jay brademeyer
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...i hunted with rick and frito this past weekend in the turtle mtns. the turtle mtns . are a range of hills up on the canadian border, what a beutifull area. but now if you are a coon hunter it is not for the faint of heart..it is miles of hardwood hills lined with lakes ,swamps and beaver ponds .very thick hazelnutt undergrowth , that you might have to tear through all the way to the treed dogs. very unfogiving country.
...seems to be plenty of coons for a dog that will go hunting and one that has the gutts to run one in there. now to tree one that is a differant story. for the dog to be able to tree one in there he has to force the coon to climb in that mess . and that is were a hard nosed coondog comes in real handy. becuse walking and grubbing,and crawling for 3/4 of a mile or more to a slick tree aint going to work.
... coons don't den in trees up there cause there are no den trees. they den in the ground .
.. we had a real good hunt and ol frito looked like a machine programed to tree coons in those conditions . he was very impressive. he ran some running tracks , he ran cold tracks that he got up and forced to climb. every time we cut him he dropped in there ,got struck, worked, or run his track to a heated race and forced ricky racoon to climb. according to the garmin there was not a track he worked under 3/4 of a mile,and that was one track the others he moved a mile or more.rick doesn't shoot any coons to frito and those buggers have been run before.
.. i would have to say in over 24 years of coon hunting that was as fine a work as i have seen. he hunts on the run. he has one thing on his mind, he sounds like a million dollers ,runs with a big hollering bawl mouth that he will shorten up on a hot track , he locates sure, with a die dead quivering locate then turns it over to a very hard never ending loud chop on the tree and we never looked up that we didn't find his coon , and he never teed in the ground . he finnished every track bellied up on the wood with ricky raccoon looking down... the only thing i found about this dog that i would like to change is ownership. he would look real good at my place. very special hound . once in a life time dog.
....BOTTOM LINE THIS SON OF A GUN IS A COONDOG THE HARD NOSED KIND!!!!!!!!!!!
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