Chet McCreary wrote:
Did you pay alot??? It takes on average 30 nights of hunting to know what kind of dog you have to work with...Ive known many dogs that have not been hunted for many years. That when hunted looked pretty good even being out of shape.....Slick treeing can come from breeding or how they were trained.Many of the night hunt bred dogs today slick tree alot..The best thing to do with a slick treed dog is walk them off the tree and re-cast them.They should pick the track back up and have the coon on the next tree......But some dogs are just slick treeing fools and nothing can be done for them..I have known dogs that guys gave up on because they slick treed.Then the next owner worked with them and they turned out to make good dogs..
I hunted with her go in the past when she was hunted up, and shot a fair share of coons to her. she was a pretty good hound. She lacks a cast win to be a ntch. In the few hunts she was in she either won the cast or didn't do well. I didn't pay a lot for her, it was a very fair price for what I've seen her do in the past and factoring in that she's out of shape and only been hunted a handful of times in the past few years.
I wasn't expecting to cut her loose and tree coon after coon. But a bit better than she has done. I will continue to hunt her and get her back in shape and hopefully she will remember how to tree coons and do it well
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