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Mr Jack, sounds real good buddy!! Smoke sure is comin along, and as usual, Ol'Tramp is showing up in style! Keep up the good work my friend!

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Chris came by tonight and we loaded Tramp up and headed to the swamp. 1st drop, we turned him loose off the side of an old woods road into the swamp. He went in about 500 yrds and made a big circle and came back without a bark. We loaded him up and moved on down the swamp. We turned him loose again off the side of another woods road into a pretty swamp. He went in a ways and turned back across the woods road that we were on and went in on a slough that ran through the swamp and headed north up the slough. about 400 yrds in he struck a pretty good track and moved it on up the slough another 400 yrds and treed. We drove to about 100 yrds of him and walked on into where he was treed. There was a wide slough that looked deep before we got to him. I found a beaver dam and we crossed on it. The only place we could see the tree pretty good was there at the slough which was about 50 yrds from the tree. He was treed up a large oak. We found the coon pretty quick. It looked like a big coon so we were pretty sure it was a boar coon, so we decided to knock it out, Tramp had not had one in a while. Chris shot the coon, but it got over in another tree and we couldn't see him anymore. I crossed back across the beaver dam and could see the coon sitting in a fork. Chris walked in under neath the tree and found the coon and knocked it out. Tramp finished him off and carried him back to the 4-wheeler. we loaded up and moved on down the swamp. We turned loose this time into some 20 year old planted pines. Tramp went in about 450 yrds and circled back into another part of the swamp and struck a working track. He moved it into a part of the swamp that I hadn't been in before and treed. We went around the woods road that we were on and was able to get within about 75 yrds of where he was treed. We walked in to him and he was treed across another slough and this one looked deep. I kept looking for Aligators. I'm sure there were some there, but we didn't see any. The slough was a lot bigger and deeper a little farther down. He was treed up a tree about 20 foot tall and it was covered with what looked like cudsue vines.(probably not spelled right), but it looked like everything on that side of the sloughwas covered in the vines. Chris waded across the slough on the shallow end. It was almost over his boots, but he made it across and got Tramp. We made it back to the 4-wheeler and called it a night.

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On being elected into Bluetick Hall of Fame for 2015. Will be presented plaque in Batesville next May at National days. Take care, Ron

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for the information. Billy and I both are thankful to everyone the had anything to do with getting Tramp on the Ballot and electing him to the Bluetick Hall of Fame. Thank you.

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On being elected into Bluetick Hall of Fame for 2015. Will be presented plaque in Batesville next May at National days. Take care, Ron

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Congratulations! Lots of good hounds throughout the country with Tramps blood running through their veins.

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Congratulations Mr. Jack!!

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Congratulations Mr. Jack!!

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Guys for the congrats. Billy and I both are trully humbled that so many of you thought enough of ole Tramp to put him in the Bluetick Hall of Fame. Thank you.

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Congrats Jack,, Well deserved

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Congrats young man you and Billy and old Tramp well deserved.Glad I got to hunt with Tramp when he was young dog.Take care my friend and when you ready come down for a hunt.

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Congratulations Jack, Billy and Tramp, there's not a more deserving trio out there!

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Bo, Toby and Bill, It is a real honor for us. Thanks to everyone that made this happen.

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Took a coon over to the training pen late yesterday afternoon and turned it loose. I came back to the house and got Sheba 11. Took her over to the pen and turned her loose. She hit that track and went to the other side of the pen. She treed up on the fence a time or two, but she wasnt satisfied. Some time the coon will run back into the woods after comming to the fence and go up a tree. I walked into where the coon had come to the fence. I looked up several of the trees, but didnt see anything. Sheba was still trying to find the track. and then I heard her down toward the other end. I went down that way and got close enough to where I could watch her. She was working in a low place in the pen and water is about ankle deep. She was trailing through this water and all of a sudden she treed and treed hard. She was treed up a medium sized oak. I walked in to her and looked the tree over and didnt see the coon, There was a nest in the tree, but I really didnt think he was in the nest, But Sheba was still treeing hard. I left her treeing and walked back to the 4-wheeler and got my rifle. I thought she might leave the tree and follow me, but she didnt miss a bark. I walked back to the tree, it was getting late and it wouldn't be long until dark. I shot into the nest several times, but nothing happened.
I thought she must have just missed the coon. I leashed her and had to drag her off the tree. I thought I might could lead her on down to the other end of the pen and she might pick the trail up again. When I got to the other end of the pen I unleashed her and she left there like a streak, strait back to that same tree and started treeing hard again. I walked back to the tree and shot in the nest a couple more times, nothing happened and it was getting darker, and then I saw a dark spot way out on the end of a limb up near the top. I shot this spot and out came the coon. I couldnt believe I didnt see this spot earlier. I walked into where Sheba was mouthing the coon and petted her up good and told her I was sorry for doubting her. She and I both were happy.

