Darren Hollis
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Registered: Jul 2005
Location: Winfield, ALABAMA
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hunting
Hunted last night. Turned Cotton alone down big creek. She struck pretty quick and worked down creek. She crossed the creek and headed back towards us. She turned and went up a side ditch full of water and lined him out. She crossed under the road and loaded up on tree. Huge water oak and couldn't spot the coon. Turned Cotton, BB and Kandy (Drakes new pup ) loose. Cotton struck followed by BB and Kandy. They worked the track down the creek and crossed over to other side. Cotton loaded up quickly followed by BB. Drake's pup was trailing around by herself. We got to tree and it was a big Sweet Gum tree. It took me forever to find the coon but with Drake beating on tree and shaking vines, he finally looked with one eye. I kept squalling and Drake was shaking vines and he walked down the tree to those two blue gyps. That was a deathly mistake. Drake's pup came in and got fired up on the coon. She is 6mths old and seen one coon at 3mths old. This was her second coon and she liked it. Laid a drag for her and she found him but didn't really light up the tree. She has been hunted about 5 times and seems to have some go power. She wants to be alone as well, so time will tell. Joe Moyer raised her and she is Doubled up on Rambo II.
Had a good conversation yesterday with my buddy Stanly Bowling. Stanly is an intelligent guy and is dedicated to trying to better the Bluetick breed. Stanly is also a stand up guy that will tell it like it is for sure!!
Also had a good conversation with Raymond Caswell from Missouri. I have talked to Raymond several times and he is fun to talk to about these ole Blueticks. He has a lot of knowledge about bloodlines and has hunted with some big name hounds.
Terry Tibbs is another stand up Bluetick man that I talk to a lot. Terry is a stand up guy as well and is trying to breed a better bluetick.
All 3 of these gentlemen are getting up in age and I soak in a lot of our conversations. Guys like myself will have to carry the torch for these blueticks one of these days. I sure aint a know it all and any thing I can learn about breeding or training I sure am willing to listen.
I am going on vacation today thru Tuesday and will have meetings in Montgomery for work on Wednesday, so my hunting is on hold til next Thursday. I will be having withdrawals!!!!
Good luck to all bluetickers this weekend. PKC bluetick days is just down the road from me and hope they have a good turnout and hunt.
Keep'em Lookin Up!! Darren
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