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Post by bulldog73 on Mar 12, 2008 20:16:42 GMT -5
i'm thinking of getting an airedale for treeing coons and for a draw dog for my patterdales.how hard is it to train an airedale to track and tree and stay on a coon, is it the same as training a coonhound or they different.also who has good airedales in western pa area. thanks Clint
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Post by hicntry on Mar 12, 2008 21:26:41 GMT -5
I would say just keep showing them coons and shoot a few out for them. They catch on pretty darn quick. Once they catch a couple on the ground(or you put them on the ground), they will be hooked. You have to understand an airedale first off. Dales hunt for the fight first off. Don't get em in there to young but a coon puts up a heck of a fight and that is what he will go back looking for if he has it in him. I honestly don't know who has good hunting stock in Pa. I am drawing a blank but maybe someone else knows of someone. Also, welcome to the board.
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Post by bushman on Dec 23, 2008 11:18:14 GMT -5
I use mine for that. hicntry is right about them getting hooked after a fight with a coon! I think he would run through fire to gat at a coon, the bigger the better. Hardest part for me was gettin him to realize that once they went up a tree they didn't just dissapear into thin air... Now he's gettin it, but won't tree bark like a hound. He peers up though, and sometimes spots em sitten up there sunning. He then goes to the tree and waits fer me.
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Post by bulldog73 on Jan 30, 2009 23:07:32 GMT -5
i heard Pete bassani has good airedales he lives in northeastern Pa.is he on this board?
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Post by shawnboryca on Aug 3, 2009 13:58:45 GMT -5
I have trained my airedale and all my other dogs I hunt coon with the same way. I get them to love the fight. And I bring the fight to them. I will take them to a coon caught in a leg hold trap and let them do battle with that caught coon. I have had little 6 month old jags that just loved to be introduced this way. My airedale had to bit once really good in his training but he dispatched the coon really well.
Don -- that Ester C may be helping a little but no more real change. Killer will still not jump in our out of the cab. he will fight the other dogs at feeding time or over scraps.
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Post by pacojack on Sept 11, 2009 16:48:11 GMT -5
I run my Airedale on lion, bobcat,Bear and as a decoy dog. I Can tell you the hardest thing to do is to get the Airedales to use their nose like a hound. It is not very hard to get your terrier to engage a roll cage or a live animal it is alot harder to get them to trail it like a hound without seeing it or seeing where it went. This may be done by using a drag with some kind of scent on it and I have found the best scent to use is Graws www.graweslures.com/ Get your dog trailing is the hard part , they have plenty of grit that is for sure.lol
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Post by hicntry on Sept 17, 2009 21:47:38 GMT -5
Paco. I don't have a dale that won't run with his nose in the dirt. Originally they were basically winding dogs and hunted closer in but I kept breeding for that nose. Starting with Hunter I couldn't find my dogs any more because when they lit out they had their noses in the dirt. Had to buy tracking equipment at that time and where the real problem came in, after a 3 to 5 mile track, they were always on someone elses property. Originally I started the dales because they hunted closer in than a hound so I could run them on private land. I guess using the nose like a hound could be a good thing or a bad thing....just depends on where you are planning to hunt.
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