Been coonhunting for 17 years now started when I was 11.I still remember the first night I went with my cousins walker male and mt.cur female. Have been addicted ever since!
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Location: New Market Va
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Dang You all did'nt spend much Time Chasin the Girls !!!!
I had to little Time too do much Else !!!! LOL
Well I'am 52 and have Raised a Family out the Door and add the Time for Chasin the Girls around in my Teens and Twentys so I gess I could honestly say 14 years ..
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Registered: Feb 2009
Location: southern ohio
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41 years started hunting with my dad. I was 4 years old when he started taking me. Never was in any trouble all I wanted to do was coonhunt. We need to get the kids involved in our sport it will keep them out of a lot of trouble and preserve the sport.
Registered: Aug 2008
Location: North GA.
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13 yrs
First 7 yrs as a spectator with my wife wanting me to go with her grandpa to look after him. When he became unable to hunt his old dog layed round bout 6 months till the old man finally got me to take him on my on and now here I am hooked. I started with and still hunt with Blue English dogs . I hope that the Lord is as good to me as he has been to you guys and lets me hunt a long long time. Wife and kids like to go and hear the dogs work to. Happy Hunting and be carefull out there
Went one time with an Uncle when I was 5 and decided I liked it. Nobody around here had coondogs so I didn't go again till I was 13 and bought my first Walker pup. We trained each other. I've managed to feed at least one walker coondog ever since for 45 years now. When this old Walker dies there won't be anymore. I have switched over to something better about 4 years ago.
Registered: Aug 2008
Location: Union County, Tennessee
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i'm really the new comer here i just started 2 1/2 years ago and i been hunting walker dogs and black and tans untill last year i got my red tick and now i hunt all 3 breeds now
now I am 36 have had my own Blueticks for 21 years!!! wow time flys!!!
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coon hunting with my stepdad when i was 10 yrs. old...now im 61...so 51 years now ive been hunting blackand tans..really love it...my son is 36 and has been hunting black dogs since he was 8 years old
Every since I was big enough to pack the rifle for my older brothers. Still don't know all there is to know. Time gets away real quick any more .But with any luck when I die I'll be under the tree looking at a coon ,heaven don't get any better. Did I say I hunt ENGLISH dogs, makes it even better. TOM
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Location: West Virginia
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about 55 years,,,,what is that in dog years?? first walker i ever owned the papers were green and they said he was a walker (treeing ) lol boys its been awhile ,,its no wonder im getting a knee replaced monday ,,,ty chuck west
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: mid-michigan
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I'm 50 and have been doing it as long as I can remember.
Shot my first coon out at age 6.
My dad started coon hunting before I was born. Not sure how old I was the first time I went. Can't remember my first time.
I remember reading my dads Full Cry mags when I was a teenager. I remember guys writing that they had been hunting for 30 to 40 years. I just laughed thinking " There ain't know way someone could hunt that long. "
I guess the jokes on me , because I'm not ready to quit yet.
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I am sixty-three years old, I have hunted and handled everything from world champions to total idiots. My brother and I started possum hunting an old running walker female that had gone to treeing when we were about eleven and twelve. I took some time off for the Vietnam War, and had a hound at my house ever since. These hounds have afforded me a lot of pleasure, and a lot of pain, but the greatest thing they have afforded me are a host of friends all over the United States. Tom
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FORTY YEARS, STARTED WHEN I WAS FOUR WITH MY DAD AND HIS BLUETICKS. HIS DAD ALSO HAD BLUETICKS, SO I GUESS YOU COULD CALL ME THE THIRD GENERATION BLUETICK HUNTER.
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Registered: Feb 2010
Location: Perry, Fl.
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The first time I can remember was when I was four years old. We were hunting in Rosman, N.C. in January or February as we moved to Florida in March. Dont know if Dad carried me before then or not as he has passed away. But I still love to hear a hound strike a track and run it to the tree. Forgot to add was in 1956 so at least 54 years.
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Okla & Mich.
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Will turn 68 when bear seasons open this fall. Didn't get started until I was 19, when I was given what I believe was a Bluetick/pointer cross, to keep the coon out of our sweetcorn patch. Got first papered dog in 1968. He was a Plott puppy from Mississppi. He grew up to be a sure enough bear dog. Guess I've owned one or two of every color over the years, Got two B&T's , Three Walkers and Redtick at this time. Seem every year they get treed a little further from the truck. Headed back up to Michigan in couple of weeks.
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Louisiana
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I started when I was about 14!!! A older fellow gave an old bluetick gyp to my friend! He said she was a Coondog deluxe! We had never been coonhunting before. It was on Christmas night, so we decided to take her out!It was freezing cold that night, & all we had was some old flash lights to shine with. There was a big creek bottom behind the house where we grew up squirrel & deer hunting! So we took her & cut her loose & it wasnt long she struck a coon, & she run that coon all night. In & out of thickets, back & forth through the creek bottom. It was a miserable nite, & we was walking our butts off. I swore up & down that I would never go again!!!! She finally treed it, & had it! We shot it out & it was all worth while after that! I was hooked for life!!! Im now 32 & have been coonhunting ever since!!!
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Central Michigan
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I started coon hunting when I was 13 years old 38 years ago. I did have my 1st tree dog at 8 years old. He treed squirrels, possums, and wood chucks in the day time. We were pretty much inseparable for 10 years. He was a fox terrier, crocker spaniel, and beagle mix. He even saved me from an attacking squirrel one day. He looked just like a miniature doberman without the cropped ears and tail of course. His name was Nickie after my buckskin pony that the city made us get rid of.
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