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Mr. Jack,

I have read a lot of your hunting stories on Sheba II. She sounds a lot like her half sister Creek. Hope all is well and expect it is cooling down some now. We have been hunting in weather in the 30's to the 50's so it has been nice. We have had a lot of rain here and the woods are pretty wet in spots but not too bad. Hope all is well.

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Mr. Jack, Hows Hank progressing? Haven't seen anything of him on here. Do you still have him? And hows the female pup you got from Chase?

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Jeremy Purvis, Ray Necaise, Justin Herrington, Chris Fortenberry and me along with several others traveled up to Coffeeville, Ms. this weekend to the Ms. State hunt. I think Ray won his cast with Smoke Friday night and Justin won his cast with Ellie Sat. night, but I think that was about as good as we did. We all had a good time. Thanks to all the hard work by the officers and others this was a good hunt.

Tommy, Hank is coming along fine. It has took longer for me to get started with Gin on account of working Hank, But I have just started to work with he and am liking what I see. It wont be long until I will be writing about her I'm shure. She acts good and has got a real good mouth on her.

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Hunted Sheba alone Tuesday and Wednesday night. She made 4 trees and I looked at 2 of the coons, all the leaves are still on here and If he don't look you are probably not going to see him. The rains have come in today and it has been raining most of the day. It is suppose to rain for the next 3 days, and then turn cold. They said it was suppose to be freezing by the middle of next week. That should get rid of some of these leaves.

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I sure enjoy hunting this time of year. Turning cold & rain tomorrow here. Running season closed until next week tomorrow night. Can't wait to show Bonnie some coon. I just pulled her off a big hackberry with a coon. Luke had went on with a track. Still working it, wish he would tree the first coon up but he seldom misses. He thinks he has one better go check.

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Tommy, you and Rhett asked about the Gin pup. Here she is on a turn a loose coon. I have turned 2 coons loose for her and she has treed them both. She has got a good mouth on her and she has got a lot of hustle in her. She sure is not scared of a coon. She fired up on the first one she ever saw.

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She is a pretty thing Mr. Jack. Glad to see she's gonna fit right in and do her part in the Pearl River Bottoms. We need to get together one of these nights and make a big round. Have a Happy Thanksgiving next week. If you need help dragging out a Big Buck just holler. Take Care.

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Awww man, I got to figure out how to see that video. Ever since we all moved from Photobucket, I can view your picyures or videos

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had yo look at them on my photo. She sure is looking good Mr Jack. thanks for posting her.

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Finally got Hank back out tonight. It has probably been a month since I had him out, but he keeps progressing right along. I took him out tonight with his mother. She is now 10 years old and these youngsters can beat her from time to time, but they got to have every thing togeather right when they do. She keeps them on their toes. If they make as good of dog as she has been through the years, they will be alright. I turned them down a spring fed branch that runs through the swamp on its way to the river. They went down it 150 yards and struck a hot track. They moved it on in another 100 yards and Hank hit the tree about 1 bark ahead of Sheba. Hank really treed good on this tree. I made my way in to them and they were treed up a big Turkey pine. I could see one side of the tree, but I couldn't see any part of the tree on the other side. I petted them up and we made our way on down toward the river. The river is out of the banks in low areas and has kind of made a big Island of the lower part of the swamp. I turned them up an old slough that was beginning to fill with water. They went to the island side and went on in another 300 yards. I was watching them on the Garmin and Hank was ahead of Sheba about 50 yards when I seen him turn and headed back toward her, about the time he got to her they both took a sharp turn to the west. Neither one had ever opened
Sheba went about 50 yards and locked up treed. It took Hank a minute and he treed with her. I crossed the slough on an old logging road and made my way on in to them. They were treed up a hugh oak. I could only see part of one side and I could not get him to look. I leashed them up and we made our way back to the 4-wheeler and called it a night.

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Sheba treed up a hugh Turkey Pine. This was the second one she treed tonight. At some point back through the years this tree has been worked on by Beavers. She wasn't treed far from a branch that holds a lot of water in the rainey season. The branch winds and turns as it makes its way through the swamp on its way to Greens Creek and then on down to Pearl River. She had already treed one in a big Hollow Magnolia. It was a good night to hunt, but the rain is suppose to come in before daylight. We called it a night.

