Mended 2-11-14
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Registered: Mar 2015
Location: Christiansburg, Va
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I remember my second hunt like it was Yesterday. Looking at the Pictures of Mr. Alderman and the other is Clinton Altizer, I met these two gentlemen when I was 7 years old 59 years ago, Mr. Alderman I always knew as To-Do, Don't have any idea where he got that name. Any way My second hunt at 7,, W.L.Davis (Willie), my brother Coy Price, To-Do and Clinton and little old me went hunting in a large mountain area on the other side of Blacksburg known as Poverty Creek, I had no idea what I was getting into. We left the truck on a Fall Saturday evening and started into the woods, after a while we finally got a strike and the old grade dogs worked the track out the mountain and got treed on a tree with wild grapes in it. The coon was there.
After that tree we started moving back out and up Near the top the dogs got struck and off on the steep north they went. They went about half the way down and got treed. A large den, It wasn't long until I was tying dogs above the tree , The rest were taking there coats off and the double bladed ax started to ring from the chopping, The light was not the best for cutting everyone in the group had a Carbide lamp and that is what was used. ( The double Bladed Ax was carried by hunters that was serious about cutting a coon out). After a while the tree fell then the fun was on. We left that tree and started out the mountain and up toward the top, When we got to the top and started out it, we got another strike and back down the North side they went, by this time this little kid was getting a little tired. The dogs treed again and off we went. Guess What another den, Well here they go again, the chopping start and after a good length of time down it came. Result the same another coon. By this time it was getting late or you might say it was getting early in the morning. Headed back to the truck we were starting back down the South side and we hit a bad track, while the dogs were trailing I took a little nap. We treed that one on the outside after daylight. We got back to the truck around 7 a.m. My first and second hunts were hard but I have loved Coon hunting every since, I still try and hunt at least 4 times a week if weather permits.
A few Men that loved coon Hunting, I knew at a young age that hunted most every night and hunted hard. W.L.Davis hardest hunter I knew because I hunted with him a lot of years. To-Do and Clinton, that hunted every night and loved it.
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