T-Monroe
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Our Hunting Adventure
When we pulled up to a standing cornfield in the dense night a few owls sound off in the distance and up on the far hills a pack of coyotes chime in with a few howls. We suit up for what is to be a great night that neither of us seen coming. We round the truck and drop the tailgate to unload two young hounds with neither of us saying a word. We lead the young hounds to the cornfield and look at each other as if to say ok let’s do this as we cut them lose. The next sound we hear is of the corn stalks cracking as the young hounds make their way up and down the rolls. Then before we could even clip the leads around us the young hounds let out a loud bark as they strike a track about half way down the cornfield. Standing there with our ears open, listening to these young hounds doing what we had trained them to do all year. After a few minutes the bawl sounds of the hounds turned to a steady chop and they were treed. As we are walking into them my daughter says do you think they got him? Not wanting to be over confident I say we will soon see (although I was sure hoping for the best). We soon reach the tree and tie the hounds back so we can search the tree. I was a bit slower than my daughter and she starts to shine the tree before me, the next words out of her mouth were they treed three. As I look up and see six eyes looking down at us, my thoughts were of great joy that the young hounds had done the job that we had trained them to do. I must say that the thought went through my mind to drop all three out to these young hounds, but as any coon hunter knows that when training young hounds only one should be taken as not to confuse the hounds. We then gathered the hounds and lead them back to the truck with smiles on our faces and a little more pep in our step. We were on to another spot for what would be another fun adventure with these young hounds. We turn them out along a river with big timber and a cornfield running parallel along the side. As with the first drop it was not long before the sounds of the young hounds let out a big bawl and the chase was on yet again. This time was a bit different as they were going deeper and seem to be running a straight line for the river. A loud splash came from the river and our first thoughts were they are going to catch him on the ground. We start walking in the direction of the hounds and to our surprise they start chopping as to let us know they are treed. When we arrive at the river we find that both hounds have swim a crossed the river and treed. We both look at each other with smiles of joy, but this joy was soon turned to disbelief as we did not account for the river being too high to cross. Our next question to each other was how we are going to get to them before they leave as they were young hounds and we had not tested them on how long they would stay treed. We both decided that the best way was to trust in the training we gave them and to drive around to where they were at. After what seemed like an hour later, we reach the young hounds and to our surprise they were still treed and had the meat. We dropped it out to them and praised them up big time for the great job they did on staying treed. The walk back to the truck was filled with big smiles on our faces as we ended the night. The moral of this story is nothing beats a great night out with your kids and young hounds getting it done for the first time! Enjoy the little things in life, because in a kids mind it may be a big thing!
Hope you enjoyed the story of Our Hunting Adventure.
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