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What's the hunting like?

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Registered: Jan 2009
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i live in winnfield which is about 2 hrs south of shreveport, we've got about 12 billion mosquitos. snakes aint to bad, you raise you chance of seeing one hunting where its swampy.

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Registered: Nov 2011
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I live about 30 miles south of Shreveport, we look at em every night. It's hot and humid. As far as terrain, we hunt in some of the highest and lowest elevations. Pine thickets, plantation pines, hardwood bottoms and swampy areas.

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Sounds like absolute ideal coonhunting. 80 degree nights, mosquitoes thick as a devil, possible snakes and possible severe weather. Yep sounds like a real nice place to hunt.

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Sounds like absolute ideal coonhunting. 80 degree nights, mosquitoes thick as a devil, possible snakes and possible severe weather. Yep sounds like a real nice place to hunt.

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If you look you will see poisionious snakes evertime you go. If you hunt around any good size body of water you will see the ocasional gator..Something about a dog with a lot of white on it makes a gator go crazy..Think they refer to it as a feeding frenzy..After all them gators get full and the snakes use up all their poison,their will be some good hunting down here the rest of the year..Thanks U.K.C. -

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Sounds like absolute ideal coonhunting. 80 degree nights, mosquitoes thick as a devil, possible snakes and possible severe weather. Yep sounds like a real nice place to hunt.

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yawl need to quit watching SWAMP PEOPLE....Thats down south Louisiana. I seen more gators and gator signs on the rivers i hunted around in East Texas than i did around Shreveport. Just hang a cupple bottles of water off ya hunting hat with long straws you'll be fine....oh yea avon skin so soft will keep the skeeters off of ya.......

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I loved it when I was stationed down there. anywhere you hunt in the deep south you run the risk of snakes and gators but I've only had one friend loose a dog to a gator in the last 20yrs and that was in SC. As far as snakes just keep a bottle of benadryl in the truck. BTW you guys forgot to mention all the posion IVY/oak.







Here's a few pics from hunting on the Air Force Base near Shreveport.

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Location: Shreveport/Bossier City, La
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Thanks UKC!!! Not only will this hunt prove a great dog, but it will also challenge the handler. There may not be hills and mnts like up north, or 50 degree nights for the hunt, but it will make for a true testament of a coondog and handler. There will be no corn field with eyes every 100 ft but their will be conditions that a lot of dogs have never seen and should prove their ability as hounds. I believe the dog that wins this hunt should by far be considered the best coonhound every hunted. If it is a dog from up north I will be surprised, but that should be a challenge the northern boys are looking forward too. The pictures Chadf posted are from the location I will be guiding too. The woods I will be going to will be decent woods for the most part if the dogs stay where we want them to hunt. If I have coondogs on my cast 400+ should easily be scored, if we can find the coons. I hunt by tons of water and see a snake here and there but nothing to be worried about. Gators will be seen but I have not seen any post on here of Gator got my dog. I have seen things from up north about wolves though???? The bugs aren't that bad either. I do recommend a Therma Cell to carry with ya though just in case. I am looking forward to all the Yankees who come down here as I am one myself. I won't be so outnumbered.

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John I fully agree, UKC strives for the total dog. Well we will find out who has just that....see ya in September.

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I would like to hunt LA herd of some people lovin it and some hatin it but I think I would like it have to try it one day I hope!!!

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I would like to hunt LA herd of some people lovin it and some hatin it but I think I would like it have to try it one day I hope!!!

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by chadf
[B]I loved it when I was stationed down there. anywhere you hunt in the deep south you run the risk of snakes and gators but I've only had one friend loose a dog to a gator in the last 20yrs and that was in SC.[B]

We see them in parts of SC, Ga, Fl, Al

I guess ya have to take the good with the bad. So many great folks down in those "Southern" states that can't come to the "northern" states to hunt for tons of reasons. Best of luck to you. I think UKC did a good thing. You can't please everyone. Crap ~ most of the time you can't please anyone!

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Dont forget them dillers!!! I was stationed four times down at Fort Polk, La know all about them LOL....

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Or turtle possums as I like to call them will probably be the one thing that gets a dog from up north it trouble. If the dogs are at a hole there is about a 95% chance that a armadillo is what they will have.

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Registered: Apr 2010
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I aint worried about poisionious snakes we got them but would also like to go hog huntin see if its any diffrent from when we go here id say it is

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Sounds like absolute ideal coonhunting. 80 degree nights, mosquitoes thick as a devil, possible snakes and possible severe weather. Yep sounds like a real nice place to hunt.

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John good to see you are guiding on base. I sure hope its the winning cast as it offers some of the best natural hunting in that part of the state. If you are looking for more guides give Kenny a call he has some pretty decent woods too. Would love to see you, Mike or even old Scott in the winners circle. Just got my bear permit so once again I'll see if work gives me enough time to go hunting so far it isn't looking very promising.

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A Coondog is a Coondog no matter where you cut him.If you can't take the heat stay out of the kitchen.Hopefully they will have it in the mountains next year come January.

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Registered: Sep 2003
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I have a place about 60 miles south of shreveport. I was born and raised down there. I have had the pleasure of hunting the midwest and had some real good hunts. I also have had some great hunts down home. I was hunting the other night and each time that I recast my dog I had a coon going in less than 2 min.
That is not the case all the time but we do have several coon. We do have hogs, snakes, gators, and several other varments to make the hunt interesting. I have only had one dog ate by a gator and it was no loss. Come and hunt with us and enjoy the south with us.

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Hoosier. You might better come hunt with me about a week before this world hunt. Get accustomed to the heat and we will go get ya some snake boots and cut vests incase yall bay a hog. A new shocker for the dillers.Sept is our gator season. We might even go kill one of them.Then you'll be ready to head on over to louisiana.

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i've read some of the dumbest replies on this thread !!!

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i live up here on the arkansas line of LA. Ive hunted down there a few times and to me it aint to bad. same 10000 mosquitos and a few cotton mouths. but a dog competing in the word hunt should be capable of hunting in any type of terrain. only thing down here is them pine and briar thickets that you might have to crawl through. im ready to see how it goes!!

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cant wait for you yankees to come down here and see where real coon dogs are made

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At least this years world hunt is not 22 hours from Texas like most years.

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