Allen / UKC
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Location: Michigan
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We had a three-dog cast. The dogs ran a short track and treed. Two of the three. My gyp trailed another 50-60 yards and also treed. While they were handling their dogs, I went and handled mine. She was on a dead snag that was only about 8' high. I could easily see the coon hanging on the side of the snag. I tied her to a small sapling, not thinking much of it and went back to help the guys shine their tree. The first tree was an obvious den but we were squalling and carrying on trying to get a coon to look somewhere. Amidst all the racket of squalling, I notice my gyp trailing on down through the woods and comes treed again on the edge of the woods. We really didn't know how to score it either. Nonetheless, she did have the coon in that tree on the edge of the woods and it actually worked out in my favor that she stripped her lead off that sapling and left that snag. Otherwise, she'd have taken a minus both ways, had she stayed, when it came to time to score it. That's one of the reasons this ruling always stuck with me.
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