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They sure are fine looking hounds Mr Jack. I can almost hear the woods ringing from here! Congrats on your win too.


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Jeremy, Chris and His son Cole and me Loaded Shadow, Tramp and Gin last night and headed to Wiggins, Ms. To their RQE. Jeremy and Shadow drew out and went to the coast and didn't do anygood down there. I drew a national forest and we went out there, we got on a rough track. pretty quick and they moved it in about 700 yrds and treed. I had 1st strike and 1st tree. We walked in there to them. It was rough walking in mud and water. They were treed up a small tree that went into acouple of big trees. We shined the 10 minutes, but never could get him to look. We got the dogs and walked back to the truck. We rode on down a little ways and cast the dogs again. They hit another rough track and moved it in deep. One dog had come back. Gin and the Redbone were having a rough time. I put the time on them. I could tell Gin was slowly moving our way. The Eight minutes caught them and shortly after the eight caught them. The Red dog started opening again and then Gin. The red dog was still deep and strait in front of us. Gin was to the left. The red dog trailed a little ways and was treed. The walker dog that had come out headed to the red dog and was treed with him before the 5minutes were up. Gin paid them no mind and kept trailing. The treed dogs were about 800 yrds in and we started to them. We got in toward the tree and the walker dog came off the tree and came to us from the left and had to be - on tree. We went on in to the tree and started shinning and found the coon. At this time the hunt was over. We walked back out to a road and we could hear Gin still trailing. The guide asked me how deep she was and I told him she was 400yrds and he told me the truck was about 400 yrds the other side of her. About that time Gin treed. We walked in and got her and walked on out to the truck. Gin was treed up a big oak, but I was too tired to even look up it. Chris and Tramp had also drew the river bottoms of the coast. They were having a good hunt and Tramp was winning the cast. They had 15 minutes left to hunt. At the last tree the ndogs had tree way out in the middle of a big slough. One of the guys had his wife along on the cast and Chris had his boy so they decided to leave them there on dry land and the guys would walk on out to the dogs, well after they scored the tree, the cast decided to walk on out a little ways and cast the dogs again. they cast the dogs. The mans wife and Christ,s little boy Thought the cast had gotten turned around and were going the wrong way and leaving them and started calling to them. Well Tramp went to Chris's boy who oftens leads and handles him when we are pleasure hunting. The cast went to where they were at and when they got there Chris's little boy was petting Tramp. Chris just said (Tramp lets go) and the handler that was in second placeThrew a fit and said Chris would have to be scratched for encouraging his dog. so the judge scratched Chris. I told Chris not to worry about it. There nwould be other hunts. some people will do whatever it takes.

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Those are two great looking hounds.

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Tough break with Tramp. You'd think they could apply the rules with some common sense, but competition brings out the worst in some.

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Thank you Richard and Koty for the good words on the hounds.

Yea, Chris some of these handlers are like lawyers, their always looking for loopholes.

Chris came by tonight and we loaded up Tramp and Gin and headed to the swamp. We turned the dogs loose off a road and they went in about 100 yrds and struck a cold track and started working it toward the river. They moved the track in about 500 yrds and treed. We rode the 4-wheelers right up under the tree.(My kind of hunting).We shined the tree for several minutes. It was a big oak with limbs that extended out a long ways and you couldn't get to where we could see the tree very good, so we leashed the dogs and decided to move to another swamp farther down the river. When we got there we turned the dogs loose beside a big field. They struck a good track about 100 yrds in and the race was on. There was a lot of water in these flat woods. The dogs were really pushing him for about 700 yrds and then they came to a creek that was flowing pretty deep. and treed about 50 yrds on the other side. We finally found us a place to cross and walked on in to the dogs. They were treed up some smaller trees with a big oak on one side and a big pine on the other and it was thick in there. We could partially see the pine and oak. We finally gave up and leashed the dogs and made our way back across the creek. We loaded up on the 4-wheeler and moved on down the swamp. We dropped the dogs again off the ole woods road. They went in about 200 yrds and struck a working track. As they worked the track you could hear the water splashing. I knew where they were at that they were in a lot of water and it wasn't going to get any better where they were headed. They moved the coon in about 600 yrds and I told Chris that we had better catch up. We road on down the ole woods road until we were even with the dogs.They were still in about 500 yrds. While we were sitting there listening to them work the track, they treed. I told chris we would have to go around on another road to get to the dogs. We headed that way. We had to go around on 2 different roads to get close to the dogs we got to about 25 yrds of where the dogs were treed. We got the rifle and walked into the dogs. They were treed up a huge cypress tree there at the edge of a slough that had been damed up by beavers. There was a slough almost all the way around the cypress. I made my way around the slough out to where I could see that side of the tree pretty good and when I hit the squaller a coon looked at me from the right side of the Cypress about 3/4 of the way up. I told Chris that I saw the coon and when I looked again I saw another coon out on some limbs on the left side of the tree. Chris came with the rifle and knocked him out. We walked in and petted the dogs some and headed for the 4-wheelers and decided we had had a good hunt and decided to call it a night.

