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Where are the coons at right now? When are they moving? Is anyone else struggling? I’m losing all faith right now......

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East central Illinois. Here the coon are pretty active between 4 AM and 5 AM. Also in the evening at sun down, before dark.

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Coons here are moving any where from 5pm until 7 am. But they're feeding on berries more than anything else. And its bad dry here. So if there's berries and water close by there's coons. And the coons aren't in the corn yet here for some reason.

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Just before dark here in Alabama

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Here in Northern, IN the coons are moving like crazy, all day and all night.. I believe you could cut any hour of the day now and get struck..

Tracks are getting pretty long here in the corn fields at times.. Still a lot of easy coons to be treed by the edge runners..

Wild cherries, grapes and corn are all in full bore mode so the coons move when they want as they are all full, all the time..

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I’m hunting a 15 month old pup and it’s not going well the last two weeks. Struggling to find a good track no coons or very few sitting up along the corn. I don’t have a river to hunt and haven’t gotten into any berry patches yet.

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I’m hunting a 15 month old pup and it’s not going well the last two weeks. Struggling to find a good track no coons or very few sitting up along the corn. I don’t have a river to hunt and haven’t gotten into any berry patches yet.

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Mid-Michigan

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Your wild cherries and grapes are on too I'd imagine? you're not that far north of me.. Sometimes they move from one area to another if a preferred food source is available...

Sometimes hunting a young dog makes a difference as well.. I'll bet it all straightens out in a week or two... Keep your patience and let it roll..

Good luck!

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I’m from the thumb area in Michigan. Frustrating here too.

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I'm just southwest of you Larry. Coons moving best here
after midnight no matter what type of timber i turn
them in.

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A buddy of mine, mid morning squirrel hunting treed a coon today.

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I took tonight off to rest up my foot and the dog so I am key board coon hunting. Lol

I cut at 9:30 last night on the first drop. Treed a double at about 150 yards, but he trailed them a long way to end up at 150.

Moved spots, cut again. Treed a single out of the corn at 150. Recast him off that and he treed another behind me out of the same corn field about 250. Recast him north again and he treed number 3 at about 400. Was 11 o clock and I moved a bit and recut, treed one in the grapes real quick.

Headed up to a road near home with a lot of corn and fence rows. Leashed him up on the box and rigged one pretty quick. He treed it about a 100 yards from where he struck it. Quit and was at the pole barn about midnight.

I was hunting a farm that leaves me great access in the summer off my side by side early. You can sure get a lot more Hunting in that way than on foot. Had I been walking it would have taken a lot longer to get it done.

I’ve been fooling around rigging him off my buggy as I’ve had a bad foot for a couple weeks. He’s been recuperating from a recent bout with Lymes. We are about a sorry pair lol.

I’m thinking this rigging game is the real deal for an old, fat guy.

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I took tonight off to rest up my foot and the dog so I am key board coon hunting. Lol

I cut at 9:30 last night on the first drop. Treed a double at about 150 yards, but he trailed them a long way to end up at 150.

Moved spots, cut again. Treed a single out of the corn at 150. Recast him off that and he treed another behind me out of the same corn field about 250. Recast him north again and he treed number 3 at about 400. Was 11 o clock and I moved a bit and recut, treed one in the grapes real quick.

Headed up to a road near home with a lot of corn and fence rows. Leashed him up on the box and rigged one pretty quick. He treed it about a 100 yards from where he struck it. Quit and was at the pole barn about midnight.

I was hunting a farm that leaves me great access in the summer off my side by side early. You can sure get a lot more Hunting in that way than on foot. Had I been walking it would have taken a lot longer to get it done.

I’ve been fooling around rigging him off my buggy as I’ve had a bad foot for a couple weeks. He’s been recuperating from a recent bout with Lymes. We are about a sorry pair lol.

I’m thinking this rigging game is the real deal for an old, fat guy.

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I’m thinking this rigging game is the real deal for an old, fat guy.

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Cameras say they are moving evening till midnight. 3 am till 8am

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Houndsound, I think we live in one of the absolute best areas for coon hunting in the country.. Believe Southern and Mid Michigan are a bit better due to larger wood lots and less people, but not by a whole lot..

Our only problem is access.. Come about Sept 1 and all my easy private spots are off limits until after deer season and I'm stuck hunting state ground.. Can still tree a boat load of coon, it's just a whole lot harder on the handler ..

