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One of my coon huntin friends (Chris West) came over about 9:30 this morning. Just to hang out around the farm before going to see the dentist for a split tooth. We drove my polaris ranger out back to see the new fence I just put up for the horses. It was about 10:00 am, we drove past a well known den tree. I always enjoy seeing the kittens raised in this particular den each year. A large coon was sitting in a small diameter tree atleast two feet away and two feet higher than the hole in the den tree. As we drew closer he positioned himself better and jumped the two feet across to the den. He hung upside down and looked at us long enough for Chris to say "I wish I had a camera!" Then entered the den. This was a big coon. It was fairly warm with the sun trying to shine between clouds. So much for branches having to touch! Any similar experiences? I have one more I will share later in this thread...

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No but I have set in a Boat and watch a Coon run in front on the dogs and run up a tree, set there a minute and run down and take off. I think he was listening to the dogs.

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I've got something kinda similar. One night me and my dad cut the dogs into some hardwoods on the edge of a cornfield that bordered a 8 - 10 year old cutover. The dogs struck a good hot track and took it straight into the cutover. They ran it about 5 or 6 six minutes before it started sounding funny. They were locating but still moving. We hot footed it in there. They had treed the coon, but it was literally jumping through the air from tree to tree in this cutover. The dogs could either hear it or see it because they stayed right under it. We could see the coon too and started chasing it, with the dogs right with us. After about a hundred yards through nasty cutover the coon finally stopped long enough for us to get a shot. He was never more than 15 off the ground. It was a big ol' boar. It was pretty crazy.

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treed a coon on a river bank back in the summer we found the coon siting in the top of a large maple when i blew my squaller he come down the tree then went uot a large limb that streched almost to the far bank about 20 feet of the water when he got to the end he bailed out in the river and swam to the other side the dogs never quit treeing and didn t even know the coon was gone

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One evening driving home and almost there, I saw a small coon scrambling out on some small branches hanging out over the dirt road. His weight, which wasn't much, bent the branch down and out over the road into a tree branch from the other side. He reached out to the other tree branch when he got there and crossed into the other tree. I commented to my wife that that coon will never get hit on the road if he keeps crossing the road like that! About a week later while riding my horse I came to the same spot and saw that coon do it again, just like the first time. This time I studied the trees and it was a good ten feet between branches without the weight of that little coon. I'm sure he did it accidentally the first time then must have thought it a good way to get across the road? Who knows but it was pretty neat to see!

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Last Monday our dogs would tree really hard and then quit and start again. My buddy and I were puzzled because his 7 year old Grand was w/my two year old and our joint 10 month pup.
When we finally got to the dogs we noticed they were treeing and then jumping into the river and barking at the bank.
Then climb out onto the side of the tree, tree some more and jump back intot he river and do it again.
We could see the coon under some sticks next to the bank.
We hunt this spot alot but have never been to that part of the woods before.
I'm guessing they must have run that coon a few too many times and he had enough.

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Turned one loose for some pups one evening and was standing in a field watching for it to go up, watching the tops of the trees to see it climbing. Seen in climb up one tree and jump into another.

Seen one jump trees at night while trying to shoot it out as well.

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Originally posted by davebutler
One of my coon huntin friends (Chris West) came over about 9:30 this morning. Just to hang out around the farm before going to see the dentist for a split tooth. We drove my polaris ranger out back to see the new fence I just put up for the horses. It was about 10:00 am, we drove past a well known den tree. I always enjoy seeing the kittens raised in this particular den each year. A large coon was sitting in a small diameter tree atleast two feet away and two feet higher than the hole in the den tree. As we drew closer he positioned himself better and jumped the two feet across to the den. He hung upside down and looked at us long enough for Chris to say "I wish I had a camera!" Then entered the den. This was a big coon. It was fairly warm with the sun trying to shine between clouds. So much for branches having to touch! Any similar experiences? I have one more I will share later in this thread...

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Dave,
You better get rid of that one. I don't need you telling me that Ol' Buddy treed the GHOST COON again!!

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Well, I wasn't there, so I guess I'll have to believe It.

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The dogs treed on a dead 12 inch diameter tree, like a telephone pole with no limbs. 20 feet away was a huge sweetgum with the bottom limb at least 4 feet directly above the dead tree. Of course we shined the big tree but decided there was no way the coon could have jmped up that much. About then I saw the whole coon about 15 feet from the top of the dead tree. We took an easy shot and missed I guess but the coon took off and did manage the jump.

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Registered: Aug 2009
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On a night hunt some years ago .My dog split treed alone three dogs on another tree not far apart.Me and another cast member went to my tree and the rest of the cast went to score the first tree.I had the meat tied my dog to the tree with the coon in it. the tree was about five inches around and twenty feet high.Then with my dog treeing like mad and tied to that tree made that coon jump over two feet to another tree Thank God I had that cast member see that coon jump or I would have had to do some fast talking

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