Registered: May 2007
Location: fairmont wv
Posts: 11948

talked with a fellow that sold me my first dog i have coonhunted on on his farm for over 40 years he getting up in his years sold his cattle told me sold all his timber going to clear cut it very soon needles to say i dont have any ground yhat got enough ground big enough to hunt with out getting on posted ground talk to these people they said no hunting dont let my dogs get on thier property i can rember when old folks lived in this area you could walk through thier yard getting to another patch of woods but they all gone new people more problems just mize well sell out be done with it

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Registered: Mar 2009
Location: Thorndale,Pa
Posts: 316

I hear ya. I have a good friend i hunt with that has some nice hunting still,But if i don't hunt with him i have to head 45 mins away and hunt game lands and state parks.I've lost over 2000 acres in the last 4 years with in 10 miles of my house. Between the traffic and such i feel like my days of coon hunting are dwindling down. The other problem i'm having is these last couple of walker pups i've had do everything a 100 mph and burn up some woods quick so before i fade out i might look to a closer hunting dog as well..

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Registered: Oct 2009
Location: Preston County, West Virginia
Posts: 145

Sorry to hear that, it is getting tuff for any kind of hunting thhese days!!!!!!!!!

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Registered: Dec 2009
Location: Powell,Kentucky
Posts: 23

sad to hear people don't want hunting going on. i can remember when i was a young boy going with my dad and grandpa and like most of you said you could walk right in someone's yard.

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Registered: May 2007
Location: fairmont wv
Posts: 11948

yea its getting bad every where my dogs get pretty deep sometimes i out of work right now cant afford to buy a tracking system i used to hunt in preston county back in the 60s and early 70s out around flatrocks old fellow was freinds with my grand pap was from there he had family that had ground there he got killed in the farmington mine when it blew up then some one bought that ground and posted it was ebd of hunting there

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Registered: Aug 2009
Location: MIDDLE OF NO WHERE WV
Posts: 1732

IF U STILL HAVE MY # GIVE ME A CALL I HAVE SOME PLACES 1HR 20MIN FROM YOU GIVE ME A CALL

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Registered: Aug 2009
Location: MIDDLE OF NO WHERE WV
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Originally posted by Jim88
Sorry to hear that, it is getting tuff for any kind of hunting thhese days!!!!!!!!!

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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 19374

Hate to hear this... The land where Bob and I hunted in the 70s has been Long Gone and filled with homes for years now..... We have little open space left in our area of MA and have to go coonhunting at the mercy of GOOD friends when we get a chance. We dont even have much chance to house hunting dawgs here... as we can't keep dogs outside, would have to pay for Indoor kennels...and the dogs wouldn't be well "weatherproofed" when they went out to hunt that way......
Moral of the story??? I guess that ALL of you who have lands left have to work REALLY hard to keep them... and we ALL have to try to get the YOUTH interested in all kinds of hunting!!!!!

Hoping all of you are lucky enough to find new friends and new hunting grounds! Heather and bob

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Registered: Oct 2009
Location: Preston County, West Virginia
Posts: 145

I live in the Newburg area not far from Flatrocks, work in Reedsville! Just getting ito Coon hunting with my own dogs used to go with an old friend a few years ago, was into the Beagle competion hunts for a while, now just pleasure hunt a little!

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Registered: Oct 2009
Location: Huntsville, MO
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