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Thanks Mr Jack. We are having plenty of fun. I haven't hunted the last couple nights. After that big hunt Saturday need to let Jazz recover. Lol.

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Last night my son Jacob and I had an opportunity to have front row seats on the first base line at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. The Reds who are playing well below .500 faced the smokin hot Kansas City Royals. Ever since I was kid watching the Big Red Machine with Rose, Bench, Morgan and Perez I have enjoyed going to the park. I remember the George Brett days too for KC. I have to admit the last few years I have not followed any baseball but I thoroughly enjoyed myself last night. Especially sharing the experience with my 14 year old son. At this age experiences that we can connect on are valuable. He does not share mine and his sisters passion for hounds. He hunts but he prefers deer, turkey and squirrel. The curious thing though, is the fact that he has been exposed to hounds so much that he still has a fairly extensive knowledge of tree dog sports. It's all good even though our passions are different, the father son bond is deep and we respect each other's differences...most of the time. LOL.

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08/21/15
Took Jazz to a spot with corn, hayfields and hardwoods. I am focusing on two things with her right now 1) firing out on the inititial turn loose and then 2)recasting after a tree is made.
Here's what happened tonight:
10:23 I cut her loose from the tailgate and she got in the dark.
10:27 struck at 176 yards
10:34 treed
10:40 shining tree and found coon and recast
10:44 struck again at 146 yards
10:46 treed
10:52 shining tree and found coon
10:55 recast
11:07 struck at 149 yards after a loop around the corn
11:12 treed at 234
11:20 Found coon walking in
11:21 Jazz decides to quit the tree
11:22 I am catching her off tree about 25 yards and making her realize that's not a good idea
11:23 put her back on it and praise her to tell her that's what I want.
What made her quit, I have no idea. That is unusual for sure. She was down smelling a log. No big worries but something to watch. There is always something to watch! Lol!
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Sounds like yaw had a great time at the game. 3 coons in an hour is getting it done right. She has to get off the tree every now and then or it would get to boring for you to just cut and tree cut and tree, lol! We finally getting some of that 60's degree weather next week that yaw been having, you will probably be in the 40's. I'm glad to see it start to cool off a little, been a long hot summer. You and Jazz keep after them, Take Care.

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Man Steve, that is some great news about your weather. It's been in the low 60 high 50s for lows the last three nights. I was all the way up on the Michigan State line yesterday morning for work. That as is 4.75 hours straight north and the temp was 52 at daybreak.

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That is how many coon Jazz has treed and the number of trees she has made. Due to the big brew ha on the coonhound board about 50% accurate dogs, I am going to include a running total in each hunt documented. What do you guys think? What will happen to her current 79% accuracy as we move into the season?

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I really enjoy reading your posts. Out of curiosity are you a cobservation officer? I ask because I to live in Southeast in. Have been ask if I knew a fella by your name. I also hunt blue dogs.

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I really enjoy reading your posts. Out of curiosity are you a cobservation officer? I ask because I to live in Southeast in. Have been ask if I knew a fella by your name. I also hunt blue dogs.

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My plan to infiltrate the organized crime world of blueticks is ruined. LOL. What's your name Marmack? I know most hunters and all the hunters tell the officers that work for me that they know me.

