Rick Dennison
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Registered: Feb 2009
Location: Ashland,Ohio
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bradley E. Hall
Do you ever sit back and take a look at who we are. Lets say and this is probably to high a number, but lets say they are 300,000 coon hunters in the United States. Divide that by the 2009 population of 308,271,000 people and that gives us a percentage of being .0009731 of 1 percent of the population. Basically we are a nobody!. But the fact is in this .0009731 of a percent of the population of america, its our world, and its what we enjoy doing and what makes us happy. Its amazing that coon hunters get bent out of shape over who's woods someone is hunting in. I have permission where I hunt or who ever I am hunting with. If I run into someone that does not have permission in the woods I am hunting, it does not bother me, I could care less, its none of my business, they are plenty of other coons and hunting grounds. This is a game that I enjoy playing and doing. Jealousy runs rampant among coon hunters. Here is a good scenerio. I hear this one a bunch. "I am not going to that club cause so and so is there! Bull Butter, your not going because you know you can get beat by better dogs at that hunt. I have never in the 20 years of competition hunting has let anyone that I knew was going to be at a hunt, stop me from going if I knew I was packing enough dog power, I cannot comprehend in my mind not going to a hunt for fear of who was going to be there, but from what it sounds on these message boards, that is exactly what some are saying. Some coonhunters, lives breaths and dies to goto the next hunt, and what for, glory! Do you really think anybody cares other than yourself if you won first place at that hunt, or made your dog a GR NT CH, its no big deal, look at the money you wasted doing it. You do it for yourself and your own glory. I can care less what so and so is doing from this part of the state or that part of the state, I can care less if so and so bred 100 females at 500 dollars a pop, and ect... Don't get so wrapped up into this game that it makes you become jealous or envy of the next man and his dog, enjoy it as you go, make friends, enjoy camping and the trips to the hunts, hug that old hound of yours and rub its ears and tell em you love them, keep a great spirit with a fun loving aditude and as long as you keep it honest and straight, don't worry what they say about you, usually the ones that keeps it honest and straight are considered trouble makers anyways. Just laugh, smile and enjoy the ride. [/QUOTE hey brad its been a long time. we had some good hunts when i hunted cadillac style and stoney creek mack for ole henry, we never had a bad hunt or argument. take care.....
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