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Is well on her way in making a coon dog.I know jack is real proud of her she's out of Goodson's rowdy bocephus and misty river blue Sheba.

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Thanks, Geremy for the picture and the kind words. Yes I am proud of Sheba 11. She is 9 months old and I've already seen some good things out of her. She has a great mouth on her like her mom and she also sounds a lot like her grand mothers Doll 11
and Doll 111. She opens about right on track and If she thinks he went up she will sure let you know about it. If you could hear her work a cold track you would think it was an old dog working it.

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She is a great looking hound and couldn't be bred any better. Looking forward to the first time I get to go hunting with her and hear that huge mouth in the swamps. Great looking picture of her, thanks for posting Jeremy, Take Care.

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Jeremy, Mr. Bobby Gates, Chris and his son Cole all came down last night and we went hunting. We had Shadow and Tramp and Bobby had a young female that I cant remember her name. We went to some corn fields. They struck a cold track to start with and they made a big circle back through the swamp and started back toward us. Me and Chris went around to the backside and Jeremy and Bobby went in on an ole slough that the dogs were getting close to. They seen a couple of big aligators in the slough,
so they got to calling and catching dogs. When me and Chris got back to where they were they already had the dogs loaded up. We went around to the other side of the corn field. We cast the dogs again and they went in about 200 yrds and struck a good track, ran him about 300 yrds and treed. We walked in to them and they were treed up a huge oak. There were other trees around it and we could just get to where we could see a little of the tree in different spots. We shined for a while, but we never could get him to look, so we leashed the dogs and walked back to the corn field and cast the dogs again. They went in about 600 yrds and struck a cold track and worked it aways and treed. This one was like the first one, a big oak that you couldnt see up. We leashed the dogs and walked back to the 4-wheelers and called it a night. It sure was good to have Mr. Bobby down to hunt with us.

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My son and his family were camping down at Little Black Creek and he had invited me down to spend some time with them this afternoon so I went down there for a while. Its about an hours drive from here. We cooked up some catfish and fries and I really enjoyed it. I left from down there about 8 oclock and got home about 9 oclock. I sat around here till about 10:30 and went out and loaded up Sheba 11 and headed for the swamp I turned her loose into a feeder and she struck a working track and moved it in about 200 yrds and treed. I walked in to her and she was treed up a medium sized oak, but I could only see part of the tree and If he was there I never could get him to look. We walked back to the 4-wheeler and headed for the river. One of my neighbors has got a garden down close to where I hunt and he has got a few rows of sweet corn planted there. He has already pulled the corn, but he left a few ears here and there. He has got a 4 strand electric fence around it. I went around to the back side and cut the electricity off and turned Sheba into the field. There was a big possum sitting there eating on an ear of corn close to where I turned her loose. She saw the possum and took off after it, but the possum only ran about 10 feet and turned and faced her. When he stopped she did too and just buggar barked at the possum a couple of times. I had the training collar on her and I lightly bumped her and she yelped and came running back toward me. I walked over a couple of rows and started walking on down toward the other end. She took off toward the other end giving the possum a wide bypass as she went by him. When she got down close to the other end she struck a hot coon and out through the back of the cornfield she went, crossed through a big field of 10 yr old planted pines, crossed another woods road and crossed through the edge of a big cutover and on into an oak flat that gets pretty rough in spots. She went through it for about a hundred yrds and hit an old drain that comes down through there and I thought she was headed for a black top road where there are a several houses and I was fixing to go around on the blacktop road and cut her off and just before I cranked the four wheeler she locked up treed and she was letting the world know about it. I was sure she was going to wake up everbody around there, but I grabbed my rifle and started to her. She was treed up a huge oak tree in a rough place with other big trees around it and the only place that I could see any part of the tree was some kind of ole woods road that had about grown up. I could only see one side of the top half of the tree. there was two more big trees blocking most of my view from there. The tree she was treeing up went up about 20 f00t and forked and two trees went on up from there. I didnt figure i would ever see him, but when I blew the squaller he looked at me fromthe top of the left fork. I was scared to shoot for we were right close to the houses and Sheba had not slacked up on her treeing any. I wanted to get it out on her, but I didnt wan to disturb anyone any more than we already had, and it was about 2:30 in the morning, so I went in and petted sheba up good and we got out of there. She had done a good job for a nine month old pup.