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It finally stopped raining late this evening. Chris came by about dark and we loaded up Tramp and Gin and headed for the swamp. When we got there I wondered why we came. The swamp was full of water. It was from ankle to knee deep all through the swamp. Why we went on hunting I don't know. I think Mama must have dropped me on my head when I was small, but we turned the dogs loose. They sounded like a herd of deer running through all that water. They went all the way through that neck off woods and we never got a bark. We picked Tramp up on another road. Gin had gone higher and had done crossed on through and we went in another 600 yrds and picked her up. We decided to go down next to the river and to my surprise the river was not up all that much, but it will be in a few days. We turned the dogs loose headed up river. They went in about 200 yrds and struck a cold track. They worked it back toward us a ways and Tramp sit down treed, Gin backed him, and we started toward the tree. They were treed up a large oak and we shined a few minutes and found two coons sitting about 3/4 of the way up. We left them to run again and led the dogs a few yrds off the tree and turned them loose again headed up river. They moved up river for about 1200 yrds and never struck, so we called them out and called it a night.

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Nice pictures of some good looking coon hounds MR. Jack. It's been sunny here all day so looks like we can get back to some Good Hunting finally. When this weather settles down and the swamp drains out a little we will get together and make a round, Take Care.

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Steve, Thanks for the kind words, looks like we are going to get some more rain Wed. through Friday. It will dry up one day. Take care.

Took Tramp out for a short run tonight. Turned hi into some piney woods that went into an oak flat. He went in about 350 yrds and struck a cold track. He moved it in another 400 yrds and treed. I went around and got on another woods road and got to within about 180 yrds of him and left the 4-wheeler there and walked on in to him. He was treed across a slough that looked deep. I walked down the slough and found a place that I could wade across. When I got to within about 30 yrds there was a big doe laid up. I guess she was listening to ole Tramp tree too.
She never moved until I got a little too close to her and she got up and trotted on off. I walked on into Tramp. He was treed up a big tree right in the edge of the slough. It had a big bottom on it like a Cyprus, but it wasn't a Cyprus. I could only see one side of the tree because of the slough and I couldn't see all the way to the top from there. I squalled and shined for as bit, but I never could get it to looke from there, so I petted ole Tramp up a little and we headed back to the 4-wheeler and called it a night

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Glad your getting to hunt some with all this rain. Your story about the doe made me think about how a few years ago the same thing happened to me. We had three dogs treeing up a storm and 30 or 40 yards away was 5 or 6 deer bedded down in a hay field that the dogs were treeing at the edge of. Most deer hunters around here don't want coon hunters hunting their property during deer season for fear of messing up there hunting. These stories prove that hounds don't mess up the deer at all. Good hunting buddy and take care.


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Richard, I was on a cast a few years ago hunting the old Tramp dog. It was at the MMississippi State Championship. I don't remember now just where we were hunting out of, but we had some guys along with us with TV cameras and the whole works. We also had some Ms. bioligists with us. They were running a survey at that time to see how hunting an area with coonhounds would effect an area and other game. well we seen several deer that night that the dogs had passed near and the deer were still laying up and had never moved. They did this same survey in several areas and found that the deer and turkey hunting was as good or better in those areas where dogs had been hunted than they were in areas where dogs were not allowed to hunt. I was suppose to have gotten a copy of the tape that they made that night of the hunt, but I never did. Someone said that it was on one of the outdoor channels a while back, but I never did see it.

