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Sounds like Tramp and Sheba II are getting their exercise and getting under some coon. Summer time hunting up here is about the same. Sometimes the trees are so big and thick that you can't get a good look at them. I do think the kitten coon will confuse a lot of younger dogs. At least they do mine. Up here you really have to get lucky with finding something in the trees. Hope your dogs are doing good and all is well.
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for the picture Clayton, That's a good picture of Chris and Tramp.

Scott, I think the little coons are going to be latee around here this year. I haven't seen any yet. I haven't hunted Tramp as hard lately, he has had a throat infection and we have had him on antibiotics. He has been coughing some and the vet wanted me to lay him up, so I did for 10 days. I hunted him Saturday night and he acted like he felt good and he hunted hard, but he didn't tree nearly as hard as he normally does. I picked up some stronger antibiotics today, maybe these will knock it out. We are planning on putting him back to work during the month of august and maybe get those other two wins on him. I hunted Sheba 11 alone tonight. She sure is doing a good job. I went back in on the river behind my house and turned her up a branch. She went in about 200 yrds and struck a working track. She moved it out along the edge of a deer plot and out the other end and back into the woods. She had moved the track about 300 yrds and was beginning to warm it up. She was moving through some big woods that's mostly open with thick spots here and there thanks to Katrina. She made a wide circle through these woods and I figured I had better catch up. I traveled an ole woods road around to get closer and when I killed the 4-wheeler she was a little over 250 yrds from me and headed up the swamp. She circled and headed back toward the branch that she had struck on, only farther up the swamp. She was moving the track pretty good and I was sitting there on the 4-wheeler trying to figure out how to get closer when she locked up treed. I looked at the Garmin and she was almost 500 yrds. I got my rifle and headed to her. She was treeing hard and I didn't know how long she could keep it up as hot as it was, but when I got to her she was treeing just as hard as she was when I left the 4-wheeler. she was treed next to a high bluff on a large hardwood tree that went strait up and it must have been at least 75 feet tall with limbs of other trees extended out to it and there was a big beech den tree that was growing up toward the top of the bluff with limbs that went into the tree that she was treed up. I shined for a while, but I never could get him to look. She was still treeing hard when I went in and petted her up. We walked back to he 4-wheeler and when we got there I didn't have a dry stich of clothing on me. Man it was hot. We left out of there and went up the river a ways and I turned her loose on another branch. She went down the branch a ways and barked one time and I watched her on the Garmin work her way back up through the woods on the other side of the branch, She worked on up the branch close to where a guy has water mellons planted and treed. I went to her and she was treed up a large oak with other trees all around it, It sure makes it agrivating some time trying to find a coon with all these leaves on especially when you are hunting by your self like I do most of the time. I know that she wont have a coon all the time, but she has treed enough of them that I have been able to find that I have a lot of comfidence in her. we loaded up and called it a night.

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Probably bout ready to send Sheba II up here to the hills at ya Mr.Jack??? Lol! I know, not a chance..Lol!!

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That is a great picture of Tramp 11 and Chris Mr. Jack. Well done. Sounds like Sheba 11 is rolling right along. I'm like you in that the cool weather and leaves falling can't get here quick enough. We need to get together and make a round soon. That night and weekend work will be wrapping up by the end of August and my life will get back to normal where I can hunt any night I feel like going. Hope we Never get another job like this, messes up a lot of Good Hunting! Take Care.

P. S. If you ever get mad at Sheba send her on over here. I have two empty spots and I'm saving one for her that way she will be close if you ever want to hunt with her! Lol, I know that will never happen but I am closer than Bill!

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keeping my eyes open jack. don't get so far ahead of young guys.

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Bill and Steve for the compliments on Sheba 11. She is doing some things I like and some things I wonder about. I hunted her and Tramp tonight. Tramp treed 2 coons. They were both cold tracks and the first one we seen. Sheba only opened on the track two or three times and the Garmin showed her up on the tree, but she never barked on the tree. She did this on both tracks and both trees. The Garmin showed her up on both trees, I'm sure she was checking them out, but she didn't smell the coon so she didn't tree, on the second tree she came by about the time we started to shine tramps tree and headed on up the slough. We kept trying to shine the tree, but we couldn't get to where we could see it. The only place we could have seen the tree was out in the middle of the slough and I couldn't talk Chris into wadding out there to look. It looked like a good place for a big Gator. About that time Sheba treed about 75 yrds up the slough and she was blowing it out. I made my way to her and she was treed up a small hardwood tree going up into a big Turkey Pine. I could only see part of the tree from one side. It was too thick to see from anywhere else. We will tree them another night. It was hot out there tonight.

