Using Mikes training method do a drag in a staright line for 1/2 a mile.
Introduce the dogs to the scent at a 1/4 mile and turn them loose then let us see which way everybodys dogs will run the track.
According to theory, dogs should run a drag backwards as the further you drag it, the weaker it gets - right.
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Once you go black, you'll never go back! Duncan big game Black and Tans.
Yes my point exactly the theroy means nothing because the dogs run the track in the direction it was layed.
He is my earlyer post about how scent in distributed to indicate direction.
The facts of scent from any critter on any type of ground dry, wet, snow is layed the same way all over the world. Think of a beaver swimming in the water, the wake he is creating is distributed in a V shape, going out and away from the original track, Thus indicating the direction the critter is traveling. This how all traveling critters of the world leave directional scent. Good hounds know this and will continue to circle and drift a track until they have the direction dialed in. Thats why I only send my most seasoned hound on an old track, once I know he has the direction figured out I will turn the others hounds loose. Often even on a hot track my best hound wont trust the other hounds for direction he has to be convince himself that he is going in the right direction with a few circles.
