Dave Richards
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Registered: Apr 2015
Location: church hill tn
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Re: I have never looked at --
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Originally posted by OLD TIMER
caring, training and enjoying a Raccoon Hound as a sport. To me it's a hobby. Like woodcraft or my daughters' quilting. Can you make it a sport? With out a doubt and it has turned into a sport that is so different then any other sport. Golfers play on the same greens and score on the same hole for a tournament, Nascar races on the same track with the same finish line for a given race and baseball has the same foul lines same home run distance and same bases for their game of the day. But comp hunts have turned into a different animal. They do not run the same track anymore nor are they scored on the same tree?? I feel you could train an English Pointer to tree raccoon and they would be darn hard to beat in today's hunts. They will flat out fly while they hunt, if you don't get a handle on them they will end up in the next county and when they lock up, they're there until you get to them. But to some of us that isn't what got us into the hobby of these hounds.
And to you younger hunters, please watch how you show others who don't understand what we do and present yourself like the World is watching because today, it is. I was reading an article in one of the magazines and the writer said that some think of us as "hillbillies" wanting only our whiskey, tobacco and then back to our killing ways. Then I see this same guy on YouTube with his lip loaded up with tobacco like he had just gone 10 rounds with Mike Tyson and spitting in a pop bottle while being interviewed. I turned it off because I was about to need a bucket myself. The good news is they didn't show his whiskey bottle. The World has gotten a lot smaller place with all the cameras today and you just never know who will turn it around and use it against you.
Happy Hunting
OT
OT, Folks like you and I love coon hunting for what it is, not a job. We can appreciate the sounds of a good mouth dog trailing a coon, giving that distinct locate and going into that ringing chop treed mouth. It is not how many coon you tree, but the quality of the hunt. I never hide hunted so the price of coons was never a factor to me. I still enjoy the thrill of the hunt and definitely enjoy a dig like your Chance dog doing his thing while I sit back and soak it all in. Dave
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