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Geremy and Chris came by tonight. We loaded these three hounds up and headed to the swamp. We turned them off an old woods road. They all split up and made a pretty wide circle and came back by and never got a strike. We loaded them up and moved on down the swamp and turned them into an ole dry slough and they went in about 250 yrds and Shadow struck a working track and Doll and Sheba joined in with him and moved the track on up the swampabout 600 yrds and treed. We headed that way. When we got around there close to where they were at. Shadow was treed to the left of the road that we were on and Doll and Sheba was treed about 200 yrds into the pine thicket. Shadow was treed up a large oak. We shined but the tree was hard to see. The coon was probably there, but we couldn't get him to look. We went to Doll and Sheba. I think they just missed their coon. They were tree up a persimmon tree, it went up into some pines, but I don't think he was there. We left there and went on down the swamp. We turned them in on a running branch and they went in about 500 yrds and struck a working track and worked it on in to about 675 yrds and treed. We started to them and when we got close to them they were split again. Shadow was about 150 yrds to the left of the road that we were on and Doll and Sheba was about 250 yrds to the right Geremy went to Shadow and me and Chris went to Doll and Sheba. When we got to Doll and Sheba they were treed up a large oak up on the side of the branch. We shined for several minutes, but if he was there we could not get him to look. We leashed Doll and Sheba and started back to help Geremy, but we met him coming out and he said Shadow was treed up a large Gum tree that was hard to shine for the limbs and other trees around it. We talked for a few minutes and decided to call it a night.

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Chris Fortenberry has got message board duty this week since jack is gone.
So get to typing Fortenberry lol!!!

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Send me the light color female Mr.Jack! Lol! Have fun Buddy!

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my brother Terrell and me Made it up Here to Rod Rose's Place about 12:0clock on Monday Sept. 21, 2015. Terrell came up here to deer hunt and naturally I came up here to mostly coonhunt. I'll have to say its a little different coonhunting up here than it is in Mississippi. Rod and I hunted last night till about 2clock. We had a great hunt. I think we made 4 trees and looked at two coon. I'm sure they had at least one of the other ones, but these trees up here are about as hard to look up as they are at home. I was hunting my Smoke dog and Rod was hunting his "PR" Rose's Kansas Blue Pepper-Her sire is Ch Gr.Nite Ch. "PR" goodson's Rowdy Bosephus-Her Dam is Gr.Nite Ch."PR"Hotr Layup Lucy. Pepper is the female above on the tree with Smoke. She is a real nice female. The Tree in the picture above was planted in 1873. It is a CottonWood tree. It is 28 feet around and is the biggest tree that I have ever seen. More on my Kansas road trip later.

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Some of the finest coon hunting in Kansas. You & Rod get after those big north Kansas ringtails.

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Have a great time MR. Jack, that's great pictures. Casey Bigelow's ZERO hound is off Bocephus and Lucy, don't know if he's a littermate to Pepper or older brother. I just picked up a pup off him and the Fannie gyp John Hill owns. Good looking pup with a huge mouth for a two month old pup. Hoping in a year she is looking as good on the tree as those two in your picture. Tell Rod I said Hey! How's the weather up there, cool?

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The weather is not exactly co-operating with us up here in Kansas. It's been up in the 90s in the daytime and mid sixtys at night. I told Rod yesterday that I never wanted to hear him tell me again how cold it gets in Kansas. They got warmer weather up here than we got in Mississippi.LOL. It is suppose to rain up here today and get back in the low 80s and 60s. We had a good hunt last night. My brother killed a small buck late yesterday evening and we had to dress him, so we kind of got a late start on our coonhunt. We hunted Smoke and Pepper again. We went to the hills. We had one of the best coon races that I've ever had. They ran him thru a lot off milo fields and corn. They crossed several small roads and finally treed him right beside the road in a big cottonwood tree. The dogs had really done a good job. We left him to run again. We could see the whole coon sitting up there and he looked like a little bear. Rod checked the miles that the dogs had traveled on this coon and it was 27 miles. You would have had to have been there to believe it. More on my Kansas Road trip later with pictures.

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Get some good pictures while yo are there. Been a while since seen ole Rod's mug shot!

Also your PM box is full Jack.

Take care and good hunting

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My PM box should be empty now, try it again.

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Wednesday night was my last night in Kansas. The first two nights were some of the greatest hunts that I have ever been on and I have been on quite a few and to night was to be no exception. We did run into a little problem on the first drop. We turned them loose and they went about 50 yrds and struck a working track and worked it up a draw for about 200 yrds and the race began to pick up. They got in about 500 yrds and Rod said that we would drive around on another road and get closer to them. When we got around there, they were coming toward us and they were running that coon, But when they got close to us they turned and went back the other way. Rod said that we had turned him. They were headed back the other way and they were spinning the dial on the garmin. Rod said they were headed into a Milo field. I kind of hated to hear that because Smoke didn't have much hair left around his eyes from the first 2 nights. They had been running in the Milo for about 15 min. when Rod asked me if I had heard Pepper yelp. I hadn't heard her, but she never barked again. Smoke was still running the coon, but about that time we heard him yelp and hush barking also. Rod said that he wondered if the farmer had put up an electric fence and turned his cows into the Milo to graze as they do this up there a lot. We rode around and checked it and there was a three strand hot wire around the Milo field. Rod said there was enough electricity going through there to stop a buffalo. We checked our garmins and the dogs had left out of there and gone back to the road. We went around there and caught them off the road. This is beginning to get kind of long so I'll tell about the rest of our Wednesday night hunt a little later.

