Pastor Mike
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Originally posted by Corey/UKC
I would tend to agree with that Pastor Mike, a lot of the T-Top dogs I've seen go I would rate as above average track dogs. I owned a double grandson to Rabble that could straight boogy on cold winter nights and treed a lot of coon with him even into January/February. He certainly shined in the snow, that was for sure.
yep. Lexus, whom I got from chris snyder, now she could really move a hot track......really could scorch one. She did really well on what I would call a medium track. Cold tracks were not her style though.....even though she could grub one out and still put a coon at the end, it just seemed like she wasn't as motivated when it came to cold tracks. I actually liked that about her.
My old shadow female could move a track with style as well. She liked a cold track however and you could just sit and wait and it wouldn't be long and you would hear that warble locate and then that chop ringing off the ridges. Loved that dog.
Haze could move just about any track, didn't really matter how hot or cold. the cold ones he never stood on his head, kept it moving. Haze and Shadow one night at our first fellowship hunt struck a cold track, me, ramon and his friend stood and listened as they headed toward the mountain. they started to get pretty cold so I drove them about 5 miles back to the club to warm up and wait about a half hour. When I decided to go back and check on them, ramons friend went back with me, we got a couple miles down the road and I turned on my old wildlife 64 tracker and that familiar fast beep showing treed was clicking them off. We got down there and walked close to 900 yards up the mountain to them. It was fun knowing you had a dog/dogs that could do that on those old bad nights.
Of course I do think that track speed can be subjective. We may think our dogs can really move a track. No way of really knowing until you put them up against others either pleasure hunting or competition hunting. I'm glad to say that doing alot of pleasure hunting with folks and competition that our dogs were consistent with what we had figured. My personal opinion is that some dogs have better noses than we might think based on where they are normally hunted. Hunted in thick coon, a dog may just learn to like hot tracks but it doesn't mean he couldn't work a cold one if given the chance. the dog may need a little time to adjust but that's ok in my book. good luck fellas.
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Mike Laster
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Just curious to see what people think.
06-01-2016 01:52 PM
