I'm lucky enough to have hunting grounds close to home and they r decent places to hunt. But do you ever get tired of hunting the same old places or do you all try to go somewhere different quite often? My dogs no the places as well as I do..lol


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Yes, it does get tiring. Ive hunted 23 nights in a row right now and hit a bunch of the same spots multiple times. Getting new land to hunt is very time consuming but can be very rewarding. The way i look at it, if you have spots where you know your safe at, its fun when you dont have to worry.

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Yea I agree with the "worry" factor.


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Along that lines does it hurt a dogs training to tree the same coon multiple times.

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Got a good size patch of woods right out my back door. The coons and my hound know each other so well when my hound opens the two run toward each other! LOL Afraid to shoot one out. Hound would more than likely hold it against me.

Hunting grounds are hard to find. Too many part-timers abusing fences and woods/fields. Being retired I try to give back by checking in with land owners to see if they might need a hand doing this or that. I cut out a fence line for a guy and got exclusive rights, helped an elderly gentleman repair his barn. That way when I approach a new land owner I have references. Helps greatly!

Good Hunting Boys!!

lol,, I googled dogs scent locking ability and got my own answer I posted on another site 2 yrs ago...
"all coon do not smell the same. just like people do not all smell the same. that is why a man tracking dog can track one person through a crowd of people and stay on that same persons track. dogs have a scent locking ability enabling them to do that.
dogs hunting in thick coon learn to use and hone their scent locking ability to do the same thing".

so I guess my answer would be no it wont hurt, but I wouldn't use the exact same coon every time and only that one coon.

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Now this has got me to thinking! It might sound a little odd but I have a female that seems to only tree boar coon. What do you think toe cutter?

i have had some guys from north Georgia up and hunt and when you can turn a dog in a cornfield once it strikes you see several coon come out and the dog takes one track and trees the coon, those guys asked me how the dog could single just one out. i have had dogs here from north georgia and texas and they would stand on their head in thick coon. i just don't think they had ever had to use their scent locking ability hunting in thin coon where they came from. the best i saw them look was in the dead of winter when the coon were few and far between.
i ask a man that use to be on this site and he trained man tracking dogs and hunted cat with hounds about it and he explain the scent locking ability in dogs and how they train the tracking dogs. most of it was working for ability to lock on one persons scent and track that one person through and around other people. to me it only makes sense that a hound here in thick coon would have to develop that too. but i don't know for sure. scent is i think formed or created from skin cells we drop and that's what dogs track. as far as i know or think every living thing drops skin , cells, or something from their bodies creating a scent trail that a dog tracks...dang, now i have to google that to see what comes up about it.

oh no, its the footprint they smell.... LMAO. get in that argument least once a week!

nice pic of you and your best bootick randy!!!!!!!!!!!!

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if you ever get a chance put your dog on a snow track or walk out track the dog ran in snow. pretty cool how far to one side the dog can be while burning track even on long race. dang hounds are amazing critters when have the tools and trained the right way.

Matt, I think you might know the man that explained the scent locking deal to me.. Wally aka LCK

you got it, i know what dogs do by walking tracks out in snow and hunting a ton but wally explains stuff very well. that man knows dogs and can relate to people. not just hounds all dogs.

I think hunting the same area more than once helps a dog to gain range. My experience is that a coon that has been treed a few times will run more than a fresh one.

lol, i believe the coons know the sound of my truck in the woods i have hunted for so many yrs.

Lol


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