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Took Smoke out for a run tonight. It had been a while since I had him out. I don't know whats going on with the coons right now. They are just not moving. I went to a place I haven't been in over a month. I cut him loose off an ole woods road. he went in over 900 yrds and struck and treed a little over a mile. He had treed across a black top highway in close to some houses. It sure was rough going in there where he treed. I don't like being close to houses in places I don't know, so I didn't take time to look. I leashed him and we got out of there. We called it a night.

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Bad Cold Weather moving in tomorrow and going to last a few days Mr. Jack. You should call all the guys up and we will gather round at your house one night and drink coffee and swap tales about hunts from the past and future ones we plan to make. I will bring the Snacks, just let me know the night and time. Take Care.

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Too cold for this old fella to hunt. I can remember hunting cold moonlight 10 degree nights in January. It was 25 years ago and I thought of it as a challenge. It may be decent hunting by Sunday or Monday. Glad to see someone is getting the blue hounds in the woods.

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Jeremy came by yesterday evening and Picked up Smoke and traveled to Meadville, Ms. to the Mississippi State Deep South Classic hunt. and also this was the first Handler of the year hunt. Jeremy and Smoke won the Nite Ch hunt. Also congratulations to Justin and Ellie. Ellie won another 1st place. Congratulations to both of these guys. It was a bad nite to hunt and the coldest night we have had in Mississippi this year with ice and snow on the ground.

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Congrats to Jeremy, Justin and the Hounds for getting it done on a real Cold night and Very tough conditions and coming out with the Wins. Real Coon Hunters with Real Hounds, that's what it takes.

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I appreciate it y'all. If little Ellie makes half the hound some of y'all have led I will be happy. I like her so far though. Mr jack smoke is as nice as they come and deserves every win he gets.

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Took Smoke out for another run tonight, dropped him off an ole woods road on an ole slough that had a lot of water in it after all this rain and ice we had over the weekend and I think there is a chance for rain everyday this week. Smoke dropped in a little over 800 yrds before he struck. The coons are just not moving. I watched Smoke on the Garmin and he didn't just go strait in for 800 yrds. He crisscrossed back and forth across the swam as he went in, the coons just were not there. He struck in and moved it on in another 200 yrds and locked up treed. I went around on another road and got within 100 yrds of him and walked on in. He was treed up a huge oak den tree. I looked it over good to make sure he was not on the outside. I reached for my Squaller, but had left it at the house. We walked back to the 4-wheeler and called it a night.

The guys said to thank you Steve for the congrats on the wins.
Justin, thanks for the compliments. I have hunted with Ellie a couple of times and you and Kenny and Traveler will be real proud of her.

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Took Smoke out for another short run tonight. It was misting rain from time to time while we were hunting. Dropped him off an ole woods road into a mostly Oak and Cyprus swamp. I think the coons have changed their traveling time on me as it is getting harder and harder to strike one, and because of deer season I cant hunt in the early morning. They did this same thing last year. Smoke went in a little over 800 yrds and struck a cold track, worked it 200 yrds deeper and locked up treed. This leaning tree where he was treed had been blown over into some more trees and they were leaning into some more trees and into some thick stuff. I think the coon just walked through the trees and just walked on out and kept going. I never did see him. I started hearing it thunder and the wind was picking up so we called it a night.

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A friend of mine wanted me to get some coons off his deer feeders, so I loaded up Gin and headed down to a place not far off Hiway 44. I had avoided this place earlier because its pretty close to a major hiway, but we didn't have any trouble. The place is in some about 20 year old planted pines. I turned her loose on the feeder and she left out of there on a track. She took it in about 75 yrds and just cut it off and came back. I think it was a deer. She went back in on the feeder and left out of there again, moved it in 150 yrds and treed. I got my rifle and went to her. She was treed up a smaller bushy top pine that went into a bigger pine that you see in the background behind where she is treed. I looked in the smaller pine but the top was bushy and I couldn't see where he was there or not. I could see that the top of the bigger pine was broken out and I looked around both trees a couple of times and finally seen a spot that didn't look like part of the tree. I went around and got my rifle where I had left it on the other side of the tree, came back and when I put the scope on the spot I could see that it was the coon. He was sitting in the thick part where the top was broken out. I had blown the squaller several times, but he sure would not look. I didn't knock him out first shot and he went back into the smaller tree and started down. The next shot connected and he came out. Gin had her prize and we called it a night.

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Jack those pines and Cedar trees are difficult to find the coon in. Steve and I went to Penny and Irene treed last night. They were treed up a hedge tree in a mess of Cedar trees. There was a big limb running into a cedar. I found the coon right off & Steve took a shot through some limbs. Never could find the coon again. The Cedar was 20 to 25 feet tall and I went to the top of it looking and never found the coon. I don't climb often at 59 but I knew the coon was there. We had no idea where it hid. Other cedars so thick you couldn't shine but a couple spots. I sure don't like hunting near highways and glad your hunt was safe.

