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Chris came by again tonight and we loaded these two up and headed to the swamp. First drop was on a branch and they went in about 200 yrds and struck a pretty good track. They went down the branch to the road and I thought at first that they had hit the road and was just running it, something I hate to se a dog do, but I guess the coon had hit the road and ran it a ways for the dogs hit it and went down the road about 400 yrds and made a left turn for about 50 yrds and locked up solid. We came up the road until we got even with them and walked into them. Chris found the coon while I was taking some pictures. We petted the dogs up some and headed on up the swamp. We cast the dogs off the side of the dummyline and they struck right off the side of the dummyline and the race was on. They went in about 300 yrds and treed. We made our way to them and they were treed on a vine going up into a large Turkey Pine. and again Chris found the coon while I was taking pictures.We petted the dogs up and headed back to the 4-wheelers and called it a night.

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Chris and his son Coal came by tonight and my neighbor Odell from down the road also decided to go along with us so we loaded up Smoke and Sheba 11 and headed to the swamp. We finally got one going and he got up into some ole abandon catfish ponds the had all grown up in bushes and briars and trees and they ran him in there for awhile and I don't know what he did, but they lost him and couldn't pick him back up, so we called them out and put them on up the creek and they went in pretty deep and struck. They moved him on thru a cutover into some planted pines that were pretty rough and we thought they had gone all the way thru them and treed, but when we got around there, they were treed right out in the middle of them. We started walking to them and it was pretty rough, but we finally made it to them to find them treeing up a dead tree covered in vines. I guess the coon had made his escape out thru all the vines for he was not in the tree. We leashed the dogs and made our way back to the 4-wheelers. and moved on up the swamp. We turned them loose in a real pretty hardwood bottom and they struck a hot track pretty quick and moved it about 100 yrds and locked up treed. We walked in to them and they were treed up a small tree going up into a large oak. Its the one in the top picture above. While I was taking pictures Chris's son Coal found the coon sitting out on a big limb in the oak. We decided to give this one to the dogs. Chris knocked him out and he fell strait down and we thought it was a clean shot, but all of a sudden the dogs were off and running. The coon ran about a half mile and treed again. That's the second tree in the bottom picture above. We would have left him this time, but we knew that he was hit and did not want him to suffer, so we got him this time. We loaded the hounds up and called it a night.

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Chris and Odell came by about dark and we loaded up Smoke and Sheba11 and headed to the swamp. We turned them up an ole slough near Greens Creek. A creek That runs thru several counties and empties into Pearl River, not far from my house. The dogs went up the slough to where it ended and went on up the creek about 400 yrds and struck a working track and worked it on in another 300 yrds to where it crossed an ole woods road and when they got to the road, they left the track and ran up the road. Now this road running is a pet peave of mine and I'm not going to let one of my dogs run a road. I told Chris that we would be watching for it next time and if they hit the road we would surely turn them around. They went on down the road about 150 yrds and hit the woods again and didn't go far and struck another track. Steve you should have been with us tonight. This coon really moved across the country. He crossed the creek a couple of times and then he headed north and then east and crossed the ole dummyline that we were hunting on last night. and continued on east a ways and then headed back south toward the creek. They were running in some bad stuff and one time I thought they were going to loose him, but they picked him up again and crossed back across the dummyline and headed back to the creek. along about this time they had been on this track over an hour and a half and had not even bumped a tree. And needless to say I was beginning to wonder what these two young dogs were after. He made it back to the creek again. When he crossed the creek this time. the dogs really got to pushing him and he headed back toward the River road and the ole abandoned catfish ponds. We went out on a black top road up close to where Clayton Daniels lives and came several miles around back to the river road and was trying to decide how to get closer to the dogs and they were really driving the track and while we were trying to decide how to get closer, the dogs locked up treed. We made our way into a big man made lake that had a road all the way around it and they were treed on the other side. Those two little dogs were really making a racket out across that lake. We went around to the other side and made our way into them and they were treed up a large oak about 100 yrds from the lake. Chris found the coon while I was taking pictures. The dogs had done their job and the coon had done his so we left him to run again. We made it back to the 4-wheeelers and called it a night.