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Will Raybourn and his girl friend Salley came over and hunted with me last night. Will is Billy Raybourn's son. We turned Sheba and Hank up an old slough down next to the river. They went in about 200 yards and Sheba struck a cold track. Hank was with her, but it was so cold that he couldn't open on it to start with. They moved the track on up the swamp and it got better and hank got to opening on it. This must have been an old veteran coon, because he stayed with the water and put the dogs through some rough stuff. They moved on in to over 900 yards. I told Will that I would like to get closer, but if they kept going they were going to cross the River Road and we would have to come all the way back and go back out of the Swamp. They turned before they got to the River Road and started coming back down another slough. I started feeling sorry for Sheba, because I knew that she was out of shape and way to fat for a race like this, but she kept pushing that coon. Hank was doing his part and at times he would be leading. This was the runningest coon that I had run in a while. They came back down the slough to within about 400 yards of us and they were mostly in swimming water now. They had bumped a couple of trees for just a minute and moved on. They were not far from us and coming across the slough, I told Will that If I got the chance I was going to catch Sheba.They came close to the side of the Slough that we were on and I waded out and caught Sheba and Will got Hank. I could tell old Sheba was about done in, but she sure wasn't going to give up. We will run this coon again one night. We called it a night. Will took Hank back home with Him.

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Mr. Jack , Cotton got after one of those running coons the other night as well. That sucker went thru a huge pine thicket and finally hit a cutover. She was putting some pressure on him and he went into an underground spring. I have ran this same coon before and he usually hits the cutover or heads for the bluffs. We will get him at some point. Glad to see you keeping ole blue in the timber. Have a very Merry Christmas and keep on hitting that timber. Darren

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After coming back from hunting Smoke, I loaded Sheba and we went down river to a pretty little swamp and I dropped her of an old woods road, she moved in a little over 100 yards and hit a working track and moved it on in another 150 yards and locked up treed. I walked in to her and she was treed up a big Oak. It only took me a few minutes to find the coon sitting in a fork. I let Sheba have this one. We walked back to the 4-wheeler and called it a night.

Darren, I like to see these old hounds take a cold tack and work it up a get it moving and run it for a while. I get on one from time to time that will test these ole blue dogs. I don't usually pull them off a track like that, but I had old Sheba running the other night and they were in swimming water most of the time and I didn't want the old girl to over do it. I'll get after him one night with Smoke or Sheba 11 or maybe both and we will see how it goes, but when they tree him, we will surely leave him to run again. Darren, good hunting and have a Merry Christmas.

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I loaded old Sheba and Gin 111 up tonight and headed to the swamp. I was going to turn out on a couple of feeders tonight to give Gin a work out, but the coons did not co-operate. They struck an old cold track on the first drop and ole Sheba could barely open on it and the pup never opened, but she made every step her grand mother made. They worked it about 350 yrds and I knew that the coon had probably eaten his fill sometime before dark and had probably headed back to his den some where up river across the back water from all the rain we have had lately. I went around on an old woods road and got to the back water about the same time they did, and I was glad I got there in time because Sheba was fixing to cross and I had to wade out and get her. We went on around to another feeder and turned loose. They hit another cold track, but it was not quite as bad as the other one. Gin got to opening some on it and they moved it on in about 150 yards and Sheba treed. I guess it was just too cold for Gin to tree. I walked in to them and they were treed in an old den tree. I petted them up and we called it a night.

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Here she is Tommy in the top picture. That's old Sheba and Gin 111. If I can keep her in the woods that little girl will be fine.They were treed up a hugh Turkey pine. I couldn't find but one spot that I could see part of the tree and I couldn't find the coon, but they said he was there.


When I got back in from hunting Old Sheba and Gin I loaded up Sheba 11 and went to another swamp. She struck in a little over 300 yards, Moved it outand treed at 450 yards. I walked in to her and she was treed up a hugh oak den tree. I shined the tree for a few minutes, but he was not on the outside. We called it a night.

