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It seemed to me years ago (60-70's) most guys I knew that treed a lot of coon actually had two dogs they hunted that complimented each other. One pair was a walker dog that winded coon from the truck and was deadly on a coon he could run by smelling him in the air and the other was a walker female that was real cold nosed and could work out a tough track and put a coon on the end of it. I truly think we treed twice as many coon with them together than we would have with each one separate. Is anyone willing to hunt two dogs together today to make one really good one? Or has everything become so keyed to the competition hunting that we have to have one dog that is good at it all? I'd be first to say I want one to do it all but you know I sure did enjoy hunting two together like that.

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I guess it's a matter of preference. The dogs I got now don't pay any attention to each other. So the usually seperate quickly. And why feed 2 to have one package when you can have it all over one hide. But trust me if you want dogs to pack there still a dime a dozen. I see them do it at hunts all the time.

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I think that they should have a pairs class at hunts. Each handler could hunt a pair of dogs. I remember the days when you would pleasure hunt a pair of dogs. It seems like it was only yesterday.

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I sometimes hunt 2,3 or 4 dogs at a time. I don't comp hunt or hide hunt, I just pleasure hunt. I hunt that many because I love to hear a pack of hounds running and treeing together. Mine better pack to whichever dog opens first and they better be on the tree together when they tree.

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I think it's still that way, most dogs today either won't hunt or tree slick or just plain crazy! It takes more than one dog to do the job right.The dog that can do it all by itself and do it night after night is extremely difficult to find, and when you do they cost so much the average person can't afford it.

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Richard it seems like just yesterday to me too. Right now I have a good young dog but he is not a real quick strike dog and needs to be better at a cold track (Just 20 months old) so that's what got me to thinking about what it would be like if I had a great strike/track dog to put with him how much fun I could have.

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N Willams, I will take 2 dozen for a quarter. That wind coon, or drift on a cold track.

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Originally posted by Richard Lambert
I think that they should have a pairs class at hunts. Each handler could hunt a pair of dogs. I remember the days when you would pleasure hunt a pair of dogs. It seems like it was only yesterday.

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Originally posted by Preacher Tom
It seemed to me years ago (60-70's) most guys I knew that treed a lot of coon actually had two dogs they hunted that complimented each other. One pair was a walker dog that winded coon from the truck and was deadly on a coon he could run by smelling him in the air and the other was a walker female that was real cold nosed and could work out a tough track and put a coon on the end of it. I truly think we treed twice as many coon with them together than we would have with each one separate. Is anyone willing to hunt two dogs together today to make one really good one? Or has everything become so keyed to the competition hunting that we have to have one dog that is good at it all? I'd be first to say I want one to do it all but you know I sure did enjoy hunting two together like that.

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Back in the late Eighties, I had a blue female that was colder nosed and what I called a trailing style dog that would tree. My friend had a Walker male, medium nose, but a quick stay put tree dog. Those two complimented one another and we enjoyed some decent hunts with those two. Different time, different era, but good times none the less.

Still working on the getting it wrapped up in one hide part!

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Back in the mid-90s, I had a pair of trade row walker dogs that I hunted for an entire winter. One was an older female with way too much track, and one was a young male with a little too much tree. By today's standard, neither one was much account. But to me as a big kid, that was a coon catching pair of dogs. I think of that pair a lot and the adventures we had. I found a picture not long ago of me and a couple of buddies with those dogs and a big double edged axe. I remember chopping down some big den trees and poking coons out with a cane pole, and climbing trees to jump race coons. Sorry dogs and young boys sure made for some good times...

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i guess i should have mentioned that the guy who owned the two dogs in my post didn't spend his time looking for the perfect dog just really enjoyed the dogs he had while i was continually looking for a better dog. hope i have gotten smarter, lol.

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When you've had that special dog and then he's gone the bar is then set so high it makes it hard to be satisfied with what you have, even if it is a good one.

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In the 70's into the early 80's that hunted cold nosed blues with a fast warmer nosed Walker for hides when they paid a bunch of money. One guy got enough hide money to buy a brand new car for his wife. That was a different era and we had a lot more woods.

These guys were mostly laid off construction workers who hunted all night,construction here in the north slowed to a crawl here in cold weather.

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My Uncle tells stories about fox hunting in the 50's and 60's. He said they would have a fox race going and if a dog fell out of the pack and treed a coon they would start coon hunting that dog.

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