Larry Atherton
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Central Michigan
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A first for me
I have raised a ton of dogs over the years, but I have never had one like the one I have now. She started at running at about 7-8 months old and started treeing at 10 months. The thing was she started treeing after season. So she went all the way from March to October without a coon.
I was excited when season came in, and cut her into a corn field at 1:00 am. She quickly treed a coon in the same field her mother treed her first that I harvested to her. Once the gun goes off she quits treeing, and has absolutely no interest in the dead coon. I can't coax her to do any more than a quick sniff. So far I shot 3 coons down to her with the exact same results.
Last night about 2:00 am, I cut her up a dried creek bed along side of a woods that is a complete mess. There are trees, tree branches laying every where. The under growth is thick. She went up over the creek bank into the woods, and did a good job trailing. She was about 800 yards away when she located and rolled it over into a beautiful chop. She was standing against a huge Swamp Oak. I usually have a hard time finding the coon in those trees even when they have no leaves, but not this time. There at the top sat an extra large coon. I thought about shooting it to reward her, but then I remembered who I was hunting. She just doesn't seem to need a coon. So I leashed her up and told her in a hole. About 50 yards later, I bent down to let her know she was a good girl. Go figure.
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