8hawg
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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Illinois
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01-31-12
I met up with my friend John Bishop for a hunt last night. He brought his young female named Lady and I took Sonic. We hunted the young dogs one at a time most of the night. We did turn them loose together in a big creek bottom midway through the night. First drop, We cut Sonic alone. He struck in and hit a tree but moved on, the track looped back around then across the road down towards the end of a tree line about 1/4 mile away where Sonic treed. We get there and Sonic is treed on the side of the ditch bank in a hole. We head to the truck. It is now John and Lady's turn. John cuts Lady, she strikes in and trees about 300 yds in, she has the meat. We head to the truck and move. We get to our new spot, large creek bottom with a lot of water standing, mostly only ankle deep, but deeper in places. They strike and tree we head to them, they leave the tree tracking. We use the Garmin to find the tree they left, it is two trees tied together with a large homemade platform deer stand. I figure the coon bailed out on them before we got there. They get treed again 400 yds on in. We get there it is a large old den tree. We lead off and cut them again back towards the truck. They get struck, hit on a tree move on and get treed. We get to them it is a snag den top blown out. With the help of John I try to get up high enough to look down in the snag den, but it is just a little too far out of my reach. So we lead out to the truck and move. We get to the next spot and cut Sonic loose. I see Sonic cut back to his left , nose up moving quick. He slams a tree, it is another den. We lead off, and Sonic wants to go back to the tree, so with a little help from John, we discourage him from going back. Sonic moves on in and gets struck , moves the track along pretty good. He hits up twice but moves on, then "BAM" hes trees. We head to him. It is a den, but John sees the coon go in the hole just as we start shinning. We head back to the truck. It is John and Lady's turn again. We cut Lady loose down a tree lined ditch she hunts it out and gets struck on the very end of it. She moves the track on out in the field, it is wide open were she is at except for a hedge fence row out in the middle of nowhere about a 100yds long and some of the biggest Hedge trees I have ever seen. She comes treed in the Hedge row. We are almost 3/4 mile from her, but we are able to drive around and get within 300yds of her. We get to her she has 2 coon sitting above her. We head for the truck and call it a night. I had to get down to a tee-shirt before the night was over. Here we are Jan.31 late at night hunting in our tee-shirts around here, unbelievable. John suggested taking Sonic home with him to finish out coon season with him. I agreed and John will finish the season out with Sonic. Below are a few pictures of last nights hunt.
SONIC TREED ON SNAG DEN
BISHOP'S LADY TREED, WITH THE MEAT
SONIC ON THE BIG DEN
BISHOP'S LADY ON A DEN
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CHRIS BRINER
ROBINSON, IL
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Clyde Murphy 229-344-7308
01-17-2012 09:58 PM
No just kidding it wasn't too bad. But the hunt last night did suck. Wind was out of the East with some light rain. I may try it again tonight after the Patriots get a 20 point lead on the Giants before half time.
