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52 years for me started when i was 5

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I guess I'm still a newcomer as I've only been coon hunting for 34 years.

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Im really a newcomer, ive only been hunting 9 years, since i was 7

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first time i went was 15yrs ago with a walker and a blue dog, remember it like it was yesterday 6 coons that night on couches creek in lunenburg co va

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Nope yall are safe I'm only in like 5 years or so. Been broke and sleepy since the day I started. ;]

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I started as a fetus.

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32 years started when i was 7,walker dogs ever since

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I have been hunting blueticks since I first started for 35 yrs

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32 years started when i was 7,walker dogs ever since

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surprized theres any coon left for me..... just kiddin, ive only been at it for about 6 years or so...

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23 years started with a plott and have had some of the other ones now I hunt B&T's thank god I seen the light. LOL

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started when i was 7 so 19 years but i did take a few off in between. always blue dogs but rite now running a walker two good blue prospects coming up though

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I'll be 47 in November so I guess about 40 years and still going strong

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I started with my Dad when I was about 7 yrs. old. So I guess I been chasing coonhounds for about 48 years. Pops hunted grade redbones and Black & Tans back then. We got our first taste of English when a school buddy of mine gave me a grade English Bluetick when I was in the 6th grade. Talked Pops into letting me have it and I started that pup with Pops ole Black & Tan female. So I guess I been hunting English, All English, and nothing but English for about 43 years now. And thats not all, the Hooper Ridge Hounds I hunt today go back to that very first grade English dog that my buddy gave me.

Don't know if you call that dedication or stupidity but I'm still waiting for the man that can show me I was completely wrong for sticking with this line of English.

Oh by the way, that first grade English dog I started with was 1/2 English and 1/2 Redbone. On the English side His Great Grandpa was a dog called Kirkbride's Blue Smoke. Smoke was (I believe) related to Vanzant's Sam as I think Smoke was out Marie's Blue Nell which I think was also Vanzant Sam's mother, (I Think??)

At any rate it looks like I'm too dumb to quit now!! Ha! Ha!

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started when i was 8 and now im 35 so 27 years and counting lol

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31 years

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47 Years

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32 years. Started when I was 13...


Fred you must have read my mind. I almost made this same post yesterday.

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I have been hunting blueticks since I first started for 35 yrs

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Started probally about 15 yrs ago when I was 4, just hunted off & on till the last 7 yrs

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38 yrs and still doing it as long as the good lord will let me

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56 years and counting. Just can't seem to give it up. After going to my first night hunt in 1970, I can't seem to give those up either!! Take care, Ron.

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great minds think alike hobo.dang ron i didnt think you was that old lol

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BEEN AT IT SINCE I WAS SO SMALL I HAD TO HOLD ON TO MY DADS HIP POCKETS AND HE WOULD PULL US UP THE HILLS IN AND AROUND DALE HOLLOW LAKE I'LL BE 39 THIS YR AND THE LOVE FOR IT HAS ONLY GROWN STRONGER THROUGH THE YRS HUNTED MY FIRST COMP. HUNT AT 11YRS OLD THE HUNTS WERE 3HRS LONG BACK THEN STILL ENJOY THE MAJORITY OF THOSE I GO ON BUT I HAVE 2 SONS NOW THAT LIKE TO GO WITH ME AND THERE PA EVER CHANCE THEY GET HOPE THEY MARRY AS GOOD A WOMAN AS I DID SHE NEVER SAYS A WORD NO MATTER HOW OFTEN OR HOW LITTLE I HUNT AND I'VE HUNTED JUST ABOUT EVER BREED HAVE TO SAY I LIKE A REDBONE AND WALKER THE BEST BUT TO EACH HIS ON AND GOOD HUNTIN TO ALL

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I can't remember the first time grandpa took me coon huntin', I reckon I would have been 6-7 years old. By the time I was 13-14 years old, I had walked enough beans and tasseled enough corn to get me a hound pup. It was a Redtick I called Rattler. I reckon that would have been sometime around 1963. That would make it 47+ years. Too many to remember.

Back in the day, they hired young guys to walk the beans and hoe out the weeds and volunteer corn instead of using roundup like they do today. We detasseled seed corn so they could make the hybrid corn. I sarted working helping a fellow build apartments when I was 16 for $1 an hour. He gets $600 or more a month for those same apartments today.

The coon hound types have changed a lot since then. There were very few "registered dogs" around back then and good track dogs were plentiful but few tree dogs. It is just the opposite today.

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