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MR. Jack, I have been in that situation a few times, close to a house and not wanting to upset anyone and possibly lose my hunting rights, BUT, I ALWAYS rethink it later at home and wished I would have rolled him out. I wished I would have been with you to hear that beautiful, crazy loud mouth roll up on that tree, I believe between me AND Sheba we could have talked you into one, quick, little shot that NOBODY could have heard over her mouth, and we would have rolled that sucker out. It will be another time though and she will put him up in a better spot and get her just reward. She is really coming along great and I'm proud for you, I think she is going to be extra special. Take Care and I will give you a shout Monday when I'm off and we will cut them lose somewhere.

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Chris was suppose to have come over today and we were going to take Tramp to a ukc hunt at Forest, Ms. but he never showed up and he didnt call so I dont know what happen to him. I waited around on him until it was to late to go to the hunt. I wont do that again. After dark I loaded Sheba 11 up and headed to the swamp. The firstdrop I turned her in near a feeder. She went in and checked the feeder and went on in a couple hundred yrds deeper and came back without a bark. I loaded her up and we headed to the river. I turned her in near another feeder she opened a time or two and I could tell she smelled a coon and she was circling around in there trying to get it straightened out and when she did she left out of there. She made a circle in toward an ole slough and started back toward another slough. She got about half way between the two sloughs and locked up treed. That little girl has got a big mouth and she was using it. I grabbed the rifle and walked in to her. Sometime she trees up on the tree and some time she will just sit back about two feet off the tree and will tree just as hard sitting down as she does when she is up on the tree, When she is sitting back treeing she is looking strait up the tree. When I got to where she was treed. She was treed up a huge oak and she was sitting back treeing hard. The big oak was kind of twisted, Probably some of Hurricane Katrina's work. I found the coon pretty quick, but he would look at me for a second and move around. I finally got him out and she was a happy little dog and me too. We called it a night

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Mr Jack it sounds like Sheba II is really turning it on. She sure is good looking. Nothing better than a pup you've raised yourself start turning the crank. Good hunting Buddy.

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Sure sounds like she's turning out to be the right kind!! Good luck buddy!!

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Good talking to you on the phone the other day and it looks like you have another coon dog in the making with Sheba II. She sure looks good on the wood. Hope she makes you a good one. Hope everything works out with Nail what ever way you go.
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Richard, Bill and Scott on the good words on Sheba 11. She has got about every thing going good for her right now. I dont know yet just how good of a nose she will have. She moves a good track out good and keeps it moving. She hits some tracks that I know are real cold and she cant handle, but she will give it her best. She hunts good by herself or with company. I've only hunted her with other dogs 2 times. I hunted her with her mother one time and with Tramp one time, both times we didnt hit anything but ole cold tracks. I hunted her and Tramp last night and we just could not get on anything. First drop Tramp hunted a little over 800 yrds. Sheba hunted out from 100 to 200 yrds and would come back and go back out again. We caught Sheba and loaded her up and went around on another road and picked Tramp up and went around to another spot and turned loose again. Tramp left and went in a little over 500 yrds and I could tell on the Garmin that he was working on an ole cold track, but it was too cold for him to open on. Sheba went in about 250 yrds and struck something and trailed it in there for about 15 minutes and came back, and left out again. Tramp was working his way back in our direction. He was about 250 yrds. and Sheba was a little over 500 yrds. Tramp treed and we started to him and I could tell on the Garmin that Sheba was on her way to him. She got there about the same time we did. She smelled up on the tree, but it was too cold for her so she never treed. The tree went up into other trees and it was like a canopy in there. We shined for a few minutes, but if he was there he wasnt looking. We leashed the dogs and called it a night.

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I loaded ole Tramp up a little after dark. Got all my equipment ready and headed up to a place I go from time. Its a nice place with pretty woods. I guess I'm the only one that ever hunts there and usually you can get on a coon pretty quick. I got up there and dropped Tramp off the side of a pipeline. As soon as he left I pulled the Garmin out to see which way he was heading and the collar I had on him was not picking up. all the sudden I was worried. I didnt know wheather or not he had went up the pipeline or back down it toward the road. I was trying to figure out why it was not picking the collar up, because I knew that I had turned the collar on, because I had checked it just before I turned Tramp loose, and then I remembered that last night when we got in from hunting Chris has got a Garmin Alpha and I have got a 320. The collar is a T5. Well when he put the collar on his Alpha, It took it off of my 320. Most nights up there he would have struck in pretty quick, but not tonight. Now I use to hunt without these things all night and never worry about a dog. Now that I've got use to them I'm without it 30 min. and I'm worried about my dog. I called Chris and luckly he was home. He came up to the road near where I was at and picked Tramp up on his Alpha and called and told me that Tramp was treed .94 miles above me. I went up the pipeline a ways and I could hear him treed still a good ways above me. I usually could have heard him treed in there, but it had come a little shower before dark and it was foggy and I just could not hear him from where I was at before. I went on up and got even with him and walked into him. He was treed up a big tree that looked like a pecan tree. It had big limbs that went out in different directions. I looked for a while, I'm sure he was there, but I couldnt get him to look. I looked at the backtracker and it said I was 230 yrds from the 4-wheeler. We walked back to the 4-wheeler and I called Chris and told him I had Tramp and we called it a night.

