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..................been awhile, but I remember it like it was yesterday............October 10th, 1970...........Sunbury Pennsylvania.......I was 16.........won 5th place..............judge was Mr. Ronald Herman....................stiil have the trophy......lol

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Aurthur WI, 14 years old lost in a tie breaker. The other dog ended up winning the hunt. Also lost the dog, had to go back to the club house to get dad. We went back out with the tracker and found him treed.

I won't forget it either.

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My first was on an 8 degree night in January. Took some minus ans got a bunch of Cirlce points. Hunted the last half hour by myself. SHe got treed 10 minutes after the hunt was over, with the meat. All I need was to score that coon and I would have had a cast win.

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LOL, light went dead before we hit the woods. We walked across a beaver dam in 20 degrees weather and I slipped and fell and got totally wet. Then a young black dog I had played lets run a deer all night. It just got worser and worser as the night went on.

I learned one thing from that very first nite hunt that I still do to this day. If before I hit the woods it's not starting off well (Have to go back home cause I forgot gun, tracking system, and etc..), I just won't hunt that night. Cause it can only get worse. LOL

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LOL, light went dead before we hit the woods. We walked across a beaver dam in 20 degrees weather and I slipped and fell and got totally wet. Then a young black dog I had played lets run a deer all night. It just got worser and worser as the night went on.

I learned one thing from that very first nite hunt that I still do to this day. If before I hit the woods it's not starting off well (Have to go back home cause I forgot gun, tracking system, and etc..), I just won't hunt that night. Cause it can only get worse. LOL

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1981 ish. Bellevue, Mich. Hunted a redbone male for Larry Wortinger. Pretty good dog for treeing coon and staying out of trouble but NO mouth. I mean none. I'd been hunting him during the week and thought I could hear him good enough. Got with a full cast and took last and last on everything cause I couldn't hear that sucker. lol

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Yep, it was just a couple years ago.

It was the Hunt of a Lifetime benefit at the Bruin, Penna. Club. I took my old Rock dog (He was 8). We won 1st Registered, and high scoring male. I won a nice jacket. Or I should say, Rock won me a nice jacket.

I got hooked pretty quick.

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I was about 12 and minused out in about half an hour. I hated it.

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Yep, minused out in 15 minutes....

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I was about 12 and minused out in about half an hour. I hated it.

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my first hunt was 1961 had two Cig's lite at the same time. Ole yea that fire is hot when you put the wrong end in your mouth.gas was 14 cent's a gal burned out two tanks showing off that three In. trophy

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I could say something back to ya T Felderman, but your the champ, so you can say whatever you want.

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It was in the early 80's. I didnt even know when a dog was treed, except that they quit moving and stayed in one spot. I didnt know a locate from a track bark from a tree bark. I was 12 or 13.

Tried it agian in the late 80's, and put 23 places on my pride dog, but never got a first. I was hooked from the first cast win.

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Jonesville Va Jan of 1985. Won my cast and placed 4th in the hunt. I still have the trophy. For those that say they are just good for gathering dust I beg to differ. That trophy brings back some good memory's.



PS : I was hunting a Bluetick wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy back when.

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mid 1990's hunted with a guy who is now a good friend Curtis Sparks, i was nervous and had been out all nite hunting i was wore out i think me and ole Drive (nite ch now ) lasted almost all of the hunt lol.....i minued out on the last drop ..had fun learned quick lol...never forget it...........didnt get cheated got educated is a better term lol....

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1974, the club was running low on non hunting judges. I got a crash course on the rules was handed the card and out we went. I was 16 at the time. Hunted with a real nice Plott hound that night. Don't recall his name or the owners name, but he was the best Plott I ever saw then or since.

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Eden Valley MN.

Was hunting a Bluetick named Spook. I still like to use him as a measuring stick. Born straight and had that extra ablity to just know where to look and find a coon when turned loose.

Others dogs ran just about everything that night but the kitchen sink! Old Spook would just go and find a track and tree it. It was my first Nite Hunt and I seen just about everything a bunch of cheaters could do to gang up on a hound that was kicking their butts. From climbing trees their dogs barked up, to not hearing my hound open or seeing his coon.

Got a bad taste that night. Have been on some good hunts after that but still run into some that take the fun out of it.

So I have gotten into taking my Grandkids out hunting and having a whole lot of fun doing it and still have a hound or two that can tree a coon without the BS. And you know that entry fee I save can buy an ice cream cone in the summer or some hot chocolate in the fall. And that smile on a little girls face is better than any trophy I have ever won.

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Yea i do! 1970 Hope Mill, NC won the cast then got scratched cause they told me to load my dog after i got him off a tree and they wanted to drive round closer to their dogs and cut mine back to them. Mr. Jr. Crouch from Raeford NC was on cast it was a 3 hr hunt back then after gettin me scratched the one that done it found out he did not win anyway, it was Mr. Crouch and he would not take the trophy said i had won the cast and it belong to me. of the trophies ive won it is the only 1 i know i still have i was 15 yrs old. saw Mr Crouch a few week ago and i think he looks the same as he did those 36 yrs ago lol

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1999. I was 19 years old. Hunted my young pup Crocker's Bear Creek Jake. His and my first competition hunt. Bellevue, MI Nasty snow storm and deep snow already in-bedded. None of us scored a coon. Do remember Jake's littermate brother Tramp won the hunt that night though.

Jake is now 8 years old and still lives here on the farm. Him and I have went on to win 63 cast UKC+PKC combined as of date. I have learned more from that dog than I ever taught him.

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IT was two years ago. Forest was nice enough to let me spectate, I shined the tree and got us scratched. The judge was rude to us and we had to drive 45 minutes back to the club. I felt horrible.

I got unhooked pretty quick.

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Briar,

Like I told you before, it's no big deal. We were only up by a couple hundred points....

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Mine first competition hunt was with a dog that I thought was prietteye good but he wouldnt hold pressure I later learned I minused out...... The hunt was the spring classic in cardington ohio.

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Like I told you before, it's no big deal. We were only up by a couple hundred points....

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No wonder they don't allow spectators at the world hunt......they don't want anyone getting killed.

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my first one was in dupont in,in the early 90's
i drew gayle flowers, mike goodpaster and the 4th person i cant recall. we had a good hunt and high scores, but they were all circled!

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'00 or '01. Had a blue male out of Northern Blue Pride and the Misty female Lee Smith has for sale on here now. We made 4 trees and I got shut out of the first 3. All circle points, the 5 minutes got me on all 3 trees. Made the last tree and I had a 2nd an 1st, had the coon and won the hunt. Lost king of hunt(2 nite hunt) on a coin toss.

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