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Jazz really sounds like a special one Chris. So young and to be doing so much would make any hunter excited and proud. Keep her in the woods, she's going to be a dandy. I can't get the videos to play, says that it has been moved or deleted. Take Care and Good Hunting!

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I keep up with you and Briar as well. Sounds like I need some of the hunt that Briar is showing. Send me a mobile number and I will text you a video or two.

I liked the looks of that rig rack you built for your ATV and built one for mine. Jazz isn't too sure about it yet but my plott loves it.

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I've been working out of town all week and with Mother's Day, last night was the first me and Jazz have hit the timber in over a week. That all well and good though, full moon at the beginning of the week and it just doesn't hurt a pup to sit and think about life and what it wants to be when it grows up. Anyway Jazz came out of her week layoff ready to hunt.

I threw in a twist with the 4 wheeler tonite. She has ridden on it and I've roaded her with it but never had the distractions of me riding into her treed. So I put her on and hooked her up the rig rack and headed to the creek. I cut her loose on the creek. I have been a little anxious about how far she is hunting out and the beginning of this hunt was no different. She got out to about 120 and just seemed to stop. I have to tell myself she is not six months yet. Hard to remember when you have a pup running treeing like she is. I eased the ATV down the creek and she flew past me without stopping. As I watched on the Garmin she got to 200 and was going away from me and up the ridge. She was in a good spot as I have treed several coons here. They travel down the gullies from the steep hills to feed in the creek.

As I watch the Garmin, I'm happy to see her getting out to 275 and moving away. At 280, she opens on the track. She makes quick work of it and located at 325. She settles into a steady chop and I fire up the quad and go to her. The quad didn't bother to bad but I had to put her on the tree when she ran up to me after I got off the quad. She went right back easily, but don't want to get that started! She was treed on a 30 inch red oak. I looked up and spotted the coon with two looking down. We had a little party and I walked to the quad, loaded Jazz up and headed over the ridge to cut her loose near a pond.

The second drop Jazz really got out and hunted. The best effort I've seen from her yet. She got out to 450 and really worked a deep holler well she opened on track and took it away to about 600 and it dried up and she couldn't finish. She didn't want to quit and tried to figure it out but couldn't get it done. I couldn't fault her too bad with the effort and the way she grubbed up the track. Too much for the young brain. Maybe a back track? Maybe just got the slip.

Oh well, it was good hunt and I continued to be impressed by this little dog. Thanks for following along.

Oh yeah forgot to add, Jazz paperwork was sent off. She is performance and ss. If she keeps going she will be hunted in the baby stakes this fall.

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Jazz sounds like she is hunting deeper every night you take her. For a pup as young as she is that's getting on in there to be 450yds. When I started hunting mine from the 4 wheeler they left a few trees but went back. If I have a young one that trees within a couple hundred yards of where I'm setting on the 4 wheeler I will walk in to them even if I could get closer on the 4 wheeler. I go in, hook them up, then walk back and ride the 4 wheeler up, go back into them and find the coon then pet them up for a job well done. I feel like they learn that even though I'm walking away from them and they hear the 4 wheeler, that I am coming back to give them their reward if they have earned it. It don't take many times and when they hear that 4 wheeler they will be treeing harder instead of meeting you off the tree. Ole Jazz will like riding that 4 wheeler more and more. If you have a big chunk to hunt with some trails through out then you can really keep a hound hunted up off a 4 wheeler and not wear yourself out in the process. Keep her in the woods Chris, she's going to be a Dandy, Good Hunting!

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She sounds good Chris, I enjoy the updates.

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When I started this thread I wanted to write with full disclosure. I didn't want to just write about all the good and make this some Wonder Dog thread where the pup never makes a mistake, trees its first coon early and never looks back. Well, Jazz helped keep me and this thread humble this week.

It has been hot and humid here a night. Until last night, temps have been in the mid to upper seventies, well past midnight. I'm not trying to make excuses just pointing out that the warm muggy weather combined with poor dog work, has left me in a sour mood.

