Re: Coon Hunting Thread
[Re: yotetrapper30]
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07/21/20 10:49 PM
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danny clifton
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i think you already heard all my best coon huntin stories
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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07/21/20 11:38 PM
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Hunted coon with hounds my entire life. My dad traded and sold dogs his entire life it was not uncommon to have 20-30 hounds in the yard at any given time. We also hunted hogs with dogs for almost 20 years and had squirrel dogs as well. After losing my dad I quit hunting for a while but I do have a pair of 1 Year old registered blueticks that I hope to put in the woods this fall. I just can't leave behind the experience of standing in the dark listening to the hounds run. That's it. I was houndless for 15 or so years. I hope to never be again. There's just something about that bawl ringing across the hollows on a crisp fall/winter night. I had a redbone born on Valentine’s Day called her Val. We road hunted her a lot and she also rigged out of the truck. Raised her with a fast bluetick gip named Sue, was a deadly pair on coons. Those two dogs would do everything together except stay together when I lost them. I would leave my jacket by the road the last place I saw them. Ole Val would be lying on my jacket the next morning and Sue would be miles down the road trying to trail my truck back home. Lots of memories. The dog in my profile pic was my last hound. She left the house one night to go hunting and never came home. I'd never worried too much about them getting stolen/killed/shot until that happened. Well, Pete tried to name her Heathen, but I just can't seem to call her that even though she is one, lol. It just doesn't roll off my tongue right. So he calls her that, and I call her Dixie.
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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Ang, do ya still have that cur dog? Hunting squirrels too?
I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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07/21/20 11:40 PM
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Ang, do ya still have that cur dog? Hunting squirrels too? That's Pete's dog, and yes...she's heck on squirrels and will tree coon too.
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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07/21/20 11:45 PM
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Nice!! Are you gonna run your pup with the cur any? That's a good looking cur and pup!
I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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Nice!! Are you gonna run your pup with the cur any? That's a good looking cur and pup! The pup is gonna run loose until she trees her first coon, so I reckon they will run together. As far as the long run I dunno. The cur will run deer. My hound's not gonna. I guess it depends on the pup. If she can see a deer and turn away despite the other dog running it like my last hound did then fine. If the cur running deer makes it so I can't break the pup off it, they'll need to be separated.
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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07/22/20 02:36 AM
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krautcreek.tripod.com I've got blueticks. Websites is outdated but gives you an Idea.
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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07/22/20 09:56 AM
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Im just getting back into hounds, with Ruby- Ann here. Mostly for the Grandkids to learn. Ive owned B&Tans, walker dogs, redtick, plott and Redbone
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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07/22/20 10:17 AM
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Getting hard to run hounds here. The antler hunters get real bad upset if your dog gets on their leased property. Here in KS they have to let you get your dog if you contact the landowner but you can get a trespass ticket. Few years back a guy not far from here shot some coyote hounds. He said they were bothering his cattle and so it was decided he was within his rights. I have plenty of permissions but a dog can be in the next section so fast nonhunters can not believe it. A dog hits a track he is going where ever the quarry goes if he is worth hunting. So now I don't own a dog. I do not like confrontation. Antler hunters who lease ground, and landowners, do have the right to say no. Can't have it any other way. It is a real shame that antler hunters get so fearful that somebody else will shoot a big deer however. I don ' t h ave a clue why they think a broke off deer hound will run "their" deer onto another property. Deer ignore hounds that are not chasing them.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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07/22/20 10:58 AM
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Getting hard to run hounds here. The antler hunters get real bad upset if your dog gets on their leased property. Here in KS they have to let you get your dog if you contact the landowner but you can get a trespass ticket. Few years back a guy not far from here shot some coyote hounds. He said they were bothering his cattle and so it was decided he was within his rights. I have plenty of permissions but a dog can be in the next section so fast nonhunters can not believe it. A dog hits a track he is going where ever the quarry goes if he is worth hunting. So now I don't own a dog. I do not like confrontation. Antler hunters who lease ground, and landowners, do have the right to say no. Can't have it any other way. It is a real shame that antler hunters get so fearful that somebody else will shoot a big deer however. I don ' t h ave a clue why they think a broke off deer hound will run "their" deer onto another property. Deer ignore hounds that are not chasing them. We have the same trouble here Danny. So much leased land for deer hunting its hard to run a hound. I have a couple of places that I have permission on that are big enough to run my hounds on but gone are the days when you could dump your dogs and not have to worry about which way they go or where you are going to have to go to get them back. Oklahoma used to have a law that if your dogs passed onto a place you didn't have permission on you had the legal rights to go retrieve them without having to inform the landowner. But the antler hunters got that changed. Now if your dogs tree on land you don't have permission on you have to contact the landowner and ask him if you can retrieve them. If he says "no" then you have to call the game warden and have them come help you retrieve your dog's. Not the kinda phone calls a guy wants to make in the middle of the night.
