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Give us the story on that one, Mike.

Did old Doc look pretty good on him?

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left the house about 7:15 last night, walked down the creek about 1/4 mile till Doc started winding one, cut them loose struck about 100 yards from us, Doc struck first; burned the coon across 10 acres up a hollow, Doc located once and fell treed, Devil (Colt's dog) was only about a second behind him on both counts. When we got to tree they were both blowing the top out.

At first couldn't see anything, but finally after falling down a couple times climbing straight up hills on both sides of tree seen the coon about 50 ft. up in a big fork of the water oak.

I shot it in the butt, and it did a superman out of the tree. Didn't take long for the blue dogs to put an end to it.

back to the house and in bed by 8:00.

coon weighed 16 pounds.

good quick hunt for a lazy man.

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You hear a lot of stories, but 16 honest pounds is a pretty good coon for that country.

In all the years I lived there, I only treed one coon that weighed over 25 pounds, and only about three 25 pounders that I can remember.

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yea usually a 15 to 18 lb. coon is a big coon here, a few 20 pounders have started showing up in the last few years due to the fact so many people are putting deer feeders up now.

Last saturday night here a 26lb. 8 oz. coon won the big coon contest. Biggest one we have checked in since been having it for the last several years.

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Hounds look good! Both shiny and what nice heads That's a good sized coon to us too. Since we've seen 2 1/2(one was a kit road kill).... in the last 2 yrs here....ANY coon is big! LOL...
Your night sounds like a good one. So glad you guys have this great sport to do together. Hope you have a million more hunts just like this one!

HappyHunting! Heather

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thanks heather

we try to keep our hounds in top shape.

the only body not in top shape in the photo is mine, I am too fat and slick. I would rather go with Colt ( my son) than anyone else, but I walk to slow to suit him most of the time.

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