what is the best way to train a young coon hound how to hunt coons.
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what is the best way to train a young coon hound how to hunt coons.
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Pick up a recent roadkill coon and let the dog smell it and mess around with it. Then drag it around your yard. Start out with short trails and keep progressing to longer more difficult drags. Make sure you keep your dog where they can not see you laying the trail down. Always put the coon in a low branch of a tree at the end of your drag. When your dog gets the hang of this, try and catch a live coon in a box trap. When you get a coon, let your dog fight it outside the trap as long as the dog wants to. Big thing with this is as soon as your dog gets bored of it, stop the training for the day. Next step is to let dog fight coon again but then let the coon go somewhere about 20-30 yards away from a tree so your dog understands that the coon go up the trees. Try to make it a very small tree so you can shake it out and your dog can fight it's first coon. Hope I could help.
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Check out http://www.fieldandstream.com/answers/hunting/small-game/how-hunt/whats-best-way-train-your-coon-dog. I don't think its good to let a young dog fights its first coon on the first coon you show it whether it is 1 day into training or 5 days. I have let old dogs get in on the coon and then turned in the young dog. A good rolling cage helps a lot in training, along with a well mannered pup training old dog.
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do everything Northbound said and hunt a young dog with older dogs. you may have to put him on a leash or in a box if he gives out (depending on age of dog) but keep in interesting pups are jus like kids if they get bored with what you are doing then they will do their own thing (makes life interesting)
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How do I need to get my 2 yr old black and tan to fight the coon he treed his first kittin coon the other day and I shot it out to him and he fought it good but last night I took him with my frends dog and she treed and he did open on trail but not on tree and then we shot it out and it tore his dog up and he would not fight with it
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