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Bruce I am sure there are plenty of tuff places to hunt, a lot tuffer than what I hunt up North, but I get awfull tired of hearing you and other southern gentlemen make comments like wearing tennis shoes and coon falling out of the easy trees hunting up North. I think if you spent a few nites up here in your tennis shoes and shorts hunting our big woods, ravines, multiflora rose thickets and swamps you might have a better appreciation of other peoples country. Just like your hot sandy swampy area would be tuff on my Northern hounds I wonder how your thin skinned walker dogs would fare hunting three or four hrs in 9 degree frosty powdered snow on a hard running 25lb boar. At least you don't have to worry bout those little bitty Florida coon drowning a dog, but you can keep the gators and snakes! LOL!!

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I used to hunt this place in Holland that was right next to a 100 acres of strawberries. Just on the other side was a swamp you would sink up to your neck. And once you got through that there was deep deep gully’s. I tried wearing just tennis shoes one night because I knew my feet were gonna get wet. Not a good choice. Us yankees had it way to easy up there.

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I think we all misjudge the other man's hunting grounds, it's what we get used to hunting in that conditions our dogs to that terrain. I hunt mountains, but I respect those that hunt different areas, all areas have their plusses and minuses, make no mistake about that! Dave

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Doug your right. The tennis shoes discussions are uncalled for. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

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Bruce don't think I'm bashing your dog in anyway, but Indiana is not NY. NY gets more snow, and the majority of the state has very few coons in comparison to Indiana. The Midwest is where the coons are. There's a big reason there's not really any big hunts in northern pa or ny. We had a pro classic up here about a month ago. We had a hard time getting the entries to fill enough to have it. Now if it was Indiana and you had one it would be sold out rather quickly. And I do agree, out there you don't need a track dog. You need a tree dog, one that blows out and trees the hot ones and leaves the old tracks alone.

Ex: my old female isn't the best looking dog for treeing coons out in NW Ohio or SE Arkansas. But she looks pretty good around here in S New York. She takes the tracks as she comes to them. She'll get deep if she doesn't find one close.

A buddy of mine has a very good dog for Ohio. Blows through the country and trees coon very easily. But that same dog doesn't work well here. He out hunts his mouth about on every drop.

My male is in between those 2 dogs. He can look really good around here and can look like a cull.

So what I'm saying is I agree that not every line of dogs is going to work everywhere.

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As far as there not being a lot of Coon in NY, this is my brothers catch to the end of December. He does not trap for them. He said they are more of a nussiance than anything. He said there are so many Coon he could catch 200 if he wanted too. And that’s only 1.5 months worth of trapping.

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As far as there not being a lot of Coon in NY, this is my brothers catch to the end of December. He does not trap for them. He said they are more of a nussiance than anything. He said there are so many Coon he could catch 200 if he wanted too. And that’s only 1.5 months worth of trapping.

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yes western NY has some coon but still not like out in Indiana. You're more than welcome to come here for a hunt anytime. I'd say Kentucky has a better population judging from the scores I've seen.

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By your logic then you have a coon population like Liberty or Carrollton or Crittenden. I mean those places are in your state, on both sides of you. So by your logic if its that way on both sides it must be the same in the middle.

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By your logic then you have a coon population like Liberty or Carrollton or Crittenden. I mean those places are in your state, on both sides of you. So by your logic if its that way on both sides it must be the same in the middle.

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