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Posted by joey on 07-15-2015 05:10 AM:

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Originally posted by msinc
I have to agree with this...there are a lot of guys around here that don't even have a shock collar, much less tracking. I don't know if they have more fun...all their dogs run deer. Most of their truck boxes are home made out of plywood. They don't ever get their dogs shots or go to a vet...the dog either makes it or he don't.
I really don't know if there is a good indicator of just how many coonhunters or houndsmen there are, but I do agree it aint the attendance at hunts.

I don't know about them but when I hunted out of a oldsmobile cutlass, had a 2 cell flashlight, hunted year round in tennis shoes and didn't have a clue what my dogs where doing. I had a lot more fun.

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Posted by msinc on 07-15-2015 05:25 AM:

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I don't know about them but when I hunted out of a oldsmobile cutlass, had a 2 cell flashlight, hunted year round in tennis shoes and didn't have a clue what my dogs where doing. I had a lot more fun.

Brings to mind the old saying..."sometimes it don't pay to know nothing."
Maybe they did have fun, I was just going off my own experience...I've had a few severe trash running dogs, there was absolutely nothing fun about them at all, run anything that didn't smell like dirt!!! Like the man said once, "cant hunt him near train tracks...freight train might go by and he'll run that!!!!
Seriously though, with todays gear I don't know if there was ever a better time to coon hunt. Sad thing is that these kids nowadays will never know what it used to be like.

Posted by lapdawg on 07-16-2015 01:33 AM:

if we do not make drastic changes and start standing up for whats right in this country the way our older generation did we wont be able to leave our house without walking much less hunting!
these leftwing, animal rights , tree hugging,dumb@sses get out in droves and raise the money , protest and demostraight while we just set back and let them !!!!!!!!!!
WE NEED TO WAKE FROM OUR HYBRENATION AND FIGHT BACK TOOTH AND NAIL BUT WE DONT WONT TO OFFEND THEM THEY (OR SOME OF YOU) MIGHT GET THEIR FEEKINGS HURT AND CRY !!!!!! SO MY ANSWER IS HELL NO ,WE WONT BE HUNTING NOTHING IN FIVE IF WE KEEP LETTING THOSE P.O.S'S KEEP WINNING THE WAR!!!!!!

Posted by rdmedders on 07-16-2015 02:33 AM:

You will have less land too hunt.

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Posted by Lillycreek on 07-16-2015 05:15 PM:

I've only been hunting for twenty or so years and don't have nearly the experience that some of you have but other than the technology of trackers shockers lights and so on.... can anyone name something positive that has come to this great sport? I just pray I'm gone before it is...keep em looking up!

Posted by Mike Knuckols on 07-28-2015 09:52 AM:

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Originally posted by Steve Fielder
I'm usually a "the glass is half full" kind of guy but I may come across as being negative here. Age brings humility and to a degree, wisdom. I'm 68 years old. I have enjoyed being smack dab in the middle of the glory years of this sport when the two main coon hunting magazines had more than 60 thousand subscribers combined, RQEs and state hunts averaged upwards of 100 dogs and local hunts closer to 30. A record of 100 dogs was required to apply for a Purina event. There's no doubt interest in the sport is in decline but why? Attrition is one thing. This is a young man's sport. When you reach my age you will understand more about that. But the thing I fear more than the greying of our ranks is the overall apathy of youngsters toward the sport. Coon hunting is demanding and I fear this generation and those following will not have that fire in their bellies to press on considering the challenges they will face. I know there are those who will say "no way" but will there be enough of you to provide a living for all the peripheral elements that support the sport? I hope so.

I think in 15 years in my area the competition hunts will be gone some in part by no tracts of land big enough to hold 2 hour hunts and the people who are fortunate enough to lease land to hunt arent going to take some of these outlaws to their spots . The Corp lands in my area in East Texas now ban hunting with dogs even with no intent to harvest in the Summer and no taking of fur bearers period at any time . This policy was set by the Corp of Engineers due to pressure from private land owners joining Corp lands due to a large element of coon hunters trespassing, driving on their property, shooting next to their houses at night and these same people once you take them on a cast are back there wearing out this spot and bringing other people and then they do the same . I love to run my dogs as well as deer hunt so I save my money and lease as much land as I can afford . If the competition part of our sport survives we will have to have fewer clubs and go the way of the deer lease and purchase hunting grounds and have the stones to bar individuals from our clubs once they cross the lines . There are a lot of quality Young hunters in my area but once someone betrays or breaks that code and comes back to your spot and angers the land owners they stop all hunting . Im sure this is a common problem everywhere .

