Does barometric pressure have anything to do with how a beagle can smell scent? When i was young i would go coyote huntin with my stepfather and they would not turn loose until the barometric pressure was right. Dont know whether they wanted it rising or falling, but sometimes it would be 3 or 4 in the mornin before the would make the coyotes howl and turn loose on them Just wondering:headscratch:
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i bought a barometer back before Christmas!...and i have been keeping up with this and logging it since then!...and i am like the rest of you...i go when i can...it dont matter what the pressure is doing!...but i have noticed...that when the B-pressure is down or dropping..the actual running (scenting conditions)is better!...if the pressure is rising or up...it seems that rabbits are harder to find (jump) and harder to run!...thats just been my general observation after paying attention to it!...now that is the reading at my house...im not real sure if the pressure is the same where i am running...10-40 miles away!!...so i am not sure how accurate that analysis would be at those distances!...hope this helps!
BETTER FIND YOU A BUYER IS ALL I CAN SAY :up:if i waited for the barametric pressure, temp,wind, light conditions to all get right my dogs would never get turned loose. when i want to go they are getting turned loose and they better be able to smell a darn rabbit or i'll sell their little butts!
Blubeagle Do you know what the median number is to tell if the pressure is high or low? Have always heard that if the pressure is rising that the scent will not stay on the ground. Is there any truth to this? My dogs had trouble this past weekend holding on to the rabbit for more than a 100 yards.
29.53 is the standard base pressure for the United States!...i have found that with high or rising pressure...the hounds do seem to have a harder time jumping the rabbits...and also have a harder time running one!...so maybe it is true!...LOL
when the barometer drops there is usually a rain front, warm front , cold front , snow just a quicker change in weather, a lot of times overcast skys hold the light out and the animals get more active ( almost as they would be a night) a lot of big deer are killed when the barometer drops also, esp. close to the rut.....
Go to weather channel and type your zip code in it will bring it all up and it has a glossary at the bottom of the page,this is what i use,but like everybody else i go every chance i get cant wait on the weather to be right.
Have been told by a dew old timey fox hunters, when pressure is low scent holds ground alot better wich is easier for the dogs to pick up, also if ground temp is colder then air temp, the scent is alot harder to pick up... have also been told that dogs cant run in northwest wind, they could all be excuses, but the first two seem to be true i
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f ya ask me.
Yep! Mine can't read a barometer or psychrometer so they don't know that they are not suppose to run that day and I won't tell them. Shhh! Just do it.if i waited for the barametric pressure, temp,wind, light conditions to all get right my dogs would never get turned loose. when i want to go they are getting turned loose and they better be able to smell a darn rabbit or i'll sell their little butts!
Ive been keepin my log book since the first week of Sep,we havnt had the barometer lower than 30 except for about 3 maybe 4 times.Its not about lettin it dictate wheather you run or not,or havin a excuse.For me its about logging the info in(good or bad)and seein how they do that day in those conditions and In time may be able to look back and see how they did on a similar day in the future. but still not lettin it be the deciding factor if I go.
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