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I loaded Sheba 11 up about 11 oclock and headed to the swamps. It has been real tough getting on a good track around here lately, but we had got a good shower this afternoon and it was a little cooler tonight so I figured we would give it a try. I had filled the feeders up a couple of days ago and I thought we would give them a try. The first one she didnt strike on, but she went on in about 100 yrs and struck. It didnt seem like a very good track, but she went to work on it. She moved it on out of there for about 300 yrds and was headed toward a black top road. The track was beginning to heat up, but she was getting closer to the road. There is usually not much traffic on it, but it being saturday night a good many people travel these back roads when they have been drinking to stay off the main roads and road blocks, anyway I went around to cut her off before she got to the road, but she had already crossed and the track was getting better. I hated to catch her for she had done some good work on that track, but she was headed into some rough country. There was a cut through road close to where she was at and I took it and caught her. She didnt want to leave that track anymore than I wanted to catch her, but there was rough stuff where she was headed. I loaded her up and we headed to the river. I turned her loose on an ole branch and she struck pretty quick. She moved it in about a hundred yrds and treed. I walked in to where she was treed. I dont know what kind of tree it was, but it must have been 35 feet to the first limb. I couldnt beleive that a coon would take that tree when there was a whole swamp full of trees that would be a lot easier to climb, but I tied her and petted her a little and backed up to where I could see and hit the squaller and there he was looking at me with both eyes. I went back in and petted her a little more and told her we would get him next time. We went on down close to the river and turned her up a slough, again she struck pretty quick and move the track in about 300 yrds and locked up treed. I walked in to her and she was treed up a leaning tree that was covered with vines with several more small trees around it and they were all covered with vines. I really never expected to see this one because all the vines were so thick that it could have went any where in there, but I backed out to where I could see one side of it and hit the squaller and there he was looking through all those vines. I thought about putting it out to her, but with all the vines I didnt figure he would ever hit the ground. I petted her up good and we left him to run again.

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Sounds like good hunt.

Why do you think your having problem finding a track? Do you have this problem every year? Curious.

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Chris I think we have this same problem every year. We hunt mostly in the swamps. I think other than a few crawfish, food gets scarce in the swamps, So the coons move out into the briar patches to eat berries. They use to move into the cornfields, but because of the wild hogs, The farmers plant very little corn in this part of the country anymore.
Clayton and Chris took Tramp and Smoke and hunted up behind Clayton's house, so I loaded up Sheba 11 and headed to the swamp. I turned her in on a feeder, but she never struck and when she came back I loaded her up and headed to the river. I turned her loose on a branch that made its way through the swamp. I could tell she was smelling an ole track. I decided to go down the branch a little ways and fill up a feeder while she was working the track, about the time I started filling up the feeder I heard her sit down and start treeing. I walked back to where she was at and she was treed up a small tree that went up into a large oak. I walked around the tree shining and when I hit the squaller he looked at me with both eyes from up in the top of the big oak. I went in and petted her up some, and we left this one to run again. We went on down close to the river and turned loose again. She struck another cold track and started moving it out. She moved it in about 200 yrds and got in a rough cutover. She worked it in there for a while, but it was a cold track to start with and I didnt figure it was going to get any better in there where she was, so I called her out and we called it a night.

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I talked with Chris for a few minutes after they got thru hunting last night. He Said Tramp and Smoke did a good job on two coons and then they got after a bad boy that just would not climb. He said they ran him a long ways, but did not get him treed. I know where they were running this coon. I've been in there and its a night mare for coonhunters and coondogs.
I went back to the river with Sheba 11 tonight. First drop she went in about 75 yrds opened a couple of times on track and lcked up treed. I walked in to her and she was treed on a smaller oak that went up and into a larger oak. I couldnt get to where I could see the top of either tree, so we loaded up and moved on down the swamp. I turned her loose on a feeder, There is an ole possum on this feeder everytime I turn loose on it and she hasnt fooled with him at all, so I guess the little bump I gave her last week when she ran up on the possum in the cornfield did the trick. She struck a working track off the feeder and headed toward
my deer plott that has about a 20 acre cutover around it and, it is thick and rough in there. and I worry about my dogs when they get in there this time of year. We killed 4 rattle snakes out of there a couple of years ago when we were clearing the deer plott.
and we killed 3 out of there last year when we were discing it. She went through one side of the cutover, and crossed the deer plott and across the cutover on the other side and I thought she was fixing to head up river with him, but just as she was fixinf to come out of the cut over, there were some big trees on the edge of it she locked up treed. I walked in to her and she was treed up a big cypress at the rdge of the cutover. I could only see a small portion of the Cypress for there was 2 big oaks that blocked my view and the cut over was on the other side, so I just petted her up and told her we would get him another night.