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After I got through working Sheba 11. It had done got dark and I loaded Tramp up and headed to the swamp. I turned him up a slough and he went in about 250 yrds and struck a working track.
Moved it up the slough a ways and left the slough and headed across the swamp to a drain that comes Down through the swamp and headed up it to another part of the swamp. He treed about 500 yrds in. I went around to another road and got to about 100 yrds of where he was treed and walked on in to him. He was treed up a huge oak. I could only see part of the tree from a couple of places. I blew the squaller, but he wouldnt look. I went in under the tree and shook a vine, came back out and looked again and there he sat looking at me with both eyes. We Left him to run again. We walked back to the 4-wheeler and went around to another part of the swamp. Turned loose again, Tramp went in on the river and turned north up river. He went in a little over 600 yrds and made a wide circle and came back in without a bark. We loaded up and came back to the house. I put Tramp up and fed him.

Smoke

Loaded Smoke up and headed to another part of the swamp. I have a feeder there and I thought I might get him on a hot coon. I turned him loose near the feeder and he struck pretty quick, moved it in about 200 yrds and treed. I walked in to him and he was treed up a big pine. I could only see the tree from almost direct underneath it. I gave up pretty quick. It was getting late so we walked back to the 4-wheeler and called it a night.

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Loaded up Tramp and Smoke and went down the river a ways to hunt last night. Turned them loose off an ole woods road into a big drain that runs all the way through that part off the swamp and drains into the river. They went in on the drain and hit a good track and down the drain they went. There is about a ten foot colvert that passes underneath the woods road that I was on. I think they must have went around it, for there was too much water flowing through it for them to go thru it. They ran that coon for over two miles down that drain. I think the night that Steve Bankston and me were hunting at his place was the last time that I had heard a race like this. I know that Smoke had never been in a race like this, but he was doing his part. The drain runs paralel with the woods road that I was on, anywhere from 100 to 200 yrds from the woods road, so I just rode along and stayed about 250 to 300 yrds from them listening to a good race. Now I know that it just wasnt fun and games with the dogs. It was a pretty swamp where they struck the coon, but after they past that colvert they got into 15 to 20 year old planted pines and along that drain is solid briars and bushes. They had run the coon a long ways and they made a pass out to about 50 yrds of the road and Smoke came out. He acted like he wanted to go back, but I think he had had all he could handle, all around his eyes and nose was bleeding from the briars. He really looked rough. I loaded him up and we followed Tramp on. The coon went on in a couple of hundred yrds and doubled back for about 150 yrds and Tramp treed. I went back down the road that I was on and found another woods road going in his direction and I went down it. I came to an ole iron bridge that crossed the drain that they had been running on and I could see why Smoke was so banged up. It was rough in there along that drain. I got to within about 75 yrds of Tramp and walked on in to him. Man it was rough in there. I mostly walked on top of briars. He was treed on a vine going up into a big tree. I couldnt tell what kind of tree it was. I shined the tree for a while, but it was so big and bushy that I never could get him to look, but I'm sure we will run him again before long. I looked Tramp over and he seemed to be in good shape. We loaded up and called it a night. I didnt want to turn Smoke loose again.

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MR. Jack I wish I could have had a hound in that race and setting there with you listening to them. Mason and I call our swamp runner, " Rocket". You get after that one again you need to give him a name. When I get after a hard running coon like that and they tree him where I can see him my first thought is to knock him out to them for a job well done but after thinking on it a little more I want to leave that kind for seed. Hoping they reproduce more swamp runners like they are because good races like that are to few and far between. All the rain we have had kept me from calling you this week and we had anther big job this weekend to get done. Will call you tomorrow and see if your good to go make a round tomorrow night or Tuesday. If so I will come your way and see if we cant get after that two mile bandit of yours, take care.

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I took Tramp out for a run tonight. I turned him off an ole woods road up a slough. Ithought I would get one going pretty quick, but
it didnt happen. Tramp went up the slough to the end of it and headed west toward the river. When he reached it he turned north upriver. He was a little over 800 yrds and I hadnt heard a bark. I was begenning to loose him on my Garmin so I decided I had better catch up. I went in to another woods road that runs paralel with the river. I got to within about 300 yrds of him and I stopped to listen. He had struck a track in off the river. This coon must have walked some time early today. I could tell on the Garmin and by the way he was barking that he was really having a rough time with this one. He moved it on in another 100 yards and treed. I rode into about 100 yrds of where he was treed and walked on in to him. He was treed up a big oak. I walked around it and finally found a spot that I could see a little of the tree. When I first shined my light up there I thought I caught a glimpse of an eye, but if I did he never looked again. The moon was so bright, I think it was brighter than my light. Me and Tramp walked back to the 4-wheeler and called it a night.

