Glenn Wells
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Registered: Jan 2010
Location: Benton, KY
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There was an old double tree down in the bottoms, probably 8 feet through, it also done double duty. It was a combination den tree and beehive, it wasn't bad after the temperture cooled off but it got real rough in the summer months. There was a coon that did den in the tree, we treed him a bunch of time, it was probably him going up that got the bees bent out of shape. The dogs treeing seemed to get the things even more irate ! They would meet you coming across the field before you could even get close to the tree . Believe me you didn't want to take time to shine those trees, as it would turn into an intense experience. As I was the idiot of the bunch, they elected me to go get the dogs off the tree, after the first time in, I found out turning off your light and holding your breath seemed to get you stung less, guess made you harder to find. But after that I trained my 2 hounds to answer to a horn, the others grew to know to come off the tree with them, when they heard me hoot it. That saved a bunch of cussing and having to buy medicine for the stings that happened the first time i went in. These were a black bee, must of been a native type. When it was really hot you could walk in to the trees in the daytime and see honey running out a small opening down lower on the tree, and watch the bees flying in an out, and they didn't pay any attention as long as you didn't get right up on the tree.
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