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Hey all I was wondering who here hunts with dogs and what they hunt with them. I hunt rabbits with 4-5 beagles. My basset hound comes out when I go alone and hunt stump piles.
I'd love to someday hunt cougar and boar with dogs. With so many hunting breeds out there kept as pets nowadays it seems like actual hunting dogs are less used. In my area anyway
 
I hunt with dogs every day out on my trap line. Coyote, fox and wild boar on the menu. I've a yote hanging in the garage waiting for my skining knife as we speak. I raise chocolate labs and I just happen to have ten 2 week old pups.
 
I used to have beagles, loved them, and then coyotes got a few and I moved to Plotts to catch the coyotes and got out of the beagles.
 
It all depends on what you want to hunt. Used to hunt mostly jacksrabbits and fox with beagle cross hounds ,my dad always said beagles had the best nose, but with the coyote influx have shifted to Walkers for some size and grit.
 
In my teens we hunted black bear with hounds (Walkers mostly) and since then I have hunted waterfowl and upland with a yellow lab and wild boar with whippet/pitbull crosses.
Nothing beats hunting with dogs! :D
 
I love hunting with scent hounds. I'll take hunting with a cold nosed, gritty hound any day. I hunted coyotes for years with my buddy's and their Walkers.

In June I drove down to W Virginia to pick up a Plott pup that I'm raising to run coon. At almost 9 months old, he's a very bold, friendly and athletic hound. He's got a lot of growing up to do and generally just wants to play, but watching him work a squirrel track last week had me smiling from ear to ear. I'll start baiting coons this spring and with a little luck they'll be catching hell from a brindled hell on wheels next fall.

Most of my coon hunting buddy's are running Blue Ticks. One of them also runs bear with mostly Plotts and a couple of Blue Ticks as well as his "enforcer", a Plott/Carolina Mountain Curr cross.
 
Beagles and walkers for deer, Springer for birds, and walkers for yotes. Cant beat the sound of a deep howl in hot pursuit.
 
Hounds, beagles,and hound/beagle/collie cross work great for deer. I hunt both from a stand as well as with dogs, but much prefer hunting with dogs.
 
Cannot go into the woods with out my two french Britts. Great for upland birds and will bring back ducks and even a goose.
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Dogs add some much to a hunt . I enjoy getting out with my beagles every chance i get mostly for bunnys . Did some deer hunting up north with beagles and blueticks as well this year dutch
 
We currently have a Drahthaar, aka a German Wirehair. Nos is just over one year old & is developing nicely. He loves to retrieve waterfowl & point upland birds.

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Jay
 
Nothing like hearing the hounds toungeing on a deer to get your blood going. My deer gang has always run hounds, first Walkers and Blue Ticks, but have moved primarily to beagles so we aren't driving all day to round dogs up. Sure makes it a pain if your hound is found 25 km away. I've hunted with friends labs for waterfowl for years, and have finally gotten my own gun dog, a Pudelpointer, which I plan to train for grouse, waterfowl and blood tracking, and if all goes well bunnies in a few years after he gets solid on birds and discipline.
 
John Y Cannuck said:
I loved hunting with my beagles, and we still use them at our deer camp.
The guys that are losing them to Yotes, is this happening while hunting?
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My coon hunting buddy's haven't lost any hounds to coyotes while hunting yet. But... 2 years ago one friend was coon hunting with a single male Blue Tick, out near Wooler. He was listening to him tongue and following the hounds' progress with the GPS. When the hound stopped tongueing and wasn't moving according to the GPS, my buddy went looking for him. He found the hound flat to the ground, quivering, freaked out and bleeding in a harvested corn field. The hound had had his testicles ripped out as well as other lacerations. Presumably a run in with coyotes that ended when my buddy started making his way to his dog. The hound was frightened and spun around, snarling, the whole way back to the truck.

One night last fall, 3 or 4 coyotes followed my buddy and his prize Blue Tick female (Night Champion at 2 yrs old- 3 wins away from Grand Night Champion) out to his truck while hunting near Port Hope. He shot at the coyotes when he had made it back to the truck as they were flitting about in the dark 15-20 yards away from him.

When we hear coyotes respond to the coonhounds, we pull them in and move to another spot. If we had 3 or more hounds that would stick together we wouldn't be too concerned, but our coonhounds are independent and are just as happy to hunt on their own as hunt together. I don't think coyotes would tackle a pack of coonhounds, at least it wouldn't be a good move. But, a single hound against a pack has little chance.
 
Mybe the yotes know the diff thy seem to run when the walker yote hounds get after them ,but if the dogs are running coon the yotes will go after the dogs . Or could it be becoues the coon hounds are hunting at night .i do not under stand what would be the diff dutch
 
I had a 9 month old shepard greyhound mix pup meet up with a ##### coyote. It was a hell of a fight and I think my dog stood a good chance but I called him off and shot the yote as she running away. Spun her round but never dropped her. She managed to swim across a flooded creek and get away. My beagles hunt in a pack close together and I've never had a problem. My basset hound doesn't venture to far so I don't worry about him
 
I suspect that the difference is numbers and a change in coyote behaviour. We frequently see coyotes in packs throughout the year now where that was usually only common during the breeding season and with females and young in the spring. When my old friend runs his Walkers on coyotes he usually has 2-4 hounds running, and they usually stay together. When we run coons it's usually 1 or 2 dogs (occasionally 3 or 4) but they hunt separately as often as they hunt together. The coyotes seem to size up their competition pretty effectively- several hounds together is bad odds, a single hound is easier pickings. We've never had an issue with coyotes when multiple hounds were treeing together. I don't think it's a breed thing because some of the hounds we run are Plotts and they don't get any bigger or tougher than Plotts.
 
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