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There must be some deep rooted mental problems for someone to continue to coonhunt. Yes when your young as I was once. It was exciting. Always something new. Always a different issue to work on with your dog. Always a new hunting spot to find. Always a competition hunt to go to.

But after many years and looking at the results. Logically it just doesn't make sense. Then you close your eyes and dream. The dreams block out what the mirror shows. The dreams make the problems with the dogs fixable. The aches and pains go away.

Kind of like at the end of the night and you make. Just one more turnout. How did that work for you. The same thing is played over and over again as you age. Just one more year or just one more dog. Kind of turns out like the "one more turnout' at the end of the night.

But all that is soon forgotten and your looking for it to get dark again. Call me Crazy. LOL

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Because I’m 47 now and just getting in to this wonderful sport, in fact just brought my first new pup home from Missouri. Here is just how crazy I am, I’m green as the color is and I will train her to the best of my abilities. But I do pick a lot of old heads also, read a lot also, but I want this challenge and by golly I’m itching for it. So tell me I’m Crazy and wish me good times and bad Lol. Bruce I like that what you wrote because it lets me know that the ride I’m starting up is gonna be a fun and wild!

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I'm with ya Bruce. Deeply disturbed.

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Bruce you and I are the same age and there are days and nights when I think I'll just give it up. Wonder how many of these hollers I can get across? How bad will feet hurt in the morning? But I just bought a dog that treed 4 singles the night I tried him. Hasn't looked that good since and I am determined to get him right. He has the talent. So like always quitting is at least 6 months away. Used to pick cotton with an old man that whenever we would want to quit he would say "One more round and then". Guess that's how I look at coon hunting. And yes I am mentally challenged!

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That one more turnout thing is a killer. Seems like 85% of the time that “one more” usually means crawling into bed just before it’s time to go to work! Oh yeah………the other one is just one more dog………. You don’t have to be insane to have hounds but it does help a bit!🤭

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Only 85 % 👏wow that must be nice 😆

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How bout the one's us that quit for awhile and come back to this sport? We must be really crazy!!

I raised two wonderful girls and now I'm back at it!! Looking forward to a gran baby to corrupt, I love it and don't know why!!

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I'll be 78 next month and I'm not a bit saner than I was years ago. I still try to get out 2 or 3 nights a week. I just made one of my females a Nite Champion. I know that's not a big deal to a lot of you, but try it when you're half-blind and three-quarters deaf.

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I'll be 78 next month and I'm not a bit saner than I was years ago. I still try to get out 2 or 3 nights a week. I just made one of my females a Nite Champion. I know that's not a big deal to a lot of you, but try it when you're half-blind and three-quarters deaf.

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I'll be 78 next month and I'm not a bit saner than I was years ago. I still try to get out 2 or 3 nights a week. I just made one of my females a Nite Champion. I know that's not a big deal to a lot of you, but try it when you're half-blind and three-quarters deaf.

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If this is mentally disturbed I'll take it! Pretty hard to beat a night out with your best friend. Lol!

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I too am messed up in the head. I’m still a young man at 35. I was born into a family of Coonhunters coming from two generations. About the time I was 18-20 years old me and dad were so wide open running the $kc hunts we ran it in the ground trying to keep that money won. Had a once in a lifetime young dog die and it was an easy time to take a break. After 10 years I started back 3 years ago for some reason lol. I had sold everything but the bridle so to speak. All I had when I started back was a wildlife tracking system and some frozen semen from our old dog.
My granddaddy said there was only one way to quit this game.
Sell everything you own and STAY away from Coonhunters!

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My Dad told me over 40 years ago he thought this hound thing was an addiction for me. Now I know there wasn’t a word of truth to that. I can quit any time I want ………….just haven’t wanted to yet!!

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How bout the one's us that quit for awhile and come back to this sport? We must be really crazy!!

I raised two wonderful girls and now I'm back at it!! Looking forward to a gran baby to corrupt, I love it and don't know why!!

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There must be some deep rooted mental problems for someone to continue to coonhunt. Yes when your young as I was once. It was exciting. Always something new. Always a different issue to work on with your dog. Always a new hunting spot to find. Always a competition hunt to go to.

But after many years and looking at the results. Logically it just doesn't make sense. Then you close your eyes and dream. The dreams block out what the mirror shows. The dreams make the problems with the dogs fixable. The aches and pains go away.

