Outback1
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Location: North Carolina
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quote: Originally posted by Mike Van Dusen
I have the youngest living son of Stylish Coma in my back yard, once he decided to focus on a racoon and not me he was a natural.
The first kill season I hunted him, he missed not having the coon on 2 trees, both trees I told him "he aint up there" and sent him on , he showed me both those coon!
He had the most natural talent of any pup I have ever hunted, he started later, but when he started he was 95% a finished hound, I know you won't believe these statements, but they are the truth.
I had the good sense to wait on him to start, I don't think he would bark at a cage coon to this day,but I don't put much merit in pups barkin at cages,he showed no interest until 1 day WHEN HE WAS 12 MONTHS OLD, I LET A COON GO AND HELD HIM BY THE COLLAR, UNTIL IT WAS OUT OF SIGHT,coon went in the woods and climbed a tree.
He took off trying to find that coon, I tied him to the bottom of that tree, he had no idea what was happening,I shot that coon several times in the butt, coon walked down about ten feet above his head.
He had know clue the coon was there, I found a pole and punched that coon out and the fight was on!!!!
I killed the coon, laid a drag and let him off the leash and he found it and
treed his guts out, I laid another and he found it Quickly and blew the top out!!
I took him hunting the next night and on the third dropout, we were walking to my other dog treed, and all of a sudden the pup fell treed to our left in the middle of the woods, went to him and he had a raccoon and was telling the world!!!
He has treed coon ever since, just like he was born to.
He has never ran anything but a raccoon except for a couple opossum which I corrected him after the second , and he has not treed 1 since,when he opens you will see a raccoon or a den when he trees,and I am not bragging but he is probably1 of the loudest dogs alive, at least I have never had him with a louder dog, several people have claimed it was there dog till we seen ol'Cash on the tree.
He has been a pleasure to own, he has a first place win and it is my fault not his he is not a Grand Nite, I have had people ask to finish him, buy him and hunt him for me, he is my buddy and he has nothing to prove to me.
I hunted with quite a few dogs off Coma before I got Cash,as a 6 week old puppy,from Chad Medlock 's back yard,and brought him to Indiana,but I wish I would of carried a bunch of females to be bred to Stylish Coma, he was a true STUD DOG,not just some flavor of the month!
If I didn't know better I thought you were talking about my dog Toby, except for the possom part, he never treed one, bar none he was the best hound I ever seen, he died at an early age of 6. He was truly a great hound
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