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Location: Indiana
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Here in mid-southern Indiana we have alot of corn/bean fields, alot of bottom ground that typically floods. Most of our chases are in hickory/beech/oak woods, across a river or dredge ditch, maybe through a grain field. This time of year the coon are eating alot of field corn and we do tree often along a field edge. We can usually make a drop or two, BS for awhile, have a cup of coffee or two and be home by midnight.
What are your "typical" hunts like in other parts of the country (MN,TX,SC, ect)?

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Here in my area of sc...we typically hunt creek branches, shallow water draws or mainly water run offs out of surronding fields, or might have a beaver pond or two to get soaking wet in. Most of my drops in fields are made along the side of turned under corn fields. Always have a few drops in big timber swamps, cypress that have stumps so big and crazy the dog can be treed above head level on the side of the tree. Our nights.....hmmmm can go from being home at 12 to being home at day light, never really know on that one.

There is much more this is what we hunt mainly on off time, competition of course you dont know where you might end up.

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not much grain raised here.hunt lake area alot,mostly old wagon roads that are cut up the mountains,strip pits also tuff lots of springs ,creeks but left side is usally straight up and the right sight is straight up lol got to love it

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Here in mid-southern Indiana we have alot of corn/bean fields, alot of bottom ground that typically floods. Most of our chases are in hickory/beech/oak woods, across a river or dredge ditch, maybe through a grain field. This time of year the coon are eating alot of field corn and we do tree often along a field edge. We can usually make a drop or two, BS for awhile, have a cup of coffee or two and be home by midnight.
What are your "typical" hunts like in other parts of the country (MN,TX,SC, ect)?

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Rolling/steep hills here in North Central WV. Big hollows and small creeks bout every place you turn loose. Usually turn loose in the bottoms spring-summer, and towards the top of the ridges fall-winter. This part of the state is probably the easiest terrain.

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HERE IN MARYLAND WE HAVE ALOT OF MOUNTAIN GROUND WITH BIG WOODS. ALOT OF STEEP HOLLOWS THAT HAVE SMALL STREAMS IN ALSO. SOME OF IT HAS BEEN STRIPPED FOR COAL. THESE AREAS ARE NOT MUCH GOOD. WE HAVE FARM GROUND WITH ALOT OF CORN. STARTING TO SEE MORE BEAN FIELDS HERE. ALSO AROUND SOME LAKES. WHEN WE TREE WE HOPE THEY ARE NOT IN A HEMLOCK TREE. REALLY DIFFICULT TO FIND ONE IF HE DOSE NOT WANT TO LOOK. ALOT OF HEMLOCKS GROW IN SAME AREA AND THE TOPS ARE TOGETHER. WE DO HAVE A CUP OF COFFEE OR A BOTTLE OF WATER. AS FOR TIMES TO GET HOME COULD BE ANYTIME. ESPECIALLY IN MOUNTAINS IF DOGS DECIDE TO GO TO TOP. NOT ALOT OF ROADS TO GET YOU THERE.

AND WE TRY AND STAY AWAY FROM PORKYS.

FORGOT ABOUT WEATHER, HOT DRY SUMMERS. FALL N SPRING ARE GREAT. WINTERS CHANGE. WHERE WE ARE WE GET SNOW SOMETIMES WAIST DEEP. THIS WILL END HUNTING HERE TILL THAWS. BUT WE CAN GO EAST TEN MINUTES AND IT IS NORMALLY BARE GROUND.

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here in southern ny its mix rolling hills steep hills with pine, maple, oak woods. big old growth woods with some mixed in logging re growth. we are in the apalackin (sp) mountain foothills and the adirondacks to the north with the catskill mountains to the east, so hill size changes from small the just plain work lol..lots of swamps and deep ravines and creeks..lots of corn and other feilds around the town edges..spring and summer is hot and humid and makes ya sweat to think about going hunting..fall is great with good mild weather in the 40 to 50 range dipping to the 20s at night..winter is diffrent every year. some with lots of snow some with none lol but the temps get down to the teens and below from january and on..if ya get a great dog that hunts like the devil in this area it should do good about any place lmao..

