Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Pinckneyville, IL
Posts: 959

Well opening of hide season in IL made a great dog look like an idiot. Cut her loose in a big patch of timber and start watching the Garmin. Runs along the edge til she hits a creek and cuts in about 1/2 mile from me. Into the timber another 1/2 mile and she's out of earshot, but I see that she's slowing down a little. Figuring she's tracking now, but start heading towards her. She then takes of and goes another 3/4 of a mile. Ahhh. I hate it when she gets so deep so quick. Finally stops moving and the Garmin shows she is treed. No roads will get me closer so I hoof it on in. Takes about 30 minutes to get to her due to thick brush and hilly conditions. Finally get there to look up and see a dang possum. GRRRRR! She's a grnitech and this is literally the first time I've EVER seen her under a possum. and I'm sure there was no way there could have been a coon in that little snag of a tree with it.
I guess I could blame the full moon, the frosty conditions, or say that the coon just weren't moving, but I blame my dog. Just goes to show that even the best dogs have their off days and can look totally stupid!
OK, I've vented enough. Thanks for listening!
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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Indiana
Posts: 66

I live in Indiana and we went hunting last night under that moon and treed 3 dens, 1 coon and a possum which my younger dog treed and he has never treed one. then my old female got treed and it was a dang flying squirrel! never sen one before, but every tree my dogs were at leas 400+ on the garmin! I think it was just a off night everywhere

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Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Sugarcreek,Oh
Posts: 125

I pride my dogs on having the "meat" when they tree! 3 trees and not a coon in any of them! Frustrating! The night before they treed 4 and saw all four,but itwas a cloudy night. Who knows?!

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Registered: Jan 2010
Location: Anderson co Tennessee
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lol got to love it and sounds like you do ,,its what makes us keep loading em up good luck

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Registered: Mar 2009
Location: ILLINOIS
Posts: 599

The moon was silly with brightness last night!!

I turned loose at about 7:30 and it took the dog 30 min before he hit a track. He ran it about 300 yards and bumped a few trees but never hooked up solid. He finally came treed and I was sure by the sound of him he had meat... he was stuck on a tile that had about 50lbs of poop under it.

There was a doe and fawn bedded down out in the field about 150 yards from where the dog was and I saw countless rabbits and quail.

My buddy was hunting 2 miles South of where I was at and his dog did something similar but finally locked up on 1 coon.

Both hunts took about 2 hours. I was no where near impressed in either dog last night. I think conditions and both of our dogs being fairly stale made last night not worth much.

With this wind we have now I think tonight will be a sit at home and annoy the old lady night LOL!

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Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Pinckneyville, IL
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Originally posted by old ben
lol got to love it and sounds like you do ,,its what makes us keep loading em up good luck

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Jeff Wagner

Hunting is one of those pleasures that you won't understand if you have to have it explained, which is good because folks who enjoy it can't fully explain why. -Ron Spomer

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Registered: May 2008
Location: darlington mo
Posts: 143

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Originally posted by Billy Beckham
Well I don't feel bad now.
The first dump we had a real good race that ended in a den and then treed one one the outside.

I then got a different dog and had a terrible track end on a den tree.

My eight month old pup did stay out with my female on the second round. It was being first night out. He didn't tree but was there milling around.


Worst part of night is that I took my Polaris ranger on late round and the windshield fogged over and couldn't clear it. I had to drive about two miles with my head hanging out.

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oh boy-couldn't see out of windshield---- poor guy thats ruff

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Registered: May 2008
Location: darlington mo
Posts: 143

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Originally posted by Billy Beckham
Mr Jack@$$!!!!!!!!

It was kind if a sarcastic comment any way, meaning if that's the worst part it wasn't to bad of a night.

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Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Pinckneyville, IL
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Better night last night. Treed one on the outside within 10 minutes of dropping the tailgate. Treed another big boar a few minutes later.

She was on the wrong tree on that one. I shined it for about 5 minutes couldn't find it. Then all of a sudden she quits barking, looks at me, moves over to another tree about 10 ft away and starts treeing. Big boar in that tree. I think it was a layup cause she never barked on track, just started treeing. If it was that's probably why she missed the tree by a little bit.

But over all a much better night. Two coons and back to the truck in about 45 minutes. Went on home and hung out with the wife.

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Jeff Wagner

Hunting is one of those pleasures that you won't understand if you have to have it explained, which is good because folks who enjoy it can't fully explain why. -Ron Spomer

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Location: Pinckneyville, IL
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Originally posted by Larry Duley
oh boy-couldn't see out of windshield---- poor guy thats ruff

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Jeff Wagner

Hunting is one of those pleasures that you won't understand if you have to have it explained, which is good because folks who enjoy it can't fully explain why. -Ron Spomer

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