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Older Folks "What makes Coon Hunting Great Again"

I know there has to be a bunch of us older hunters on here that think about the hunt all day. But as the sun starts to go down. Their aches and pains and wore out joints seem to override their desire to go tree a coon.

What is it in your mind that overrides the wore out legs and backs and drives you to load a hound and go hunting. Is it watching and listening to the dog work. The coon in the tree. Just getting out and doing what you have for many years and feeling somewhat young again.

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To me all of the above but for sure seeing a coon in the tree puts the icing on the cake.

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Bruce, for me I feel better hunting than I do laying on the couch. I just love to hear a hound work and tree. Have a good dog right now but part of my motivation is trying to make him better. I feel very blessed to still be able to walk and cross these hollars at 69.

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I am fortunate to have a ton of public hunting to hunt ,fish , pick wild fruit to make jellies , or just to go out with a puppy and a thermos of coffee and set on a log and let them play. I do good on flat ground but inclines get me lol.


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A puppy that's starting to put it all together. And most of all, to say it short, witness a dog tree a coon and see two eyes looking down. You know when I was a kid, I would hunt with anything I could get. Any pot licker that would follow me around. Even tried to get one of my Daddy's deer dogs to tree. We would tree possums, put armadillos in holes, run a rabbit out of site, but non the less we were Coon Hunting. And if we treed a coon, boy oh boy, that was like killed a big 8 point buck. Wasn't nothing better. And I still feel that same way today, when I see them eyes looking back down at me.

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The biggest thrill to me is when I hear a great locate of good dog after working out a confusing track! That does it for me!!

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Pups keep me motivated, each cross is different, then watching them mature and seeing if you helped or hurt the breed...lol

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A young dog that is really starting to turn the crank = < excuses. Unless, the excuses are to go hunting.


A dog that doesn't excite you = > excuses.

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Re: Older Folks "What makes Coon Hunting Great Again"

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I know there has to be a bunch of us older hunters on here that think about the hunt all day. But as the sun starts to go down. Their aches and pains and wore out joints seem to override their desire to go tree a coon.

What is it in your mind that overrides the wore out legs and backs and drives you to load a hound and go hunting. Is it watching and listening to the dog work. The coon in the tree. Just getting out and doing what you have for many years and feeling somewhat young again.



It's all about THE dog that often makes the difference for me. Some make you go, while the lack of horsepower in others becomes a good excuse not to go. Lately, I've been having a lot of trouble with most all my body parts.

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That's the one reason I hunt 95 percent of the time by myself. In the morning you plan to go that night but by the evening the Pain sets in and sometimes don't go. I don't like to have plans with someone to go and then not feel like going. So I don't make plans and will only let myself down and the hound if I don't go. My lower back is a Train Wreck, my C-Spine is worse and had 2 disc took out last year and a plate put in my neck. Just got Thorasic MRI results today and its like all the other, a mess. The one thing that keeps me pushing through the pain to go each night if only for a drop, Coon Hunting is who I am. My Passion, My Heart, My Soul. For all the reasons you named and many more. The day comes that I can't push myself up off the couch to go collar a Hound and put him in the Rhino and head to the Swamp is the day I have given up on myself and life. I know that day will come for all of us but as long as I can walk, regardless of how painful it is, I will continue to march on.

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I admire your courage and I hope you can continue to hunt until the end. You inspire me, I have just gotten lazy this year, but after reading your post, I realize how lucky that I am. Thank you very much and happy hunting. Dave

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For me it's the sound of a good bawl mouth dog that gets me going. I love hearing a dog work a track as I sit in a bottom with my back against a tree. Just picked up a new Bluetick pup at the Classic that has a horn on her. Looking forward to getting her out in the timber later on this year.

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That's the one reason I hunt 95 percent of the time by myself. In the morning you plan to go that night but by the evening the Pain sets in and sometimes don't go. I don't like to have plans with someone to go and then not feel like going. So I don't make plans and will only let myself down and the hound if I don't go. My lower back is a Train Wreck, my C-Spine is worse and had 2 disc took out last year and a plate put in my neck. Just got Thorasic MRI results today and its like all the other, a mess. The one thing that keeps me pushing through the pain to go each night if only for a drop, Coon Hunting is who I am. My Passion, My Heart, My Soul. For all the reasons you named and many more. The day comes that I can't push myself up off the couch to go collar a Hound and put him in the Rhino and head to the Swamp is the day I have given up on myself and life. I know that day will come for all of us but as long as I can walk, regardless of how painful it is, I will continue to march on.


