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I got a call this afternoon from a man who lives and owns property across the road from one of my hunting spots. His firat words were, "Did you do any good hunting on my place the other night?"

At first, I wasn't sure if I was going to get a tail chewing or what. A few nights ago, Jewel ran a coon over on him and treed it about 200 yards from his back porch. I just walked in and gathere her as quickly as possible.

I told him what the deal had been, and that I hadn't turned loose on him. He immediately began to reassure me that he was tickled to hear the dog tree behind his house, and would I please come back as soon as I could. It seemed he had been losing chickens to a smart old coon. He had tried to trap him but couldn't catch him.

So, a while after dark I pulled up and cut the dogs loose toward his chicken house onto a dry creek bed.

They struck almost immediately, and the race was on. That old coon ran like a scalded cat. He hit the big blackberry briar patches and did his best to shake them.

I had Jewel, Dandy, and my Roscoe pup out of Jewel along, and they were moving him on. Old Roscoe was getting himself a good snootfull of hot coon scent, and was moaning and groaning.

They finally pushed him out of the big briar thickets and into some nice woods where i thought he would tree, but he wasn't in the notion.

He crossed out of that section heading south, and started across a big pasture. About a quarter in, he had to take a tree, a large Cottonwood.

Here was Jewel, singing a pretty tune...

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I got home and thought i would take a picture of the coon. He was pretty good sized. The man who owned the property was impressed when I took him by and showed him.

Here is the coon with Jewel and a vicious kill dog.

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Another shot...

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jewel wants no part of a dead one...LOL! we had an ol redbone get rid of a chicken killin coon on the family farm many years back. what a fiasco that was!!! LOL!!! he had ALL the barnyard poultry flyin and runnin...LOL!!! what a night..and turned out to be a lil coon to boot! not like your photo. thanks for sharing...

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Nice pics,your Lab cracks me up everytime I see him ROFL. I'm glad to see you made another positive note for coonhunters. Oh by the way you sure that coon was up that cootonwood lol? I had a big name comp hunter tell me one time "coons dont climb cottonwoods". Imagine his surprise when we had to plus that tree.Dave

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whats your jewel dog out of i like her looks, and country mile you tell that guy he dont no what he's talking about i treed 4 coon in a cotton wood this hunting season.

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I dont know about you guys but I have just about decided that its safe to say mr. Carroll has some GOOD DOGS.

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jewel wants no part of a dead one...LOL! we had an ol redbone get rid of a chicken killin coon on the family farm many years back. what a fiasco that was!!! LOL!!! he had ALL the barnyard poultry flyin and runnin...LOL!!! what a night..and turned out to be a lil coon to boot! not like your photo. thanks for sharing...

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When a coon is dead, she is through with it. Pays it no more mind.

To be honest, she isn't much of a kill dog, really. She'll waller one around and finally get it killed, but she isn't that gritty.

When she first started, she wouldn't even take a hold of a coon. She had treed several by herself before she would even halfway try to fight one.

A friend who lives in another state was asking me about the possibility of getting one from me to make a bear dog...I laughed and told him they weren't gritty enough for that.

But I have a .22 and can kill coons myself. I mainly like dogs to tree them. I am not nearly as excited about coon fights as I was when I was a kid. I try to shoot them out dead.

Jewel is missing a big piece of one ear from catching a big boar coon on the ground by herself when she was nine months old. He ate her up bad. That might have hurt her some in the grit department, I don't know.

But old Newton, her sire, weighed 90 pounds, and wouldn't kill a five pound kitten, so it is probably just hereditary.

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whats your jewel dog out of i like her looks, and country mile you tell that guy he dont no what he's talking about i treed 4 coon in a cotton wood this hunting season.

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Nice pics,your Lab cracks me up everytime I see him ROFL. I'm glad to see you made another positive note for coonhunters. Oh by the way you sure that coon was up that cootonwood lol? I had a big name comp hunter tell me one time "coons dont climb cottonwoods". Imagine his surprise when we had to plus that tree.Dave

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Thanks for the great story and great pics I always look forward to your posts!

