It's an I'll wind.......blew me some good though.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

Scent 'hangs' across water and not in it as said and only very temporary.Hounds will /can only own a scent on water for minutes at a time .Mink like any other mammal are always looking to expand territory and the natural way to go about it is to travel upstream .When you remove a mink from a stretch you create open ground that is filled by another pushing its own boundaries .When the old scent ,spraint ,of a mink gets weaker due to it having been caught then this triggers off movement all along the bank .The only time mink move freely along territories is in early spring when dogs are looking for bitches .These are generally the repeat catches .

so your saying unless mink hounds are less than a few minutes behind a mink they wont speak on it ?? or have i read yor post wrong

 

You crafty bugger alimac .lol.

What im saying is that hounds will only swim mid stream for a few minutes before loosing the drift on water, then check bankside .They can own a scent bankside up to 2 days old and speak but the trick is knowing which way the buggers going /has been and will they catch up in daylight .Some seasoned hounds have different voices for old /new scent which makes for easier hunting or did pre ban .

Ps. I was whip to a bobbery pack before it disbanded so next question please .

pps .The owning of a line only starts when every member of a pack knows whats afoot and are speaking and not when the first whimper starts up .

Edited March 12, 2009 by foxdropper

[alimac 882]

Scent 'hangs' across water and not in it as said and only very temporary.Hounds will /can only own a scent on water for minutes at a time .Mink like any other mammal are always looking to expand territory and the natural way to go about it is to travel upstream .When you remove a mink from a stretch you create open ground that is filled by another pushing its own boundaries .When the old scent ,spraint ,of a mink gets weaker due to it having been caught then this triggers off movement all along the bank .The only time mink move freely along territories is in early spring when dogs are looking for bitches .These are generally the repeat catches .

so your saying unless mink hounds are less than a few minutes behind a mink they wont speak on it ?? or have i read yor post wrong

 

You crafty bugger alimac .lol.

What im saying is that hounds will only swim mid stream for a few minutes before loosing the drift on water, then check bankside .They can own a scent bankside up to 2 days old and speak but the trick is knowing which way the buggers going /has been and will they catch up in daylight .Some seasoned hounds have different voices for old /new scent which makes for easier hunting or did pre ban .

Ps. I was whip to a bobbery pack before it disbanded so next question please .

pps .The owning of a line only starts when every member of a pack knows whats afoot and are speaking and not when the first whimper starts up .

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