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08-22-15

Hooked up with Dennis Scott last night for a round with his Redbone
Dennis and I hit the corn country-patch woods last night. The dog work was terrible for the most part. Red had not been in the woods since January. He is normally a nice hound but tonight he just wanted to see the country. Jazz looked brilliant on the first cut loose. Like a stereotypical bluetick on the second and ok on the third. Here is how it went down.
On the first drop we cut Red and Jazz into a ditch near a feeder lot and corridor. Jazz got struck first at 150. She ran the track for just a couple minutes located and treed. She located a little too much and should have settled quicker but as we walked in we could see she was freed on a 15 foot locust and the coon was sitting as far up as he could. Dennis checked his Garmin and red was spinning up the dial quick and was out to 900 yards.
I petted Jazz up and recast into the dark. She is doing much better getting gone. Red was somewhere in the country and did not have anything going. Jazz struck again at 247. She worked along the corn to the east, wrapped the edge of the field to the south and was heading west and located hard. Red had struck 700 east. I told Dennis we would let Jazz settle and tree while Red worked his out. Jazz pulled stakes and took the track on to the south. I am pretty sure she left a coon. She located right and in a way that she should have stayed. I looked across the field to the south and spotted coon sitting up where she had been. Red was not doing anything with his track except wallowing it to death and Jazz was doing the same thing to the south. Pathetic. Jazz finally worked her track out to 745 located right and treed. Red was MIA. We drove around to Jazz to find her on a big ash tree with a coon. She still was not freeing right. We picked up Red on the road 900 to the south.
Third drop cut up a branch creek towards good sized corn fields to the east. Red came back Jazz swung south and struck at 230. Red was leashed just as Jazz located and struggled to settle. A little too much of this tonight for me so I hustled in to her and she would tree hard and quit. She did this several times. When I got in there she was treed on a five inch hickory. Thought sure she had finally treed a possum. At least I would have an excuse for poor tree effort. Nope she had a coon on the edge of the cornfield. Dennis owned the ground and we exercised his landowner right to protect his corn crop and put the coon out to Jazz as confidence builder.
We got back to the truck and called it a night. I'll let this one sink into Jazz little head a couple of night.

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It's Robert McMullen I do a lot of hunting with hershel eldridge. Jason back. Lol I had to pick one of my blue females up at a c.o. that lives on lauman. I can't remember his name right off hand but a super nice guy he ask if I knew you. And other guys have. I guess since we hunt blue dogs we are a mafia or something.lol . I would like to see your female go some night. She sounds real nice. But we can stay away from bear branch laughrey and such. Lol this time of year I prefer Milan Sunman napoleon. Lol its flat. Easier on a fat guy. Hope to talk to you sometime.

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Don't let them guys on the other thread get ya frustrated about how accurate one is. Sounds like yours is doing a fine job for her age. If one hunts one hard enough,they soon learn when thier taking a educated guess or not. The one I'm hunting now,when he trees up,I know from how he locates what I'm going to see well before I get to him. he's been real good about having the coon! Be patient and have fun with it,Danny G.

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Thanks Danny. I am not frustrated. I have been at this long enough to know that everyone likes a different style dog. Since they are the ones feeding it I don't criticize too much Lol!
But to take score cards from a competition hunt to judge accuracy is ludicrous. Then, to make broad generalizations that dogs don't exist and that the greatest dogs in the world are no better than 50% is just plain ignorant. To accept that is fact is sad. But then to go on to call people liars, even after there is evidence to the contrary is unacceptable.
Thomas Kuhn, in his book THE THEORY OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION discussed a theory known as parading paralysis. People develop an opinion and attach strong emotions to that belief even to the point of dismissing evidence or rationalizing the evidence debunking their belief.

There is a lot of paradigm paralysis in this sport.

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Just stumbled across your thread on the whole big accurate thread today and read whole thing. Anyway really enjoyed reading your thread. You have real gift at writing. And from sounds of it a nice hound that gives you plenty to write about. I got B&T pup that fixin turn 5 month's. I think I will keep tabs on her and how she does each night. Seems like fun and useful ideal. Best luck to you with your young hound.

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Thanks Nathan. Let me know if you start up a page on your B&T. Good hunting to you and check back anytime.

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08-24-15 (46/57)

No a lot to report. Coons weren't moving good. I could not hunt late because of work. Cut Jazz around a corn field and she hunted the edge all 1.4 miles of it without hitting a track.

I was going to go home but couldn't take it. I pulled off in lane and cut her around another corn field. She slammed one at 240. No track just roll up and tree. Found him in a 25 foot cedar tree.

