Darren Hollis
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Registered: Jul 2005
Location: Winfield, ALABAMA
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HUNT
I had a good conversation last night with Mr. Jack Smith over in Mississippi. I want to thank him for helping me out with some information. We are going to try to start up the Mississippi BBOA State Championship Hunt again. It used to be held in Brookhaven, Ms. The old club is no longer active but there is a new club there now. They have some good hunting and I talked to their sec/Treasurer last night and they definaltely want to host the event. More to come later.
My son Drake , my nephew Griffin and myself hunted for a little while last night. I had a scorecard and we held a little hunt to get them boys some practice. I hunted Andy, Drake hunted Cotton and Griffin hunted BB. First drop BB struck, and Andy followed a close 2nd. We were ragging Drake a little as Cotton wasn't struck. BB and Andy worked a track down the bottom and we heard Cotton open deep the other way. BB and Andy both let out a locate. I treed Andy and Griffin treed BB. Wasn't long til they both moved on down bottom a little ways and loaded up right. Griffin got the tree on me. BB first tree and Andy second. We made our way into the tree and it was a den. No coon seen. We pulled them off the tree and walked back to where we had turned loose and Cotton was 800 yds the other way. Garmin showed her treed so we walked up on a small hill and she was knocking the top out. Drake treed her and we headed to her. She was on a huge red oak in the edge of a cutover and her coon was easily spotted. At the end of the first drop the scorecard read,
Cotton 175+
Andy 125-
BB 75-
We moved to a different spot and cut them again. BB struck 1st , Cotton 2nd. Those two were headed down a small creek. Andy got struck about 300 yds to the left going down a beaver pond. All three dogs got split up and weren't together. Andy loaded up about 400 yds around the beaver pond. I treed him and we headed out. We got to his tree and BB came in after the 5 minutes was up. I spotted Andy's coon easily and we handled him and BB. BB drew 100- for coming into a tree with a coon after the 5 minutes was up. We moved back up the hill to hear Cotton locate and load up. Drake treed her and she was 900 yds down a rough old bottom. We finally got to her and she was on a wild cherry tree with two large trees growing all together. We couldn't find her coon and circled her up.
Our hunt was over and Cotton came out on top last night.
Cotton 175+
BB 175-
Andy 50+
We are going to have a couple more of these fun hunts. Helps these young guys learn the rules and we had a good time ragging each other. Gone hit it tonight and see if we can get another sick one treed!!
Y'all Keep'em Lookin' Up!!
Darren

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