Need advice from the Coonhound owners

[K. Lane]

Will a properly trained hound do alright on a long lead? I am thinking of doing a long lead line for both jogging and trailing.

My redbone works on or off lead , I have a 30' that I use sometimes but a lead in "the bush" will be a nightmare unless it's a very short one.
I have a tracking collar that I use. I put it on her, put her on the blood, and turn her loose...... She'll tell me when she has whatever bayed or on the run

[tex4k]

It will depend on the individual dog of course, BUT!, if you're going to use a lead for tracking with your hound you might want to adjust your daily run routine. Tie a rope onto a four wheeler, have the driver take off through the pasture while you hang on to the other end of the rope. This will get you in shape for the begining of the track, there's nothing I don't know of to get you ready to run through a rabbit tunnel through thorn bushes and prickly pear, don't know how deer, hogs, and dogs do it, but they'll go through any that are around.

[K. Lane]

It will depend on the individual dog of course, BUT!, if you're going to use a lead for tracking with your hound you might want to adjust your daily run routine. Tie a rope onto a four wheeler, have the driver take off through the pasture while you hang on to the other end of the rope. This will get you in shape for the begining of the track, there's nothing I don't know of to get you ready to run through a rabbit tunnel through thorn bushes and prickly pear, don't know how deer, hogs, and dogs do it, but they'll go through any that are around.

Exactly..... If you have a good dog with a high drive....he/she will go through ANYTHING & EVERYTHING to get to what he is "on" and if you are on the other end of that lead...... You're goin too whether you want to or not.

Pop up menace..... Pm inbound

[muzzlebrake]

In my coon hunting heyday I had a coon hunting mule I rode. Once I caught the dogs and tied the leashes off to the saddle horn, they learned to lead pretty quick My mule Romeo could find his way thru anything and not hurt the dogs and get back to the truck on his own. Them were the days.

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This may be a dumb question, but is there any way to make sure they know to bark and make a ruckus if they find a dead animal? I don't mind the barking and such at treed animals, but I am going to use the dog primarily for pigs and deer tracking. I want it to start barking when it finds that dead deer.

[K. Lane]

This may be a dumb question, but is there any way to make sure they know to bark and make a ruckus if they find a dead animal? I don't mind the barking and such at treed animals, but I am going to use the dog primarily for pigs and deer tracking. I want it to start barking when it finds that dead deer.

It's what they do.... It comes natural bro. It's up to you to learn what each "bark" means. The bark they make almost constantly as they are working out a trail sounds different than the bark they make when they've tree'ed.

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It's what they do.... It comes natural bro. It's up to you to learn what each "bark" means. The bark they make almost constantly as they are working out a trail sounds different than the bark they make when they've tree'ed.

Absolutely perfect for me then. I would hate having a quiet tracker. To me, the more noise the better. I can figure out what each bark means

[tex4k]

Pay real close attention to that barking, you'll learn by each dogs bark what they have, trailing, trailing with animal running out front, animal standing and fighting, or dead animal.
Try to find someone that makes the coonhound trials that you could tag-along with just to listen to the dogs and their different noises (most of them don't qualify as barks) and listen to the guys talking about the dogs. Those scenes from the movies where the guy says that's ole' bigmouth struck'im up and so and so that sounds like your pup chasin' a possum are pretty close to the mark.

[K. Lane]

Need advice from the Coonhound owners

Pay real close attention to that barking, you'll learn by each dogs bark what they have, trailing, trailing with animal running out front, animal standing and fighting, or dead animal.
Try to find someone that makes the coonhound trials that you could tag-along with just to listen to the dogs and their different noises (most of them don't qualify as barks) and listen to the guys talking about the dogs. Those scenes from the movies where the guy says that's ole' bigmouth struck'im up and so and so that sounds like your pup chasin' a possum are pretty close to the mark.

Pop up menace...... The name and number that I gave you to find your pup is THE GUY that is your go to guy if you take the 2nd paragraph of Tex4k reply to heart ( which you should because it's good advice) Homer will spend literally hours upon hours "talking and teaching hounds"

When you call him, make sure you have some free time
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA he'll talk your ear off

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Pop up menace...... The name and number that I gave you to find your pup is THE GUY that is your go to guy if you take the 2nd paragraph of Tex4k reply...... Homer will spend literally hours upon hours "talking and teaching hounds"

When you call him, make sure you have some free time
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA he'll talk your ear off

Called him and left a message. Can't tell you how excited I am just to talk hounds. The more I read about them and the more I hear about people who own them, the more I want to get my hands dirty training and tracking

[justintyme8303]

I have a Walker Treeing coonhound and found out its best to keep him on a tight short leash when we go jogging. In my subdivision we have tons of cotton tails and he LOVES them. So when his nose tells him hey rabbit went that way he too wants to go that way even if it means cutting me off mid stride! lol

[bobc]

This one right here looks like a pretty dang good cross being walker and blue tick.

http://discussions.texasbowhunter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=563571

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Thanks bobc!

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After a good conversation with a coondog guy, I am on my way to getting me a good coondog/birddog mix by the spring. I'll be sure to get a thread started and take everyone along with its training

[K. Lane]

After a good conversation with a coondog guy, I am on my way to getting me a good coondog/birddog mix by the spring. I'll be sure to get a thread started and take everyone along with its training

Good deal.... I told you Homer would fix you up