Saturday night found Jazz and I in. Flat swampy woods. This is good woods that consistently produces a coon or two in a tree. It's no "Louisiana swamp", just a flat Indiana hardwoods on crawdad ground. Anyway, cut Jazz loose and she half heartedly wandered off. She still is not splitting the dark when turned loose by herself. She dropped in about 150 a struck. It became apparent that she was opening on a layup or den and was trying to figure it out. She wore a forty yard circle out trying to get it right. At this age, I am not to hard on a young one that is working hard or is willing to take a chance, so I let her wallow around on it. She finally quit and drifted on,'right towards a house where the folks keep every mutt or stray that comes along. Jazz really got the neighborhood dogs fired up. This was by far the worst performance by Jazz she has had. She never got treed, was lazy and just wouldn't hunt. When I got her home and put her in the kennel, I noticed she had scoured it up. I looked in the other kennels and noticed they were a mess too. I asked my girls if they had been giving the dogs Goats milk during chore time and they said they had. There you have it, a kennel full of sore bellies. No wonder Jazz wouldn't hunt.

After giving instructions to the girls to stop with the milk, I loaded up Jazz and Boone Sunday night. I wasn't willing to accept all the poor performance was all about belly aches. One hole I have seen in Jazz is that she doesn't hunt as hard as I like. After thirty years of hunting and starting young dogs, I have learned that you don't move forward to fix problems. You take a step back until you fix the problem. I really feel like Jazz doesn't understand that coon tracks don't just grow out of the ground. She doesn't get that she has to go get them. I also wanted to use a little psychology on her. I wanted her to sit in the box and listen to Boone out there treeing a coon.

Well it kind of worked. I hunted a long stretch of deadend road with a creek running beside it. I cut Boone down the creek and he struck and treed. I drove down the road within thirty yards of the tree and Jazz got to listen as Boone blew it down. I went to him, left Jazz in the box, and equalled, petted and praised Boone. He thought he died and gone to heaven. Jazz was throwing a fit back in the truck.
I loaded Boone up and drive down the road and cut Jazz loose. She hit a track right away in the creek and drove it down the creek. The track left the creek and headed straight up a high ridge. She topped the ridge and I lost hearing. I was watching the Garmin as she worked around and I thought she would bring it back down. She never did. The best I can figure is the coon went in the ground as she quit and came back out. That was the only action we had as a storm was rolling in.
Last night was a night to be proud of. I took Boone and Jazz again and cut them loose together. This is only the fourth time Jazz has hunted with another dog. I hunted from the house as I wanted Jazz to be in familiar territory where she has freed coons. I cut Boone and Jazz down Southfork Creek. Boone is very competitive and will take young dog on a trip which is what I was looking for. My hope was for Boone to teach Jazz how to hunt and where to look for a track. When I cut them from the field it was a three hundred yard sprint to the creek. Boone knew the drill and headed for the creek. Jazz was babbling after him. Babbling drives me nuts. I had to restrain myself from hitting the ecollar. Remember, we are working on GO tonight. As long as she goes we can overlook the bad and work on it later. I watch as they drop down the creek to 450 and Jazz gives a legitimate bark. Boone confirms as he opens.

Boone and Jazz push down the creek and I watch the Garmin as they hit 620. Jazz and Boone split up. Boone stays on the creek and Jazz works up the steep ridge away from Southfork. Boone slams on the brakes and locates. I let Boone tree and watch the Garmin. Jazz works over the top. She is 703 yards away and tracking away. I decide to let Boone tree and head over the top on the 4 wheeler. The difference in elevation from where I am to the top is three hundred feet. Not much but it climbs that in a short distance. So it is steep.

I had lost hearing of Jazz when she topped out. When I got to the top, I shut down the quad. She had dropped in to Long Branch Creek and was sure enough treed. She sounded motivated and dedicated. I checked the the Garmin and she was 303 away and DOWN 300 feet. I walked in to her and she never missed a beat other than to meet me a few feet off the the tree. I scolded her and out her back and tied her up. Jazz had treed on a large red oak right above Long Branch. i knew she had to have this coon the way she was blowing it down. After I tied her, I went down in the creek and found him 2/3 up the tree. There was a lot of praise and a celebration and we started up and out.

