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Chris came by a little after dark tonight and we loaded up Smoke and Sheba and headed to the swamp. We turned them off an ole woods road into a wet bottom and they went in about 150 yrds and struck an ole feeder track. They must have worked the track for a couple of miles. They kept it moving, but it finally just played out on them. They went on in toward the river and struck another track. It wasn't much better, but they moved it on in and headed down the river for a few hundred yrds and locked up treed. We rode as close to them as we could, but they were still about 500 yrds from us so we walked on in to them. They were treed up a big oak right on the river bank, with a bigger oak next to it. We shinned it as best as we could, but if he was there we could not get him to look. We leashed the dogs and made our way back to the 4-wheelers and called it a night. It sure was hot out there tonight.

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Jeremy and Chris loaded up Smoke and Sheba 11 and traveled to Bay Springs, Ms. to their RQE last night. I haven't talked to Jeremy yet, but I heard he had a dead cast with Smoke. Chris and Sheba 11 won their cast against 2 Grand Nites and a Nite Ch. and won 5th place in the hunt and Qualified for the World Hunt.

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That's Awesome Mr. Jack!! Congrats to yaw on that Win!!

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Jeremy and Chris loaded up Smoke and Sheba 11 and traveled to Bay Springs, Ms. to their RQE last night. I haven't talked to Jeremy yet, but I heard he had a dead cast with Smoke. Chris and Sheba 11 won their cast against 2 Grand Nites and a Nite Ch. and won 5th place in the hunt and Qualified for the World Hunt.

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Congratulation Mr. Jack and Chris

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Chris and I traveled to Crooked Creek, Ms. tonight to hunt with Justin. There are a few hunts that I have been on through the years that I will never forget and this is one of them. Justin has some cornfields up there and he invited me and Chris up to hunt tonight. We loaded up Smoke and Sheba 11 and headed up there. We also hunted a young dog that Justin has that's doing a good job. We turned them loose at the edge of the first cornfield and they didn't go far before they struck a pretty good track. Smoke and sheba trailed in deeper and treed. Justin's pup trailed back toward us and treed at the edge of the cornfield. We started toward them and I gave Chris my dog leash and I told him I would go with Justin and help him shine. Justin went in and leashed his dog and I stood at the edge of the cornfield, because I had a pretty good view of the tree from there. After Justin got his dog leashed I hit the Squaller and the coon looked at me. I showed him to Justin and he walked back to the 4-wheeler and got his rifle. Now I'm glad he brought plenty of bullets, because he shot a bunch of times. I told him at one point that I could hit that coon with a rock. He just gave me a defiant look and kept shooting. He finally knocked the coon out, and about that time Chris walked up with our dogs and said it was so thick and muddy in there that you could not see anything. We got the dogs and the coon that the pup had treed and started back toward the 4-wheelers. Justin was real happy, but I still don't know wheather he was happiest over his pup treeing a coon or that he finally hit the coon. I sure get a kick out of picking at these guys. We loaded the dogs up and went to the next cornfield. We turned them loose at the edge of this field. Smoke and Sheba went through the field without striking. Justin's pup went to the left. Smoke and Sheba got in about 250 yrds to the north and struck what sounded like a cold track. Smoke opened a couple of times and quit barking. They turned west and really started picking up the pace Sheba was opening good as usual, but Smoke was a little ahead and running silent. I have heard him run a lot of coons, but I have never heard him go silent on one. They moved him on West for about 500 yrds and Smoke just exploded on a tree with Sheba close behind. We had to go back around on another road to get closer to them. We got to within about 50 yrds of them and walked on in to them. They were treed up a hugh Cypress. I walked in to take a couple of pictures and I heard Justin tell Chris to come look, and I heard Chris tell him that it was an Albino coon. I hated to see this coon shot, but we were on Justin's place and he wanted to have it mounted. so Chris walked back to the 4-wheeler and got the rifle. Well here we go with the shootin again. This time it was Chris. I think Justin had about shot up all his bullets at the first coon and now I didn't have many left. Now these coons were not hid like you see some time and just peeping at you from behind a limb. They were sitting right out in the open. If Jeremy had been along with us and I had been some where just listening I would have thought it was him doing the shootin, but he wasn't with us tonight.
Chris finally knocked the coon out. I think with my last Bullet. I have been hunting a lot of years and I think this is the third Albino that I have ever treed. Justin said this was not the first time that Smoke had treed this coon. When Smoke was about a year old Justin was needing something to hunt another young dog with that he had so I let him take Smoke up there for about 3 weeks and he said Smoke had treed this same coon not far from where we treed him tonight. We walked back to the 4-wheelers and called it a night. We had a good memorable hunt with good friends.

Thanks Steve, Scott and Tommy for the congrats on Sheba, much appreciated.

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Hello Jack,
I really enjoyed reading this story of your hunt just as I have enjoyed reading this entire thread. I have coon hunted a little over 30 years and I have never treed an albino coon. I've treed a couple that were nearly black all over and a couple that were blonde with a redish tint but never a true albino coon. Continue with your stories because I'm sure that I'm not the only one who has enjoyed reading them.

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Great story, I hope Jeremy don't read this post hearing about his bad shooting lol . I have never treed one like that, as much as I to shoot a coon, I think I would have done the same.

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Good story MR. Jack. From the picture of the coon looks like he shot it with bird shot! Probably just some " Bad Bullets " hard to believe a guy like Justin can't shoot no better than that! I been stocking up on bullets for quite a while and sounds like I need to come along on the next hunt and bring plenty. Bound to make a pocketful of money!