Sleepy don't worry if I get too far ahead I'll stop and wait on you.LOL. Tell ole Toby to get out of the house and take those dogs hunting. I know all he is doing is setting up under that air conditioner.LOL. Take care Sleepy, glad your throat is getting better.

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Bill and Steve for the compliments on Sheba 11. She is doing some things I like and some things I wonder about. I hunted her and Tramp tonight. Tramp treed 2 coons. They were both cold tracks and the first one we seen. Sheba only opened on the track two or three times and the Garmin showed her up on the tree, but she never barked on the tree. She did this on both tracks and both trees. The Garmin showed her up on both trees, I'm sure she was checking them out, but she didn't smell the coon so she didn't tree, on the second tree she came by about the time we started to shine tramps tree and headed on up the slough. We kept trying to shine the tree, but we couldn't get to where we could see it. The only place we could have seen the tree was out in the middle of the slough and I couldn't talk Chris into wadding out there to look. It looked like a good place for a big Gator. About that time Sheba treed about 75 yrds up the slough and she was blowing it out. I made my way to her and she was treed up a small hardwood tree going up into a big Turkey Pine. I could only see part of the tree from one side. It was too thick to see from anywhere else. We will tree them another night. It was hot out there tonight.

Sleepy don't worry if I get too far ahead I'll stop and wait on you.LOL. Tell ole Toby to get out of the house and take those dogs hunting. I know all he is doing is setting up under that air conditioner.LOL. Take care Sleepy, glad your throat is getting better.

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Chris came by tonight and we took Tramp out for a short run. He looked good on the first coon and we looked at the coon. Then he hit a cold track that he should have never fooled with. He worked it for about 45 minutes, but it was just too cold for him to do any thing with. he finally treed, but he didn't have him. It was getting close to midnight so we decided to call it a night. We will try it again Wednesday night.

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We had some fine dog work outta these two last night

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Jeremy, Chris came by last night and we took Shadow and Tramp out for a run. We turned them loose in a corn field. They moved through the cornfield about 800 yrds into the woods and struck a working track, Worked it in about 300 yrds into the swamp and treed. We walked in to them and they were treed on a big oak and it didn't take long to find an ole sow coon and 3 little ones sittin out on the end of a limb about 2/3 of the way up the tree. This was the first little coons I had seen this year and I was glad to see the little fellows. We petted up the dogs and leashed them and put them back in the corn field. Again they moved through the cornfield and about 400 yrds into the swamp and struck a cold track. They worked it about 200 yrds and treed. We walked in to them and they were treed up another big oak. We shined for a few minutes, but if he was there we couldn't get him to look. The dogs were some kind of hot,sot we leashed them up and walked back to the 4-wheelers. It was getting close to midnight and Jeremy and Chris had to work today so we called it a night. I rode down to the river to give Tramp a drink of water and from where I stood I could see 5 sets of Aligator eyes and a couple of them were pretty big boys. good Huntin.

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Mr Jack, have you ever lost dogs to gators?

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Hello Jack,
I've never posted on your thread before but I just wanted to say that I enjoy reading about your hunts and seeing the pictures that are posted.

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Chris, I have never lost one of my dogs to Aligators before, but I have had a few friends that did. They tracked the Gator by the Tracking Collar inside the Gator. I haved watched a couple of times before on moonlight nites dogs trailing along the banks and Gators following them around the lake about 10' to 20' feet out and knew that if one of those dogs had decided to swim the lake he would have been a goner. In this part of the country you have to take your chances or not hunt. There is a couple of places that I don't hunt this time of year because of them.

Gary, I'm glad you enjoy reading the thread. Good to hear from you. Feel free to come on here anytime. I would like to put more pictures on here, but I am a complete dummy when it comes to these computers and I have to get one of the guys that hunt with me to put them on here.

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Jeremy and Chris came by yesterday evening and We all traveled over to Brookhaven, Ms. to their U.K.C. Show and Hunt. I showed Tramp on the bench and he won Best of Show. We have shown him on the bench 3 times and he has 2 best of shows and a class. Chris hunted Tramp in the hunt last night and me and Jeremy just went along for the ride. Chris and Tramp won the nite ch. part of the hunt. This win gave Tramp 4 wins toward Grand. Tramp did a good days work.

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Congratulations!! What a great team!!

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Congrats Mr. Jack and THE MISTY RIVER TEAM!

