They're hunting but not getting anything done. Anybody else?

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Registered: May 2007
Location: fairmont wv
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that's something that happens alot some young dogs start doing a good job then you get really proud of them then1 nite they do just that stand on thier head just kep hunting them they should turn around start doing good again jmo

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Registered: Mar 2009
Location: OKLA
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I gear my hunting to the dogs needs, once I get my young dogs going I haul two at a time and stagger the turnout; I'll send the pair and then single them up. Some nights young dogs can't do well in certain terrain, so I move. A few nights ago I had trouble starting a track on big creeks, so I moved to the small branches off of them; they still had to hunt to start one but managed to tree it when they did. If I have a dog making mistakes or needing work in a direction; I'll keep sending him until he does something right. Once you get him headed in a direction, he's a whole lot easier to deal with.

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Originally posted by squirrelhunter7
I've got two young hounds I've been hunting together and the past two weeks I seen quite a few coons. Beginning to think I had a couple of coon dogs. Then last few nights out nothing, maybe tree a possum or last night dogs ran a track good and then lost it. I thought they were doing good and boom just wound up standing on their head. It was around some coal pits and lots of water where they lost it. I hunt quite a bit 3-4 nights a week but maybe an hour and a half to three hours, I don't hunt all night any more. I had been really proud of my english dog but last few nights wanted to knock him in the head. They're hunting but not getting anything done. Anybody else?

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Registered: Oct 2013
Location: Maryland
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Originally posted by squirrelhunter7
I've got two young hounds I've been hunting together and the past two weeks I seen quite a few coons. Beginning to think I had a couple of coon dogs. Then last few nights out nothing, maybe tree a possum or last night dogs ran a track good and then lost it. I thought they were doing good and boom just wound up standing on their head. It was around some coal pits and lots of water where they lost it. I hunt quite a bit 3-4 nights a week but maybe an hour and a half to three hours, I don't hunt all night any more. I had been really proud of my english dog but last few nights wanted to knock him in the head. They're hunting but not getting anything done. Anybody else?

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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: va
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The last 2 nights I've hunted I have had terrible luck turning loose about 9-10 and getting loaded back up about 1. Fri night dropped the dog for 45 min with no barks, Another gentleman dropped twice and had 2 cold tracks at an htx. Last night a buddy and I made 2 drops and never got a bark.

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Registered: Feb 2015
Location: Ohio
Posts: 572

Last night my dog (11 mo. Leopard ) and a friends (7 yr Walker) struck right off the leads and ran a track that sounded red hot. After about 150 yds. mine started swinging right and his went left. Then they both stood on their heads for a minute. My finally finished his track in a dirt hole after about 10 minutes and his located several times in different places but never settled. He called her off after about 35 minutes. To hear the beginning of the race most people including us would have thought you'd be looking up a tree very shortly.

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Registered: Dec 2012
Location: Pennsylvania
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Happens all the time, I think with young dogs especially.

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Registered: Oct 2012
Location: burnt district MO/KS border
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Originally posted by Ky Show Girl
don't make a lot of cents if the track is suppose to get hotter once they strike it.

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Originally posted by blackflagginit
that's a myth.

depending on the time of the year, terrain, food supply, time of night, and a HOST of other things, as often as not long long before ol Sounder strikes a track the coon that made it was already sitting on a limb.



what IS true though is the thing about wet coon vrs dry coon. its as big a difference in smell as a wet dog vrs a dry one. if you ever want to test the theory, wet down a hide during kill season and take a whiff

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Originally posted by blackflagginit
that's a myth.

depending on the time of the year, terrain, food supply, time of night, and a HOST of other things, as often as not long long before ol Sounder strikes a track the coon that made it was already sitting on a limb.



what IS true though is the thing about wet coon vrs dry coon. its as big a difference in smell as a wet dog vrs a dry one. if you ever want to test the theory, wet down a hide during kill season and take a whiff

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Registered: May 2008
Location: lenoir nc
Posts: 307

Hunted hard Friday night and have not hunted with a better dog than my old one and not a bark all night. Can't explain but just didn't hit nothing. I'd say maybe sows are laid up with kittens now might have some to do with it but I don't know

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Registered: Jun 2014
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 3468

It's been my experience that the hardest time to strike a hot track is May and June. We're pretty close to May.

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