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Posted by onthewood9 on 10-03-2013 03:36 PM:

I would like to share this Coon Hunting story with all. TRUE STORY

October 1, 2013. It was a muggy night, approximately 75 degrees, not much air stirring. I was coon hunting in the Edmonton Kentucky area just after sundown. I had my two dogs Train, an all grand pup, and Major, a nice two year old dog I had just purchased. I unloaded the dogs,Major was the first one out of the dog box. He was excited and ready to hunt. I put tracking collars on the hounds, grabbed my ol single shot 22 rifle and began my journey to the woods. After about a two hundred yard walk to the corn field, I pointed Major and Train in the direction I wanted them to go and unsnapped them. I would say about 30 minutes passed by before I heard anything from the dogs. All I could hear was an owl hooting and the whistle of a Whip Poor Will in the distance. About that time Ol Major let out a deep bawl about 600 yards deep in the woods. Major was on the trail of a coon! I then began walking towards the dogs so that I could hear them better. I stopped after a few minutes to listen and heard Trooper let out a big locate bawl that rolled over into a steady chop. Major was treed! I anxiously walk toward the tree in anticipation. After about fifteen minutes of walking I hear Trooper pull off the tree and take out fast trailing for about 200 yards deeper and treed again! Something he has never done. I begin walking briskly through the corn fields to get closer, he is now about 500 yards from me. As I get closer, I can here Major treeing harder and harder. Major is treed on a big oak that sits on the edge of Little Barren River. Thank God he is on my side of the river. Visibility is low from the steam rising off the river, as I get closer I hear a cat hiss, Major has treed a bobcat I’m sure! I head in to the tree, as I approach from about forty yards I see the cat. His eyes look to be a good five to six inches apart. The cat was running and jumping all over the tree, the limbs on the big oak were swaying up and down as he leaped from branch to branch, hissing downward. As I got closer, it was obvious. This was no bobcat. Major had treed a species that according to the wildlife authorities in Kentucky, does not exist. Trooper had treed a Cougar! As I see the cat jumping and hissing, looking down at me, I have a cold chill run down my spine. I thought to myself, this cat is not scared, this cat is mad and about to jump out on me or my hound. I turn my light out and quickly back out of the woods calling Major off the tree. A night of coon hunting in the rolling hills of Kentucky that will never be forgotten.

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Posted by cooncrazy7 on 10-03-2013 03:45 PM:

Thats where the ole hand dandy big caliber pistol would have come in handy cuz i would have mowed him down in fear for my life. Lol

Posted by Stevendale on 10-03-2013 03:53 PM:

Good story always been a dream of mine to take a big cat on hounds

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Posted by Ryan Karl on 10-03-2013 04:47 PM:

That's awesome. I would love to tree a cat.

Posted by onthewood9 on 10-03-2013 05:04 PM:

Thanks for the comments, and yes I now hunt with a 45 caliber on my hip!

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Posted by Cynthia on 10-03-2013 06:06 PM:

would have been good to get a picture if you could, then KY wildlife would have to explain what it was that didnt exist!!

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Posted by onthewood9 on 10-03-2013 07:10 PM:

In deed, i have lost a couple phones while hunting and always leave it in the truck. But yes I would have loved to had a picture.

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Posted by onthewood9 on 10-03-2013 07:11 PM:

Does anyone think it is safe to continue hunting the same place. There are a lot of coons there, Just not sure my chances of running in to this big cat again are.

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Posted by jimbob_walker on 10-03-2013 09:42 PM:

I haven't treed one but several people have seen them around here. Honest people. The game commission said they do not exist in our state. I run my dogs in the very places they have been spotted and I have not had any trouble with them.

Posted by T Felderman on 10-03-2013 10:10 PM:

Re: I would like to share this Coon Hunting story with all. TRUE STORY

quote:
Originally posted by onthewood9
I would say about 30 minutes passed by before I heard anything from the dogs. All I could hear was an owl hooting and the whistle of a Whip Poor Will in the distance.