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Wednesday night after picking the dogs off the road after them getting in the hot wire. We went to another big cornfield and dropped the dogs down beside the corn and a small stream of water that I call a branch and that yankee that I was with calls a crick. LOL. The dogs made a circle down along the branch for a ways and came back through and went ino the cornfield about 150 yrds and struck a working track and started working it toward the other end of the corn. The track was getting better all the time. They went out the other end of the corn field and about the time they hit the woods they treed. Rod got his rifle and said it was about time to knock one out to the dogs. They were about 500 yrds in so we started walking. When we got to the dogs they were treed up a huge oak. Two or three big limbs from up above had fallen on the bottom limb and were hanging to the ground. The dogs could get up on these limbs that had fallen and almost get to the bottom limb on the tree which was about 15 feet up. One at a time could get up there and tree, but when they both tried to get up there it would push the other one off and he would go back to the ground and that one would climb back up and push the other one off. Rod was shinning the tree while I was taking pictures. About that time Rod called out that he had found 3 coons and he was going to shoot one out. It hit the ground and the dogs left their perches on the limbs and covered the coon that was already dead, Rod had made a good shot. He didn't get two with one shot like Steve, But he had made a good shot on the one. We leashed the dogs and made our way back to the truck. We went down a few miles farther and made another drop. It was another cornfield. This one had been cut. We turned the dogs loose and they struck at the edge of the cornfield next to a branch and started working a bad track. The dogs split treed both on tree that went into other trees across the branch and tall bluffs on the other side. We didn't find either coon, but we had already had 3 great nights of coonhunting. My Brother Terrell was up there Deer hunting and we were there a little to early for the big bucks, but we seen a lot of Doe's and small Buck's. Terrell did get a small buck. Me and Rod tried to get Terrell to go coonhunting with us, but we couldn't talk him into it. Some people just don't know what they are missing. We both really enjoyed our selves while there. If you ever get the opportunity to go and visit with Rod and Rita Rose don't pass it up. The bottom three pictures above are from the Wednesday nite hunt.

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Glad yaw had a great time MR. Jack and made a safe return home. Enjoyed the pictures of two good looking hounds and the stories. We supposed to get some good rain Monday and Tuesday then cool off a little more so tracking around here should get a lot better. I will be giving you a holler soon and we will get together and make a hunt, Take Care.

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Loaded Tramp and Smoke up about dark and went to the swamp. It was misting rain a little harder at times, but mostly just a slow drizzle. I turned them loose off an ole woods road into a dry branch as my ole buddy Rod Rose would say a dry crick lol. They went in about 600 yrds and struck a real cold track. They worked it in about 800 yrds and I decided I had better catch up. I rode to about 200 yrds of where they were working and they had really bogged down. Shortly after I got close to them they began to split up. Smoke left out of there and headed South. About that time Tramp treed. I rode to about 75 yrds of tramp. Before I started to Tramp I looked at the Garmin and Smoke was 600 yrds still moving south. I walked into Tramp and he was treed up a tall gum Tree. I could see the tree from one side only, and If he was there I could not make him look. I thought I heard Smoke tree, but I really couldn't tell for he was a long way off. I leashed Tramp and we went back to the 4-wheeler and moved toward Smoke. When we got to him he was coming out from the end of a big colvert that has a big washed out hole of water o one end where the water has washed out a big hole over the years. I caught smoke in the road and we called it a night.

Steve I really enjoyed the trip, but I was sure glad to get home. I'm looking forward to our next hunt

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As Always, it was go0od to talk to you Mr.Jack, I always enjoy reading your stories, and now pics too! Lol! Take care my friend.

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Sounds like some great hunts Mr Jack.

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Thank you Bill, I always enjoy talking hounds with you. I'm glad you like my thread. I hope you get that house built soon. It sure is a pretty place to build one.


Chris, me and Rod had some great hunts while I was up there. From the way it sounds on your hunts, You and Rod must have about the same type of hunting area. Hope to get to meet you at the fall round up, and I wish you and Jazz the best of luck there.

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I hunted Thursday night and drew a great group of guys. We had a little to much tree power. I'm pretty sure the dogs were treeing a little too quick. I think if the leaves were off we would have all minused out. One dog did get one treed alone right at the end of the hunt and came out with some plus points, but like I said this was a great group of guys and that made it worth it. Jeremy and chris didn't do any good either. Walking those hills was a little too much for this fat flat lander and I had cramps in my legs Thursday night and Friday so I didn't hunt Friday night.
Jeremy and Chris hunted, but they came up empty again. I had got a call from home Friday night and they had taken Gail to the emergency room and had diagnosed her with a pulled muscle in her stomack, but the hospital she went to has a history of diagnosing and treating the wrong thing and I was not satisfied with it and Jeremy came in with a banged up knee(an old football injury)so we decided to pull out Saturday morning for home. I did get to meet some old friends while there and some new ones. I enjoyed seeing and visiting with my good friend Mr. Lonnie Smiley and meeting his son and his brother. It was sure good to meet and visit Mr. Chris Powell who had came by on his way to Salem to the PKC Baby Stakes with his female Jazz. I got to see her and she is one fine looking hound. I won't mention all of the rest of the guys I got to talk to while there, because I'll forget some of them. That's another problem we have as we get older. I'll just say every one that I did get to see the pleasure was all mine, and I congratulate everyone that won.

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Great talking to you and the boys down at the Fall Roundup. Hope all is going well.

Take Care,
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