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Hunting question

What is the easiest and hardest months to tree coons and why.....

Your in Texas I don't know if this would apply for you or not. For me easiest is fall into early winter when leaves are off and there's corn fields to hunt.
Hardest is right now into early spring.

Here in SE Ohio it is my opinion that the month of August is the most difficult warm weather month. The ground is baking hot and what little rain we get, a percentage of it lifts immediately off the ground almost in the form of steam, thus lifting the cent off the ground as it dissipates off in to thin air, LOL.

The most difficult cold weather month(s) I believe is Mid January to mid february. By then the ground is frozen hard down to 6/8 inches. When those warm weather days arrive, (temps in the mid 30's to mid 40's) the warm air flows over the frozen ground and the ground begins to thaw from the surface down to those 6/8 inches. All the while that we experience this thaw, it seems that dogs struggle to track as the frost that is 6/8 inches deep begins to work its way to the top of the ground. It is my opinion that during this period the coon scent will not hold near the ground. Once the ground becomes completely unthawed, the tracking conditions become some of the best we will have all year.

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Thanks but here in east texas neither of these apply here...in the last three or four weeks it's been hard to get a good track goin..before that we were treeing 3 to 5 coons in just a few hours which is pretty good around here....maybe my dog is getting sorry...lol

Oklahoma, Jan, Feb, without a doubt. Seems like coon movement is spoty, and when you do strike one, it's like their up and down every den tree in the country. May have something to do with the rut ?

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That's what it's been like here...they seem to run longer too...

We've had a major kill off here. Rabies, feline distemper, or one of the other diseases. I used to leave home at dark, tree three to six and be home in three hours or less. Now I have to hunt four or five hours to tree one. Found a lot of coons dead in the ditches and creeks and even walked up on some in the woods. Had one trying to tear into my dog pen that I dispatched just before the die off started. But to your question, we dont have a tough time here in Fl. as long as we have game.