msinc
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Roger, just so I am clear...do you count only the trees you see a coon in, period, end of story????? And consider all other trees, hollow, large, leafy, etc. as a miss???? If that is the way it's done I woulda done shot every coon hound I ever hunted with...it seems kinda hard on the dog to me. I know everyone is different and some do in fact consider it that way, but it don't hardly seem fair to the dog/s.
We have quite a few huge, like 125 ft. tall plus poplar trees with branches bigger than most trees trunk around here in some of these bottoms. Even in the dead middle of winter it can be tough to see a coon up there. We also have some huge long leaf pines that while most of the time a coon don't prefer them to climb, sometimes some dogs {not mine of course, just sayin'} will push them so hard they got no choice. I don't have to tell you that even in the winter a 100 ft tall long leaf pine is almost impossible to find a coon in. If you are very lucky and he didn't go to the top, you might see his tail. Not to mention hollows a man can get in. Given all this it don't seem fair to the dog to count against him.
Now, all that said, except for the few years I lived up your way, I hunted here all my life and years ago I had the pleasure of hunting with a little walker female for a while. When she barked you were going to look at a coon it was just that simple. I guess she must have picked her tracks carefully but that is the way she operated...haven't seen it since.
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