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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 loose off a pipe line. They went in about 150 yrds and struck a good track, moved it on in another 2oo yrds and treed. We walked in to them and they were treed up a small oak tree going up into a large pine. There was a big limb off the pine running right beside the oak and on the same limb was a big nest and we got to looking and there sat the coon in the nest. We left this one to run again and walked back to the 4-wheeler and moved on around the swamp. We turned them loose again off the edge of an ole Dummyline and again they struck within abut 100 yrds and went about another 100 yrds and treed again. We walked in to them and found the coon pretty quick. I told Chris to let Cody do the shootin. He shot one time and the coon fell out. Chris just shook his head and we loaded the dogs up and moved on down the Dummyline. The coons must have been feeding off of muscadines or crawfish along the dummyline, because again we got a quick strike and they moved it on in another 150 yrds and locked up treed. We walked in to them and while I was taking pictures I heard Chris say that he had found the coon. We left this one to run again also and walked back to the 4-wheeler. I was ready to call it a night, but Chris wanted to tree one more. so we turned them loose again, and again they struck pretty quick, but this was not a good track. They moved it on in about 400 yrds, but keeping it moving. We listened for a little while and Chris said that we had better go around and get closer to them for they were headed toward a big cut over, so we headed around to get closer. We got there just as they were fixing to cross the ole woods road headed over into the cutover. We loaded them up and called it a night. It had been a good hunt. it had rained this evening and cooled things off. and the coons were moving good.

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Sounds like a great hunt Mr Jack. Coins are real active here right now. They are feeding on berries and corn. Plenty to eat!

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Took Sheba 11 out for a run tonight. We went down the river aways and turned her off an ole woods road into a wet Cypress bottom. She went in about 200 yrds and hit a cold track, some time I wish she wouldn't fool with a track this cold, but I sure do love to watch a young dog like her or any of them really, If they can keep it movin and don't stand on their head. Me and Sheba 11 have the same birthday. We were both born this month Aug. 30. About 68 years apart. She was born Aug. 30, 2014 and I was born Aug. 30, 1946. A lot of cold and hot tracks in that period of time. She moved the track on in another 250 yrds and treed.I walked in to her and she was teed up a medium sized hardwood tree(when I don't know what kind of tree it is I just call it a hardwood). It was just a canopy in there that went out into a lot of other trees. I shined for a few minutes, but never did get him to look. We walked back to the 4-wheeler and moved on down the swamp. Turned her into the same bottom about 600 yrds farther down. She went in about 200 yrds and struck another cold track. She moved it on down the swamp about 600 yrds and crossed out and was headed toward a bad cutover, so I went around on another road and cut her off just as she was fixing to go into the cutover. We moved on around to the sunken swamp and turned her in there and she went in about 150 yrds and struck another track, not quite as cold as the other 2. She moved it up a running branch about 200 yrds and treed. I walked in to her and she was treed up a pretty good sized oak. I couldn't see anything from the side of the branch that I was on so I crossed the branch and could only see a little of the tree from that side, and I never did see anything. so we walked back to the 4-wheeler and called it a night. It sure was hot out there tonight.

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Chris and one of his neighbor's boy came by about dark and we loaded up Sheba 11 and headed to the swamp. Turned Sheba off an ole woods road at the edge of a Bean field and she went in about 200 yrds around the edge of an ole slough and struck a cold track, worked it on around the slough another 150 yrds and treed. we road to about 50 yrds of her and walked on in to her. She was treed up a huge Cypress about 20 yrds out in the slough. I have seen gators in this slough on other hunts. Sure glad they were not around tonight, at least I didn't see any. I went in to take some pictures, about that ime I heard the young boy say, he saw the coon. Chris went and looked and sure enough he had found the coon. I called this young boys name all night and now my mine is a blank.
We left this coon to run again and went deeper into the swamp. We turned Sheba loose again and she didn't go 50 yrds and struck another cold track. She worked it on in another 100 yrds and locked up treed. We walked in to her and she was treed up a small tree and it was loaded with Muscadine vines. I didn't know wheather we would see a coon here or not. the small tree that she was treeing on was loaded with vines going over into other trees, but again the young boy said he saw the coon. I walked over to where he was at and it took him about 10 minutes to show him to me, and then I don't think I would have seen him if the coon hadn't decided to move. Man, could I use a set of eyes like that young fellow has. Chris and his boys are the same way, they find coons all the time that I just cant see. We decided to knock this one out, and I was glad it was a pretty good sized boar coon. I had asked the young boy earlier what he thought about coonhunting and he said he didn't know. I asked him again what he thought about coonhunting and he said he liked it and would be back again. This was his first coonhunt. We called it a nite. It sure was hot out there tonight. This is the next morning and and the young mans name just came to me, It's Eli.

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Great story Jack, makes me feel good to hear about a young man's first hunt.

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Mr Jack
Good talking to you this morning. Here is a picture of the pups at two weeks. They will be three weeks on Sunday
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Thank you Scott for the pictures. That's a good looking litter of pups. They are all ready getting dark. There will be some real hounds in that litter. Talk to you later---Jack

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Chris and Cole and Eli came by yesterday evening and we loaded up Sheba 11 and traveled to Brookhaven, Ms. to their UKC hunt and bench show. Chris drew out with two great guys. Mr. Miller and Mr. Purvis. They were hunting two of as good of walker dogs that I have hunted with. It was a close hunt right down to the last tree between Chris and Mr. Miller. I sure enjoyed sitting back and listening to these two hunters battle it out. To see which one would get the first strike and which one would get the first tree. and to see which one at some point would make a bad call, but neither one did. Sheba won 1st place and high scoring dog of the hunt with 525+ points.

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Congrats Chris and Mr. Jack on the Win! Sounds like a great hunt and a Win to remember!

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Sounds to me like Sheba II is another nice one!

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