BigContry
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Location: Louisiana
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A hunt to remember!!
Last night I took Case, Blueduck, and Claude Smith’s dog, Merle. Donald was with me and he had Ellie Mae. Ellie Mae is 13 months old and has only been hunted maybe 6-7 times. I have been hunting Merle for Claude. Trying to get Case ready for the winter classic, we planned to cut each of the other with case, one at a time. It didn’t work as planned. The first drop, we cut Ellie Mae with Case up a botom between two cutover off of CC35. They struck red hot right off the road. Case went in about 50 yards and doubled back for the road, while Ellie May kept heading north. Case crossed CC35 covering ground headed south fast. I took old Merle out to send to Case, but he had other ideas and went north to Ellie May. Those two must of taken the back track, because they quit it, and Merle headed for Case. He caught up to Case just as Case had turned the track west. Those two were really burning the track up. They stated heading back north to CC35 and I had my light on bright to watch for the coon. Those two crossed back over without me seeing what they were running. They went about 100 yards into the cutover, before heading back east. At one point they came close to the road, so I turned Blueduck to them. While all this is going on Ellie Mae came out to CC35 where we cut her loose. Now all three, Case, Merle, and Blueduck are just burning the track up. They made a little loop to the edge of the road and headed back west. As they got even with the spot where they had crossed earlier. I saw the coon cross about 50 yards further down. They had been running him 30 mins by the time he made the third crossing. Headed south now toward the Bobcat road. Those three bluetick were just a constant roar. Very short time later, they were past the Bobcat road, and 700 yards south of us. We jumped in the Ranger and headed to the Bobcat road. We drove up and got close as they were crossing the 4 wheeler trail, and Donald sent Ellie Mae to them. They had been running him around a hour at this point. The coon headed southeast then turned north, back to the Bobcat road. That was the 4th road crossing. 1 hour and 20 mins later, they treed him in a huge Pine, that had the top broke out. After 10-15 mins shining the tree, we found him. A huge boar coon. They had ran that coon for somewhere near 2 hour and 20 mins best I can figure. The whole time it sounded like they were going to catch him, the track never broke down. The coon had treed on the edge of a food plot about 150 yards from where we turned out Case and Ellie Mae. This one hunt that one hunt that I will remember for a very long time. I told Donald, we should call it a night and head home, he agreed and said, " Can't do nothing but get worst, after a race like that".
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