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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07/22/20 11:35 AM
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Have coon hunted with hounds since '70 and had my own hounds since '74. Still have 7 and 1 terrier. Never been w/o one.... Even in college...Will say something here that experienced hound men will already know but the fellows with less experience may not.... " If you DON'T allow a good hound (or dog) to teach you about its quarry, you will NEVER be as good of a furharvester (trapper, caller etc.) as you could be. A dog (even a junk runner) will show you where critters cross fields and roads, where they are feeding (and on what), where they seek shelter and a host of other traits that you won't find by merely following tracks. You have to be open and watchful---------eyes, ears, and now GPS of your dog's hunting and translate that into the animal behavior he/she is seeking and trailing. Silent or semi-silent dogs aren't as good of teachers (at night) as an open trailer and the emphasis seems to be in the kill and not the chase so you miss a lot of that exposure they are giving. Whether its a red bone down in the river bottom, a lab snooting pheasants in the cattails, a pointer locked solid on a covey, or a terrier working a brush pile,,,,,,, take the time to see and hear what they are saying about their pursuit....................... my take after 46 years of being "dog poor"........................................... the mike.
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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I used to have a yellow lab that hated coon, had on one coon hunt with other dogs and he caught on. He trailed silent, but would bark treed, he had a different bark about coon, I could tell when he had a coon treed, just by his bark . He more than payed for his dog chow LOL Dennis
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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07/22/20 01:29 PM
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[/img] I've hunted hounds most of my life.. Hide hunt, competition hunt and pleasure hunt.. Probably 150, 200 nights a year... Good luck with your hound and enjoy!! http:// [/img]
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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07/22/20 07:10 PM
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Ohio Boy, that is a funny story, lol... I could just picture it.
Wife aka the mike, that's really good advice. Seems like hunting with dogs could make you an altogether better sportsman and trapper if you pay attention.
LOL Danimal, bluegill dog supreme, lmao
Danny and Davisfur, I'm fortunate in that respect. There's tons of woods around the house here, and no one would really care if you get your dog off it, most of the landowners don't even live around here. In addition to that, I have thousands of acres of national forest land to hunt on. It's all full of creeks and small lakes, too. Only worry with the public land is otter trappers, but I guess that's just a chance you have to take. Coon season opens before trapping season does so there's times to hunt those lakes and creeks before people start trapping them. Once season opens I'll stick to the oak woods not near the lakes.
Love all the pics!
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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07/22/20 08:58 PM
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Nice! Always liked redbones, but I hunted blueticks. Good luck with her Blue ticks here as well but been about 20 years since I last coon hunted.Sure miss it.
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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07/22/20 09:23 PM
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I belong to a club in Eastern NC. We lease land to hunt deer. Hunting deer with dogs is legal but becoming rarer every year. Hounds used to always ruin our Saturday hunts, but we co-existed. Some hound guys were arrogant SOBs and others were very nice.
Used to coon hunt as a teen. Haven’t done it in over 50 years.
Off topic: had a blue heeler for 14 years that would track a wounded deer. What a pleasure she gave me when she found someone’s trophy.
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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I'll second that headache. Unless the dogs are actively running deer the deer really never pay them much attention. But you can't convince the big money antler hunters from the city of that fact. That's the truth, I guess I understand where they're coming from, but they should go along a few times and see what actually happens in the timber. I believe it would change their minds
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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i am a walker man though and though dang legs and fake body parts wont let me night hunt anymore and i sure do miss it. great looking pup ya got ang.
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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Angela, you may live in one of the best kept secrets in the hunting world.. MS is a sports person's paradise.. I lived in Columbus a few years and really couldn't believe how few people and how much open ground..I've still got a number of dear friends there and travel back several times a year. Our son stayed on in Columbus, but just transferred to Corpus Christi TX so our visits will get less and less I fear. Great memories!!
Yes it is. There is a lot of land taken up by deer leases just like anywhere else, but all the nearby public land kind of makes up for that. They also have really great hunting and trapping laws....or rather lack of laws, lol. The hunting and trapping laws is why we chose MS over the neighboring states such as AL, TN, and AR. Sorry about your dog, CajunMan. The redbone in my profile pic is tied for my favorite dog along with my childhood best friend. 2 years ago at Christmastime she left the house to go hunting and never came back. I'd never owned a tracking collar in my life up until that point, but I have one now.
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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Angela, you may live in one of the best kept secrets in the hunting world.. MS is a sports person's paradise.. I lived in Columbus a few years and really couldn't believe how few people and how much open ground..I've still got a number of dear friends there and travel back several times a year. Our son stayed on in Columbus, but just transferred to Corpus Christi TX so our visits will get less and less I fear. Great memories!!
Yes it is. There is a lot of land taken up by deer leases just like anywhere else, but all the nearby public land kind of makes up for that. They also have really great hunting and trapping laws....or rather lack of laws, lol. The hunting and trapping laws is why we chose MS over the neighboring states such as AL, TN, and AR. Sorry about your dog, CajunMan. The redbone in my profile pic is tied for my favorite dog along with my childhood best friend. 2 years ago at Christmastime she left the house to go hunting and never came back. I'd never owned a tracking collar in my life up until that point, but I have one now. Buddy I hunted a lot without a tracking system years ago, just like everyone else, but I wouldn’t turn one loose now without one for sure. Best of luck with your Redbone. I’ve hunted with some good ones of those too!
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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Coon hunting is a ton of fun. Have owned some good hounds over the years, and some not so good.
Good and bad come in all breeds. I think it really depends on what you are looking for, and honestly what color you like. Research the bloodlines of your breed of choice; traits, styles and size can vary within a breed. All depends on how they have been bred.
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Re: Coon Hunting Thread
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07/25/20 12:00 PM
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Been hunting walkers for a while. Never competition hunt. Just keeping myself in shape chasing up and down hills. You pack unskinned coons back to the truck?
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