TWC Training
Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2019 3:34 pm
by trentonmoore292
Hello everyone I’m just getting into the sport of coon hunting and I was curious what would be the best way to train my around the house I thought about buying a drag with some scent but I wasn’t sure on how affective that is so I figured some of y’all would know.
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Re: TWC Training
Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2019 4:02 pm
by Deff
If it's a young puppy, a fun game to get it started trailing and treeing is to tie a weenie on a fishing line, use it to make a drag trail then tie it up just out of reach in a tree or on the yard fence. I would go out a separate door from where I let the pup out, cast the weenie close to that entrance and drag the weenie through the grass and gradually increase the length of the trail and the height as the puppy progresses. The weenie makes a great reward for a job well done! It encourages them to follow a scent and to locate up a tree. From there, you could progress to scent drags i suppose, but I have had competent hounds totally ignore commercial scents. A fresh killed coon would be my first choice.