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I sincerely hope that every hunter will have at least 1 experience in their hunting lifetime to witness a true cold nosed dog. One that runs not wallows a track, but runs a track that known good dogs can not smell. A dog that opens their eyes to a true cold nosed dog. I have been fortunate to own a few, not many that could do this and they were fun to hunt. I would really love to own one more before my hunting days are over. Dave

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Ive owned one hound in 50 + years that was a cold trailing tree the coon dog.And shed burn up a hot track too.You could tell by her mouth what she was doing.Long bawl on the coldest,short bawl when getting it heated up and fast chop on the hot track.I have some blue hounds now that are as good of track dogs as ive hunted with and dont have to have a hot track to tree the coon but they are not like her.I wouldnt trade my hounds I have now for her back tho.When you turned her loose she treed some where.No reverse.I cant hunt a dog like her anymore.

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Ive owned one hound in 50 + years that was a cold trailing tree the coon dog.And shed burn up a hot track too.You could tell by her mouth what she was doing.Long bawl on the coldest,short bawl when getting it heated up and fast chop on the hot track.I have some blue hounds now that are as good of track dogs as ive hunted with and dont have to have a hot track to tree the coon but they are not like her.I wouldnt trade my hounds I have now for her back tho.When you turned her loose she treed some where.No reverse.I cant hunt a dog like her anymore.

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There's cold nose and too dumb to use it. And then there's cold nose with the brains to be able to "RUN" on tracks that others can't begin to smell. Seems to me 90% of hunters haven't seen an Elite style track dog, and I personally think 80-90% haven't hunted with an Elite type of dog. And I also think there's elite dogs that are different types of elite. Some are elite in 1 category but are avg in another.

There's below avg dogs, avg dogs, above avg dogs, and elite dogs. Most hunters, pleasure or local competition hunters that haven't even hunted with above avg dogs let alone the elite dogs. And I can honestly say I've only hunted with a few that I feel were close to being above avg to elite total packages. These dogs are the few and far between types that are once in a lifetime hounds.

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George, Sounds like you had a dog that I described. One that could run and tree a coon that others dogs did not know existed. Other than hunting to wide she was my kind of dog. I hunt mountains and thinner coon populations and I love that type of dog. Having such a dog often meant treeing a coon or coming up empty. I always wanted to tree a coon. Dave

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There's cold nose and too dumb to use it. And then there's cold nose with the brains to be able to "RUN" on tracks that others can't begin to smell. Seems to me 90% of hunters haven't seen an Elite style track dog, and I personally think 80-90% haven't hunted with an Elite type of dog. And I also think there's elite dogs that are different types of elite. Some are elite in 1 category but are avg in another.

There's below avg dogs, avg dogs, above avg dogs, and elite dogs. Most hunters, pleasure or local competition hunters that haven't even hunted with above avg dogs let alone the elite dogs. And I can honestly say I've only hunted with a few that I feel were close to being above avg to elite total packages. These dogs are the few and far between types that are once in a lifetime hounds.

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These dogs yall are calling elite did they have any faults or did you consider them to be a perfect hound?

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