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coon vs. bear smell
Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 4:08 pm
by thundersnow
does a coon really smell close enough to a bear?
Re: coon vs. bear smell
Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 4:43 pm
by cecil j.
thundersnow wrote:does a coon really smell close enough to a bear?
Close enoughf too what ? Hell one is not much of a preditor the other is a preditor ! Seems too me that preditors have a big game smell all their own but they say if a dog can run and tree up a coon solo he will make a lion tree up too ! Does that make a lion and a coon smell the same or is the 2 different game animals run the same mostly ?! Hell I couldnt tell ya cause I cant smell either track myself and so it would be a guess on my part !? Maybe coon has musk scent like a lion an bear he excreats along with his scent so it is close / who knows ?!
Re: coon vs. bear smell
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 4:24 am
by thundersnow
cecil j. wrote:thundersnow wrote:does a coon really smell close enough to a bear?
Hell I couldnt tell ya cause I cant smell either track myself and so it would be a guess on my part !? Maybe coon has musk scent like a lion an bear he excreats along with his scent so it is close / who knows ?!
So you told me nothing in this post other than what I was thinking when I heard a few people who have a hound or two say this. ... I am not trying to sound like a jackass either just elaborating on the fact that you are telling what I was thinking and helping lay some foundation for my question.
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:08 am
by pete richardson
close enuff - for what- would be my question too
-ive started a lot of pups on coon-- switched to bear - some of them spent all their lives trying to get completely broke off coon-- some were easy- it gives them a pretty big headstart if they are running /treeing / packing with other dogs-- before i take them bear hunting -
have had a tough time to break a few off coon that werent started on coon-- used to joke that the best way to make coondogs is shock or thrash them every time they tree one- -
comes naturally to alot of them
i think its best to start pups on coon - but i dont make coondogs out of them -- once theyve run a few bear- i treat coon like any other trash
a dog can easily smell the difference from one coon from another - or one bear from another-
they can smell better than we can see - lol
if they arent broke it wasnt an accident , they just didnt care - lol
i smoke and dont have a great sense of smell but i can easily smell the difference between a live bear or coon--
like cecil-- i cant smell their tracks -lol