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How many years and who started you coon hunting?

I been hunting just four years. I start out hog hunting and the guys dogs would tree coons. I guess coon hunting has grown on me and i can't seem to stop. I would like to know who started most of you coon hunting!!

I started about 10 years ago. The guy that got me started coonhunting was a friend of mine. Now his only friend is drugs. Sad situation.

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3 and one half years

two frends started me fell in love with it and can't stop the two that started me don't hunt much now there dogs are going to waste away

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I hate to admit this,but have coonhunted 40 years. A neighbor use to take me coonhunting when i was a kid.Guess i was his pack mule,to carry the coons,and rifle.

Was started by a great fella with a couple of old blue dogs in the fall of 1983. I was in the 3rd grade. I have been "attempting" to become a coonhunter ever since............

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About 28 years. Got started with my Dad.

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many years:::::::::

I am 55 yrs. old. I dropped out of coonhunting for about 18 yrs.
My redbone died of cancer in 86 Ch. Nt.Ch. Hyner Mtn. Mary.Lucfy bred. I first hunted in early 50's riding on my Dad's shoulders at
about 3 yrs. old. He hunted redbones approx. 40 yrs. before he
took me . I have a 15 mo. fem.Granddam Wd.Ch. Sierra bred.
This is the first I have been able to bring myself to get anoth-
er dog since then.

They will always be red.

redbone deb.

Husband got me started several years ago. His dad got him started many, many years ago....
chrys the wife

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started letting me tag along when I was 5 years old, & that was about 64 years ago. Still try to go 2-4 nights a week & alot of the time it is by myself. I enjoy the peace & solitude, while listening to a good coon race. Hell come to think of it, I still like to hear a good RUNNING DOG RACE also.

No ARGUING ABOUT who's dog IS, OR IS NOT, doing what out there. I don't know how many tomorrow nights I have left in me, but if she doesn't get the job done, (& she doesn't have a reverse gear in her) I get her gathered up & tell her we will try it again tomorrow night.

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30 years my dad and uncle always hunted

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i would say my first time in the woods would of been around when i was 6 so about 10 years for me about 6 years hard but my dad and uncle got me started.

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i started coon hunting when i was about 8 i am 25 now. my uncle and my pawpaw got me started. my pawpaw had a pin full of fine fox dogs we allways had dogs in the woods after something

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been 22 yrs coonin a friends of mines dad got me started i fell in love with coonin the first night mr bowline helped and taught me a lot about coonin and life

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21 years

I started hunting with a blind colored man named Henry, that lived down the road from me, he taught me how to listen to the woods, and the hounds. He also taught me much more about life, and not to be afraid of what lays around the corner and to persue my dreams.

When I started hunting with him he had 2 dogs, a Redbone named "Scarlet" and a grade Walker dog named "Bone". I used to walk down to his place when I was about 10 years old, and he would go get the dogs, funny thing is he knew I was coming before I got to his yard. He would go get the dogs, and we would walk out behind his place and let the go. I remember him telling me that he could see his dogs better after he went blind than he could when he could see.

I admired his courage, and he inspired me to do so many things growing up. I walked up to his house one day to go fishing with him, and he was sitting on his rocking chair not saying a word. I asked him what was up? and he told me Bone died last night, while he was telling me I saw the only tear I ever seen the man cry run down his cheek. I asked if he was alright and he said yes he still had Scarlet, but hunting with old Scarlet was not the same as with Bone. Scarlet just couldn't track fast enough to tree some of those old wiley coons around southern Mississippi.

Henry all but quite hunting, for a while. I grew up and went to collage, got my degree and moved to Louisville, Ky. I went home about seven years ago, before going I was reading a Cooner Mag, and a man had a three year old walker dog for sale for 1,500 dollars, I called him and asked if I could come by on my way home and hunt with him, he said that would be fine so I went and hutned with the dog liked him, and bought him. When I got home I went by Hery's place and told him to come out to the truck, because I had something for him. Henry who was somewhere around 68 years old then jumped up and came out to the truck and I gave him his new Walker dog "Timber". He shed the second tear I ever saw the man cry that day and thanked me over and over, he asked "can he tree a coon?" I said well he treed 3 last night by himself! I guess you'll find out tonight won't you.

Henry and I went out that night and treed 2 coons on the outside that "we seen". I go see Henry every chance I get when I'm home, a nicer fella the world has never seen. He still takes old Timber out once in a while but not to often, usually when I'm down home I will take my dog with him, and we will tree one. At 73 years old he can still get through the woods, blind and all.

I'm not looking forward to the day ol' Henry leaves us but God will be getting one of the best souls he's ever seen.

Latenight

i have been at it for 28 years with a break somewhere in the middle. First time i ever went coonhunting was with a neighborhood friend and the local minister and have been turning hounds loose every since. I guess its hard to imagine not owning hounds so i guess i always will .


later warn

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Latenight thats a great story....Thanks for sharing..



I've been coonhunting since I was 13...Thats just a couple years or so.....



Didn't really have anyone that got me started...

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A buddy of mine took me hunting about a year ago, at first i wasn't into it but when i got down to the nitty gritty, i started to love it, between the dogs the both of us has had, not many empty trees have been seen. We still hunt together and talk about hunting. And i wouldn't trade those days for anything.

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Originally posted by HOBO
Latenight thats a great story....Thanks for sharing..



I've been coonhunting since I was 13...Thats just a couple years or so.....



Didn't really have anyone that got me started...

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My first coonhunt was in October of 1978, when I was 6 years old. I have been hunting nearly all of the 27 years since. The man that got me into it was my Father. When he died in 2000 I tried to keep on hunting, but in 2002 I pretty much gave up as my hunting partner wasn't around anymore. Thankfully, I was able to plant a small seed while my girls were very young and they brought me back into it, and got me to buy some dogs again. Now I have 3rd generation coonhunters who someday they can say thier daddy started them when they were 6 and 4 years old!

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Late Night

Thanks so much for sharing that story!!

It's stories like yours that remind me of a good friend whom I had several years ago that I hunted and fished with . He was like your friend . A true gentle man who knew God and knew all he had created and taught me to enjoy and appreciate it all. His name was Oscar Barr and he had one fine hound that we hunted together with for seven years . Oscar is gone now and has been for some time but I always am thankful to be reminded of my time with him in the woods and just hanging around.

My father in law started me hunting back around 1975 or so and altough I never really had a real good dog (neither did he ) we were always ready to go try em when it got dark .

I met Oscar a few years later and I always considerd him my coonhunting mentor . My father in law is gone now too as are most of the old time hunters in my area but there are still one or two that I occasionally get out with and when I do I always enjoy reminising with them about the times they spent in the woods with the ones, like my father in law , who are no longer around to go .

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Since 1958 so I guess 47 yrs. My grandpappy got me started hunting, only time I was not hunting was when I was in Uncles Sam's Army for 4 yrs.
I mostely hunt Big Blue Dogs but do have some English Hounds I wil comp hunt with sometimes. I have never had a top hound liek some people, but my way of thinking is if I feed it ,I must like it, those people that know me , knows I want feed a dog that want tree a coon.
Gregg

Thanks Jeff H. glad it stirred up some memories for ya.

I am 32 years old and have been coonhunting for about 17 years.
My grandpa and my dad both coonhunted,but dad quit when I was about 3 or 4 years old after his all time favorite hound died.
Dad and grandpa are both diehard Walker men.Dad used to hunt with Leroy Smith all the time.Leroy had a dog named Smith's Ole Doc that was pretty famous in his day.

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