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I sure wish I would have been with yaw to listen to that race! Sounds like a great one and with the cool night air and low humidity we had last night I know they sounded good. We will get together again soon, Take Care.

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My neighbor came by last night about 8 oclock and we loaded up Smoke and headed to the swamp. We turned him off an ole woods road into a pretty flat. He struck a good track pretty quick and came back across the road about 50 yrds down from where we were standing. I told Odell that he was heading into some bad stuff. He went on in about 150 yrds and locked up treed. I don't know what kind of trees or bushes that these are. There is about 4 or 5 acres of them. I guess the deer hunters planted them for the deer to lay up in. They don't get very tall. I would say from 10 t0 15 feet and it pretty clean for about 3 to 4 feet and the limbs are all twisted and long and I have treed several coons in there, but you never can see them, because from about 7 to 8 feet up is just like trying to look thru a wall. We made our way to him and I looked for aa second and leashed Smoke and come back out. We moved on down the swamp and dropped Smoke again. He went in about 150 yrds and struck a cold track and started moving it out. He moved it across a slough and crossed another woods road and and went thru some 5 yr.old planted pines that is a rough place to go thru, crossed another woods road and headed in on the river. When he got to the river he turned south down the river. There is a lot of water in there right now and a lot of mud with all the rains we have had. Now we struck this track about 10 oclock and at 12:30 he was still moving south down river. Where I hunt is several thousand acres. Sleepy if you read this, do you remember the bend in the river where Ann and Smoke broke down and we went in there and got them. I think this must have been the same coon because Smoke came right thru there and kept heading down river. We came back out and went around on another road and came back into the river farther down and I was watching Smoke on the Garmin and he cut strait out from the river and I figured the coon was going to climb and Smoke did hit a tree in there and moved on and made a circle. I asked Odell what time it was and he said it was almost 1 oclock. I knew if he didn't tree pretty quick that I would have to get him, because the Turkey hunters would be out well before daylight. We came around on another road and Smoke was just a little over 100 yrds from us and back on the rivr and still headed south. I started to call him out, but I sure did want him to tree this coon. In a little bit he was 400 yrds on down the river and we were in strange woods and I didn't know where the roads were. We came back up the swamp a few hundred yards and hit another road and it was a good guess, because it took us to about 100 yrds of him and I knew that I had to get him and get out of there before the Turkey hunters arrived, so I called a couple of times and he came out, But there will be another night, and although I admire this coon. I sure want to see his eyes. When Smoke got to us we loaded up and called it a night.

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Don't you hate pulling a dog off a track after they have been working it.

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Yeah jack I no just where it was, I would love to run those kind of tracks in the winter or on good cool nights, when the water is down and dry they would probably run a coon in there tell they catch him. He won't be smiling running in there then.

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I loaded up Smoke tonight and headed to the swamp to give him a short run. I dropped him off an ole woods road into an oak flat. He went in about 150 yrds and struck a working track and started moving it out. He went thru the oak flat and on across another woods road and thru some 15 year old planted pines into another oak flat. He hit a branch that runs through the swamp and started following it. He moved it on in, he bumped up on a couple of trees and moved on. He was about 400 yrds from me when he locked up. I was as close as I could get on the 4-wheeler so I started walking. He was treed up the small tree that you see I the picture, but it went up into one of the big limbs on that big turkey pine that you see behind him. I tried to shine it, but with all the other trees around it you could not see anything. I petted Smoke up some and we walked back out to the 4-wheeler and called it a night.

