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« on: August 19, 2010, 07:26:22 am » |
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Have you guys hunted after it had rained for a couple of days and was still raining lightly, and had a dog start a trail bay alittle then come back... then find another and lose track?
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waylon-N.E. OK
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« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2010, 10:17:08 am » |
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How does this same dog act if it isn't raining? sounds like it was trashing  , Now I wasn't there and ofcourse I don't know the dog so i am talking out my a#% When I ran hounds on coon light rain never bothered them, hard rain would shut them down, after it quit they could track good. I like wet ground to track hogs and in my opnion and thats all it is, I dont think the conditions you explained should have bothered a dog on a decent track to the point that if it could have first succesfully struck, then trailed and finaly bayed and had a real hog bayed, inturn loose that hog because of the same conditions, not saying you can't loose a hog you have bayed once, just saying i wouldn't think the waether was your problem but some other factor perhaps |
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« Last Edit: August 19, 2010, 10:27:24 am by waylon-N.E. OK »
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Rbelote
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« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2010, 10:33:10 am » |
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THanks for the reply. this was my first time hunting him. I hope he wasnt trashing and dont feel that he was but im a rookie as far as dogs go. He may have been though. It wasnt a misting rain but it wasnt a hard down pour either.
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waylon-N.E. OK
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« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2010, 03:54:46 pm » |
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If you have an e-collar you can take him out alone, find some off game, dump him out not sicking him on anything and see if he tracks it, like if a coyote crosses the road infront of you, drive past that spot 20 or 30 yards and walk back towards where it crossed quietly, do not stop on it's track just slowly walk on by. If he hits it and begins to track it zap him, if he doesnt take to that game find a deer ect. ect. what ever is off game that you conclude he might want to fool around with, do it the same way. thats the first thing we do with any new dog, but be careful that he isn't trailing a hog and you just think it's the off game though, I had a plott that i shocked while i watched her run towards some doe's once chopping hard, after i shocked her, we saw the coon at the edge of the field going into some corn, i finaly got her to take that track back up but it wasn't easy. i know you don't thnk he was trashing and you would know better than me, but you can know for sure that way
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