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Chris came by Tuesday night and we too tramp and Gin out for a run. turned them into a good oak swamp and they went in about 400 yrds and hit a cold track. They worked it on into the swamp another 300 yrds and treed. Gin tries her best to beat Tramp on that tree. Every now and then she will pull one out from under him, but not very often. He beat her about 3 barks on this one. We rode the 4-wheelers as close as possible and walked on in to them. They were treed up a large oak. We shinned the tree for several minutes before finding the coon out in the fork on a large limb. We left this one to run again. We leashed the dogs and walked back to the 4-wheelers. We rode around to a large slough and turned them loose again. They moved in and around the edge of the slough. They had opened a couple of times and made a circle and came back close to us and moved out across aan open field for about 100 yrds, opened a few times crossing the field and went into the woods on the other side, and up another slough on the other side of the field. They moved up the other slough to near the end of it and Tramp treed about half a bark ahead of Gin. We rode across the field and walked into where they were treed. They were treed up one of the largest oaks that you will see now days. We shined for a while, but it was so big and there was so much of it we could not see because of other trees. We would have been real lucky to have found this one. We went back to the 4-wheelers and moved in next to the river. And turned the dogs in toward the river. They hunted up the river for about 1200 yrds and never opened and it was getting late. We had got a late start because Chris took his boys to play ball and it was about 10 oclock when we made our 1st drop. These boys are good ball players and I've promised them I would come watch them play one night and I'm looking forward to it. We decided to call the dogs out. We had rode up to where we were about even with them and they were about 200 yrds in so we started to call them. Tramp headed our way and was soon with us. Gin don't handle quite as well as Tramp so I started in to get her. When I got within about 20 yrds of her she came to me. She wanted me to think she was trying to handle good so I just petted her up and headed to the 4-wheeler and we loaded up and called it a night.

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Chris and his son Cody came by to night and we loaded up Tramp and Gin and headed to the swamp. We turned them out of a field into some piney woods and they left out. They soon split up and was still getting deeper. They were soon over 700 yrds and was still getting deeper, but was still not togeather. I was beginning to loose Gin on the Garmin. I was using a Garmin 320 with a T5 collar on Gin and Chris was using a Garmin Alpha With a TT15 collar on Tramp so I could only Track Gin, but Chris could track both of them. We got closer to them and Tramp was 500 yrds to the right of us and Gin was about 550 yrds to the left. They were both working cold tracks. Tramp was moving across to the front of us and getting a little closer and Treed about 350 yrds in. We rode in to 200 yrds of Tramp and walked on in to him. He was treeing hard and I thought that Gin might pull off her cold track and come to Tramp, but she was having none of it, She kept her track moving. We walked into Tramp and he was treed up a large pine. We shinned for a while and finally found the coon, but before we could get a shot at him he quit looking and we could never find him again. About this time I could hear Gin lock up Treed. I checked the Garmin and she was a little over 700 yrds. I told Chris to give me the Rifle and I would go to her and he and Cody could go back and get the 4-wheelers and bring them around. I got some argument out of this suggestion, but I finally won out and started toward Gin. Sometime Chris and some of these young guys look after me like I'm an old man or something. I had never been this deep in these woods that I was in now and I didn't know what I might get into, but I walked through some real pretty woods on my way to Gin. She was treed up a large oak just across a small branch. I had to rest a minute and then started shining. I shined for a few minutes and finally found the coon. I had set the rifle down at a small tree on the other side of the tree from where I found the coon. I went to get the rifle and when I came back I never saw him again. I had went to the eye doctor that evening and they had dialated my eyes and the light was giving me problems. I looked for the coon for a while and had shot where I thought I had seen him before , but I never saw him again. I finally gave up and walked in and petted up Gin. I'm sure she was thinking That she does all this work and puts the coon up this tree and I caint do my job and put it out to her. Well girl all I can say is I'll try to do better next time. I had started walking out and Chris called me on the cell phone. He had done got worried about me. I told him to holler and let me see If I could hear him and what directon he was. He did and I could hear him pretty good. He was probably about 400 yrds from me. I walked on out and there was a branch just before I got to them with high banks and they met me there and got gin and the rifle. We walked on out to the 4-wheelers and talked a while and called it a night

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I took the young dog Smoke out again tonight. I took him out a couple of nights ago. I put him on a feeder next to a big slough. He got after the coon and I saw the coon as it made a circle out in the slough. Smoke made the same circle and started down the slough and came treed. I waded out to him and he was treed in a den tree where the coon went in a hole close to the bottom of the tree.

I took smoke out again tonight. We were going to the same feeder, but the river was up to much to get there, so we went up the swamp to another spot. Smoke got after the coon and moved him into the swamp and treed about 100 yrds in. I walked in to him and he was treed up a large Turkey Pine and because off all the other trees around it you could not see anything. I went in and petted him up some and we called it a night.

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Jeremy and Chris took Shadow and Tramp and traveled to Crowville, La. to their world championship Qualifying hunt last night. They qualified both dogs. Jeremy won 4th place with Shadow and Chris won 7th with Tramp. Jeremy said Shadow really did a good job on two different coon, The first one they could not find, but the second one they did. Chris said Tramp did real good. They could not find his first coon and the second one when they got to the tree where the dogs was treed and before the Judge could tell them to leash their dogs the coon jumped out. The whole cast heard it and the dogs had not been leashed, so away they went with the coon. They drove the coon on in deeper and treed him again. They walked in and leashed the dogs and saw the coon this time, but had to take minus on the first tree. Jeremy and Chris said they drew good hunters with good dogs.