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Chris came by last night and we went down south of here to some cornfields. We had Tramp and Sheba 11 with us. Now there is about 75 to 100 acres of corn in there with the river about 100 yrds from the field and several sloughs around with a lot of big hardwood timber and swamps around it. It is about as close to being a coonhunters dream place as we have got around here, and I have been looking forward to having some cornfield races ever since they told me that they were going to plant corn there this year. We had some good hunts in there this fall and winter, but in these cornfields almost nothing. The coons are eating some in the corn, but I've about decided they are coming in there in the daytime. Tramp hunted good, but just couldnt get anything going. We loaded up and moved to another swamp. They got after the coon that Steve calls the 2 mile bandit. They struck him in the same place that they always strike him and he went through the big colvert like he always does, and up the branch and into the thick stuff just like he always does. Now Sheba 11 was really blowing her horn and staying with Tramp, but the deep water and the high bluffs got to her after about 600 yrds and Tramp went off and left her. He ran that coon about 2 miles up that branch. We were watching him on the Garmin and he must have crossed that branch 50 times. About the same place as usual he started circling back and he was in rough stuff from the start and the track was getting colder and after a while it just played out. I dont know what he does in there or where he goes, but Tramp sure hasnt figured him out yet. We went around on another road and picked Tramp up. I told Chris that It had been a long time since I went coonhunting and didnt even make 1 tree. We called it a night.

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Great pictures of Sheba and Old Tramp. Hope you had a great 4th weekend MR. Jack. We got a lot of rain yesterday and Saturday, close to 3" total. Lighting struck the DIRECTV dish on the house and blew out both boxes so we didn't get to watch the race last night. Thinking about unplugging for good. No need in supporting company's that don't support and respect our way of life. I will catch up with you soon and we will make a round, Take Care.

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Chris and Clayton came by tonight and picked up Tramp, They were going up to Clayton's to hunt. They will be taking Tramp, Doll V and Smoke. I'll let Clayton tell about that hunt. After they picked up Tramp, I loaded up Sheba 11 and headed to the swamp. Turned her down a branch toward a feeder. She went past the feeder and opened a few times, but I don't think she was opening on a coon. She went back up the branch a waysand opened a few times. While she was gone I checked the feeders. I've got a pipe feeder that I keep dog feed in, I checked it and the coons had been feeding on it, I went on down a little ways where I have got a tire with 3inch holes drilled in it laying in a branch that I keep corn in. I like these, but the wild hogs do to, so you have to anchor them down. After checking the tire I headed back to the 4-wheeler parked there close to the pipe feeder, my eye caught movement beside the path that I was walking on about 1 ft. from where I had stelped. Yes it was, about as big a rattle snake that I have seen in a while. I took my dog leash and wrapped him across the head a few times and took him over and laid him by a tree to pick up later. About that time Sheba came back in and I loaded her up and went on down the swamp and turned her loose again on an ole dried up slough. She didnt go far and struck a pretty good track. She moved the track into a cutover but the coon just went along the edge of the cut over headed toward the river. She crossed an ole woods road that goes to a deer plot and went into another part of the cut over. There are some big trees along the edge of the cutover and when she got to these she locked up treed, she came down with about as pretty of a locat as you would want to hear, especially from a female. She was still treeing hard when I got to her. The trees there are just wrapped up with vines and you cant get anywhere that you can see. I shined for a few minutes, but I knew it was no use so I walked back to where she was treed and petted her up good and we headed to the 4-wheeler and went back and got the Rattle Snake and brought it back to the house and when Chris came and dropped Tramp off we took some pictures. I'll see if I can get Clayton or Jeremy to put a picture on here tomorrow. If you have feeders out be careful around them. The Rattle Snakes like to feed on the mice that hang around the feeders-good huntin,

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I am fortunate that I can hunt around here and not deal with ANY poisonous snakes. It is amazing the way you all hunt down there and don't think much of it and can deal with it as casually "whacked him with a dog lead". Think I would be a little more excited.

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