I wish more people could see your writeups and pics you are surely a credit to the sport and we need more folks like you!

Have a really Happy New Years.

ps...I recently had a super nice fellow that hunts Walkers ask me about some English breeders out his way and wanted my opinion...he also mentioned Blueticks and your name I told him you were the man to see! Good luck see ya!


BIG COON!!!! Did ya weigh it??????????????

We have treed coon in cottonwoods, willows, and poplars, they will climb just about anything when pushed!

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug Robinson
[B]Thanks for the great story and great pics I always look forward to your posts!

Ditto from me on that. Love to see the pics of Jewel, I really like those light colored blueticks. I'm glad that the elder feller turned out to be a nice guy Mr. Carroll. I had a guy stop by one morning to tell me that he had been coon hunting across the road from our place. Said that when his dog got treed there was another dog at the tree when he got there (my kids redbone joined in on the fun, she's about 25# over weight, 10 years old and basically a yard ornament) Anyway the guy makes a comment that it sure would be a shame if the dog got shot for interfering with his hunting. Wellll, to make a long story short...with me yelling, kids bawling, husband looking extremely embarrassed, the guy left my driveway so fast that he backed over one of my newly planted pecan trees in his haste to get away from us.

Anyway it sure is nice to hear when people are courteous.

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for the great pics. and story.. I always try to knock em out when they run me in close to a house. Folks want rid of them "raiders" of their garbage cans I have found..Very few complain...

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Thanks for the kind words, everyone.

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Nice Pics John.......I bet you'll make a coondog out of that lab yet.

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Nice Pics John.......I bet you'll make a coondog out of that lab yet.

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He is at every tree.

I have yet to haul that dude one mile in the truck.

He will cut through the country and go seven or eight miles to get to where I'm hunting. I don't know how he finds me sometimes.

He is pretty handy, since all my young dogs put together wouldn't make a good kill dog.

Old Sue will assassinate one in a hurry, but these youngsters are the most gutless things you ever saw. They do more baying and nipping than fighting if one comes out still alive.

But the Lab will work on one.

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You need to start loading your Lab up and taking him with you. Poor little fella has to run miles and miles to go coonhunting. LOL

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You need to start loading your Lab up and taking him with you. Poor little fella has to run miles and miles to go coonhunting. LOL

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Don't feel sorry for him. He is hard as a rock and in great shape from all the footwork he gets.

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are you sure that the labs not the one treeing all the coon. lol j/k sent you a p.m.

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You ought to try to register your lab as a plott. lol

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great pics and nice story. nice looking dog too. i find it hard tho to get used to those light colored blues even tho i also have one. but one thing she sure shows up good in the pics. funny about the kill thing tho. our one bluedog, rascal won't have anything to do with the coon once it is dead. very unlike his sister mira.
we had the same experience with one of neighbors. we didn't know the guy who owned the camp across from us so we just didn't hunt on his land. well one night mira and rascal ran one back across the road and up his drive. they treed not 50ft away from his door. we just got them and got out quick. next day the guy stopped by and told us that we could hunt there anytime. this guy had beagles so we gasve him permission to take his beagles on our land. pretty good bargain, i'd say.

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great pics and nice story. nice looking dog too. i find it hard tho to get used to those light colored blues even tho i also have one. but one thing she sure shows up good in the pics. funny about the kill thing tho. our one bluedog, rascal won't have anything to do with the coon once it is dead. very unlike his sister mira.
we had the same experience with one of neighbors. we didn't know the guy who owned the camp across from us so we just didn't hunt on his land. well one night mira and rascal ran one back across the road and up his drive. they treed not 50ft away from his door. we just got them and got out quick. next day the guy stopped by and told us that we could hunt there anytime. this guy had beagles so we gasve him permission to take his beagles on our land. pretty good bargain, i'd say.

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