Steve, I don't know you but just reading this post I'm sure we'd get along pretty good. I'm 31, my wife teases me all the time saying all my friends are 60+. I tease her back and tell her these older guys are the only REAL COONHUNTERS that are ate up with it like me, lol. I tease, but there is a lot of truth to that. Some nights I'll call some these old coonhunters and they'll tell me they're already kicked back in the lazy chair for the night, and then I give them the ol " A Lazy chair has ruined more good men than alcohol or drugs combined" speech and more times than not im on my way to pick them up shortly after lol. For some it's a disease that can't be cured

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I love hunting and dogs , beagles , curs , hounds , love everything about it the track the tree , the fellowship , bringing the rabbit around to gun always have and Lord willing always will.

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Jeremy Kidd I wish you lived close to me. I would love to have a young guy that called and wanted to go all the time. Three times in my life I had buddies that wanted to hunt as much as I did. Sure miss them but they are gone or I moved away. Chuck Allen and I try to hunt together every week or two but we are one hour apart.

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Steve, I don't know you but just reading this post I'm sure we'd get along pretty good. I'm 31, my wife teases me all the time saying all my friends are 60+. I tease her back and tell her these older guys are the only REAL COONHUNTERS that are ate up with it like me, lol. I tease, but there is a lot of truth to that. Some nights I'll call some these old coonhunters and they'll tell me they're already kicked back in the lazy chair for the night, and then I give them the ol " A Lazy chair has ruined more good men than alcohol or drugs combined" speech and more times than not im on my way to pick them up shortly after lol. For some it's a disease that can't be cured


Jeremy Kidd, I tip my hat to you young man! You are wise beyond your years, and have already figured out what has taken me many more years to attempt to understand.

I’m very blessed to have a younger man that tolerates me and my sorry hounds and will always make time to hunt with me. As any good man would, he doesn’t hesitate to give me a good ribbing about the counterfeit blue haired biscuit eaters I chase around! I wouldn’t have it any other way!

I wish you nothing but the best for your family and your hounds. I will make it a point to shake your hand one day! Keep on keep'in on

By the way Bruce, excellent post

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Jkidd when I was in my 20's and 30's most of my Friends were like you said. Older Coon Hunters. Now that I am older and pushing 70. Most of my Friends are between 16-25. What has made those Friendships dear to me and the age difference no barrier. I felt I could learn from the Older Guys when I was young. I can sure learn from the Younger guys now that I am old and at the same time. Keep reminding them how it was back in the day. lol A couple nights ago I went with my Right Hand many Corey and his younger Brother TJ who is 16. Their Father who has never coon hunted came along. I worked with the Father for over 20 years in a Power Plant so I know him pretty well also. At the end of the hunt I asked the Father how old he was. He said 49. Thats when I felt old. I was looking at two generations of grown men and the Father was younger than my Son. LOL
The two younger men, Corey and TJ handled a dog last night in a little comp hunt here and we had a great time. I stayed at the buggy and was the pick up man if needed at the end of the hunt. The beauty of Gods woods. The Friendships involved and the excitement of what will the dogs will do next. Keep me coming back for more. What time does it get dark?

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Bruce it is all of the above, but what does inspire or force me to go out is the love of coon hunting and the fact that after my heart attack and by pass surgery it is good excercise to keep me stronger. Now it does make me a more fair weather hunter tho especially up here in Michigan with the cold winter weather.

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Tony last night as I was standing on the road and the dogs had gotten treed. Instead of sitting in the buggy listening I walked up and down the road a few times thinking that was better for me that sitting in the buggy. Then I thought about snakes and me in tennis shoes and shorts and I sat down for a while.

