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Thank you Bill, Hope you are getting to hunt some. Its beginning to warm up in a hurry down here.

Jeremy and Chris and Chris's two boys came down tonight and we went down the river a peace and turned out next to a big field. I was glad to get to hunt with Shadow again. It had been a while since I had been in the woods with him. The dogs went in about 400 yrds and struck a real cold track. They worked it a couple hundred yrds and Tramp treed. Shadow and Gin bumped it a few times, but they didn't think too much of it.
We walked in to them. All the dogs were treeing by the time we got there. Tramp is probably the most accurate dog I've hunted, but not this time. It was a big tree, but it was slick. We leashed the dogs up and went back to the 4-wheelers loaded the dogs up and went on down the swamp. We made our second drop and the dogs went in about 300 yrds and hit a working track and moved it out of there and treed about 700 yrds in. Me and Jeremy were having some trouble with our Garmins. We road the 4-wheelers in about 300 yrds and it got to be too much water for the 4-wheelers so we had to leave them. and walk on in to the dogs. They were treed up a medium sized tree out in the slough. We shined for a few minutes and Cole hit his squaller and the coon looked at us. We left him to run again. We walked back to the 4-wheelers and moved back up the swamp a ways and made our third drop.
They went in about 250 yrds and bumped around on a track that was to cold for any of them to handle. Tramp and Gin gave up on it and moved on up the swamp. Shadow treed and Gin and Tramp made a wide swing and came back by us. We were fixing to go to Shadow, but he quit treeing and moved on up the swamp. Tramp and Gin went back in the way Shadow was headed. Everything was quite for a while and we heard Gin open in real deep and Shadow and Tramp opened with her and they started moving the track pretty good. We just could hear them so we decided we had better catch up. We went back to another road and started toward them, stopping along and listening. We got in there a pretty good ways and stopped to listen. We could tell that they were treed, but they were deep. We turned on an old 4-wheeler trail that followed the river. We went down it for a ways in and out of gulleys that the river had washed through the years. I was following Chris and we went around a curve and Chris knew this trail, but I didn't, so when he went around the curve and up the next hill I didn't notice how bad the lower rut had been rutted out, so when I started up the hill and hit that lower rut it was just too much and over I went. Now I'm just a little too old to be doing flips on 4-wheelers, but I tried. My chest landed on the clay rooted end of an old log that all the dirt had been washed off and just the roots sticking out. When I landed on the sharp rootof the tree I tried to brace myself the best I could for I just knew the 4-wheeler was coming. I felt it when it rolled on my legs and I thought it was going to roll all the way over me. I was on my stomack and chest so I couldn't see what was going on, and then I could hear Jeremy and Chris there lifting it off of me. I asked them afterward what had kept the 4-wheeler from rolling on over me and they told me the lower side of the rut and my feet and legs were what stopped it from rolling over me, but I think Chris and Jeremy were there so quick and they were what stopped the 4-wheeler from rolling any farther, but what ever stopped it I think Jesus was watching over me tonight, as he always does. If he hadn't been, it could have been a bad situation. I'll Probably be a little sore tomorrow but that's just part of it. Now, back to our coonhunt. We left the 4-wheelers there. The dogs were still about 500 yrds from us. They asked me if I wanted to wait at the 4-wheelers and I said no I was going to the tree. So we walked to the dogs and they were treed in a hollow at the bottom of where three big trees grew togeather and a big hollow at the bottom. I don't know why the coon took refuge there unless the dogs were pushing him so hard that he didn't have any choice. The hollow did not go up into any of the trees it was just hollow there at the ground. You could easily see the coon sitting there, but he could just get back enough that the dogs could not get to him. Chris took a couple of pictures and we left him to run again. We walked back to the 4-wheelers and called it a night. All in all we had a great hunt although I wouldn't want them all to be exactly like this one, but its always a good hunt if you leave the woods with all of your dogs and everybody is happy.

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Gee whiz!!!!.Jack !!! That's crazy! Buddy I'm glad your alright!

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Glad the four wheeler spill wasn't too bad. Be careful.

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GET YA A GOOD MULE JACK ITS A LOT SAFER

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Hey Jack, Glad you were not hurt any worse than you
were. I have learned over the last couple of years that
I don't heal as fast as I used to. Be careful .