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Gin sure looks nice and it sounds as though she is putting it all together. I have a male here out of Shadow and Hammerhead that looks just like her. That litter will be 6 months old on Tuesday. When the coon start to move again I will get him started. It has been cold and snowy like a normal Wisconsin winter here so I have not been out hunting as of late. Yesterday at noon it got up to 1 degree so there is not a lot of time spent outside. Today it is supposed to get up to 20 so I plan on spending most of the day at the farm doing things like moving snow. Sure wish I was coming down for the Winter Classic but not going to make it this year. I plan on making all of the normal Bluetick hunts like the reunion, bluetick days and the roundup. I may take a shot at getting to Ashland but the weather is going to have to improve so Tramp and I can hit the woods. He is doing great here. Him and Creek have to jump up on the box to get petted everyday. If I ever get those two together I think they will make some nice ones. Hope everything is going well.
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Jeremy called about dinner yesterday and wanted to know if I wanted to go up to the Delta National Forest last night to hunt and I asked him what time he wanted to leave. He arrived about 3 oclock and he had Bell (Shadow & Gin) with him so I loaded up Smoke and we headed out. We got up there a little after dark and found us a place to hunt. We cast Smoke and Bell into some Beautiful woods. They went in about 700 yrdss and struck a cold track. They moved it on in another 200 yrds and treed. We walked in to them and they were treed up a huge oak den tree. We shined it good, but he wasn't on the outside. We leashed them up and walked another 200 yrds and cast them again. They went about 100 yrds and hit another cold track. They trailed it on in another 200 yrds and treed. We walked in to them. Another huge oak, den tree. Again we shined nothing on the out side. We leashed them up and walkedback to the 4-wheelers and rode on in another mile or so and cast them. They made a huge circle and came back across the road that we were on about a 1/2 mile farther down and we never got a bark. We rode a ways and cast them again. They made a wide circle and crossed the road again and we never got a bark. We didn't really know any where else to go as there were a lot of other hunters in the woods so we decided to call it a night and head for home.

Scott, thanks for the compliments on Gin. She seems to do a little better everytime I carry her out. I don't know how you stand those kind of temps. I cant hardly stand it at 30. Pups out of Tramp and Creek should make top Coonhounds.
If I was a few years younger I wouldn't quit worrying you until I had at least 2 of them in my kennel.

Dennis, thank you for the well wishes and you are right it is hard to find a coon in those pines and cedars, and If you do find him and miss your shot, you probably wont find him again. Dennis stay warm and take care.

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Took Gin out for a run tonight, turned her off an ole woods road here close to the house. There was a feeder in there, but she didn't strike on the feeder. She went on in another 100 yrds and struck a working track. She worked it another 100 yrds and treed not far off the road I was on. I rode down the road to get closer. she hit the tree a couple more times after I stopped and started moving again. She moved on in another 50 yrds and hit another tree a few times but did not settle on it either. She kept trying to get it straitened out, but I knew it was a cold feeder track so I picked her up and we went to the river. She hit a pretty good track off a feeder down there and moved it out of there. She moved it on into the swamp 150 yrds and hit a big slough that is pretty deep right now as the beavers has got it backed up. She went way out in it in swimming water most of the time. The slough there where she was is probably 150 yrds wide. I thought she was going to crossit, but she got about 50 yrds out and went down the slough aways and turned back toward the bank on my side and just as she got to the bank she locked up treed. About the time she treed my neighbor that goes with me sometime came down there where I was at and went into the tree with me. She was treed up a big turkey pine. I figured he would be right in the top. I finally found a place that I could see the top fairly well and my neighbor shook a vine and he looked at me two times and then quit looking. I had left the rifle around on the other side of the tree and after I got it my neighbor shook the vine several times, but I never did see him again. I petted Gin up and we walked back to the 4-wheeler and called it a night.

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She sure sounds like she is making a nice hound. Beings you raised her on a bottle, yall should have a tight connection.

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Took Gin out for a short run tonight. I think the rains is suppose to come in tomorrow and hang around the rest of the week. I dropped her off an ole woods road with a feeder about 75 yrds in. She went in on the feeder and struck a hot track, moved it on in another 75 yrds and locked up treed. I got the rifle and walked in to her. She was treed up a huge oak, Den tree. I figured surely he was inside. I walked about 3/4 way around the tree and found him sitting about 10' above the hole. I had the rifle with me this time and knocked him out to her. We walked back to the 4-wheeler and moved on down to the river. I turned her in on another feeder, she didn't strike and headed on in deeper. She barked 1 time about 175 yrds in and never barked again. She made her a circle and came back and we loaded up and called it a night.

Yes Mr. Tommy, I'm really liking the way she is doing and she is real smart. I've only had to show her things like loading and leading a couple of times and she don't forget it, and your right that bottle feeding and takingcare of them
brought me and that whole litter closer togeather. I wish I knew where they were all at. I know where one other female is at. She is up in Oklahoma and making her owner proud. the only male in the litter came up missing from his owners yard and was never found. I haven't heard anything on the other 2 females. I think I have the phone # of the ones that bought them, I will try to call them one day and check on them.