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Good luck with Shadow and Tramp at the zones. Jack hope things are going well.

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Congrats to all of you on getting them qualified Mr. Jack and good luck with them at the zones! I know you are some proud and I'm proud for yaw, Take Care and will talk to you soon.

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Congrats guys! Good luck at zones.



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Congratulations guy's!!! Great job!!! Keep up the good work!

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On getting both dogs qualified. Hope to see a lot of Blue dogs in Illinois come Sept. Take care, Ron.

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MR. Jack, I found out this morning that a new club is being formed just 15 minutes from my house. Its going to be at Clifton, LA. That's between me and Franklinton on HWY 25 where LA 38 comes into it. Its right past the church on the left if your going toward Franklinton from Tylertown. They are supposed to be having hunts within a month or so. I'm trying to find out who to contact so I can get involved with it and help them out all I can on work day and guiding cast. Nice to have one this close.

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for the congrats, it means a lot to me. I know there are a lot of good blue dogs out there that have and will qualify for the world hunt and I wish them well in the zones and through out the world hunt.

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Finally got another coon. A preacher friend of mine had borrowed a couple of my live traps a few days ago to catch the coons that were dragging the garbage out of the church dumpster. He brought me a coon earlier today. I took it and Sheba 11 over to the training pen. I made her a drag first and come back to the house and got her and took her over there and turned her loose. She left out of there like a streak and she has got a mouth on her that you wouldn't believe. I don't think I have ever heard a male dog with a mouth like that. and before I could get around there to see how she was doing she had the drag that I had pulled up in a tree. She already had it treed. I petted her a little and took her back and tied her and came back and got the coon out of the tree. I took it down the pen aways and turned it loose, It didn't go far and I saw it go up a large oak. I came back and turned Sheba 11 loose and away she went. She hit the track and started out and went by the tree that the coon had went up and after she went by the tree she made a circle and came back looking for the track. She hadn't been out of the pen in about 3 weeks so she was pretty wound up. After passing by the tree a couple of times she came back to where I had turned the coon loose and settled down and trailed strait to the tree and got up on the tree and smelled up the tree just as high as she could reach and then came that locate and started treeing. I had said I was not going to knock the coon out because it was a sow coon, but after she treed like she did. I went back and got the rifle. After I shot it it climbed into a fork and died and it is still up there. I couldn't get it out. I petted her up and had to drag her away from the tree. I'm going to try to turn a couple more coons loose and let her tree them. I wont make any more drags for her. I will turn a couple more loose and see how she does on them and then I think she will be ready to work a few feeders so she can get on some hot coons. We'll see how she does.

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Chris and his son Cody came by last night and we made a short hunt. We turned the dogs loose out of a field and they went in about 500 yrds and struck a cold track, worked it in another 400 yrds and treed. We rode in to about 150 yrds of the tree and walked on in to them. They were treed up a large Turkey Pine and it was wraped up with vines about 3/4 of the way up and they were wrapped so tight that you couldn't shake any of them. We shinned and squalled for a while, but we could never get him to look. We turned them loose again in next to the river. They went in about 800 yrds and they had split up. Gin treedand we started to her. Tramp came in just before we got there and backed her, but I could tell he wasn't to proud of it. She was treed up a small tree going into some big oaks. It could have been in any of the big trees, but I think she probably missed this one. We went back to the 4-wheelers, loaded up and called it a night.

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Turned two coons loose in the pen for Sheba 11 yesterday, didn't do a real good job on the tree, but for a 8 month old pup I guess she did ok. She did a good job on the track. She circled the pen a couple of times and she lost it on the other end at least I thought she did. I walked in close to her where I could watch her. and she kept coming back to this large pine and rearing up on it. She might have located on it while I was on the other end. If she did I missed it. I looked about half way up the pine sat the coon. I went in and caught her when she came back to the tree and tied her and she started treeing. I knocked the coon out to her and she liked that. Later yesterday evening I turned another one loose for her. She got after it, but when it came to the fence it went over. She treed hard where the coon went over.

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I took Smoke out to a couple of feeders last night. The first one he went out of there in a hurry, Usually he opens good on a track, but this time he never opened on track. He went in about 150 yrds and treed hard. I walked in to him and he was treed upa large oak. I shined for a while, but I could only partially see the tree from one spot, but I never could get him to look. We went to a couple spots and Smoke hunted good, but never did open again so we loaded up and called it a night.

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