Registered: Jan 2009
Location: pana,ill
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Is it all about makin money?is it about the fellowship?is it about bein the best?about havin fun?just what is it that makes coon huntin fun for ya?for me it's just peacefull,relaxin time with my dogs,friends,and my boys,which one of em is just starting to go with me a bit,and hope he carries on a family tradition.

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Its good clean fun dont run to alot of trouble cooning.peaceful, and i love to watch a young dog mature in to a coondog..Fellowship, you will make alot of good friends coonhunting keep those kids in the woods there are some bad things for kids to be doing these days. When my boy quite hunting he got in trouble i tryed to keep him in the woods and it just didnt work.

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Registered: Jan 2009
Location: pana,ill
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i'm just startin out with my first one,he's only 6,the other one is almost 1,he's gotta while,i just hope i don't run outa gas before i getem hooked like my dad did,i attribute not runnin round too much on the fact that i liked huntin with dad more than hangin out with my friends

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Registered: Mar 2009
Location: ILLINOIS
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Its fun to me. I like working a dog. Listening and watching a dog work. I like talking dogs and everything else cooning brings out. I like being out at night running around in the woods. I like talking about cooning with others who enjoy cooning and talking cooning as much as I do!

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too me its fun and they are nothing better than going out some warm nice and turn a dog lose and they get a mile and u swear at times u do not know why u do this and the next right u are back there again i have even hunt on some nights that i dont even think i should have been there for it being so cold but the hunting is my drug and it keep me away from the stuff that would have got me in truble in the long run

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for me it's just peacefull,relaxin time with my dogs,friends,and my boys,which one of em is just starting to go with me a bit,and hope he carries on a family tradition.

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It's a great way to stay slightly under 300lbs. LOL

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Mostly the fellowship! Hanging with friends, and family, listening to old hunting stories, last night's hunt and hoping for the next big coon dog! But theirs few things like the bond you have with your coon dogs. The EXCITEMENT you get when you cut them loose, they strike, trail, locate, and TREE, and you walk to the tree near or far, shine the tree, and see those TWO BIG YELLOW EYES looking down at ya!!

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Well to me rather i hunt with someone or not it's peace and quite besides the hounds. After listen to boss man chirpin in my ear all day then comin home to the daughter and son ready destroy each other lol it's daddy time with his best friend that i can talk to and he has no comment back LOL. It's like when i go to comp hunt i just tell them i'm here for the fun of it not going argue with anyone do enough of that at home and usually after the first 6 minutes of the hunt were all laughing like it's a buddy hunt. It's just relaxing plus you see stuff in the nite sky that you at times makes think wow i'm pimple.

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Location: Bloomington, IN
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To me coonhunting is all about friendship and fun. You go out there to enjoy your self and get away from the world. And for the fellowship meeting new and interesting people. But mostly to me its about the bond you create with your dog, how you come to trust him and he comes to trust you. One of the best feelings in the world is listening to a coondog you raised and trained doing what he loves best

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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Mt.Airy, N.C.
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It can be a stressful way to relax........It can be peaceful or it can make you talk to yourself, and want to quit right after you shoot your dogs. You can make a lot of friends until your hounds start doing better than theirs, or someone lies to you about a dog, or accuses you of lying about a dog. You could make a little money if it wasn't for high priced dog feed, vet bills, having a dog to die or get stolen once in a while, tracking equipment, shocking equipment, medication (for you and the dogs), dog boxes, four wheel drive trucks, lights, collars, kennels, clothes, boots, guns, and last but not least...dogs. It can be relaxing until the dogs start barking at night, waking up the neighbors, and you have to go out at 3:00 am to make them shut up: Or you have to get up early the next morning and you can't get the dogs to come in. It's almost like they don't care that you have a hard day ahead of you, and you need a little sleep.

Overall, it is an ADDICTION, and I'm not sure there is a cure. You either love it, or hate it. Not too many "Middle of the Road" coonhunters. You don't have to be crazy to do it.......but it helps.

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Registered: Jul 2009
Location: Southeast Kentucky
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It's the sound of the hounds, the race, the locate and getting to the tree and seeing those two big eyes glowing in your light.

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Location: oklahoma
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stress relief relaxation friendship and workin with the young hounds

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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: tupelo ms
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good exercise and stress relief. very relaxing kicked back against a tree listen to a hound work a track around an old beaver pond and fall treed with the meat (last part is sometimes an option)

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Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Mercer PA
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90% if the time its a frustrating pain in the neck. 10% of the time its the best feeling on earth. Most of us are lucky to have short memories and the inability to learn.

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Registered: May 2007
Location: fairmont wv
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i had to quit hunting due to health problem what coon was for me i always liked to start young dogs watch them mature into a good coon hound and be out in the woods with a friend enjoying the pice and quite and enjoy the hounds running track couldnt wait to hear that locate then tree there heart out plus all the friends i made in my years of hunting in and around my area plus i had one special freind in ohio irwin patton of new concord but he passed serval years i always enjoyed talking to him and going to his place to get a dog or just vist him

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Registered: Jan 2009
Location: pana,ill
Posts: 533

i knew that most of us were just alike,aint it great?coonhuntin IS the best sport ever no matter where we're from,cool

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Registered: Sep 2007
Location: Kentucky
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Registered: Feb 2010
Location: Perry, Fl.
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To me it is all about the dogs. I really enjoy taking a pup and making it a finished dog. Once it is trained I want another pup to work with.

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Registered: Jan 2009
Location: pana,ill
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that's how my cousin is,he loves the young dogs,me i like em too,but once there goin,i just wanna keep goin and goin with em,till there my best friend,i get attached to em easy

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Registered: Mar 2009
Location: VA
Posts: 235

Its about you and your dog, the fellowship of good friends, the quitness of the night, and God creations.

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Registered: Oct 2010
Location: Burlington, WI
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I grew up in the outdoors, and hunting my whole life. I have been training dogs of many beeds since I was 17. When I found this sport, it was a perfect match for me. I love that I can choose to just go out and relax with the dogs, or get down to buisness in a competition, and breeding better dogs.

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Registered: Jan 2009
Location: pana,ill
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read some pretty ineresting reasons for the love of our sport.

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Registered: Dec 2010
Location: Millington
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ME Time........
Training a young dog and watching learn.....
Compettiton........

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Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Western N.Y.
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Just an addiction i cant seem to be happy without, but for me it is 10% hunting and 90% about the dogs. Ever find yourself standing out in the yard at night looking back toward the timber and listening for a dog when you know darn well they are in the kennel? LOL.

Just gets in the blood i guess but their is nothin finer than hearing a hound get struck off in the distance on a quiet night.

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