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I used to ride along with a guy who ran coon dogs. I'm gonna guess he knew what he was doing because he won a national hunt one year. There are 3 things he always did at the tree: 1) Excite the dog and get him jumping and barking all over the base of the tree and then he praised the heck out of 'em 2) Let them get their teeth on at least one a night and 3) he never ever never let someone else shoot a coon out. He had a 10/22 Ruger and when he shot the coon he put 2 or 3 bullets in it right way. His biggest fear was having a coon come down out of a tree and run again, said it made the dogs start 2nd guessing and smelling around trees for tracks instead of sitting back and treeing hard.