Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Comer, Georgia
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.....easy answer for me........Hyde or Dare county, North Carolina...............ya'all that hunt those pocosins every night...........ya'all are just plain TOUGH................anyone who has not hunted in 'em hasn't got a clue about what rough huntin' is.................anybody from eastern North Carolina on here??

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Western North Carolina
Posts: 97

I've heard that it is sure enough tough down there. However, I suggest you don't come to the other end of the state and fight mountains, cliffs, whitewater rivers, and laurel hells to get a chance to hunt a coon population only a fraction as large...it ain't no pinic here either lol!!!

I think I'm gonna start drivng to the middle of the state, that way I only have to fight the clearcuts and briars lol!!! I bet my Tarheel friends from out of the swamps and pocosins would agree to that, huh?

(Actually I have a cousin down in Caswell Co. near the VA line...they have some nice hunting down there in that pretty rolling farmland.)

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Comer, Georgia
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I was born and raised in the mountains.............I hear ya............but I still think those eastern NC swamps and pocosins are the worst (smiles).

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Sylva, North Carolina (the far Western Tip of the State)
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I don't know, but I sure don't like those swamps you got down there! I guess my hind end will stay in the truck again this weekend! I'm not getting wet, getting leeches and lord only knows what else from that swamp water, I'll leave that up to Quincy. And with all the rain you've had, you probably will have to use a boat to get to where we hunted last time!

I reckon he said that he'd hunt. He's not sure if he wants to hunt Hank or Molly yet.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Comer, Georgia
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or Georgia hip boots (old tennis shoes)!!

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Sylva, North Carolina (the far Western Tip of the State)
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He'd just bring an extra pair of boots, and pants! You know how stubborn he is.

See, he's kinda itchy about wearing waders, because about a month ago, someone he used to work with drowned in the Tuckaseegee river because his waders filled with water and he couldn't get them off. It was bad. He said he'd take his chances getting his truck seat wet!

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Talala, Oklahoma
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I have no interest in hunting either the swamps or the high mountains.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: North Carolina
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I live in mid eastern NC right on the coast and we got all those swamp, briar, pocosin, thicket, marsh grass things happening here. I sure prefer to go to the middle of the state. Those mountians are not fun either, given the choice, I will take the swamps over the mountains anyday. My short little legs can handle mud andmuck, btu not all that climbing. I kind of wish the final cast of the world hunt was in some of this territory. It sure would eperate the sure enough coondogs and coonhunters, from the not so much. LOL See how many made the entire 2 hours

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Sylva, North Carolina (the far Western Tip of the State)
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Why not hunt in the mountains? Not all the time do you have to climb up rock cliffs, through laurel bushes and nasty stuff like that! Naw, just teasin, I like the flatlands too, they tend to spoil a mountain girl like myself. Of course, I smoke so many cigarettes I huff and puff on flat ground too, so there's not much difference. It just takes longer for my legs to hurt on flat ground.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Central Arkansas
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Well, our hills and "mountains" ain't nothing like most folks on here, but I'd rather be pecked to death by a duck than hunt in the hills...

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Talala, Oklahoma
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Christy, I grew up hunting the Ozarks, and didn't think anything of it.

But Kansas has ruined me, I guess. Whenever I go back home and hunt a couple f nights, the combination of rough walking and very scarce coon population always makes me glad to come back to the prairies.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Sylva, North Carolina (the far Western Tip of the State)
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Yeah, I know what you mean. We go down to my husband's dad's place all the time, Middle of NC. It is flat, straight, and goes on forever there. I love it if it didn't get so darn hot in the summer. It's usuall about 10 degreed difference between here and there.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Beaver Springs, Pennsylvania
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But I would have to say the worst hunting area I was ever in was in southern OH. My gawd the green brair was so thick & nasty & the lil hills are straight up n down. I much prefer our open field land & woodlots here in central PA. I ain't fond of hunting the mtns., but will climb them to retrieve a dog. Then you have laurals, green brair, down tree tops, boulders & ravines. All in one shot. I'm not wimp, but, goodness me, give me wide open fields & nice woodlots any day.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: SW Michigan-again
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I dont want to sound dumb, but what is a POCOSIN?????
is it a cross between a porcipine and a water mocosin????
I know how you southern folks have funny names for things.
Or is it what you call you cosin if they dont have much money???
LOL.LOL.LOL.
Just kiddin, Give the yank some credit, just never heard of a POCOSIN.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: OHIO
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but its still better than wading around in the swamps and cutovers in the south. those sawbriars are ugly!!!