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Thick and usually wet here in central Georgia



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I can drive 25 miles in any direction and hunt hills, river bottoms, pecan bottoms, swamps and around the lake lots of green briars plum thickets and under brush

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We have bottoms,hills,mountains,clearcuts, swamps and bout any other type hunting you can think of. Mostly big woods. We don't do patch woods hunting. About as small as I will consider turning out on is 300ac. Some areas have 20 or 30 thousand ac.

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We have bottoms,hills,mountains,clearcuts, swamps and bout any other type hunting you can think of. Mostly big woods. We don't do patch woods hunting. About as small as I will consider turning out on is 300ac. Some areas have 20 or 30 thousand ac.

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Where I hunt it is about 1/3 pine , 1/3 hardwood and 1/3 marsh. To whole thing only varies about 30 feet high. Oak high sandy ridges and oak gum flats and swamp drains. A good many shallow duck ponds. The pine is open enough to see a half mile through because it is managed for quail. The marsh is hard enough to walk on but dissected by alot of little creeks that go dry on low tide. On high tide the marsh is usually covered about a foot deep but can get 2.5 feet deep on real high tides. Dogs spend hours swimming till it goes back out some. Dogs stand a better chance of swimming them down than catching them in the grass.

When I said hard enough to walk on I should have said firm enough to walk on. All except those muddy creek channels. Gators are a problem from March through Oct. The deer hunters have lost four dogs since August 15.

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Around here ( Central PA) we have a lot of mountain grounds, And around our farm we have mountains on either side of us, we have some corn fields, and beans but most of them border the mountains, So most time we end heading up the mountain to get our dogs the only bad thing is that if the dogs get over the first mountain, there is three more mountain ranges to go over!

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Last year I spent a couple of days in Louisiana...what is hunting like there? The parts I saw were wet...all wet!
Are 'gators a concern?

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We can go from flat woods with hardwoods to mixed timber to hill to swamps to cutovers to straight pine. In the northern part of the state its much different than south Louisiana. We have wet years and dry years. We are in record drought and high temps. It was 105 yesterday and not supposed to be above 80 today. I know of only one that came missing and it was beleived gators got it. A guy was hunting around a lake area and his dog never came back. He doesn't use tracking collars so he raelly doesn't know what happened. Old age or lead poisining gets most around here.

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We can go from flat woods with hardwoods to mixed timber to hill to swamps to cutovers to straight pine. In the northern part of the state its much different than south Louisiana. We have wet years and dry years. We are in record drought and high temps. It was 105 yesterday and not supposed to be above 80 today. I know of only one that came missing and it was beleived gators got it. A guy was hunting around a lake area and his dog never came back. He doesn't use tracking collars so he raelly doesn't know what happened. Old age or lead poisining gets most around here.

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I don't know about the permit process. I do know its like daylight and dark from South Louisiana and North Louisiana. Folks can watch T.V. and think the whole state is like that. I doubt they do much coonhunting way do there in the swamps and marsh. North of the marsh line its more favorable for coonhunting. Up here we have oak trees that are turning brown and droping leaves.

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The first video shows a coon getting by us while the other coon turned around and ran to the other end of the marsh.



The second video has the dogs bringing the coon back towards the hill when it decides to take to the river. You can hear the dog catch the coon but you cant see much. At some point you can see the gator about ten feet off the bank on the right hand side of the screen and the dog and coon about thirty feet straight out. Both the dog and coon go under water but only the dog comes back up. What you don't see then is the dog stopped to rest in shallow water while the gator was creeping up. I dragged the dog on out.

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I dont like the looks of that marsh stuff. I'd be killing a gator!

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I dont like the looks of that marsh stuff. I'd be killing a gator!

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Another one would just replace it. There used to not be many in salty water but now they are everywhere. Saw one in a 20ftX20ft dried up borrow pit. The gator hole had a little water in it. When the pit has water in it , if a dog stops to get a drink of water that is a dead dog.

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Most of my turn outs are on creeks that has dried up but my dogs seems to find the coons we treed two last night boy it is dry.

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where is the corn and bean fields lol

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l.lyle where yall at cooper river area?

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l.lyle where yall at cooper river area?

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