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Steve I think I finally got him, but he ran a lot farther than two miles tonight. I went deer hunting this evening, but didn't have any luck, so I came in and eat supper. They were saying on the news that the rains were suppose to move in around 11 or 12 oclock tonight, so I decided to go tree a quick one before it started. I loaded up Smoke and Gin and headed south down the river to a place that I hunt from time to time. I turned them off an ole woods road into an oak and Cyprus swamp. They went in about 200 yrds and struck a working track. They started moving it deeper. The track got better, but the coon was going through a lot of muddy places. They moved him north toward the river for about 600 yrds. When they got close to the river they turned west for about 300 yrds. This is pretty bad country in spots in there where they were at. They made a circle and headed back east. They ran East for almost 900 yrds. Just before they got to 44 hyway they turned north again. They moved north and I don't know what they were in, but my garmin started loosing them @ a little over 600 yrds, so I had to go back out and hit another road and go around to get in there closer to where they were at and by this time they had him running. They made another circle and headed back north toward me. I had about decided this was not a coon they were running. They were coming strait toward where I was sitting on a small woods road. I was going to catch them, but they turned and crossed just around the curve above me. I just got there in time to see the dogs cross. They had those heads in the air. That sealed the deal for me. I surely didn't think a coon could run ahead of those dogs and them running like that. Now don't get me wrong I have seen dogs run coons like this before. Steve this sounded like the race that me and you had with Bo and Tramp 11 that night. I already had the notion floating around in my mind that this was not a coon. Now Gin or Smoke either one have never run trash, but there is always the first time. After they crossed in front of me they headed strait east and they were screaming. I could still hear them when the Garmin lost them a little over 800 yrds and then they went out of hearing strait toward 44 hyway. I knew I would have to go all the way back to thee truck and load the 4-wheeler up and go back around and go up 44 hyway to get to them. I finally made it out to 44 and went west to the bridge across Pearl River and I could hear them North of Hiway 44 still running. I don't know wheather or not they had crossed the hiway or went under the bridge, but they were still moving north up Pearl River. There was a road there that went back in there to some camp houses. I took the road and when I did I ran upon a guy walking down the road. I had met him before and he use to coon hunt some. I asked him if he heard the dogs and he said he did and he would show me how to get to them. By then they had left the river and headed east again when I had got as close to them as I could get in truck they were a little over 150 yrds in. I started to them and they sounded like they were trying to tree. I had to cross another slough before I got to them. When I crossed the slough I could tell that they were fighting the coon. When I got to them I don't know which were in the worst shape the coon or the dogs. The coon was already so stiff that about all he could do was move his head. I put the coon out of his misery and I think the dogs were happy about that. I leashed the dogs and got the coon and made our way back to the truck. The guy that I had met back up the road had tennis shoes on so he had stayed at the truck. The guy wanted his picture taken with the coon and the dogs and while we were taking the picture I noticed something didn't look quite right with Gin. I got to checking her and she had been snake bit on the left side of her lower jaw. If you look at the picture under neath her left eye on her lower jaw you can see the swelling. You know you are having some pretty warm weather when the snakes are stiring on Jan. 20. We called it a night and yes I had to appoligize to Smoke and Gin.

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Jack it sounds like one of my tall stories of running one to catch for an hour or two. You been hauling a few Kansas coon back to Mississippi? If Smoke gets tired of those gators and Snakes bring him to Kansas and give his sister Irene some coon treeing lessons. Doesn't Smoke have Chiefs Joe and Ruby on the bottom side of his pedigree?

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Oh Mr. Jack how I wish I had been there and had a dog in that race with Gin and Smoke!! That would have made 2 Coon Hunters wondering how straight their hound really was. He just wasn't going to tree and fought to the death. I love to hear them tree but our hounds and us need to run across at least one Old Warrior Coon a year that will give it his all then turn and look death straight in the eye and hit it head on until the end! I'm setting here this morning listening to all the bad weather go by headed your way. Its been nasty and hope you get through it ok. I haven't been hunting in about a week. Beverly had a Sister-In-Law Pass away and my Hip been giving me fits and doing some popping. Snow thinks its Ligaments around my SI Joint Popping. Going to try and get the CT Scan this week and see a specialist and find out exactly what it is and what we need to do to get me fixed. All this started on October 26th. I have limped along fighting it long enough hoping it was Sciatic and would go away. I sure wanted to get that White Ghost Coon treed to get pictures and a video, Run Rocket the Raccoon in Black Branch Swamp and me and you go to Delta Forest a few nights and tree some up those Giant Trees but unless that Specialist has a Magic Wand I don't think any of that will happen in next couple weeks. Sure am Proud yaw got Ole Two Mile though. That was a Running Warrior Full of Tricks. I will holler at you soon, Take Care.

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