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Sounds like that spill could have been a heck of a lot worse. Glad you are alright. Every night we cut them loose there is a chance we might not see them again or we ourselves might not come back, but ain't it so worth it?!!! Be careful MR. Jack and Good Hunting!!!

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Glad your wreck wasn't any worse than it was. You scared me when I started reading the part where you took a spill but glad you were't hurt bad. Be careful buddy!


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Thank you guys for your concern for me. I deeply appreciate it. I'm fine. I think the lord will do things like that to us some time just to let us know that he is still in control and that he can take any of us out at anytime he chooses, so all of us had better stay ready. Again thank you guys, I appreciate each of you.

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Dang Mr. Jack, glad everything turned out for the best. I had a little mishap with my 4 wheeler last night too. I think some times the Lord is trying to tell me something!!
I told Caleb my grandson those little bumps in the road used to be fun. Not so much anymore!
Be safe Ed

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Mr. Ed, you and me are getting too old for all this trick riding. lets just slow down and enjoy the ride for as long as we can, and when the lord gets ready for us we'll be ready to go. I don't know wheather they coonhunt in heaven or not. Probably not, but I'd like to think they do. there is a few that's done gone on and some that will follow that I would sure like to turn a hound loose with again. Take care Mr. Ed.

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Glad to hear your OK Jack. I saw a TV episode of the twilight zone one time where a guys wife told an old hunter to not go coon hunting one night. The old hunter said he was going anyway. He turned his old blue dog loose and the dog and the hunter ended up drowning in the river. In the after life the guy and the dog were walking down the road and they met a guy and he told them heaven was that way. The old man and his dog walked and got to the gate. They said he was welcome but they would not let the dog in. The man said if the dog was not welcome he would not go in either. He walked farther down the road and got to a point where he was really at heaven and they welcomed both him and the dog. It was a great episode for sure. Not sure if my recollection is completely correct but that was the most of it.

You take care out there hunting and be safe. Alot of us hunt alone quite a bit and we all need to be care full. I am positive we are all being watched over but things do happen.

Good (and safe) Hunting,
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You and me both!! Take care Ed

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Sounds like a good movie Scott and you are right things do happen. Take care.


Chris came down last night and we went over across the river to a spot that I had never hunted. It was aa real pretty place. They struck and treed in about 5 min. We went around and got on another road and road the 4-wheelers right up beside them and shined the coon from the road. We left him to run again. We loaded up the dogs and moved farther down the swamp. Turned them loose headed down the edge of an old slough. They both struck and moved down the river. I'm still having trouble with my Garmin. It just picks up when it wants too. I think me and Chris both are going to order us a new one next week. the dogs trailed down the river a ways and split up. Tramp went to the left and turned and started back up the river. Jin went to the right and turned and started up the river. they were both headed north back up the river, but they were about 300 yrds apart and they were both sticking to their own tracks. I think both of the coons must have moved about the middle of the evening, for these were both cold feeding tracks. They were both crossing a good bit of water as they steadily moved the tracks north up the river. Me and Chris both had really enjoyed listening to the dogs work. They had been working these tracks close to an hour and were still headed north. Gin was beginning to get into some rough hilly country and Tramp was still in next to the river. I asked Chris if he knew what kind of terrain the dogs were headed into and he said he didn't as he had never hunted in that direction before and he didn't know who owned land in there, so we decided to get closer to the dogs and if they didn't tree pretty quick we would catch them, both dogs had bumped up a couple of times and moved on. Chris went in and up the river toward Tramp and I headed toward Gin. I pulled up on a pipe line that went strait toward the river and in a little bit I saw Chris cross the othe end of the pipe line in next to the River about 500 yrds down. Gin was working about 150 yrds ahead of me and she was getting into some rough stuff so I decided to call her out . I got her and pulled back to the pipe line and I could see Chris coming and he had Tramp with him. so we headed for the truck. We were both hungry so we headed to town. Hot Pizza, not bad for a midnight snack.

