Sourdough, thanks for your reply and appreciate your input. As info, have been hunting
coon for over 40 years but never had a dog castrated. Just asking for thoughts about how a male dog changes his behavior thru castration. Seems to me that a male dog will change somewhat once he looses that ...

this male dog I'm thinking about fixing him has a trait that I'm trying to fix is that the dog can make a real nice dog but he is a hard running track dog and hard tree dog when he feels like it. Sometime when he runs a coon in to the tree he will tree approx 100 bpm and other times he may do the ...

question for hunters with male dogs..
have noticed that a lot of big game dogs have been castrated. I don't figure that all of the reasons are related to aggressive behavior toward other dogs.
Would like to know some your reasons behind castrating. Don't want to hurt the natural hunting instincts ...

I have a Arctic Cat 650 utv with full factory cab enclosure with rigging box on top of bed(pick-up style). Best of three mention as far as being stable. Rhino and Ranger can have extenders added on each wheel at least 2" for stability. Rhino will have twin cyclinder engine in 700cc which AC and ...

Enjoyed you guys talking about backtracking dogs. Never hunted for big game, just coonhuntin'. Sounds like you guys hunt alot in the daylight hours and maybe you can tell if your dog is backtracking a little easier by being able to see the tracks better. Hunting at night seems like it might be a ...