Darren Hollis
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Registered: Jul 2005
Location: Winfield, ALABAMA
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HUNT
I hunted by myself last night. I went to a nice bottom that I hunted years ago. It has some nice timber and a good creek that runs thru it. If dogs go the wrong way, it can get into some bad stuff. I cut Goose and Flo loose in the bottom and Flo left out with Goose. She got about 175yds and I heard her open. She was hung up on the creek. I think she is as bad as any I have had about not wanting to cross water. Goose was steadily covering ground and Flo soon came back to me. I had walked quite a ways in the bottom just looking around for tracks and checking things out, so I made my way to the truck. I loaded Flo in the box and moved around to an old oil well pad to get closer to Goose. He had left the bottom and made his way across a cutover and had hit some hardwood hills. He was getting in an area that is only accessible on foot. As my luck would have it, I soon heard him open and start a track. He skipped and drifted out and soon loaded up treed. About the closest I could get to him was 750yds so I let Flo out of the box and headed to the tree. I was able to walk a pipeline for a ways but soon had to cross about 200yds of cutover. Briars , hedges, holly trees, and small pines. I got to the timber line and it was straight up and down for a little while. I soon topped a large hill and Goose was treed on a small flat area at the top up a huge Red Oak. I soon spotted his coon and decided to roll it out to Flo and Goose. I bought a pistol that I carry as I hunt alone and it gets tough leading dog, reading Garmin, and carrying a rifle. I shot the coon and I think I just pissed him off because he came out of the tree mad!! It was a large boar coon and he had whipping dogs on his mind. Goose lit into him and Flo started barking at it as well. She was getting braver and soon got a taste of the ole coons ivory!! That set her on fire and she got really aggressive. Goose soon dispatched him and I attached my dog leash to the coon and dragged him around for Flo. She was sure enough bad on him after he was dead!! I hung him up and she really lit up the tree. She has a big mouth and treed nice on the hangup coon. I gathered up the dogs and started the long walk back to the truck. I got to the truck at 10:40 and decided to call it a night. Not the most productive night of treeing coons but a good situation for Flo on the coon walking out ready for a fight.Hopefully she will progress and get used to the water. According to my Garmin, Goose covered 2.11 miles to tree the coon. Y'all Keep'em Lookin' Up!!!
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