Back at the quad I checked the Garmin and I had lost signal on Boone at 681. I would have to head down the trail I was in to the opposite side of the ridge and come around to him. On the way to Boone, I cut Jazz loose towards where Boone was treed. Jaz dropped in about 120 and hit a track. She made short work of it and ended up on a large poplar just off the trail I was on. I couldn't believe that worked out. I shined but couldn't find him. A few kind words to Jazz and we were back on the quad headed to Boone who had been treed about 50 minutes.

We got to the general area and I parked about 50 yards from the tree. I walked in shined, looked at Boone's coon and walked back to the quad.

Enough hunting for one night. I put a picture of Jazz on her first tree on the night. Thanks for reading these ramblings. More to come.

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I have been bad about updating this progress report. Guess I don't want folks to think I am bragging about this pup. I don't take any credit other than getting her in the woods. All of the credit goes to the men who mixed the blood to make this pup.

Anyway, kind of an overall progress report. Jazz is still showing me coons each time we go to the woods. She is stretching out the distance she is hunting and has figured out that tracks don't just grow on every blade of grass, leaf or rock. She is working hard to find a track. Once she finds one she tries her best to put a tree on the end. Not just any tree, but the right tree.

On one of our hunts, Jazz fired up a creek bed into a steep hollar. She opened 360 yards from where I cut her. She ended up treed 500 yards in in a briar thicket. I was proud of the job she did. When I topped the ridge on the 4 wheeler, she was really spitting them out. I fought my way into a big poplar and found the coon from a power line cut about 3/4 of the way up.

On another hunt Jazz got introduced to electric fence. She fired out good and went left handed into a cow pasture. She hit the fence and I heard her let out a yelp. She circled the whole 50 acres trying to find a way out and came back to where she went in and was showing treed. Only problem, she wasn't treed. I left her there for a good 20 minutes before walking to her. I found her mopeing right there. The fence was hanging about twelve inches off the ground. She could have easily jumped it but she wasn't taking any chances!!! I did not know whether to be happy about her being smart, disappointed for being a wuss or to scold her for doing nothing. So, I chalked it up to inexperience and helped her out. After wasting a good 40 minutes of hunting time, she got in and got a coon treed on the edge of a field. She jammed him with no track. Just locate and treed.

I hunted with Jerry Moll one night at a spot we call the Coon Zoo. A friend of mine has 500 acres along the Flatrock River. It is laid out perfectly for hunting. We always tree several coons, except for tonight. We grubbed up one coon and Jazz treed it. She must have tripped over him as she flew past us, and 30 seconds later she was treed. Jerry's gyp backed her. That is the first time she has ever treed with another dog. I was curious to see what she would do. Once the other gyp got to her she shut up for a few seconds and then went back to treeing. Jerry's gyp joined in. Jerry's gyp had treed earlier in the night and Jazz would not honor her. I think she is going to be an independent little hussy.

Last night we hunted from the yard. There has been a coon (s) raiding the chicken house so we were predator hunting last night. Southfork creek is 50 yards from my deck and the chicken house is in between. I had seen a coon in long drive at noon. I cut Jazz on the creek and she dropped in about 200 and struck. The coon must not have gone far since noon. She used her mouth about right as she worked the track up hill away from the creek. She finished off with the best locates and rolled it over into a steady chop. She was belly up on a ten inch hedge tree. I couldn't find the coon in the tangled mess but she was convincing.

Jazz seems to be progressing each time we are out. I like several things about her. She has had several opportunities to run deer. Last night was an example as she busted one out of a bed and stayed on her track. She has not treed a possum yet. She is proving herself to be independent and her accuracy is surprising considering how tree minded she is.

A few things that I would improve. Finish the track or move on. I call this "mouth writing checks her ability can't cash". Experience seems to improve this flaw, along with a hard charging trainer that busts in and moves her on. She does not have the volume I was going for, yet. Hope that improves. She has a habit of hunting straight away and then comes straight back if she goes a few hundred yards. When I feel like she is going to do this I try to move left or right from where I cut her loose. She is getting better.