I didn't think a coon would be treed after reading this sentence about the Whip Poor Will! Nothing good happens when you hear one of those things.

Posted by walker1978 on 10-04-2013 12:51 AM:

he woulda got a 22 between the eyes. No guessing there.

Posted by cooncrazy7 on 10-04-2013 02:14 AM:

If u got a dog that can do it by himself he might be worth some money lol

Posted by Tyson McComber on 10-04-2013 03:22 AM:

I could not imagine heading into a tree expecting the same ol same ol and all of a sudden hearing a big cat in there let out a great big scream.......I do believe I would need a new pair of draws.....

Posted by evan ashley on 10-04-2013 05:42 AM:

the dnr says we don't have them in georgia but yet it is illegal to shoot one in georgia. Ummm makes you think.

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Posted by GA DAWG on 10-04-2013 05:50 AM:

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Originally posted by evan ashley
the dnr says we don't have them in georgia but yet it is illegal to shoot one in georgia. Ummm makes you think.

What's crazy is a ol boy just posted on GON forum this week he treed one in north ga!! They say we don't have any. Yet the guy killed one on west point and they fined him 10,000 dollars. So if yall shoot one. Do like I would and don't tell anybody lol.

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Posted by Gator McKlusky on 10-04-2013 06:25 AM:

Awesome story. I've never seen one jump around in the tree like that

Posted by evan ashley on 10-04-2013 06:53 AM:

a farm right down here in south ga by me now has seen one a few times last year. seen big big cat prints in the dirt road two days ago the old guy was telling me. have heard it scream before at night. truth be told these things migrate on the applachian trail from florida to maine do some get off track a little and come down into towns and flat lands probably so. if i seen one i know what i would do. how has north ga been ghorley? turner hasn't been walking ya'll to death with that long legged dog has he?!!!! lol

Posted by skeets on 10-04-2013 07:35 AM:

my curs treed one or something like a cougar,heck if i know what it was but they are bad to the bone.that joker growled at me and it made me wanna cry for mama lol.aint never treed another one and dont care if i ever do.

Posted by BLACKCREEKKENAL on 10-04-2013 01:18 PM:

Mountain monster boys

Could be a wompass beast

Posted by Tom Jones on 10-04-2013 01:42 PM:

oklahoma

oklahoma wildlife dept. claimed there wasnt anyhere for years, now if you are protecting your livestock or etc. you have the right to kill one and they will come out and pull a few teeth from it.

you will probably never see that cat again, could be 30 miles from there now

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Posted by Cynthia on 10-04-2013 02:08 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by GA DAWG
What's crazy is a ol boy just posted on GON forum this week he treed one in north ga!! They say we don't have any. Yet the guy killed one on west point and they fined him 10,000 dollars. So if yall shoot one. Do like I would and don't tell anybody lol.

how can you get fined for killing something that doesnt exist????

Posted by perry co cooner on 10-04-2013 03:15 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by jimbob_walker
I haven't treed one but several people have seen them around here. Honest people. The game commission said they do not exist in our state. I run my dogs in the very places they have been spotted and I have not had any trouble with them.

They are definately in north central PA, I'm not going to get into arguing with anyone doesn't believe they are there bc I don't care what people do or don't believe.

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Posted by Ray&Luie on 10-04-2013 04:40 PM:

story

quote:
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how can you get fined for killing something that doesnt exist????

you shoot it and you will find out

was this a lion or a Panther ? they are common in the deep south, from Alabama to the Everglades ,south GA and around

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Posted by onthewood9 on 10-04-2013 04:46 PM:

Mountain lion, cougar, panther? I'm not really sure. It wasn't black. Light in color and very big, long tail, very aggressive!

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Posted by Ray&Luie on 10-04-2013 04:54 PM:

quote:
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Mountain lion, cougar, panther? I'm not really sure. It wasn't black. Light in color and very big, long tail, very aggressive!

Panthers are either black or Tan in color i think . iv heard of them for years around here never seen one though, Either way it would be pretty scary to run up on one like that at night

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