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Tar what would you do with 2 gyps than ran a fox hard for 45 minutes between a cornfield and some cattails in a slough on the river and then caught them a big boar coon on the ground. What do you think they just stumbled across a sick coon.

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Enjoy every minute of it !!



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I DID AND STOPPED BY MCD AND GOT THOSE 2 GYPS A SAUSAGE BISCUIT. LOL

THEY ARE SURE STOVE UP THOUGH , THAT COON WAS FOUL TEMPERED AND HAD THEM BACKED UP BY THE TIME I GOT THERE , I WAS NOT SURE WHO HAD WHO CORNERED. LOL , THAT OLD RIDGE RUNNER WILL LIVE TO RUN ANOTHER NIGHT. IN DECEMBER ONE COULD PROBABLY WIN A BIG COON CONTEST WITH THAT RASCAL.

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Get you a shock collar and break them good fox dogs off those trashy coons. Lol. Dave

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Chuck what makes you think it was a fox race? Couldn't that ole coon been what they were running all the time? Sounds like the right territory for a good long race.

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THE GUY I WAS HUNTING WITH DID NOT THINK IT WAS A COON UNTIL THEY CAUGHT IT THIS SAME FRIEND WAS HUNTING WITH ME IN JANUARY AND HE THOUGHT THEY WERE RUNNING A DEER TOO AND I TOLD HIM WELL THEY JUST TREED THAT DEER LETS GO SEE. THE POINT I AM TRYING TO MAKE IS THE SLAM BAMS ARE FUN , BUT I REALLY LIKE A GOOD LONG HARD RACE EVEN BETTER. JMHO

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I like a good long hard race too. Two different races through the years come to mind. I'm not going to say how long they were because it would cause some disbelief. Both were in bear territory and I would have enjoyed them a lot better if I had been sure they were coon since all I was carrying was a single shot 22. Turned out they were both exceptionally big boar coon. One was 30 miles inland from the N.C. coast and I think I swapped zip codes a couple times on foot getting to them and the other came back in hearing to me and treed fairly close after a long walk in their direction.

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ONE OF MY HUNTING BUDDIES AND I IN NC , RAN A BAY COON WITH 2 REAL GOOD DOGS FOR ABOUT 4 HOURS IN THE MARSH ONE NIGHT IN JANUARY THAT BIG SUCKER MADE HIS LAST STAND ON A STUMP , HE JUST WOULD NOT CLIMB WEIGHED ABOUT 28 LBS. HE WAS REDDISH YELLOW IN COLOR.

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You all are a different breed than me. There's no way I'm listening or letting a coonhound rum a "coon" for 4 hours. May let them run one for awhile but no way 4 hours. I have and will run bea that long or longer but not a coon.

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You all are a different breed than me. There's no way I'm listening or letting a coonhound rum a "coon" for 4 hours. May let them run one for awhile but no way 4 hours. I have and will run bea that long or longer but not a coon.

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Shadinc not saying either way is right or wrong. I'm just saying I'm not letting my dog run a coon for 4 hours. I have had tracks run longer than what I would of,wanted that ended with a coon seen. I just personally don't want my dog running a track like that.

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I figure that a man should know his dog/s enough to be comfortable with what they do. What one man likes, another man may dislike. If you enjoy your dog/s, then by all means do it. I like a good race, especially when I trust the dogs running the track. Likewise, if I don't trust the dog/s they might not get the benefit of doubt. Lol. Dave

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The only thing I know for sure with the dogs I have today are a whole lot faster than the dogs I had 20 years ago , and I thought they were pretty fast back then , I would venture to guess that no coon could run in front of the dogs I have now longer than 45 minutes to an hour without getting caught or having to climb. And I am only talking about hot tracks not cold ones.

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Get you a shock collar and break them good fox dogs off those trashy coons. Lol. Dave

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You sound like a wise man that enjoys his dogs, nothing wrong with that equation! We used to have combo dogs in my country, due to a scarce coon population [ possum and coon ]. Now we have a decent coon population and everyone wants straight coondog. I am beginning to think back to the combo dogs, they were just as much fun [maybe more]. Competition hunting and the point system had a negative effect on the combo dogs. Pleasure hunters should not care what the dog trees if they have the meat, the dog sounds just as good running and treeing a possum as it does running and treeing a coon. Dave

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WITH POSSUMS IT DEPENDS ON HOW FAR I HAVE TO WALK IF A YOUNG DOG TREES ONE CLOSE BY THE TURN OUT SPOT I MIGHT DISK THEM AN ALIBI WITH JUST A SCOLDING , IF THEY MAKE ME WALK A MILE NOT SO LUCKY FOR THEM. LOL

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Dave I agree a dog can sound as good running and freeing an opossum, but I do not like walking and climbing some of the ridges and hollers to look at a slick tail.

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I know what you mean, but we still walk a country mile to some of these coons. Lol. Anyway, we used to tree a dozen possums in a night and most were fairly close to each other. I haven't treed a possum in several years, really don't know if there are many around. Dave

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In the 80's them was $7 possums I skinned every one of them lol. We figured we would break them after hide season lol.




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