Overall, she is exciting and nothing to worry about for her age. I'll update some pictures soon.

Thanks for reading.

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D-Day. 71 years ago today Americans were storming the beaches of Normandy along with our allies. There were many brave men and epic selfless acts of courage. Makes coonhunting and stories about that seem pretty irrelevant. Those guys fought so we could live free. So tonight's hunt was to celebrate that freedom.

71 years after Americam GIs stormed the beaches, Jazz was storming the hills and creek bottoms of SE Indiana. Tonight she showed what kind of potential she really has.

The first drop Jazz took off up the creek and got her mouth open quick about 200 yards in. She drove the track another 250 and got bogged down. She came back 100 and located with a lot of heart. She settled in and lit it up. When I got to her she had a coon up about 25 feet in an eight inch box elder. I petted her up good, loaded her on the 4 wheeler and headed toward the the bigger Southfork Creek.

I cut Jazz toward the creek and she struck right away. It took her about a minute to get it lined out. She was opening freely, more than I like but I knew she was wound up. Once she liked it out she flat drove that track down the limestone creek. She was opening about every 50 to 100 yards. At five hundred she slammed on the brakes with a BIG locate and settled into a hard chop. I let her tree for about ten minutes before firing up the fourwheeler. I drove within a hundred yards and could see her treed on a steep hillside across the creek and up the side about thirty feet on a walnut tree. I tied her and found the coon quickly.

Wow, I really like hunting this pup. Thanks for reading.

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Chris it sounds like you have really been having a good time with Jazz. It is so much more fun when you have a pup as natural as she is, makes it easier on us. Tracks down here are tough to come by right now, except rabbit tracks, Briar finds them easy enough! lol! He's going to make a nice hound but he's going to test all my patience.
A lot of good Americans made the greatest sacrifice of all and I am like you in that I NEVER take my Freedom and the things we enjoy in America for granted. Men and Women are still sacrificing today so we can still enjoy being free.
Next year Bluetick Days is in North Mississippi. I hope you and Jazz can make the trip and come help us tree some of these Southern Coon. It would be nice to meet you. Take Care and Good Hunting!

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I'm planning to be there Steve.

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Chris you are doing a excellent job with Jazz.

I always knew there was something special about this pup of yours. She showed independence and grit and would wonder off with no fear at a very young age. the next best thing better than a good hound, is his owners word. therefore, I'm glad I went through with my word and sold you Jazz, even though it killed me to send her off. lol keep up the good work, and don't be a stranger to upload some action shots. I'd like to start working on that scrapbook

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Jazz and I hit the woods tonight to celebrate the summer solstice. That means that every night the rest of this year will get longer!!!

Jazz has been laid up about a week due to me working out of town. She must have been sitting around thinking about it because when I cut her loose she punched a hole in the dark. She dropped in about 160 and struck a feeder track. She worked it just right, opened on it just right and put a tree on it. She had her first kitten coon of the year up. If she keeps operating like this, she'll be making a trip to town before too long.
Thanks for keeping track of me and Jazz.

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Chris, I was rambling through the threads and ran across yours and got to reading about you and Jazz. You write an interesting thread. You make a fellow feel like he's walking right along with you. I'm glad you are back in the blueticks and sounds like you have got a good one. Back many years ago I had a friend and his son that hunted plotts. If my memory is right and it aint a lot of times now days, but I think they were out of Brandenberger stock.(maybe not spelled right) maybe Pioneer Mike. My friends are both gone now. His son got into bluticks in later years. Keep up the good writing Chris and I wish you the best with Jazz. Good
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I appreciate the comments. I keep track of you and Steve Bankston as well. Good hunting and check in any time.

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Red white and BLUE !!!

Jazz and I hit the timber last night in celebration. As I sat on a south eastern Indiana hardwoods ridge, the echo of fireworks permeated the night air. The distant flashes followed by the thundering booms took me back to a Middle East desert. I was soon counting one thousand one, one thousand two. Etc. trying to determine the distance of the fireworks show. As a young Marine I remember doing the same thing as I was participating in a real show more than two decades ago.