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Jack, this is Jeremy Smiley, Lonnie's oldest son. I met you at the Bluetick hunt in Missouri last year. I just thought I would drop a word and let you know how much my dad thought of you. Dad mentioned you many times and it was always a compliment. Hope you are doing well and maybe I'll see you at another hunt before long.

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Jeremy, it sure meant a lot to me for you to write and tell me how Lonnie felt about me, and I felt the same way about him. It was good meeting you in Missouri and getting to talk to Lonnie. Your Dad was a great guy and a good friend. Jeremy I will be looking forward to seeing you at some of the hunts. I would like to sit down and talk to you. Take care and thanks.------Jack

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Chris and his son Cody came by about dark and we loaded up Smoke and Sheba 11 and headed to the swamp. We turned them off a pipeline up Greens Creek. They went in about 200 yrds and struck a working track. Worked it on in a ways and got it going pretty good. They ran it through some pretty rough stuff for another 300 yrds and treed. We went around on another road and got to within 100 yrds of them and walked on in to them. When we got to them they were treed on the creek bluff. The creek bluff was about 15 feet high for quite a ways there and when the coon climbed the bluff and the dogs couldn't, they tree there. There was just enough room for the dogs to stand at the bottom between the creek and the bluff. We lowered Chris down on a leash and he handed the dogs out. They picked the track up and moved it on, but it had done got pretty cold. and they were in some bad stuff. The track ad done got bad and they were headed into some more bad country so when the came close to the road e decided to catch them and move on down the swamp. We came back and turned them behind my deer plot I front of my house and they struck a good track and the race was on. They crossed thru a oak flat into some 5 year old planted pines that right now is solid briars and water. They went on thru there and on thru another field of planted pines. We went back around on some of the roads that we were on earlier and the dogs were up in a rough swamp where there is a lot of mud and water where the beavers up in there keep the streams damed up and there is a lot of water. We stopped to listen and the dogs were treed. We hit an ole woods road that went up in there and it was wet and muddy. I bogged down one time and had to wench it out. We got to within about 150 yrds of the dogs and had to leave the 4-wheelers. It was rough walking thru the mud and water. We had to pick our way around the deep water. We had to cross over a big log at one place that lay across a slough. We finaly made it in to the dogs and they were treed on a big tree that had been blown over from one of the storms that we have had in the last few years and it was lodged in two more big trees and the slough was all the way around the tree so you could not back up far enough to see anywhere near the top. I'm sure he was there, but we could not see him. The leaning tree that they were treed in is the one in the picture above. We made our way back to the 4-wheelers and called it a night.

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Sounds like that was a good hunt. And I understand what you're talking about , the rough stuff. I tell Donald all the time, that you really got to want to coon hunt bad with all these cutovers we have down here.

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Took Smoke out for a run tonight. turned him off an ole woods road into a cypress swamp with a slough out in the middle of it. He got in about 300 yrds and opened on a pretty fair track. Started moving it out, circled around and crossed the woods road that I was on about 150 yrds below me and moved into some 20 year old planted pines and it is rough out in there. He moved it on in about 550 yrds and circled back toward the road and I thought he was going to cross it again about 400 yrds down the road, but when he got to the edge of the road he locked up treed. I rode the 4-wheeler up close to him and there were several big pines along the road loaded with vines and he as treed up one of these. I shined for a while, but I couldn't get him to look. I loaded him up and went about 200 yrds farther down and cast him in the same swamp. He went in about 600 yrds and struck a pretty good track. Moved it on in another 200 yrds and treed. I rode to within 100 yrds of him and walked on into him and he was treed up a large oak, the one in the picture above. I tried to shine it, but there was so many leaves and other trees around it that you couldn't see anything. All these leaves is sure aggravating, makes you look forward to those cool fall nights when the leaves are gone. I loaded Smoke up and we called it a night.

Yea Tommy we have sure got our share of the rough stuff.