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CONGRATS GUY!!! Not a more deserving bunch!

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That's a nice picture of the guys with 2 fine hounds in front of that field of corn. The heat has backed off a little and I made a couple rounds but not a lot to brag about. Hope yaw getting in some decent hunts and the coons should be in the vines after those muscadines in the swamp. It is some dry in Black Branch Swamp, I rode Star in there today looking around and saw a lot of little coon tracks in the mud so looks like a good crop of young ones prowling around. I have 3 more weekends of this work MR. Jack then I can get back to hunting like I want to. When it cools off a little we will get together and make a round, Take Care and Good Hunting!

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Chris came by earlier and picked up Doll V. He and Jeremy was going up the country a little piece to hunt tonight They took Shadow and Doll V. I don't know what kind of hunt they had. I'll find out later. I took Sheba 11 out for a short run. I got down there to about where I was going to turn loose and I saw a coon come into the edge of the ole woods road that I was on and turn and go back the same way that he had come, at least I thought he did. I turned Sheba loose and she circled around there a couple of times and took off the way I thought the coon went, but she didn't act like she was on a hot track. She went in about 50 yrds and fooled around a little bit and came back, made a circle or two trying to pick it up going the other way. I think the coon must have went up one of the smaller oaks off the side of the road I looked up a couple of them, but they were so thick that I couldn't see anything. I picked her up and went on down on the branch where I was going to turn out to start with. She headed up the branch and I was pretty sure she was smelling an ole cold track, but she never opened. She went up the branch about 150 yrds and treed solid. I walked in to her and she was treed up a large oak. There was a couple more large oaks there close by. I have treed coons before up this tree. I moved around to an opening and shined, but he wouldn't look. I moved around to another open spot. I didn't see him at first, but when I hit the squaller, he looked at me with both eyes. I went back in and petted Sheba up some and we left this one to run again. We called it a night.

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Chris came by earlier and picked up Doll V. He and Jeremy was going up the country a little piece to hunt tonight They took Shadow and Doll V. I don't know what kind of hunt they had. I'll find out later. I took Sheba 11 out for a short run. I got down there to about where I was going to turn loose and I saw a coon come into the edge of the ole woods road that I was on and turn and go back the same way that he had come, at least I thought he did. I turned Sheba loose and she circled around there a couple of times and took off the way I thought the coon went, but she didn't act like she was on a hot track. She went in about 50 yrds and fooled around a little bit and came back, made a circle or two trying to pick it up going the other way. I think the coon must have went up one of the smaller oaks off the side of the road I looked up a couple of them, but they were so thick that I couldn't see anything. I picked her up and went on down on the branch where I was going to turn out to start with. She headed up the branch and I was pretty sure she was smelling an ole cold track, but she never opened. She went up the branch about 150 yrds and treed solid. I walked in to her and she was treed up a large oak. There was a couple more large oaks there close by. I have treed coons before up this tree. I moved around to an opening and shined, but he wouldn't look. I moved around to another open spot. I didn't see him at first, but when I hit the squaller, he looked at me with both eyes. I went back in and petted Sheba up some and we left this one to run again. We called it a night.

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Chris and I traveled to Ovett, Ms. yesterday to their UKC Hunt and Show. I showed Tramp on the bench and he won another Best of Show. This was his 3rd Best of Show win and finished him to a bench champion. Chris hunted him in the night hunt. They had a 4 dog cast. The other three dogs treed a possum and this just left Tramp to hunt alone. He struck and treed a coon in a den tree, one guy said he seen the coon look out of the hole, but no one else saw it, so the tree was circled. They wound up with a dead cast. better luck next time Chris.

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I hate those casts. Nothing more frustrating than knowing that all you have to do is tree one coon and you got it.

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has been at Clayton's house for the past month or so, but due to Clayton's work schedule and other obligations he has not been able to hunt much, so I went and picked Smoke up today and hunted him tonight. We made 3 turnouts. The first two he never barked, But the third drop he struck a pretty good track at about 100 yrds and moved it in about another 450 yrd and locked up treed. I rode to about 100 yrds of where he was treed and got my rifle and walked on in to him. He was treed up a big bushy oak. I looked for a few minutes and finally found a spot where I could see part of the tree. I hit the squaller and he looked at me with both eyes. I put this one out to him. I knew it had been a while since he had had one and I sure was glad to see it was a big boar coon. I petted Smoke up good and we called it a night.


Yea Chris those cast are agivating, everybody drives all those miles and pays their entry fee and no one wins. Just part of the game I guess.

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