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Illinois
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I used to want to coonhunt anywhere I thought I could catch a coon. These days, the flatland ditch and patch hunting here in the Land of Lincoln has spoiled me to where neither the swanps or the mountain interest me any at all. Heck, there are some spots here in Illinois where I don't hunt that I used to. There are alot of times I can tree a coon within a quarter of mile of where I turned out and have easy walking to the tree.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Calhoun, Georgia
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Monroe, Bledsoe, Blount, Polk counties in eastern Tennessee. The hills can get rough in a hurry and the coon can get even thinner. If you hunt wild coon and don't go newr buckets it is still possible to go 2 or 3 nights and never hear a bark out of top notch hounds. January and February make a man just love to stay home and hear momma nag. In the summer, them big ole ridges get filled with copperheads and they can stare you in the face when you are climbing 2000 feet straight up.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Morrison TN
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So Bigtime, I see you have hunted around home LOL. You get used to it after a while. I am from Van Buren county, the one on the mountain that borders Bledsoe. One thing you forgot was that even if you do tree a coon it might just take an hour or two just to get to the dogs.

I'm in Johnson City now and the mountains are bigger, but the woods are more open and the coon population is much, much better.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: bowdon ga
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around the everglades in florida,also there swamps.infested with snakes,rattlers,cooper heads and cotton mouths,plus the gators and then there giant mosquitos with a wing spand of at leasta inch and half. then to top it off there chiggers or called red bugs in the south. now that is a miserable state to hunt in anytime of the year..................... c r moss

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Lawrence, Michigan
Posts: 167

The place I would least like to hunt: anywhere where you have to watch for poisonous snakes everywhere you go. In this area of Michigan, we have our share of swamps, and I love to hunt them, even though they can be thick and nasty. But at least you don't have to worry about being bitten and getting sick or DEAD! I don't know you you all do it. Guess I'll stay a northern boy, until I retire, quit huntin', and then I'll move down south and drive real slow in the passing lane! HA!

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Comer, Georgia
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a pocosin is essentially a peat bog/swamp in Eastern North Carolina..........it's an Algonquin Indian word for "swamp on a hill"....................One step you will sink to your ankle, the next might be to your crotch......................and they are characterized by unbelievably thick myrtle and bay thickets, complete with so much greenbriar, you can't see your hand in front of your face.........................for hundreds and hundreds of yards........................I was doing a snake survey on Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, near Manteo, NC.....................ran transects for 10 minutes.......................in most habitats I would get between 1/4 and a half mile.................ran several in the pocosins where, in 10 minutes, I got 70 yards..............it's so thick ya can't even fall down...............worst I've ever seen..........and I hunt some rough places.............ask Christy.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: East Tennessee
Posts: 36

I think here at home, in the mountains of East TN has to rank right up there in the top. I have started to my dogs a many of time and be hearing them treed and it take an hour or somtimes two to get to them.I would also rank Eastern N. Carolina right up there in the top also. I've bear hunted in Hyde county and it by far is the thickest stuff I've ever been in.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Washington, NC
Posts: 3315

Ya'll quit bad mouthing my neiborhood, I live in Beaufort county, next door to Hyde county.
You tell them Long Ears, it's not to bad if you stay out of the bays. I've hunted the mountains in NC and Kentucky, not many coons but the woods are open unless you get in a larael or roderdendom ( I can't spell) thicket. If you do then you are in mess about 1/3 as thick as a bay.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: East Tennessee
Posts: 36

I,ll agree on the part about a 1/3 as thick but there is just somthing about that straight up and down stuff that seems to just about kill most people.

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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Newfreeport, PA
Posts: 71

i'd rather walk up & down 3 of these steep greene county PA hills than walk anywhere there is alot of snakes.a good snake is a dead snake.

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