Donnie, I'm ordering me a new box for the buggy set up just for rigging.. Lot of the areas I hunt in the fall and winter have plenty of roads with wood lots along them.. believe those after midnite hunts are going to get a lot easier!!! This is the second hound i've owned that would Rig and I'd forgotten how much fun it is..

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Larry I had two Gr Nt Ch females in the late 90's (mother and daughter) that were good at it. I've tried about every one I've had since but none were cut out for it. I'm hunting a female now that's got all the ability to be good at it and she likes it. It's been my experience that if you do it on a regular basis it'll take some of the go out of them for free casting (at least short term) and I'm ok with that cause I'm losing some of my go too lol. A good rig dog is fun to watch.

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I would agree with you on the hunting style if you rig a lot.. A dog smart enough to rig is also smart enough to know it's a whole lot easier than free casting.. I've got one more UKC win to get on this dog and he's retired from nite hunts and me too!!

After that I intend to begin working him regularly off the box.. He started rigging as I was hunting off a four wheeler a good bit with a Vari Kennel mounted on the rack behind the seat.. Being able to drive it around several farms at night he got the opportunity to strike a few tracks out of it and i just cut him.. Only took once and he's hunting if he's riding..

If it's just me hunting and it usually is, i let him ride in the passenger seat of the buggy with his head stuck out the window (on a strap)..

he will blow you out of the cab on a hot one.. Will just yip and whine on a colder track.. I'm going to free cast him the next couple nights as I'm getting ready for a double header Sat.. Got a little carried away night before last and opened kill season up and knocked out 5 to him.. Now we gonna have to touch up not returning to a tree with a hot coon in it I bet.. I've got standing orders to kill everything I tree on the farm in question and I do so.. Can't hide hunt it due to deer season.. craziness...

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Is this your male out of old Patch ? Interesting if so as the female I had that was good at it was off Hardwood Dan and Wild Joey...and then her daughter sired by Tonys Wild Clover wasn't bad either. The Jessy female off of Dan would strike with her nose shoved into the vents in the cab of the truck at 50 mph with the windows up tight. Just about put you off the road if you didn't know it was coming lol.

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Donnie. Sure enough is. Now that is an interesting coincidence isn’t it? Maybe another reason those Harry/Bozo bred dogs made such good big game hounds. Lol.

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Hello Larry, I had a female litter mate to your male but went through a divorce and had to sell her before she was a year old. Anyway back in the mid 90s my friend had a male dog out of lipper and big martha that was the absolute best rig dog I have been with. He would strike out the bed of the truck and would usually be treed before you could get parked and out of it barely. It's amazing how many you can tree very close like that

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Pacolet, I recall that you had a female pup.. I really contemplated buying her when Jay told me she might be available.. But I cannot give more than one dog serious justice in the woods at a time.. Just cant.

The Three hounds out of that cross that were hunted I know of turned into pretty decent coon dogs.. Both the males have been snake bit with issues, but are still in the game.. Believe Jay might have ended up with your female or one of the others and likes her considerably..

Lipper dogs also tended to do well on big game, might be a good blend..

I treed four last evening by 11:30pm walk hunting and then rigged him 2 1/2 miles home and never got a peep.. I cut loose at 9:30 pm on the top side of a big lake in our state land.. He struck at about 150 and trailed that coon over 400 yards across fallow farm fields, across a 400 yard marsh and back again and treed it on the edge..I recast off that coon and treed another about 60 yards away right on the water, couldn't see that coon - might have had it, might not..Could hardly see the tree it was so thick.

Recast off that and he treed another 250 to the south, but had to grub it around that marsh again to do it..

Recast off that and he struck at about 350 and trailed that coon over a half mile and treed it in a big pine on the back side of the lake..

Was a very slow, three seen and one possible hunt.. I believe the first three coon he treed moved well before dark as two were in very large cherry trees and the third in some grape vines in a mess of mulberry trees.. The last one was the best track of the night, but traveled the furthest..He was pushing that sucker the last 200/300 yards..

Going to hit it again tonight.. Lay off Friday and go to town Sat

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If you know where one is that was out of that litter for sale I would be interested in it

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I don't but If i hear of one, i will certainly let you know.. Couple of the other females went to a hog hunter I heard.. The third male is a lion hound out west.. I talk to his owner periodically.. Believe he told me he'd treed like 10-12 lions alone with him last year and packed on several more.. He's got a broken hip, so is impaired.. Sonny had heart worm and about got killed by coyotes.. Mine's got the darn Lymes and Earlichia.. The male dogs had some rough luck in this litter. What might have been..

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