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Took Tramp out for a run last night, first drop. I was going down an old woods road. I had Tramp on the back of the 4-wheeler and he started to whine, so I stopped the 4-wheeler and dropped him off. He hit the ground on the run, and went in toward an ole slough. I knew by the way he was acting that he smelled a coon, but as cold of a track that it was, I don't know how he smelled it from the back of the 4-wheeler. It took him a few minutes to get it lined out. he was headed north up the slough. He wasn't moving it fast just steady moving it up the slough, Opening here and younder. He moved in about 350 yrds and treed. I walked in close to him, but before I got to him I came to a slough and the rains that we had had the last couple of days had it full of water, so I had to come back out and go around to the other side and walked in to him. He was treed up a large oak. I found the coon pretty quick and knocked the coon out to him. We walked back to the 4-wheeler and moved on down the swamp. I turned him loose again down next to the river. He only went in about 50 yrds and struck a good track, moved it in another 1oo yrds and treed. I walked in to him and he was treed up another large oak. again I found the coon pretty quick and we left him to run again. We headed back to the 4-wheeler and back to the house. I put Tramp up and got Gin and we headed over in front of the house. I dropped her off an old woods road and she went in about 250 yrds and struck a working track. She moved it out of there pretty good and headed toward the back side of the swamp to where there is a small creek that is dry most of the time, but it was full due to the beavers and the rain we have had lately. I knew when I saw that she was headed in there that we were in for a rough night, but I didn't know just how rough it was going to get. She was headed up the creek and she was already about 600 yrds up the creek when I started up in there. I walked in about 600 yrds. and she was still about 450 yards in. The beavers had the creek dammed up and there was water everywhere. I started wadding water and it was gradually getting deeper. I got to within about 250 yrds. of her and I was past knee deep. I knew that where she was at she had to be swimming. I got into some about 8 year old planted pines. I think this land that I was on now belongs to Satera. They don't want dogs hunted on their land, but I do anyway. I don't know where they know it or not, but there is many acres of pines destroyed in there due to beavers, I'll try to call them later and tell them. Now back to the hunt. The water just kept getting deeper. I started calling Gin, and she came closer,But due to all the water I think she was having about as hard of a time as I was. She got to about a hundred yrds of me and I could see her, but she had gotten to an old downed tree and she was not leaving it. I was already almost waist deep and there was nothing but open water between me and her, so I started toward her. The water was up to my chest when I got to her. I leashed her up and started back with her swimming along beside me. We finally made it back out to dryer land. I stopped to empty some of the water out of my boots I had put my pocket book under my hat and it had stayed dry until I fell down and the it got wet. I had completely forgot about my cell phone in my chest pocket. It had been under water a lot. I pulled it out and much to my amazement it was still working. I have messed up several cell phones in the past due to back water. We finally made it back out of there and I was a happy fellow when I saw that 4-wheeler. I think me and Gin both had went just about as far as we could go. We loaded up and called it a night.

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Hey mr. Jack you probably don't remember me I brought my female to your house about 12 years ago to breed to tramp. I actually still have one of the pups around he sure is showing his age lol. I love reading all your stories and hope all is well with you take care

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MR. Jack, sounds like you have been having quite the adventures since you have been back at it. Be careful and don't step in an old stump hole when your in that deep water. I saw a little video the other day of your pup off Sheba and Bocephus and all I can say is, WOW!!! You better let me have her so you don't get your ears hurt when you go into the tree! lol! Man, she has a huge mouth and it give me chills to listen to her. Can't wait to see her go when the time comes. Take Care and will talk to you soon.

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Jared good to hear from you, It's been a long time. yes, If you still have one out of that litter, They are probably showing their age. I hope you had a some good ones in the litter. let me know how they did. Take care.

Steve, I tried to leave you a post on your thread last night when I came in from hunting, but this computer of mine just works when it wants to.

Jeremy, Clayton and his son Carson, Christ and his son Cole came down last night and we headed to the swamp. we dropped the four dogs out along side the road. Tramp, Doll V and Gin went strait in and Shadow had doubled back across the road. Tramp, Doll V and Gin had made a circle and came back to the road farther up and we went up there and caught them. By this time we heard Shadow treed. We walked in to him and found the coon pretty quick. We left this one to run again. We loaded up and went on down the swamp. 2nd drop, We turned the dogs loose in next to an old slough. again Shadow went right and the other dogs went left. We heard Tramp and Doll V and Gin Strike about 600 yrds in next to the river. They trailed for about 400 yrds and treed. We started to them. Shadow still hadn't struck and the Garmin said he was headed toward the other dogs. We walked in to the treed dogs and Shadow had come to them. We found the coon pretty quick and decided to give it to the dogs. Afterward we loaded up and headed on down the swamp. We turned loose again in next to another slough. The dogs went almost all the way around the slough before striking. It was a working track that went back up the swamp. They trailed it for about 600 yrds and treed. We walked in to them and they were treed out in another slough and the tree was leaning into a big den tree. We shined for a while, but if he was there he was inside. We leashed the dogs and went back to where the trucks were parked. It was a pretty good walk to the last tree so Clayton had decided not to try to walk that far, so while we were gone he decided to go back to the slough where we had turned the dogs loose. He shined his light out in the slough and saw two big Aligators, but that's really nothing unusual about that in this part of the country. I've never lost one to an Aligator, but there is always that possibility. I know a few guys that have. We had had a good hunt so we decided to call it a night.