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My neighbor Odell came by tonight and we loaded Sheba 11
up and headed to the swamp. The coons seemed to be moving good tonight. We turned her into a slough that was almost dried up. She went in about 150 yrds and struck a good track, moved it another 100 yrds and locked up treed. Now that little girl can make a racket on that tree. We walked into her and she was treed up a huge pine, and it was thick with other trees and bushes around it. I didn't figure we would ever see the coon, but while I was taking pictures Odell said that he saw the coon. I walked out to where he was and the coon had quit looking. I wanted to give her this coon for she had done a good job and it had been a while since I had knocked one out to her. I walked around the tree for a bit before I found a spot that I could partially shine the tree and I told Odell to shake the vine and when he shook it he looked at me from way up toward the top. I shot and out he came. Sheba was all over him when he hit the ground, but there was no fight left in him. While she was mouthing him I thought I noticed something strange about the coon and after a closer look I noticed it was a three legged coon. His right front foot was gone. Back years ago we use to tree them pretty regularly when a lot of people trapped, but hardly anyone traps now and its been a long time since I have treed one. The top picture above is where we treed the 3 legged coon. We made our way back to the 4-wheelers and headed to the river. We turned her in to another slough that was about dried up. She went in about 100 yrds barked about 3 times on the ground and locked up treed. Odell said we was going to have to start hunting her more because she trees them quick. We walked into her and she was treed up a small tree that went up into a bigger tree. I figured the coon would be in the bigger tree, but while I was taking pictures Odell said he saw the coon. I walked out to where he was and there sat what looked like a young coon in the tree that she was treed up. The tree in the bottom picture above. We left this one to run again and called it a night.

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Looking and sounding good Mr. Jack! You don't recon the 3 legged coon was the Two Mile Bandit do you? I have also had hounds from time to time tree up a small tree that went into a bigger one and I would spend a while looking up the bigger one thinking the whole time there was no way he was in the little tree. After wasting a few minutes then I would just throw my light in the little tree before I left and there he would set looking at me. Seems like we would put the light in the tree the dogs on first but I still find myself throwing it in the biggest tree that its closest to. Hope the Ginn pups are doing good and give me a shout if you want to come this way and make a hunt before Bluetick Days and if not we will get together after the Hunt, Take Care.

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Steve, I don't think that three legged coon was the 2 hour bandit, because we got the three legged coon in another county from where the bandit roams. Talking about finding the coon in the little tree reminds me one night they were holding the Ms. State Championship at Meadville, Ms. That year. I was hunting The Max dog that Billy had bought that was out of Ole Tramp, and Mr. Oneal Wheat (RIP) was there hunting a littermate sister to Max. I cannot remember her name, but they were both Grand Nites and they were the only grandnites there so we drawed out togeather. Now I'm sure some of you reading this Knew Mr. Oneal and how competitive he was, and I was about the same way. Now me and Mr. Oneal Drew out togeather many times and we would usually lose the cast to another dog trying to beat each other. When it came down to the last drop of the night, me and Mr. Oneal both had a good score. I think He was leading me by either 25 or 50 points and on the last coon I had 1st strike and 1st tree. When we got to the tree we both knew that If we found the coon I would win the cast and if we didn't he would win. The dogs were treed up a little bushy tree that went up into a huge tree. As soon as the time started we both went to shinning the big tree. Just before the time was up I noticed Mr. Oneal walked under the tree looking in the smaller tree. I kept shinning the big tree. Both those dogs had big mouths and he had to holler at me for me to hear him. He asked me if I had shinned the little tree. I told him no I hadn't. He told me well you had better come under here and shine it and I did and there sat the coon. He could have easily kept quite and I never would have seen the coon. and though it cost him the Ms. State Championship. That's the kind of guy Mr. Oneal was. If you ever talk to his brother Mr. Jerry Wheat get him to tell you about some of Mr. Oneal and My hunts.

Tramp and Gin's pups are doing fine, They are beginning to leave to their new homes. We will get togeather soon Steve
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