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Posted by Mike Knuckols on 07-28-2015 09:52 AM:

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Originally posted by Steve Fielder
I'm usually a "the glass is half full" kind of guy but I may come across as being negative here. Age brings humility and to a degree, wisdom. I'm 68 years old. I have enjoyed being smack dab in the middle of the glory years of this sport when the two main coon hunting magazines had more than 60 thousand subscribers combined, RQEs and state hunts averaged upwards of 100 dogs and local hunts closer to 30. A record of 100 dogs was required to apply for a Purina event. There's no doubt interest in the sport is in decline but why? Attrition is one thing. This is a young man's sport. When you reach my age you will understand more about that. But the thing I fear more than the greying of our ranks is the overall apathy of youngsters toward the sport. Coon hunting is demanding and I fear this generation and those following will not have that fire in their bellies to press on considering the challenges they will face. I know there are those who will say "no way" but will there be enough of you to provide a living for all the peripheral elements that support the sport? I hope so.

Posted by Gregory Kemp on 08-17-2015 03:48 PM:

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Originally posted by rthompson
Well all i know is try your best to keep on good terms with land owners. there are alot of good people out there who remember hunting with ol dad and like to see people doing thing the way they used to. as far as laws go all we can do is vote. if we would do more like cancer benifit hunts and fundraisers instead of fighting with each other it wouldnt hurt either there is always more we can do i mean look at swamp people they put what they do on tv and everybody loves them for it.

very very true! Nicely put!

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Posted by LoggyBayouBlues on 07-17-2019 11:42 PM:

Coonhunting

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Posted by tommygunner on 07-18-2019 01:01 PM:

You will all be in Jail

Posted by ROBERT HAYES on 07-18-2019 01:39 PM:

15 years

I would not be worried about 15 years from now AOC says we just have 12 years left.

Posted by Redneck Mafia on 07-18-2019 04:49 PM:

Re: 15 years

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I would not be worried about 15 years from now AOC says we just have 12 years left.

This thread was started 4 years ago so according to her calculations enjoy it while you can!

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Posted by Bob Hennessey on 07-19-2019 11:25 PM:

Seeing I will be 80 this fall in 15 years I'll most likely cut down on my hunting. LOL!

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Posted by robgregory on 07-20-2019 04:58 AM:

15 years from now......

almost non-existant. JMO. Rob Gregory

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Posted by shadinc on 07-21-2019 01:40 AM:

I'm 76. I'm a lot more concerned about where I'll be in one year.

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Posted by Charles Pullen on 07-21-2019 05:05 AM:

Money , Time , & Places

Money .... it takes a lot to live on now days just to pay the bills . Time .... people are so busy now days they just don�t like to . Use to be you would hunt 5 nights a week . Places ... people are moving in , timber cut & people are loosing places every year . Therefore I think it will continue on but it will decrease for sure . That�s a fact !!!!!

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Posted by Reuben on 07-21-2019 11:17 AM:

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Money , Time , & Places

Money .... it takes a lot to live on now days just to pay the bills . Time .... people are so busy now days they just don�t like to . Use to be you would hunt 5 nights a week . Places ... people are moving in , timber cut & people are loosing places every year . Therefore I think it will continue on but it will decrease for sure . That�s a fact !!!!!

I agree...

Back in the 1960�s I grew up in an area where my closest neighbors were 2 miles away to my west about a mile to my east and further from south a north with only a few fields...my dogs weren�t kenneled just running loose... I stepped out the house and called the dogs and we were hunting starting at about 100 yards from the house...I drove out there years later and every bit of that area is cleared and is now farm land with some housing here and there...once upon a time that place was full of game...

Right now Houston Texas is growing by leaps and bounds in my direction land is being cleared for freeways and Walmart�s...big schools are being built and new houses are going up in gated communities...little country roads I used to ride on just to get away and see the country side near by are now under lock and key and some are guarded and only a few can enter...all in the name of progress...

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Posted by yadkintar on 07-21-2019 02:24 PM:

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I agree...

Back in the 1960�s I grew up in an area where my closest neighbors were 2 miles away to my west about a mile to my east and further from south a north with only a few fields...my dogs weren�t kenneled just running loose... I stepped out the house and called the dogs and we were hunting starting at about 100 yards from the house...I drove out there years later and every bit of that area is cleared and is now farm land with some housing here and there...once upon a time that place was full of game...

Right now Houston Texas is growing by leaps and bounds in my direction land is being cleared for freeways and Walmart�s...big schools are being built and new houses are going up in gated communities...little country roads I used to ride on just to get away and see the country side near by are now under lock and key and some are guarded and only a few can enter...all in the name of progress...

Reuben all those rice fields along chocolate bayou that I grew up in around Alvin tx are full of houses now. We are going down in october to Kema to get shrimp and take a vacation maybe we can visit.

Tar

Posted by Reuben on 07-21-2019 08:16 PM:

Will be a pleasure...

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Posted by yadkintar on 07-21-2019 08:48 PM:

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Originally posted by Reuben
Will be a pleasure...

Back then I was kin to everybody in Alvin I could hunt all around it but before I left in the late 70�s you already had big hunting leases like the Damon hunting club popping up everywhere and sub divisions being built where we hunted. Most of the private land is deer leases up here they are starting to high fence a bunch of it. If I didn�t have public hunting I would be in trouble.

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