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Guys & Gals,

This Friday. October 29th, the Chosen Valley Sporting Dogs Club will be hosting the 2nd Annual Bud Thompson Fur Hunt and Big Coon Contest.

This event is held in the honor of local fur hunter Bud Thompson. Bud's health has been ailing the last couple years and we're unsure if he'll be able to attend this year.

Here is how it works:

Team up with a local ahead of time or hunt at home with your regular hunting buddies. Coon must be harvested the night of the event.

Entry fee with enter the big coon contest is $10. Food & Drink is included with each entry.

Deadline for weigh-in is 11:30 pm Friday at the Chatfield Fish & Game Club.

22143 Cty Rd 102 Chatfield MN
From Hwy 52, take CR 5 approx. 2.9 mi to CR 102. Rt on gravel CR 102. Lft at Y intersection.Clubhouse 1/2 miles on rt.

An All-U-Can-Eat Chili Supper along with Coffee, Soda, and snacks and other donated goodies. Bonfire if weather is permitting.

This year we've got some nice prizes for our Big Coon Contest including an LEMS Lights LED Light on a Soft Cap, Sweatshirts, Skinning Knives, and Leashes.

Go hunting and meet at the clubhouse by 11:30pm for some fellowship, story telling and chili.

Thanks to our sponsors

Larry Marshall @ LEMS Lights for the Light, Wiebke Fur & Trading Company for the Sweatshirts, Jason & Tami Goetzinger / 1st Class Plbg & Heating for the Chili, William Drogemuller for the Knives, Marc Brogan Wild Sky Kennels for the Leashes.

Any Questions Call :

Lonny Horihan 507-251-9733 or Marc Brogan 507-421-2563

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hey marc so we pay our entry fee when we bring the coon in to weigh?

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Yes. That will be fine.
I didn't feel like rounding up everyone's entry ahead of time. Many hunters wanted to hunt near home first and not come to the club until after.
I hope to see you guys there. It's always fun!

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plan on being there if the weather is better than last year and i'm back in shape lol

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Dang Brogy....wish I would have known about this sooner, or I would have loaded up Cube and ole Thorn.....headed your way....

You know where any "bigguns" are at?

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I've got a spot I've been reserving for this hunt. Dad live trapped a bunch of coon this summer and turned them loose in there. Several of them were plenty big enough in August to win this deal. I've been testing them a few times this year and there is still a few around there. Its one of the few areas that still has some standing corn around too. Should be able to tree a couple there.
I'm down on dog power right now. Ox is at my partner's, Rocket is being hunted by my Dad, and I'm thinking Sky is bred so I'm trying to leave her at home as much as possible.
Cube would have a hay day at this spot.
I've got a club member coming up to hunt with me. Hopefully we can find a biggun' in there.
I'd love for you to come up this way some fall, but then again if I lived in coonhunter paradise like you do, I wouldn't travel too far. Especially when Michigan is a lot closer than Minnesota.

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Tonights the night!

See ya there!

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Weather appears to be perfect for tonight's hunt.

Bonfire, Hounds, Chili, baked goods, & fellowship... What more could you want for an autumn coon hunt.

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hey marc got any results from this??? sorry I couldn't make it just a long drive and I've been having truck problems...lol maybe the 3rd year will be a charm lol take care

Chris Stoppelman

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I heard Lonny won with a 35#er.

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Yep. Lonny Horihan won it with a 35 1/2 lber. That thing was a beast. Bud wasn't supposed to be out and about so Lonny went to his place and picked him up. Cut loose right behind Bud's place and treed that one. I guess that coon has had it easy the last couple years with Bud not hunting.

Jason Goetzinger won 2nd w/ a 26+ lbs. Tim Lawstuen won 3rd with a 24+lbs.

The rest averaged around 20 lbs.

Not too many coonhunters attended. Maybe a dozen. But there were a bunch of the Mason's club and Fish & Game club members that tagged along with the coonhunters. It was a real good time.

A couple guys sat around the campfire cooking steaks and drinking coffee. I took a group down the road and our first tree wasn't 200 yards behind the clubhouse. Provided some hound music for them boys at the fire.

It was a good time.

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