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Ya I know I'm trying to take a different approach. I'll always be demanding of my dogs I just have to remember there is more. I have seen a lot of people come and go. I have seen a bunch of them quit or take a break for some years. I have never let up since I started 27 years ago, and I don’t have any plans to now. It might just be time for a new dog. I enjoy this one but it’s the same thing every night. I normally hunt one 5-6 years before I worry much about a new one. This one is 4, we are fixing to shoot for a truck ticket and she needs $16 more to be qualified for the nationals. I think I'll start really looking for a young dog.

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Just send me that un when you get your new young one

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i admire you guys that strive for the best. i hope you don't beat yourselves up too bad and just as importantly don't abuse your dog. i'm probably at the bottom rung of the ladder with coon hunting and my dogs are about as sorry as they can be. but i still enjoy them and still get angry at them and still love them. if i didn't i'd cull all of them and get a a couple of your culls and be the happiest man in coon hunting. if i lived close to one of you i'd be that guy you unload your dogs to. Happy hunting!

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When you are an old man, the hunts with the fondest memories will have little to do with dog power. I started way back in the 70s and if my buddys and i had one dog in the whole useless pack that would bark UP and stay until we got there we thought we were cookin with gas. Great memories.
By the way you build the best lights on the market, you dont deserve the best dogs to.Lol.

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When you are an old man, the hunts with the fondest memories will have little to do with dog power. I started way back in the 70s and if my buddys and i had one dog in the whole useless pack that would bark UP and stay until we got there we thought we were cookin with gas. Great memories.
By the way you build the best lights on the market, you dont deserve the best dogs to.Lol.

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My hat is off to you for 75 years of coon hunting. I have never been without a dog that would tree a coon after the first year I hunted. Me and a friend watched where the Red Fern Grows and decided we was going coon hunting. We already spent most nights out spot lighting rabbits anyway. We didn’t know anyone else that coon hunted but we got our hands on an old bluetick. We were afraid that if we let him go we would never get it back. So we spent a year with that stupid thing hunting on a 10 foot rope. We hunted in tennis shoes and wiped ourselves down with coal oil to keep the mosquitos down (Rice fields) and used a two cell flash light. We also had a huge spot light called a Sunspot . The problem was it ran on a 12v car battery. So one of us would lead the dog around and the other would tote the car battery in a backpack and carry the gun. That stupid dog ran every armadillo and deer in the county. We only made three trees in almost a year of hunting him every night, but at the end of that year we were as tough as you can get. When we finally decided we had enough we turned him loose. He run off on a deer and we never saw him again. It made some of the best memories I have of hunting.

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had decent luck with the ones iv,e raised, but i believe in this now for sure, if i brag on my dog too much, it comes back to bite me in the A double S.

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