Steve, the coons around here are sure getting harder to strike and usually its a cold track, but it will get better. I never did have too good of luck on these bright moonlit nights, but I know where that two mile bandit roams and we might can get him going again. We will sure give it a try.

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MR. Jack I truly enjoyed last nights hunt even though the coon weren't moving the company couldn't have been any better. Here is a almost perfect picture of Tramp stretched out on the tree that held his boar coon he treed. The only scar in the picture is where BO bit the tree because he couldn't wait to get that coon. It was breaking daylight when I got home, can't believe how the time flew. Wish I was retired so we could stay out all night every night. Looking forward to the next all nighter. Take Care and talk to ya soon.

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Thanks Steve for the picture. You have a talent for taking great pictures. My computer won't let me do photoes. I sure enjoyed the hunt, looking forward to the next one.

Took Tramp out alone last night. We went to a place I use to hunt a lot years ago. It's posted now, but come to think of it I think it was posted back then to. I turned Tramp loose headed up an ole slough. I knew he looked like he was winding something when I turned him loose. When I turned him loose he took off and went in about 50 yrds and fell treed. I walked in to him and he was treed up a pretty good sized oak right on the side of a pipe line. I walked out in the pipe line where I could see the tree good and there he sat up in a big fork looking at me with both eyes. I walked in and petted ole Tramp a little and headed him on up the swamp. He left and I walked back to the 4-wheeler. He made about a 300 yrd circle and came back without a bark. He came back by me and left out again headed up the swamp. I waited a while and looked at my Garmin and he was over 700 yrds and still on the move. I decided I had better get closer. I got into a place that was real wet and bogged the 4-wheeler down and there was not a tree nowhere aroung to hook the winch too. and I didnt think I had enough rope and cable in the rack with me to get to the trees, but I let all the cable out on the winch and got the rope and started toward the closest trees. I walked out a ways and tripped over a big tree that was laying in the grass. It was about half rotten, it had been laying there a long time, but I thought it might hold togeather enough to get me out, so I wrapped the rope around it and hooked the other end to the winch cable and with the winch and 4-wheeler pulling, I got it out. I got everything loaded back up and checked my Garmin and Tramp was a little over 800 yrds, so I started toward him. I got to within about 400 yrds of him and stopped to listen and he had struck an old cold track. I sat there and listened to him work un til he got a little over 700 yrds and decided I had better catch up again. I got to a little over 300 yrds of him and stopped to listen again. He was still working the track. I sat there and listened to him work and he was about 600 yrds in when he treed. There was an ole woods road close by that went toward him so I took it in as far as I could and he was still almost 300 yrds. I left the 4-wheeler there and walked on in to him. He was treed up two huge oak trees that were growing side by side. I shined for a while, but if he was there I never could get him to look. I walked in and leashed Tramp and we made our way back to the 4-wheeler. I thought I might have a rough time getting back through that wet spot, but I went a little different route and made it through and we called it a night.

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Took Gin out for a run tonight. She hadnt been out in a couple of weeks. I made 3 drops and couldnt get on nothing. She did hit one ole cold track, but it was so bad she couldnt do anything with it. I loaded Gin up and brought her back home and put her in the pen and Loaded up Sheba 11 and headed to the feeders. The first one I dropped her on she checked it out and nothing there, so we headed to the river. I dropped her out on the first feeder there and she hit a cold track off of it. She surprised me how well she worked that cold of a track. She just kept moving it toward the river. She was opening just about right for that type of track. I walked with her for about 300 yrds. staying about 100 to 150 yrds behind her. I thought she might tree and I wanted to get to her as quickly as possible if she did, but she kept moving on. I decided I had better go back and get the 4-wheeler. When I got back to the 4-wheeler I checked the Garmin and she was 550 yrds. I went around until I got within about 100 yrds of her. When I killed the 4-wheeler I heard her give two big locates and I started to her, but she didnt stick it, but she couldnt pick the track up again. I let her work there for awhile. I was hoping she would tree it, but it was just to bad of a track. I caught her and loaded her up and petted her up some. We called it a night.