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About 3 years ago after close to 50 years of coon hunting I decided to hang it up. It seemed in my life that it wasn't important anymore. After all, I had fishing, other types of hunting, riding my Harley and playing music! My goodness, who would have time for coon hunting?? I'm here to tell you, I would have time for coon hunting! There was nothing in the world more sad than coming up the driveway and looking over at an empty kennel. Well, it only lasted about 6 months and I was searching for a dog. Now I still do those other things except they're not as important as following these dang hounds. What keeps it interesting for me is always having something new to do, such as a hunting trip planned, starting a young dog, hunting a young dog, raising some pups, meeting new hunters, introducing this sport to the young ones and having a great hunting partner/partners. As you know, I live in WV and the hunting here is either going up hill or going down hill. I can't get up these hills nearly as good as I once did so it takes a little longer and it hurts a little longer but in the long run its really good for me and its worth it. I went out last night with my two good friends, Tim & Hayley. We cut the dogs, they went back in the hollow about 500 yards, struck a good track, worked it up through a God awful thicket up over the ridge and treed over 100 yards down the other very steep side pushing, in all, a total of 1000 yards. After walking up that very steep hill and down the other side to the dogs, I was about spent! They had 3 up one tree so we put one down and fooled with a young pup for a minute and then had to face the trip of heading back. That one drop was good enough for me!! I envy the flat landers that can make several drops before heading in but rarely we get more than a couple drops. But I keep trekking on. In short, it's just in the blood and I know all the other older folks out there will say the same. Hope everyone has a great day and keep on hunting!

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Just had to get it in my brain the dogs will be there when I get there no need to get in a hurry and deep 6 every twenty feet lol. In the hunts they want to run I let them I will get there when I get there.


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Thanks Dave Richards and Jeremy Kidd. I will give a little testimony here about a Coon Hunter I don’t know but that God put in my life only for a few minutes but at a time I needed inspiration in the worst way. Just before Christmas if 2017 I had just been told the results of my C-Spine MRI by my Neurosurgeon. I was in extreme danger of being paralyzed forever if I didn’t have immediate surgery on my neck. Two disc were pressing and cutting off my spinal canal flow and all the stumbling and falling, dizziness and nausea the prior months was finally an answear to where the problem was. They needed to go in and put a Titanium Plate in their place. He said for me to do nothing. If I fell wrong I could never get up. I had fell 5 times the night before while out Coon Hunting and running my Jet Boat on this Shallow Loggy River at night wide open. He said if we had a little fender bender going home that my wife might not even get whip lash but I most likely would be paralyzed. After telling me this he walks out and we are left sitting there digesting this news. I go out to my truck to leave and there is another pickup with a dog box backed in beside mine. He had his window down and spoke to me when i walked up. I really didn’t want to talk, just wanted to go home at that moment but I said hello back to him. He got to questioning what type hound I hunted and one thing and another and I got around to the devastating news I had just got. You know what he told me? That he had had the same surgery I was about to have and also 3 back surgeries that are worse than the neck. By the time I finished talking to this man I left that parking lot in Tears ashamed at feeling so sorry for myself in that moment when there are so many others toting much heavier burden than me out there. I asked God to Forgive me and thanked Him for putting that fellow Coon Hunter in my life for those few minutes. Without that chance meeting I could have very well went home and got depressed and give up on myself and my love for Coon Hunting. I ignored the Doctors advice and was hinting that night. 12 days after Surgery and also Carpel Tunnel Surgery On left hand at same time, I was back in the woods with my hounds against Doctors orders again. Wearing the C-Spine Hard Collar but Hunting none the less. God put that man beside my truck that day and it is what keeps me going as much as I can. With our aches and pains it’s not the walking and moving that’s gonna get us. It’s when we let the pain beat us down and we stop moving. Then your gonna take more pills and get more depressed and make more excuses. Don’t become that person. It’s a fight we have to fight everyday but the solution rest in your heart and out there in the Kennel and the Medicine is Darkness. Keep Moving to keep Living.

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I have several reasons:

I love hunting young dogs and watching them progress. I hardly ever hunt without a young dog along. There isn't much that can compare to the thrill I get when a young dog trees his first coon solo.

Most of my best friends, I have met because of this great sport. Many of them live miles away but we stay in touch.

A lot of nights when I'm hunting alone, I think of my good friends and hunting partners that have passed on. Somehow I feel that I would be letting them down if I quit.

I don't deer hunt, turkey hunt, fish or play golf....Coonhunting is my sport. Counting the time that I hunted with my father as a young boy, I've been at it for over half a century.

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