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08/28/15

Big moon, tall timber and huge corn fields was the setting for tonight's hunt and the ground is so dry that the dogs were farting dust by the time we got back to the truck.
Dennis Scott and I met for a round tonight. He brought along Red and we hit an area with a corn field that is mile long 3/4 mile wide with grass waterway throughout and tall timber scattered around the edges. Perfect training ground for upcoming baby stakes. I have been working out of town all week so Jazz and I have had a 6 night layoff. Not too painful because of the full moon and poor tracking conditions.
Jazz was ready for tonight and she covered some ground when I cut her looses she bee lined into the dark with Red and she struck at the corner of a wood lot at 270. Red joined in right behind her. Red has great mouth that is distinct, makes Jazz sound mediocre. They drove the track north into a cornfield and made loop back through where it was struck. This coon was giving us an awesome race. At one point it was so smokin hot I asked Dennis if he thought they were on a coon, jokingly. Red and Jazz were really pouring the coal to it as the raced along the north edge of the field along the wood line. They took the track west to about 460 and began to swing south west though a grass waterway. Red and Jazz split up and Jazz turned the the track south and then dead east right to us. We were standing right at the corner of a woods at the southeast edge of the corn jungle. If she was running junk I was going to find out!
Without missing a beat and Red about 100 yards south, has located and cut down hard into tree mode. She sucked Red into her. We walked along the field edge 180 yards and stepped in the edge of the timber to find them treed on tall 30 inch poplar. There were just a few small opening to shine this monster through the beech tree canopy. Try as we might we just couldn't find that coon.
We recast just few feet from the tree. Red headed south. Jazz headed west. Jazz came back. By U.S. About 40 yards to the north along the edge of the corn and then made a right turn to the north thru the corn. Red had headed south west. Has struck at the south west corner or the wood lot to the north after some serious searching for a track. She was working north along the edge of the field next to the woods. Dennis checked his Garmin and red was west at .6 miles. Has was now in the standing corn trying to work out her maze. She finally headed west along a ditch. Dennis and I decided to move west.
We got in the truck and drove around the south end of the field and the. Back north to a feed lot on the west side of the cornfield. When we got out of the truck Jazz was only 320 yards to the east and not opening good. Red was treed south west 900+. We decided to leave Jazz to figure her track out and go see what Red had.
We got to Red and found him in a narrow finger of woods jutting north into the corn. I shined the tree from a grass waterway from about 120 yards out as Dennis went into handle Red. I hit the squaller and four eyes 3/4 of the way up.
I checked my Garmin and Jazz had headed back north to the wood line and dozed piles. That's where it ended. Jazz has never stayed on a hole and from the indications on the Garmin she was packing it in and headed to where we had turned loose the first time. We drove around and picked her up at the original spot and she was happy to see me. She had been working the edges of the field for an hour and half trying to drive that track out of the corn only to have it end in a dozed pile. I told Dennis if he expected me and Jazz to come over and hunt with him on his farm he was going to have clean up that dozed pile and bush hog around those edge a bit. By the time we got back to my truck it was 1:00 and time to point the yota towards home.
The good:
1) Jazz worked hard.
2) she jammed that first tree and looked like an old dog doing it.
3) she went back to hunting hard after recasting her.
Improves:
1) she needs to keep studying at ICU Indiana Cornfield University. She was lashing and looping much better tonight but more exposure will expand her mind.
2) needs to get gone quicker on the recast.
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8-30-15
I had a big juicy story nearly typed out for last nights hunt but it got erased from fat thumbs. So, the condensed version is all you get today.

Cut Jazz right from the driveway tonight. Where she goes from here is up to her. I have an early tomorrow so it will be a one and done. Jazz split the dark and is doing very well at getting out from under foot when cut loose one the initial cut. She headed east towards the Southfork creek. It is not flowing as is typical in August.
Jazz was gone for about 15 minutes when she struck to the west 290 yards. She worked the track north grubbing a feeder track but moving it nicely. She was opening just right. The coon must have moved before dark following the rain we had. She warmed it up to a point she was driving the track Northwest.