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I took Sheba 11 out for a run tonight. I hit the feeders with her in hopes that I would get her on a good track, and again it didnt happen. I went earlier tonight than I had been hitting the feeders. I had been hunting another dog or two and comming back later and hitting the feeders with Sheba 11 and I just been hitting cold tracks. Tonight I hit them early. The first two feeders She didnt strike anything. The third one she hit a real cold track and worked it up the slough about 250 yrds and it played out on her and she came back. I loaded her up and came back to the house and put her in the pen. I came in and watched TV untill about 1 oclock and decided to go back and hit the first feeder that I had hit earlier. The coon must have come to the feeder right after we had checked it earlier, for it was not a good track. She worked it in about 200 yrds and treed. I went to her and she was treed up a medium sized oak. It had a lot of other trees around it making it hard to see. I shinned for a while, but if he was there I could not make him look, but there will be other nights with better tracks. Sheba 11 turned 9 months old May 30, so she is doing ok. We called it a night.

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Hit the feeders again tonight with Sheba 11. On the first one she struck a working track and moved it out good. She moved it in about 300 yrds and was headed toward some rough stuff. About a 100 acre 5 yr old planted pines and the briars are thick and as high as the pines, so I called her off and picked her up just before she got there. We headed to the river. She struck a hot track on the next oneand ran it about 50 yrds and locked up treed. That little girl has got a mouth on her and she was letting the world know that she had the coon treed. I walked in to her. She was treed up a big tree and it was loaded with vines. I petted her up and took some pictures. I shined the tree for a little bit. The vines went into several trees around there and it just made a big canopy, as hard as I tried I could not get him to look, so I went back under the tree and petted her up a little more and we called it a night.

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Jeremy and me loaded Tramp and Shadow up yesterday and drove to Brookhaven, Ms. to their Handler of the year hunt. This is a new hunt that the new officers started this year. It has really helped out the entry numbers. I think that Geremy is leading with the most points right now. They have already had 3 of these hunts and I think there are 3 more to go. They are being held at different clubs. Jeremy had took Shadow along in case some more Grand Nite Ch. came, but there were not any moe showed up, so we decided for him to handle Tramp. There was two casts of Nite Ch. Jeremy drew a three dog cast of real good guys and good dogs. Jeremy with Tramp, Mike Gerald from Ovett, Ms. with his Blue dog and a guy from Brookhaven, Ms.hunting a English dog. They turned them loose off an old woods road and they went in about 100 yrds and struck a pretty good track. Tramp 1st, Mikes Blue 2nd and English 3rd. They ran the coon about 400 yrds. and mike's Blue Treed 1st. English 2nd. Tramp kept going on track. We walked in and leashed the two dogs and shined for the coon. 10 min. gone, no coon seen, Circle tree. We walked back out from the tree and listened. Tramp was about 500 yrds in and still moving. They cast the other two dogs in his direction and about the time they turned them loose Tramp Treed. We circled back to another woods road and started walking toward Tramp. The 5 min. was up on Tramps tree and no other dog had got there. We walked into Tramps tree and by the time we got there the other two dogs were there. He was treed up a large pine that had a lot of vines in it. It had another big pine next too it and the limbs and vines were all togeather in it. They shook vines and squalled and was mostly looking in the 1st tree and the coon jumped out of the second tree. We all heard it and the dogs knew it too, but we didnt see it. The dogs were pulling wanting to run the coon again. Another circle tree. Steve I think this was Tramps 2 hr. Bandit. He had went the same direction and he had him, but he jumped out and I still have not seen him yet. Hurry up and get ole Bo well. We went back to the truck and moved on down the swamp. They turned the dogs loose and they went in about 100 yrds and struck, Mike's Blue treed. Tramp and the English trailed off a ways, but never could get it moving. The time was up on Mike's Blue's tree and we walked in to him and he was treed up a cypress tree. They shinned, but could not find the coon. another circled tree. Tramp and the English had come back into the treed dog while we were shinning. We called time and moved to another place. We turned the dogs loose and they struck pretty quick. Mike got 1st strike and 1st tree on theis one and they saw the coon and this gave mike a nite Ch. win on his dog. I think the other Nite Ch. cast was a dead cast. I enjoyed the hunt, all the dogs did good and you could not have asked for a better group of guys to hunt with.

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Sounds like yaw had a good hunt MR. Jack. Wish you could have got a light on the 2 hour bandit. Probably going to be even harder to tree next time. My guess is he's probably one of those coons you and Tramp treed one night that your gun wasn't hitting where you was aiming and you rattled his cage a little with all the shooting, Now he don't want to climb or stay put when he does. I know for sure your hitting good with that rifle now because the other night I just heard one shot then, thump. So, he better keep running! Bo has been bawling at dark the past few nights so tonight I'm going to let him test that foot a few minutes. Can't toughen it up without picking it up and putting it down. Talk to you in a day or so, take care.

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