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Zuma:
--- Quote from: BowEd on November 26, 2017, 05:19:16 pm ---Are those all out of 1 tree?.....lol.Nice colored coon!!!I see 1 good dog there....lol.
I pretty much learned to handle fur on my own and working and observing in fur sheds.
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I would never shoot coons if more than two. Ususlly if there are a pile most are kits.
That is, one night though. I think my best.That photo was from the mid -late seventies.
The walker dog turned silent after 8 mo. The Black and Tan could track across a frozen lake
and was an amazing check dog. The Walker was stolen and Hush died in my arms.
That was a $270 haul. Most nights were 2-4 coons. Paid for Vet bills and dog chow.
This photo is of my first hound and old Mike (redbone 13yrs old). So, so many great memories.
I should stay on topic and start a coon hunt thread.
Zuma
bjrogg:
Nice pictures Zuma. I had a Black -n- Tan someone gave me for free once. It's actually the last dog I ever owned. At free I still paid to much if you know what I mean. He must have gotten beaten or something. He was scared of everyone and wouldn't do anything but get in trouble. I worked hard with him to gain his trust. I'd take him to the farm everyday and carry him up a ladder and let him go up in the barn mow. He would finally come to me when I called him. I put him on a rope lease and every time he didn't go where I wanted him to I'd say this way Jake, turn around give him a good yank then he'd run a head ahead and I'd turn around and do it again. After 15 minutes of this when I said this way he'd look to see where I was going. I thought him this way, here, and stop. Eventually I let go of his longer rope and he didn't even know. I could get him to do a lot with those 3 commands. He never did get to be a good Hunting partner though. He got to where he stayed home good so I let him roam around my house and barn. I went out to pull beans one night about 11:00 pm and he was laying on the road dead. I was really surprised because he never went on the road he was afraid of vehicles. Oh well probably save me a lot of problems anyway.
Not that I'm a big reader but my two favorite books are " Centennial" and "Where The Red Firn Grows"
Bjrogg
BowEd:
Zuma....Ahhhhh the good old days.Nice pic.You've stepped into my parlor!!!!A man and his dogs.Hard for people to understand but it gets in your blood.There's your rewards.The coon I gather.There are good dogs in most every coonhound breed.All 6 of them.Many dogs can turn silent if they start catching coon on the ground.Most times it's in their genetics to get that way.Does'nt really make them less a coon dog.They are just using their brains.Just a little more unpleasant to hunt if they get out of pocket on ya.Brains is one of the hardest things to breed for in a coon dog.Hunting two dogs like that with those traits for killing coon is a deadly combo.For killing coon 2 dogs is about your best number for success.
I was fortunate enough to own 7 top notch hounds in my life and many good enough hounds too.All black and tans and I tried every breed out there more than once.Each one could tree every kind of coon out there in july or in january in northern Iowa or any other state I dropped them in,and I did that.It was a life style more then a sport to me I hunted year round at least 250 nights a year for at least 25 years weather permitting.Treed 10's of thousands of coon along with cats and bear.The big money coon hunting to me was not killing the coon for fur but stud fees and puppy sales.
I got into competition hunting and won a few national titles with them too hunting against the best in the country of every breed out there including Black and Tan Days in Flora,Illinois in 1994 against 1100 other dogs that weekend.To this day I still enjoy hearing my neighbors coyote hounds run coyotes even though they don't tree any.
Enough blowing my own horn and want to congratulate you being into a sport that is one of the most enjoyable out there.A hound man always a hound man!!!!!Don't worry there is a thread for coon hunters but coon are'nt treed on the internet they are treed in the woods and this is the camp fire thread so I guess it's ok.
Zuma:
Very good The love of a good hound wins the day. Besides a good time for old dog TAILs.
Something for the cold winter nights
BJ the experience you shared with the gifted hound is somewhat bitter sweet. Although in the bitter end
I know that the pooch had an edge up on you in the feelings department. Please don't let it deter you from
another attempt. Or at least find a coon hunter that don't mind a little company on a cold winter night,
just to hear the music.
If I am not misstaken Mitchner wrote Centennial but i really have lost it's content in my mind as far as dogs.
I think I have read to many of his novels. I own most in hard cover.
Ed you are bad because you have opened up a vault of bygone memories and I want to hear more from you
about the EXPERIENCE. John in the photo above opened a Sport Shop and became a fur buyer.
I just kept hunting till stupid people started throwing paint.
I am up for taking the last few off topic post and see if we can get a mod to put them into
" Coon Dog hunters and their Tails" thread. Just so folks that don't flesh may get on board. ???
What do ya all think??
Zuma
Outbackbob48:
ED, I remember talking coon dogs with ya one yr at the classic, we camped just down the hill from ya, can't remember if we had the wall tent or the pyramid. My son bought a redbone when he was about 19 yrs old and got into the night hunts. Sage was a natural and helped my son fiqure out the night hunts. Sage ended up being a Gr Nite CH and at one time was the Living Leading Producers of the Redbones for his first 100 pups. My son is 46 this yr and still hunts his Redbones 3 to 4 nights a week all yr round unless snow is to deep, and cold.We often wonder how far Ole Sage would have gone if my boy had him today and with his knowledge now, Maybe a World champ maybe not, either way that ole dog was best thing for my son, never in trouble and never got married till he was 35, run dogs all nite work all day and go again. Somehow he was smart enough to keep some of Sage breeding line still going. Good times for sure. Bob
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