Coonhounds

[arpt209]

That's good to know. Thanks. I cant wait for my pup to grow up a little so i can take her out. She's just a hair too young to go out fighting coons. I'm afraid if she gets her butt whipped by a mean old coon she'll be ruined forever

I'd be getting serious about making a roll-cage, live trapping a coon & getting her to follow a track at 6 months old. Not a long track but a track. Let her bark tree at a coon she can see in a roll-cage, lower it to just out of reach if she's not scared & let her go crazy. Do that for a few months so she'll work up a real good mad at 'em. Remember, dogs are like people, some will fight, some won't. I've seen dogs catch a coon on the ground & bark in their face until the coon almost drowned in dog spit & let the coon walk off barking & backing all the way. I've also seen dogs that figured anything they could catch was something they could kill by themself. It didn't matter if it was a coon or a lion they'd pile right into it fully expecting to be able to take it on by themself. I actually had to quit running lions with my dog because she was going to get herself killed.

 

[wdchyd]

I actually had to quit running lions with my dog because she was going to get herself killed.

Wow, I'm glad mine just run bunnies.....if anything they get a good meal and don't become one......Yikeeeesssss.......:confused2:

 

[arpt209]

Wow, I'm glad mine just run bunnies.....if anything they get a good meal and don't become one......Yikeeeesssss.......:confused2:

You chase what you got. Least that's the way we do it. It's just fun to work with the dogs. I know from experience that we go out of our way to protect our dogs. We went from .357s to .44s for sidearms when we found that the .357s didn't put a lion down quickly enough. I know the reaction from me & my friends was much more dynamic than what most people would expect from a hillbilly protecting a dog. There have been times when an intended chase & release turned into a chase & kill because the wrong dog caught the wrong lion on the ground. Mountain lion, the other white meat.

 

[wdchyd]

That sounds rather intense......I do carry a 40S&W when training season starts in case of Wil-e-coyote.......

 

[arpt209]

I always carried the .357 for coyotes when bird hunting. Better range than a shotgun to protect the birddog.
I guess now the guys still running hounds around here are beginning to lose them to the wolves. I wasn't rabidly against the wolves until the original numbers plan was dropped & they were allowed to make entire areas unusable by dog owners. I'm sure I'd get just a little hard to get along with about the time I saw one of them eating one of my dogs.

 

[deereman10]

I'd be getting serious about making a roll-cage, live trapping a coon & getting her to follow a track at 6 months old.

How do you go about making a roll cage?

 

[tallyho8]

How do you go about making a roll cage?

This is what one looks like and a great company to buy coonhound supplies from. Dog Training Raccoon Roll Cage - HuntSmart

I always preferred the rope bag to drag along the ground to make a trail and then hang in a tree to teach the pups to tree.

 

[wdchyd]

This is what one looks like and a great company to buy coonhound supplies from. Dog Training Raccoon Roll Cage - HuntSmart

I always preferred the rope bag to drag along the ground to make a trail and then hang in a tree to teach the pups to tree.

I could've used one of these with a bunny in it 2 yrs ago......no need now though...........

 

[Ford850]

We watched the original version of the movie, "Where the Red Fern Grows", over the weekend. My wife, son, and I have all read the book, and they found the movie in the $5 bin at Walmart last week. There's a newer Disney-fied version too but they passed on that. It's a good movie for anyone who grew up with hounds.

 

[tallyho8]

We watched the original version of the movie, "Where the Red Fern Grows", over the weekend. My wife, son, and I have all read the book, and they found the movie in the $5 bin at Walmart last week. There's a newer Disney-fied version too but they passed on that. It's a good movie for anyone who grew up with hounds.

Where the Red Fern Grows II is a good movie too, though it is not as good as the first one.

My favorite dog was my redbone, Spike, and since that movie reminds me of him so much, I am not able to watch it without turning into a blubbering idiot.

This is a photo of him just before he turned 2 years old with his winnings. He won a lot more in the next few years and was the best pup trainer a person could ever own. It was impossible to make him bite a person or another dog but he was instant death to any coon alive. He lived to the ripe old age of 16.

 

[Ford850]

Where the Red Fern Grows II is a good movie too, though it is not as good as the first one.

My favorite dog was my redbone, Spike, and since that movie reminds me of him so much, I am not able to watch it without turning into a blubbering idiot.

This is a photo of him just before he turned 2 years old with his winnings. He won a lot more in the next few years and was the best pup trainer a person could ever own. It was impossible to make him bite a person or another dog but he was instant death to any coon alive. He lived to the ripe old age of 16.

Wow, 16? It sounds like he lived a great life. He was a nice looking hound.

 

[arpt209]

That's one fine looking hound dog. He reminds me of my Maggie Mae. She never entered any competitions but we had fun hunting. She went to hound dog heaven about 8 years ago & I'm still heartbroken. I lost my most recent dog a few months ago, a Brittany Spaniel named Annie. I can't take the sorrow of losing another dog so to this point have vowed that I'll never have another.
"Where the Redfern Grows" was a one time watch for me. I love them hound doggies.