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Worst places to hunt

Tell me about you bad places to hunt, what kind of terrain, brush, trees, swamps, what are you hunting in ? do you need hip waders, knee boots , bedroom slippers ?
a coat of armor ? once i went to a tree, after the river had swollen and had to put my light battery up over my head the water was so deep, dog was treed on a log in the backwater.
This was in the summer , and it was warm, shew i was sacred of snakes and gators lol
at times i could use all the above, just depends on the turn outs

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Well Stanley,this looks like another fine mess you've gotten us into

Ray Hudson

The mountains of western NC and Eastern Tennessee. Some tough country and few coons.....

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Well lets see right now we are about 20 inches below rain we have very few coon our woods is mainly a small patch of timber down a creek with clear cuts on each side and if you get on some bigger creeks you better have a machetty for it will be all green briar and cain

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Originally posted by mrbluedog
Well lets see right now we are about 20 inches below rain we have very few coon our woods is mainly a small patch of timber down a creek with clear cuts on each side and if you get on some bigger creeks you better have a machetty for it will be all green briar and cain

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Well Stanley,this looks like another fine mess you've gotten us into

Ray Hudson

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Originally posted by MRC
The mountains of western NC and Eastern Tennessee. Some tough country and few coons.....

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anywhere Briar takes me

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the freakin 200 acre swamp behind my house....
its oak brush and hawthorns over your head with knee deep muck and waist deep water. what a mess. if i hear a dog headed into it i just go home and get my waiders on. it positivly sucks!!!

brad

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No mountains, no snakes or gators, but I have been on my hands and knees more times than I care to remember. I have also been up to my waist 3 times this year in a waterfowl flooding. The cattails were so thick I couldn't see a dog 3 feet away from me.

There is this one spot that the russian olive is so thick ya better hope ya have leather gloves and knee patches. The only way to get through it is on your hands and knees and the ground is usually covered with dead branches and thorns.

We have lots of easy hunting, but if you venture to some different areas ya can find some pretty nasty swamps too. I don't know what it is but nasty spots and me are like a magnet.lol

I have hunted areas that friends told me they would no longer be friends if I took them there ever again.

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No mountains, no snakes or gators, but I have been on my hands and knees more times than I care to remember. I have also been up to my waist 3 times this year in a waterfowl flooding. The cattails were so thick I couldn't see a dog 3 feet away from me.

There is this one spot that the russian olive is so thick ya better hope ya have leather gloves and knee patches. The only way to get through it is on your hands and knees and the ground is usually covered with dead branches and thorns.

We have lots of easy hunting, but if you venture to some different areas ya can find some pretty nasty swamps too. I don't know what it is but nasty spots and me are like a magnet.lol

I have hunted areas that friends told me they would no longer be friends if I took them there ever again.

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Well Stanley,this looks like another fine mess you've gotten us into

Ray Hudson

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Originally posted by Forest
anywhere Briar takes me

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We have a place here that is a swamp. It is basically like tryin to walk thru a three year old cutover in almost chest deep water. There are tons of old blown down trees and tree tops in the water you have to fight thru. plus It is so growed up you almost have to have a machette to get thru it. The coons can run almost all the way across it without getting wet, The dogs however have to swim. Sure will toughen up a hound , but will weaken the hunters following. The gentleman I hunt with invited a friend down to hunt with us, and we turned loose there. I think he said it the best when he said " looks like a darn good place to stay the heck out of", only a little more colorful....lol

Here is a couple short videos They really don't do it justice

On the final 4 cast,

of the Kasco money Hunt, somewhere around Tupelo, Miss. back in the early 90's. I don't think we, are the dogs ever got out of that dang KUDZU the whole time. You couldn't tell if a log was under you are even a ditch.

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Originally posted by Forest
anywhere Briar takes me

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I carry a machette all the time. Most places I hunt have greenbriar, blackbriar, black berry bramble, reeds, cut overs, beaver swamps (often the better walking), pine plantations, etc., sometimes it's like walking into a wall. I try to stay out of it if possible but you go where the coon takes you.

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I love East Texas, but some may not, we have the Thickets, Sawbriar, Clear Cuts. all that stuff, but during the warmer months, if you are near water, you must watch for Aligators, and when you are in the thickets you must watch for Snakes.
We also have Scorpions, Posinous Spiders, Yellow Jackets, and a whole host of other biting stinging insects.
Depending where your dog gets treed, it may at times take you an hour or more to get to the tree, and often times in the big open Hardwood bottoms, your dog may get across a River or Byou on you. I would not recomend swimming across them.
But besides that it is a beautifull adventurous place to live and hunt.

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blowdowns, logged tops and multiflorose in the Ozark hills is a bit tough..

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a beaver flooding really stinks if your dog gets treed in one good luck get ya a boat

Tough country sorts the men from the boys!

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Originally posted by Bill(Chew)
I carry a machette all the time. Most places I hunt have greenbriar, blackbriar, black berry bramble, reeds, cut overs, beaver swamps (often the better walking), pine plantations, etc., sometimes it's like walking into a wall. I try to stay out of it if possible but you go where the coon takes you.

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The worst place I ever drove to for a hunt was Trenton, Tenn. It was for American Redbone Days back in ("04" I think.) Late June and it was close to 90 degrees still when we were cutting dogs loose each night. I seen 1 coon that was treed over a feeder bucket the whole weekend. Nothing but cottonmouths and brushy river bottoms with water everywhere. If the dogs actually did get treed it would be a big cypress tree that you could'nt even see half of.
I've got it pretty good here in "Upstate" Southwestern Ny. (I've never even been to Ny city. lol.) All I hunt is big hardwoods. Some areas don't have any houses for miles and miles, but if the dogs end up a mile or 2 in, driving around won't get you any closer. I have over 10,000 acres of Stateland within 15 mins. from my house and I am just about the only one that coon hunts it. I've guided a lot of 5 or 6 coon scoring casts running just my stateland spots. (No feeders needed.) I probally have about another 3,000 acres of private land that I hunt too. We do have hills, tops, beaver swamps and some areas heavy with Pine or Hemlock trees to deal with if the dogs end up where we wish they had'nt. I'll take it though. No snakes or gators to worry about. The only things we got that might hurt a dog are Porcipines, Coyotes or Bear.

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Lots of tough places here in our area of western NC. However, I found one that is a bit different. A spot I hunted on Monday put me opening a trash bag to find my dog floating in the creek with half his head blowed off. Since Tuesday a little digging substantiates nine dogs killed in this are in the same manner. All the water, hedge, multifloral rose, steep hills,etc. can't compare.

Re: Tough country sorts the men from the boys!

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Re: Tough country sorts the men from the boys!

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Around here!

The worst places are woods with bad multiflora rose bushes and the creek bottoms after a wet spring and the stinging nettles are over your head!

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