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Running season use to be called shake season. A friend and me had a friend that could climb almost any tree, if he could not climb it he would climb one next to it and swing over. We had some great races, we did this to all our young dogs.

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i still do it

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Heck NO.I dont need to waste my energy climbin no trees.Way i see it there plenty more to go tree.It must have been pretty commen back in the day.

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I think there wass a spring and fall runnig season.

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I never could climb worth a crap, to old now, but we sure had some great times. Just thinking back was cool to watch a great Houndsman of today, climb a tree back then.LOL

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That was the first time I realized I was growing up....I was up an oak bout 40 foot, hanging out over a rock cliff about 40' , laid out on my belly for a 10 dollar hide. I looked out over the next count and said FOOL what are you doing....last time I climbed for a coon.

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Good way to ruin a dog, teach em that at every tree there is gonna be smoking hot track leaving it at some point. Start with a good solid tree dog and before you know it they are milling around every tree looking for that hot track.

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Never had that problem

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Good way to ruin a dog, teach em that at every tree there is gonna be smoking hot track leaving it at some point. Start with a good solid tree dog and before you know it they are milling around every tree looking for that hot track.

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Good way to ruin a dog, teach em that at every tree there is gonna be smoking hot track leaving it at some point. Start with a good solid tree dog and before you know it they are milling around every tree looking for that hot track.

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I wont climb anything but I will poke them out and when they are sitting low in berry,pawpaw,persimmon trees they are eager to jump and run.

They are hard to get back in a tree the second time

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I used to climb trees when I was young and dumb until I met a fellow coonhunter in a wheelchair at a coonhound event 35 years ago.

We got to talking about things and I finally got the nerve to ask him about the wheelchair. He told me he climbed a tree to shake a coon out to his dogs, a tree limb broke and he fell 25 feet to the ground and broke his back. He was left paralyzed from the chest down.

After hearing his story I never climbed a tree again. His accident and permanent paralysis was enough to convince me that if I wanted a coon to come out of a tree I'd use a .22 do it.

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Last 1 climbed by myself , the top broke. I fell about 40 ft. & knocked me out . Didn't know where I was at after I woke up . Went to Uva. Hospital, with internal bleeding , 2 broken vertebrae & cracked ribs . Now Ruger1022 does my climbing . LOL

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im glad i came along when the 22 was the norm! haha i might of had to carry a butt load of them out but i aint climbing up there face to face with one last one i tryed to hold down with my boots to get a final round in had me buyen a new pair the next day from the two big chunks he took with him! still got the scar on my big toe to prove it! haha

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worked for telephone co 40 yrs //friend worked 4 a tree co. gave me a pr of climbers carried a machette chopped off the limb it was on. till i climbed down & cut em loose & the race was on...

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Yep, I climbed a large pine tree back in my late teens. I was so high my buddy couldn't see me or my light. A limb broke, and I fell. All I know is I bounced 3 times before catching a limb.

To this day I still don't sleep on that side.

That was the last tree I climbed. The worst part is now I am bothered by heights.

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Good way to ruin a dog, teach em that at every tree there is gonna be smoking hot track leaving it at some point. Start with a good solid tree dog and before you know it they are milling around every tree looking for that hot track.

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Guys iv shook more coons out of trees than some folks have ever seen up a tree, i loved it then and wish i could do it now, had better track dogs and lots more fun shoot give me some climbers and we will do it tonight
that is if yawl got the dog power lol

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Good way to ruin a dog, teach em that at every tree there is gonna be smoking hot track leaving it at some point. Start with a good solid tree dog and before you know it they are milling around every tree looking for that hot track.

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fat guys dont climb tree's. thats what a 22 rifle is for !!

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We had a young man from our coon club we used to have around here fall out of a big oak kick'n a coon out several years ago. He didnt make it. Died on the way to the hospital. He was 17 or 18 years old I believe. Use a .22 you will live longer.

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Yep this why it should not be done! Was very dangerous, we were very young and careless back then. Dogs are much better now. No need to do this.

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I climbed a tree once when i first started hunting. got up there. Was about half scared to death due to the height. The coon just sat there staring at me. It sure looked like he was daring me to try and shake him out. I backed away shimmied down the tree and haven't done it since. lol never really told anyone about getting punked out by a coon either.

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i use to have to climb trees before i was old enough to carry a gun,back then i was more worried about getting a coon then i was myself.that all changed when i got older,i was climbing a tall tree to get a coon down that was hung in a fork that i had just shot,and i heard a voice that said ,you know if you fall your dead,i said yes sir.i couldnt get down that tree fast enough and aint been back up one since.lol

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