Catch & Release wrote:
I hunt all females
and hunt them in heat all the time.
I hunt in remote at night where I am the only one for miles.
never had a problem.
Problem with that is you may be the only one out there hunting.........doesn't mean a male dog isn't out there.
I have hunted in places where I knew I was the only one there hunting but strange dogs came in -- more times than not it wasn't a coonhound, but some mangy mutt.
When I release the dogs, I have no idea if there is any other male dogs in the woods -- I am not taking that chance.
I hunted with a guy a couple months back and on one of the turn outs, a redbone female came into us -- I took the owner his hound the next morning and he told me that he had lost 2 of them back 4 days before and there was a male still out there.
Had that female not came into us, we'd have no idea that there was a pair of coonhounds out there.
Hunt a female in heat and that male redbone may breed her in the woods and you not even know it -- at least until it's obvious something got with her.