Jazz brought me back as she struck a track in the big valley at about 300 yards away. She worked around, located checked and located and checked before settling in to a rhythmic chop. I knew there was no need to rush to her. Once she breaks into a rhythm she stays put.
I was a little aggravated as she put was putting on a lack luster performance. I blamed myself for a two week layoff due to working out of town.
I made my way to the tree and found her treed on a double trunk end red oak with 20 inch trunks. I found the coin in the top of the uphill trunk. This is the luckiest pup I have ever trained. Seems like coons want me to find them. This coon was sitting on the only dead limb on the tree.
After a pet and a praise, I loaded Jazz on the fourwheeler and headed down the creek. I cut her again and thought she was going back to the tree as I watched the garmin. About 150 from the previous tree she struck and took a track up a branch. The area she was in the elevation changes from 675 to 850 in less than a quarter mile. My friends in the south call them mountains, my friends from the mountains call them warm ups. Lol!
Anyway, jazz ran this track well but slow. What I mean is I was proud of her for not quitting and they way she used her mouth. It was apparent that this was an older track as it was after midnight. She worked it for nearly an hour. She located a time or two but didn't pull the trigger. She was circling back behind me and rather than let her go rework the same ground I headed her off and caught her off the track.
Not the best performance. But hey, if I only wrote the good stuff, this thread would be a fairy tale.
Thanks for reading and keeping up. Happy Independence Day.

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Thanks to Men and Women like you we are free to enjoy a night like you had last night. I didn't go the last couple nights as the 4th on the river gets a little loud up and down river from the house. They shoot a cannon up river off and on with fireworks and play the music like I used to play it, LOUD! Too loud for me to enjoy the hounds because their camp joins the 660 acres I hunt up there and last night I could go outside and hear every word of every song they played, and its a mile upriver from me. Down river is where all the tubers go and camp and its usually a wild bunch or two so wasn't chancing cutting the hounds that way. Your hunt sounded good with Jazz and its nice when the coon just sets out like that and make it easy on a hunter to find them. She sure sounds like a very nice pup and will only get better with every track. Take Care and Good Hunting!!

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Took to the woods tonight. 74 degrees and muggy. I'll be glad when it gets dark at a decent hour for a coonhunter. Lol!

Dropped Jazz on Willow Creek. This is a typical limestone creek around here except the water flows a little more swift due to elevation drop. Jazz got out about 50 yards and struck. She was putting distance between smoothe tenor bawls. At about 225 Iazz slammed on the brakes with the best dying locate I have heard from her, the kind that make you forget about heat, humidity and late nights. She rolled it over into a nice hard chop that was piercing the muggy air.

Jazz was treed on a small elm tree that was bent over from honey suckle and wild grape vines. The mess tied into a bigger maple. I found the coon peeking out of the maple. I was really proud of Jazz for the job she did on this one.

After the other night and the unfinished track I had a suspicion. So tonight I was going to put her in the same situation. I led her away about 100 yards and cut her loose. She took off down Willow creek about 140 yards and then circled back to where she had been treed. She swung out away from the tree about 80 yards and struck on a branch coming out of steep valley. She was opening good and taking the track up the valley. I lost hearing of her at about 375 yards when she took a left turn up a side hollow.

I went back to the truck and drove around on top. I parked the truck and got out and listened. Jazz was opening far less frequently. The track was getting tougher. She hit a locate or two and quit and strafed back out the way she went in, according to the Garmin. I picked her up on Willow Creek Rd.
just as I suspected, she was backtracking! The coon Jazz had treed had come down the branch to Willow Creek before Jazz and I got there Jazz ran him out of the creek.

I guess she doesn't walk on water and poop sunshine. Gives us something to work on for sure. She has to figure this out and she has to get used to being walked a minute and cut loose.
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I respect and appreciate that you keep it real. Enjoying following you and Jazz on this journey.

