Registered: Jan 2016
Location: sc
Posts: 160

I want to take time away from the doom and gloom and get to know why y'all love this fine sport. Who got you started and your first memorable hunt that got you hooked?

For me it was a buddy of mine I went to high school with I hunted everything under the sun and had just got my license a boy a couple years older had a coon dog that was given to him and no license. His dad ran a processor from home and we would go hang out and watch the deer come in at dark and help clean and what not. I'll never forget it, we tied the dog up to the tool box and went a little ways from his house and cut his loose I didn't have a clue what was going on after a 3 minutes the silence broke with a long beautiful bawl the kind that makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck after a short while he came treed we walked in and rolled the coon out very much alive after watching the dog dispatch the coon I knew I was hooked. From then on we went several times a week to the point when i would drive up in the daytime you could hear the dog whimpering and wouldnt stop until i walked over and patted him on the head. The dog wasn't a very good one but he will always hold a special place in my heart all the nights I've spent out in the cold due to that one dog.

Not long after I got dogs of my own and I've been hunting hard the last four years and hope to for the rest of my days.

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Registered: Jan 2016
Location: North Hampton, Ohio
Posts: 15

My dad got me started when i was old enough to kind of keep up. I remember one night the dogs were taking an unusual long time to tree, we were in a cornfield waiting and dad told me to go ahead and lay down on his coat till the dogs treed. Went with him a lot over the years.
Man i really miss my dad!

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Registered: Mar 2008
Location: cary,mississippi
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My dad also when I was able to walk threw the woods, he had a half mnt cur half blue tick back in the early to mid 80s if that dog treed he had a coon he made more money with that dog in the winter than he did at his job all yr long, I kinda feel like I helped train that dog I was the one who dragged the coon hide around the yard when he was a pup. That my first experience with a Huntin dog that I can remember I was prob. 7 or 8 yrs old maybe

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Registered: Aug 2018
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Moved from the suburbs of Atlanta to the Tennessee mountains in high school. Had hunted hogs with dogs all my life but never coon hunted. Went with a few buddies and got hooked. 10 years later I’ve got into it and out of it 3 times started with Black and Tan then blueticks. Now I have a kennel full of walkers. Ain’t getting out of it this time.

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Registered: Feb 2015
Location: NW Arkansas
Posts: 1186

It was my dad and Uncle that started me 60 years ago. My dad had a good blue tick black and tan cross. My uncle was the biggest dog dealer around and would bring the new dogs out to hunt with dad's dog to see how they measured up. Not sure which one I hunted with the most but sure have some fond memories of the nights I spent with them. My dad was also my best friend. I have a dog right now named after that blue tick black and tan cross. Wish I had some young man that wanted to hunt but now I mostly hunt by myself.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Oakdale, Pennsylvania
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Family friend and his dad and other high school buddies. Tom Brown and his dad Cliff had Blueticks from Doc Householder. A group of us all hunted together with their hounds all high school friends. That was 1974... Haven't stopped yet..

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Registered: Sep 2010
Location: New Paris, Indiana
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My Dad.

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Registered: Jun 2012
Location: McRae Ar
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Me and a friend started with a Bluetick that wondered in the yard with no collar. We went dang near every night for a year before we ever treed a coon and we loved every minute of it. We would come dragging up right at daylight and have to cut wood most of the morning for his grandmother. Then we would spend the rest of the day sleeping in the woods because there was no sleeping in the daytime at her house. I hunted for several years before I ever met another coon hunter. Hunted in tennis shoes and rubbed kerosene on our arms and legs to fight off the mosquitoes and ticks. We walked a mile and half to the woods and back every night. We had a car battery in a backpack to run the spot light. The spot light was call the "Sunspot" by the way. I sure was in better shape back then!

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Registered: Apr 2005
Location: Barnesville, Ga.
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My father. I ordered that coon sticker out of FullCry for $1.50. I bet my Mama made him put it on the back window.

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Registered: Jan 2017
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My start was reading where the red fern grows in about the fifth grade.it grew on me till I was 18 and would talk with a friend of mine telling me how he was a coon hunter when he was young with his grandfather.then I decided I was getting my own hounds I ordered full cry and found me some hounds I thought I would like,bought me some plotts and its been a great addiction ever since

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Registered: Jan 2017
Location: Miami, Ok
Posts: 387

I had a couple of older gentleman that used our property to coonhunt when I was 7-8. Finally one night they asked me to go with them, we knocked couple coons out to the 6 dogs treed and the fight was on, probably the same time coonhunting hit my blood stream. I got myself some dogs (that I now know were complete junk) and chased them around the woods. finally when I turned 16 I saved up enough money to go by a nice older female. That's where it all came together. Have 2 really nice dogs standing in the pen today and several really nice prospects. The 2 I have in he pen make it more work sometimes as they are loners and will make you walk but its worth it! Have never gotten out and usually eat, sleep, and breath it. My goal is to win a big one, one day. My first ever AO is coming up next week... we will see it might be the one!

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Registered: Aug 2014
Location: WI
Posts: 437

I always felt like the night time was calling me to be out at night to enjoy nature and watch the stars. When I finally move to a place where I could have hounds I jumped right in. The first hound I got was a Kuester black & tan , great voice , not the best hunter. Then I got a couple more black & tans from ART HUNZIKER. They got me hooked on being out at night listening to the hound music.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Central Michigan
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I was beginning to wonder ... I can't be the only one who got hooked due to Where The Red Fern Grows. I didn't even see a coon for the first two years. It didn't matter. I was already a goner.

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Registered: Jul 2014
Location: clintwood,va
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My Dad. He's my best earthly friend. He loves to coon hunt and always was the hardest hunter I knew personally. He's 80 now and has black lung and is on oxygen 24 hours a day, but still hunts. Has to use an atv, but straps his oxygen tank on the back rack and puts the oxygen hose to his nose and goes. Caught me gone last March and went by himself. Turned his atv over on himself and crushed his foot. On crutches for four months and is healed now and rearing to go. Tougher generation. He's my hero!

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Registered: Nov 2004
Location: tennessee
Posts: 856

My dad who got me started. I was carried hunting the first time when i was 2. Been at it ever since. Got to hunt with some great dogs when I was very young. I have pics somewhere with me on a bed with hard time speck.

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Registered: Feb 2010
Location: Flat Creek
Posts: 46

My Uncle Jack and his best friend, Jim, took me on a hunt when l was 16. My family had bird dogs and squirrel dogs at the time. Nothing could compare to Hattie, Luke, and Sam running/treeing that coon. I'm 52 now and still love it. I will never forget that first hunt.

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Registered: May 2016
Location: Palatka, FL
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A DOG that I have long forgotten his name. When the other kids went off hunting with their Families. I was left on the front porch talking to my dog. He was a good listener and even though our feet never touched the dirt. Many a night we treed plenty of coon and chased some off game also on that porch. Dreams and visions of the dog doing good was the fuel that moved me forward once I was old enough to drive. Guess my dreams still out weigh the ability of my dogs. But what the heck. I am still a kid at heart.

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