She dropped over to the west side of the ridge opened a few more times and located. It was over. One thing I have noticed about Jazz, she can't decide whether she is a bawl mouth tree dog or chop mouth and sometimes she is both! It really depends on her confidence. When she is sold out she can really hammer. Sometimes she starts out bawl mouth but once she is sure, she rolls it over. I walked in shined the tree and found the coon. Another nice job by this little Blue gyp.
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I enjoy ready your thread Chris, especially since your also a mountain cur fan also. Keep up the good work.

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Glad to hear she is still doing a great job, even with the dry weather we have all been having. It is VERY DRY here, grass is dying everywhere. Hot again to, back to 94 during the day. Have a good trip to Autumn Oaks if you go, sure wish I could have made the trip but I'm getting caught up around here, been busy all morning and making good progress. Take Care.

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Jamie, I was neck deep in OMC dogs for a few years. I made the trips to Jamestown several times. Travelled to South Georgia for the southern heritage hunt and so on. Made a lot of friends.

Steve it is hovering around 90 for daytime highs here. We got a little rain yesterday afternoon. Made tracking a little better but the humidity was so high I could have used a boat last night. The invitation stands. Maybe you can make it up in November. It's usually low to mid 50s during the day and lows in the high 30s. Coons are in the oaks and feeding heavy to put on winter fat. My favorite month to hunt.

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One thing I'm learning about Jazz, when she locks it up be patient and look close.
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Does anyone else have corn this far along? Temps in the 90s here ground is hard, tracking terrible but still manage to scratch out a coon here and there.

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I'm not sure if our corn is that far yet but I know its got coons in feeding. I normally don't hunt too many corn fields. But I will occasionally.

Keep up the good work with your pup.

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Picked up Ken Cone tonight and we headed north an hour to hunt the Flotrock River country. We stopped in at the Labor Day Classic. Wanted to give Jazz some experience of the hustle and bustle of the big show. Experience like this will really help down the road. Sights sounds and other dogs can really mess with a dog's head when they are young.

After visiting for a bit we headed out to a place I call the coon zoo. River on the east side and 700 acres of wildlife paradise. We had a shower of rain but the ground soaked it up and it was still dusty. Tracking would be tough.

Ken was hunting a semen pup from Wild N Blue Spanky named Wild N Blue Road Trip. Either somebody had big plans for this pup or we were going to have a lot of traveling to do after we cut em loose.

We cut Jazz and Trip down a draw towards the river that layed east about 800 yards. They got about 120 yards out and Jazz struck. Soon after trip located and treed but left after a few seconds. Trip located again 50 yards closer and stuck. Jazz was working on the north side of the steep drain and located but I could tell she wasn't sure. we shined Trips tree and really put some pressure on Jazz who was with 50 yards still working the track. Squalling and vine pulling could not suck her in. I was waiting on her but she kept to her task. We could not find a coon in Trips tree. It was tough place to shine.
Ken leashed Trip and cut him while Jazz was working 50 to the west. Jazz located once and Trip covered and they locked it down. I found the coon quickly.
We went back to the truck and cut them south down the gravel lane. Corn on the west side with wild land to the east all the way to the river. At 170 Trip located and treed right off the lane. I waited on Jazz for a few minutes but nothing. Ken walked and I jumped in the Yota and drove down past where he was treed. As I stepped out of the truck Jazz joined in and I spotted the coon .
We cut the dogs down the next draw to to the south towards the river. They were smelling a coon when we cut em. There just was not enough for these young dogs to work. Inexperience along with bad conditions made it impossible for these rookies to move it out. There was not a lot of opening or loose mouth barking, just frustration watching the spaghettie form on the Garmin screen. Trip was hot and Ken loaded him. I was going to move Jazz on but she popped smoke and got out of there. She never did find another good track within a 15 minute period. Unusual for this place which told me tracking conditions were out of her league.
With other pups I would have cut them right on the water in hopes of treeing some easy coons, Jazz is past that stage. I am trying to instill some better hunting habits and range. Get out, cover some country and FIND that hot track to tree. This kind of hunting will pay off, if I don't go crazy first.
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