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I decided I was going to do this when I first got her home. Not knowing how things would turn out, I was going to tell it straight. No Fairy Tales or big yarns. Jazz has made it easy to keep it positive with just a touch of humility. If you like this, check out "Bogue Chitto Blues" on the Blue Stud page. Steve keeps it real. He is entertaining and humble. I hope to meet him someday. Thanks for reading.

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Took Jazz out for a hunt in some flat swampy woods tonight. There was water standing anywhere from 3 to 12 inches in approximately 70% of this forty acre woods. It lays wet in the spring and after 15 inches of rain in June!

Anyway, cut her in the timber on the northeast corner and she opened within a minute at 70 yards. She didn't run track but 50 yards and located good enough I would have put her on the card and would have taken a minus. This is the first time she has flat left a tree. She packed up and moved on. No track or anything. I'm thinking possum so I mark the spot on the Garmin and start in.

As I am shining around looking for the grease, jazz opens a hundred yards to the south on the wood. She rolls it into a nice chop. I continue to shine looking for the marsupial for couple of minutes and then head to Jazz.

Jazz is locked down on 20 inch red oak and as I am walking in I see the coon climbing for cover. I snapped a few pics, pet her up and lead her away. I walk one minute to the west and cut her loose.

Jazz swung around behind me and I was thinking " ok girl, time to get some things worked out." I head that way and ran her down between where she left the tree and where she had a coon. I leashed her up and scolded her. Took her back where I cut her and recast. Same thing. This time I took a switch with me and made myself a little more clear and repeated cutting her in the same place. This time she just sulked around near my feet. She found out that wasn't good either and I walked her on. After about fifty yards she got gone.

At about 215 yards she opened to the south. She just opened once. I headed back northeast towards the truck. This was an area she hadn't covered. She never did hit another track and came into me. I leashed her and took her to the truck.

This was the first frustrating night we've had. I am sure there are
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Chris,

Sounds as though you learned lots of valuable info tonight. Jazz learned some too. This entire process is a tool for anyone working a young dog. Being able to see the good and the not so good will encourage us all to keep focused on our hounds.

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Btt. Thanks for sharing your progress. I'm getting my pup in about 5 weeks.

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I have really enjoyed following this post. I have a blue pup that I am going to start soon, and I hope he starts like Jazz has.

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Corn fields, ripe berries and coon tracks.
Took Jazz to the land of the big cornfields and fence rows last night with a buddy and his dog. His dog is young but a real cooner. We cut em down a farm lane between two cornfields. They charged off about 50 yards and the plott gyp was wanting to play. Jazz wasn't quite sure about that and busted in the field. Jazz got in about a hundred yards along the field edge and struck a track. This is a the first time she had ever ran a coon in the corn. What a hoot that was as I watched the garmin screen as she raced up and down corn rows. The track looked like an EKG as it spiked up and down. I would like to tell you she ran it like a pro but the truth is she had several losses and hunted to pick it up again. The plott gyp finally joined her and I don't know how they left any corn standing in the field. Finally They lost it and Jazz made a wide loop along the woods according to the Garmin. She opened once and located. The plott opened to the left and located. They were split about 50 yards apart and were 465 yards deep.

As we worked around to them, I found Jazz on a thirty inch pin oak and the buddies plott was on a six inch maple. As we walked along the field we could see the trees and they were lit up like a Christmas tree. Those pups had four coons treed between the two of them. One in each tree and two in between. Each dog was proud of their tree and weren't giving up. Talk about some kind racket. Jazz is getting a decent horn on her and was really spitting them out. The plott was busting them out and she was loud.

We gathered up the pups and walked down the edge to recast and Jazz was acting a total fool winding and trying to get in the brush. I finally convinced her we were moving on and recast. They shot out about 150 and the plott opened. Jazz was working down a fence row perpendicular. After working out a ways Jazz was heading back to us. She ran right by us and went fifteen feet into the woods, located and treed. We looked up in a small water maple and found a coon sitting there. Do you think she knew that coon was there all along? I do.

Over all it was good night. The dogs looked silly at times with brief moments of brilliance. Jazz got introduced to cornfields and raspberry briar coons. Got in about 2:00. Fun fun fun.

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Chris Powell
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