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I turned Sheba and Gin up an old slough down close to the river. I turned them close to a feeder, but they didn't strike on the feeder. I have been trying to get Gin on a good hot coon, but the coons are not cooperating. I guess with all the feed the acorns still in the woods the coons don't have to go far to get something to eat. The dogs split up and Gin went to the right and Sheba went left. Sheba struck a working track about 250 yards in and I could see on the Garmin that Gin was on her way to her. Gin Joined Sheba and they worked the coon across a big slough. Sheba locked up treed about 20 yards from the slough. I had to go back aways and cross on an old logging road. It took me about 45 minutes to get to them. Gin treed some at first, but she had stopped treeing by the time I got there. I leashed her up. They were treed up a Hugh Oak. I shined for a while before I finally found Him laying on top of a big limb about 3/4 of the way up. It was a big coon. I shook a vine and blowed my squaller and he ran down the tree and took off toward the slough with Sheba close behind. I ran to Gin and released her. She caught up with Sheba and the race was on for a short distance and they caught the coon in about 6'' of water and the fight was on. The coon backed into a hollow place in an old Cyprus and the dogs were having a rough time. I decided to leash the dogs and leave this old warrior to run again another night. By the time I got back out of that slough I was as wet as the dogs. We made our way back to the 4-wheeler and called it a night

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Merry Christmas Mr. Jack. Take Care.

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I'm really please Gin is working out for you Mr Jack. Chase said he has gotten a lot of good reports from this cross. I knew if she had it in her you could bring it out.

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Mr. Jack,

Hope all is going well. I had back surgery on Thursday and I am back home recovering. I finally got to walk outside today and walked a mile in 19 degree temps but it was great! I got to the point were I could not get around at all and the MRI showed that I had blown a disc out into where all of your nerves go and the last month and a half was not good. I even had a time when I sat in the truck while my son went hunting. I heard him make 6 trees though. I am looking forward to my follow up appointment in a couple of weeks to see if I can get back out some. I am hoping that will be the case so I can get in the last couple of weeks of kill season. Hope all is well with you I have not been on here much. Take care and have a great 2019!!

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Happy New Year all. Scott if you need a few days recovering you may as well spend it in Kansas.

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My son Wade came up Sat. and he has been deer hunting without much luck. I told him he was going to have to forget about that big buck and shoot what comes out. This morning we decided to pull Windy out and see if she could still tree a squirrel, She hadn't been out since last year. We got a late start and the squirrels were not moving much, and where we went there was mostly big pines, as the river has all the swamps flooded. I don't ever carry a gun, I just go along and shake vines and handle Windy. Windy hunted good and treed several. A couple got away and in these big pines they are hard to make move when there are no vines. We did manage to get 4. We hunted about an hour, but its always fun to hunt with Wade and get to watch Windy do her thing.

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Thanks for the Happy New Year wish Mr Jack, I hope you have a great one as well. The woods are also flooded down here in Gumswamp, so we aint been hunting as much as I would like to. Think I'll give it a try tonight.

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Took Sheba out for a run tonight. It had rained some today, but I thought it was gone. It was still cloudy some, but there were some stars out so I loaded up Sheba and went to the driest spot that I have to hunt. I cast her off an old woods road and she went in about a hundred yards and struck and moved it on in about another 100 yards and locked up treed. I made my way in to her and she was treed just off the edge of an old slough. She was treed up a medium sized Oak. With all the leaves finally gone I didn't have any trouble finding him Hugged up on a limb. I took a couple of pictures and petted Sheba some and by the time we got back to the 4-wheeler the sky was looking dark again. I had just put Sheba up and fed her and stepped on the porch and it started raining.

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Took Sheba11 out for a short run tonight. Turned her off an old woods road. She went in about 100 yards and turned right, headed up the swamp for about 300 yards and turned right again and crossed the woods road that I was on. Went on in another 300 yards and struck a cold track and started working it back toward me. When she got to about 90 yards from me, she locked up treed. She was treed up the small tree that you see in the picture and it went up into the two magnolia trees that you see behind her. I shined and squalled but I never could get him to look, and if they don't look at you in those Magnolia trees, you are not likely to find them. We called it a night.

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