Kind of like at the end of the night and you make. Just one more turnout. How did that work for you. The same thing is played over and over again as you age. Just one more year or just one more dog. Kind of turns out like the "one more turnout' at the end of the night.

But all that is soon forgotten and your looking for it to get dark again. Call me Crazy. LOL

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There must be some deep rooted mental problems for someone to continue to coonhunt. Yes when your young as I was once. It was exciting. Always something new. Always a different issue to work on with your dog. Always a new hunting spot to find. Always a competition hunt to go to.

But after many years and looking at the results. Logically it just doesn't make sense. Then you close your eyes and dream. The dreams block out what the mirror shows. The dreams make the problems with the dogs fixable. The aches and pains go away.

Kind of like at the end of the night and you make. Just one more turnout. How did that work for you. The same thing is played over and over again as you age. Just one more year or just one more dog. Kind of turns out like the "one more turnout' at the end of the night.

But all that is soon forgotten and your looking for it to get dark again. Call me Crazy. LOL

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Well I guess thats my problem. I coon hunted very hard for most of my life. 6 nights a week till about 50 or so. Then slowed down to 3 or 4 nights. Set trot lines for catfish and turtles a lot too. After having tick fever 2 years ago, I feel like I'm washed up. Thinking about selling my dogs, can't decide. I have a really nice young redbone that is turning the crank and very easy to handle. All I have to do is turn him loose and go get him. Nicest pup I've had in years. Have 2 pups about 4 weeks old that are out of real good stock. Hate not being able to train them. I think I'm mentally disturbed badly. Plus I have to drive 50 to 70 miles one way to hunt now. Doesn't make since does it?

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Our woods are drying up real fast now. Usually a lot of swamps, most trails covered in some water. Well things are drying up real fast. Last night I was going down a buggy trail and the first spot of water I came to had 3 cotton mouths in it and the next one 20 foot away had one. Took care of them and moved on. LOL But I did go buy a JUDGE pistol the first thing this morning because in the woods in a tight spot a 22 rifle is not as effective.

Here come the Judge!

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I learned an expression from a coon hunter not long ago: There's a fine line between a hobby and a mental illness. And once you've been bitten by this bug, it's gonna itch for a long, long time.

I'm one of the ones with no hope (Phase 2 lol), but I just missed having a hound. When I sold out, I justified it by saying I'll have more time to do X, Y, and Z now...but when doing X, Y, and Z, I was thinking about hounds. Now I'm back to scratching that itch and having a ball doing it.

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At 73 I'm old, my dogs are old and my truck is old. My old plott is 12 yrs old but still likes to walk along. So I take her and will continue to take her. It's the least I can do for her since she entertained me for all those years. I have a red tick that's 9 and a cur that's 8. I worry if I get a young dog it might outlive me and there is no one to care for it. But I'm still going 2 or 3 times a week. Treeing game isn't so important now but seeing my dogs enjoy the wilderness is.

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At 73 I'm old, my dogs are old and my truck is old. My old plott is 12 yrs old but still likes to walk along. So I take her and will continue to take her. It's the least I can do for her since she entertained me for all those years. I have a red tick that's 9 and a cur that's 8. I worry if I get a young dog it might outlive me and there is no one to care for it. But I'm still going 2 or 3 times a week. Treeing game isn't so important now but seeing my dogs enjoy the wilderness is.

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croatankid you summed up my position. Hunted my 10 year old last week. I will say the time before that he kind of half way hunted the way he did when he was 5. But last week you would have thought he was 5 again. He enjoyed it and I enjoyed it. It is starting to get hot down here fast. A couple more weeks and I will only be hunting him in the early morning.

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I am 71 yrs young , I still hunt 5 nights a week never get tired of it, every night is a new experience, I still competition hunt i have a 2yr old and and an 8 month old just starting her, I walk these hills every night I could drive some what closer, but I choose to walk keeps me in shape! I dread it when I have to walk to my last tree. Just like a dog with a big heart it will go till it can"t anymore.

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d. brother, that's me, as far as keeping at it. even though my dogs no longer hunt well, they were never real good, I will walk a trail just to get in some steps.

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When you get past 70 it's hard to hunt one the way we did years ago.

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