coon tracks

[sarns]

how fresh dose a coon track half to be to run it and catch

[BuckNAze]

all depends on the dog

[waylon]

x2, plus where we talking mich. in snow or southern Arizona desert? that a bigge right there. I have run coon track in the day @ 4:00pm once to it's den tree that i am sure where fom the night before. i dont think there that hard for a dog to smell out right, just crafty little boogers some times

[sarns]

you aint kiddin crafty we are trying to get our dogs started but its hard cause both us and the dogs are new at this ha ha we got one last night and one gave us the slip

[waylon]

You didn't say how old the dogs are or what type or any thing, and this IS a big game forum. some times coon hunting get put down alot, hell ive done it and i love it. But anyone who tells you that coon are easy to tree and it's nothing like running "BIG GAME" is full of it, Some times the best hound or cur no matter how good gets stumped.
I have had only one Hound in all my life who took me out night after night and always treed every coon he started, some folks wont beleave it when i say it but he never lost a track he didnt eventually tree and NEVER slick treed ever, Coons can be real hard to tree depending on where you hunt them, so hang in there and if you dont have a good pup trainer, try and find one, but what ever you do dont wash out and give up cause it is damn tuff starting out but if you stick with it you'll be glad. If you dont have john wicks book walk with wick vol. 1 i'd get it, it will help you i bet

[PLOTTMAN55]

It all depends on the dog.

[sarns]

they are red bones one is one and a half the other is 3 they both need some work but we are in the process of finding a trainer dog like i say we are just starting so we are learning just as much as the dogs ha ha and we hunt in tamaracks and some thick trees so it gets pretty hard for a young dog where would be some other good spots to find coons?

[waylon]

anywhere there is water and food really, by corn fields or what ever they grow where your at, little creeks,big creeks,rivers,lakes,ponds ect. really coons are abundant in all type of terrain. Go out to an area you think might have coons in it and you are allowed to hunt it, go out in the day time and look for coon tracks along the waters edge, you can google there tracks if your not 100% sure, some people confuse them with opossum tracks so learn the difference . Then on a good still cool night take your young dogs out, walk over the coon tracks until one strikes and then the rest is up to them.

Hope it helps, if i can be of any help pm me and i'll do what i can
God Bless and good luck, also if you find a dog some one says is a pup trainer, make them take the dog out with you and no other dogs, see what the dog can do all by it's self. If they wont hunt him alone or say, well he wont hunt alone pass him by, a good broke dog old enough to be a pup trainer should be able to do it all alone, also if the dog doesnt hunt good and they start making excuses, you may try him another night but if after 2 tries look else where. dont let your drive to find a good pup trainer get you to settle for a dog that will only teach your young dogs problems. Sadly many guys will take you for a loop if they know your new and cant read a dog very well. If you know any veteran coon hunters who dont have a dog there trying to sell you get them to go along to kinda help you keep your money in your wallet if the dog is junk, The hard truth is most guys dont have so many good coon dogs laying around that they will seall a good dog, not cheap atleast

[NorthDougCounty]

It's all about repetition. If you can get them on some hot tracks and some easier races it would help. I have a female that I trained up on coons and she did'nt start treeing by herself until she was about a year and a half. She would run tracks fine but wasn't interested in treeing until she saw one run up a tree with her own two eyes. After that she got what I call coon crazy. That dog will run a coon over anything and it kinda of hampers her as a cat dog if you know what I mean. If you ever want to hunt anything but coon be careful not hunt them on em to much. She's not a what I would call a super cold nosed dog and she will catch them in the middle of the day because she likes to run them. I think any medium nosed dog could catch coons in the day time if they like to cold track them like this dog does. Where I live in Oregon there are coons everywhere so its pretty easy to get them going on them. If your dogs are running tracks and not getting them treed it would help alot if you worked them on a roll cage and then raise it up into a tree with a rope and let them tree on it. After you get them treeing good, let a coon out where they haven't seen it and make them locate the tree. Do that a few times when you get the chance and hunt them in the mean time. After a while your dogs will learn to tree them, not just chase them. It takes some work but it's fun to watch your dogs improve. A dog trainer is gonna do the same thing or just run your dogs with an older dog, which would help to. It's just my opinion, but I think its funner and more beneficial if you train them yourself. You'll get to know your dogs a lot better, and how they hunt.

[radar]

In my eyes only the dogs would know the answer to that one, were just transportation.

[sarns]

hey thanks a bunch guys that helps alot