Darren Hollis
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Registered: Jul 2005
Location: Winfield, ALABAMA
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HUNT
We hunted for awhile last night. I took Cotton's staples out last Saturday and hunted her Monday night and last night. She always impresses me with her ability to come out of the pen and tree coons. First drop we cut Cotton and Drake cut Scout. Scout struck and Cotton opened quick and drove a track down the bottom. She soon let out a couple of dying bawls and rolled it over into that hard ringing chop. We made our about 400yds to the tree and Ryan spotted her coon pretty quick. We had a scorecard and Drake is getting ready to hit a few hunts for me so we decided to have a one hour hunt. I had GrNtChGrCh Goose, Ryan had NtCh Spanky and Drake handled GrNtChGrCh Cotton. Ryan judged the cast and we cut loose. Cotton opened at about 300yds and got 1st strike. She opened a few times and loaded up treed. Spanky opened and got 75 with a line under it. Goose opened left handed for 50 with a line. Spanky backed Cotton and treed in for 75. Cotton had the meat and the score was Cotton 225+ and Spanky 75+. Goose opened deep and they recut. Spanky struck back in for 75 and Goose loaded up treed. I treed him and we headed to his tree. We got to the tree and Spanky came in to the tree and was handled. Goose had 2 coons and we plussed him up. Spanky got minus on strike. Score was Cotton 225+ , Goose 175+ and Spanky 0. Cotton struck in for 100 and I we cut to her. Goose spun around and went other direction and struck for 75. Spanky soon opened for 50. Cotton worked a bad track and half way located and Drake put her on paper for 125. It soon became evident that he called her too quick and she moved on up the creek. She drew 125- . Score now Goose 175+ , Cotton 100+ and Spanky 0. Dogs were all now in 3 different spots. With 8 minutes left in hunt Cotton loaded up right at 600yds. Drake treed her and we headed her way. Ryan treed Spanky and the 2 caught him. With 5minutes left in hunt we are headed to Cotton and Spanky loads up and Ryan trees him again. I hear Goose tree and I tree him. Hunt is out and 3 trees left to score. Cotton has a coon and she is now winning with 325+. We head to Goose and he has a coon so he is now winning the cast with 375+. Spanky was up a huge tree and we didn't see his coon but circled him up. Hunt over!
Goose 375+
Cotton 325+
Spanky 125-
We had a good time and ole Cotton put on a show last night and should have won our hunt but handler error cost her and Drake. I would recommend getting a few scorecards from your local club and try a few of these friendly hunts if you know someone trying to get into competition hunting. It is great practice and a lot of fun. I am headed to a RQE this Saturday to see if I can get Goose qualified. I am also going to try to get ole Cotton qualified as well. Y'all Keep'em Lookin' Up!!
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