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Hey mr jack my female ended up having 4 pups
2 males and 2 females 3 of the pups would run and tree I just couldn't get the one male interested. My dad got the best one in the litter she was turning out to be a real go getter the man that sold me my female kept trying to buy her off my dad he really liked her especially when she kept getting first strike over his gr nite male. I ended up taking her and my male out one night and unfortunately she got hit by a car. I sold my buddy the other female and she did a pretty good job for him till she got loose one day and he never could find her then I still have my male out of the litter he was just a natural with a big bawl mouth he sounds really good he's just to old to take out any more I'm afraid he will get out there and hurt his self lol. Maybe sometime in the future we can get together for a hunt.

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Jared, glad your pups turned out good out of ole Tramp. He has kept me in coondogs now for about 20 years. We bred a couple of females a couple of years ago to semen off him. We have four of them close by here that have made coondogs. Jared check back in anytime, good to hear from you.

I worked Sheba 11 some to day. I got her back from Jerry Wheat's about a week ago. She is now 7 months old. I finally caught a coon and turned it loose in my training pen. I took Gin over there with her in case the coon just wanted to run, because it was a big boar coon. I turned the coon loose and he went up the first tree he came to. I went back and turned the pup loose and she went in there and opened and ran by the tree a couple of times and came back and got up on the tree and treed some, but she didn't seem real sure about it. The coon kept walking around in the tree. I took Gin and walked back a ways and the pup followed us. I thought if I got them back away from the tree he might come down. I leashed Gin back at the fence. The pup would come out to us and go back smelling around the tree. about the third trip back to the tree she got out about 15 ft from the tree in the direction the wind was blowing and got to raring up on her hind legs and on other trees and got to treeing hard and winding the coon. she couldn't figure out exactly where the coon was. All she knew was that the coon was up in those trees some where and she was letting the world know about it. I wasn't going to shoot the coon, but after she did this I went back and got my rifle and gave her the coon. She didn't really know what to do with the coon on the ground, but she went on him. I was sure glad the coon was fully dead. I tied her back and got the coon and made a good long drag down the pen and put the coon up in a tree. I came back and turned her loose and away on that track she went. Gin was barking and cutting up so bad back at the fence wanting to get in on the action, I thought the pup might come back to her, but she paid Gin no attention. I had put the coon in a tree where I could see the tree from a path. I went down the path to where I could see the tree. Sheba over ran the track one time and came back and picked it up. I was watching her when she came into the tree. She ran by it a couple of times, but for only a few feet. The second time she came back she smelled up on that tree, and she sat down and you aint never heard such a racket. She has really got a mouth on her. This will be the last drag she will see. She is out of Bocephus and my ole Sheba female

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Wow, sounds like Sheba II is really starting to come on!!!! I knew I was gonna regret not getting one.... If the guy from Louisiana would sell his, I'd like to buy her... Congratulations on Sheba, and Gin bein on the top performance point list.

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I loaded up Tramp tonight and we traveled to Amite, La. to their BBCHA sectional. Tramp won the Nite Ch. part of the hunt. I wont be there to try for the overall winner for they are combining the Friday nite and Saturday nite hunt. We are going to an RQE in wiggins, Ms. tomorrow night. Tonifht we hunted in a rough place with a lot of water. There was a nice little bluetick female on my cast that I liked. She belonged to Mr. John Adams of Brookhaven, Ms.

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Congrats on that win last night and good luck tonight MR. Jack!

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Great job and good luck tonight!

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Congratulations Mr Jack, and Tramp!!!!

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