Two Toes
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Registered: Sep 2010
Location: The driftless area
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"US & THEM"
Personally,we don't hunt our's then when we can,legally. No problem with those that do or want to. I'm in your corner. Houndsmen & women united for the cause,"OF COURSE"!
Here's how I've always looked at it from both veiws,coonhuntin "&" deer huntin. I figure, I legally,can coonhunt, 365 nights in a row "IF" I so choose or am inclined to. Although I'm extremely fond of coonhuntin & have devoted enough of my life to it, I am also a "Whitetail Freak",so to speak,in season. Only option to actively participate in my "Other" love.
9 times outa 10, an early mornin obsession with the antlered beast's leading to 13 hrs in a tree stand will trump a late night of coonhuntin for me personally. Just wanted the record straight as to where I stand in the world of "Takin Sides". Split 50/50...
Since I have unlimited coonhuntin possabilities & bein an avid bowhunter,rifle huntin, smoke polin obsessed individual I fully can understand the desire to keep your ground as sacred as legitimately constrewed or anticipated. But ya see as a coonhunter,again,able to participate 365 days a year, I have always felt obliged to allow my fellow
"Hunters" their space so to speak. In the day of non-resident land leasin & the guarding of deer huntin turf in every way imagineable, for me to leave the dawgs home a few nights during that magic times of November is not an inconvenience in any way shape or form to me.
Now of course we gota deal with the,"Dam dawgs Scared all the Deer away","Don't step foot in the turf during the off season" bein preached by these deer huntin "QDM" geared huntin shows on one after another. My own experience in the past 25 years of huntin the same basic 5 x 5 mile area is, if we give'um space & educate they get usta us & mutually respect us as fellow hunters & exterminators aposed to hittin the "Dislike" button. Not a farmer in this country that doesn't HATE COON or anywhere for that matter. Takin them out is at the top of the list whenever possable & anyway possable.
"BUT"
Don't mess with their ground during the magic traditional opening of the gun season if you wana keep their place on your list of drops "UNLESS" they don't have a problem with it. I've always stood behind the "When in doubt back out" state when it comes to invading & crashin,in their minds,on somebodies or several somebodies generally, vacation/family reunion or culmination of a lot of money spent & the fruits of theirs labor at peak harvest /reward time.
Being a Deer Hunter as well I can tell you I don't want a bunch of fartin,greasy,smokin coonhunters on our lease either, which we pay a lot of money for even though I'm a "Coon hunter". We do turn our dawgs loose & not afraid to hunt it but there are them select time frames when it don't happen although I know how it shakes out in real time out there.
Two sides to every stand off. With coon hunters haitin on deer hunters & deer hunters haitin on coon hunters it's not good either way. Hardcore stances for what ya beleive in or matters the most to ya is understandable as well as our god givin rite. Give & take be good. I know,"LOL" rite? Educate them lease holders that are accused of so much trouble, as to how much of their feeders are gettin emptied by the coon & the $ they could save. Not to mention that secret lil cornfeild thats 3/4's gone before it dents.
Again I'm behind "US" & whether you wana hunt during gun season or not I'm not to judge if its legal. Our dawgs just to valuable to US & US only to even take the chance with two garmins on them & three trucks around & three foot soldiers in the timber with'um. I respect others passion & as they say,"$h!t can happen". I just try to eliminate them possabilties. Ain't a coon or 100 of them worth sacrificin my dawg. My descision & the only one that matters in the long run. All for it bein legal but gota keep in mind I am one of "Them" as well.
"MUTUAL RESPECT" kinda thang.......
I get 356-365 potential nights to hunt coon, so if ya think about it, we're purty lucky either way. I'm in it for the dogs & not fillin the freezer. Don't hav'ta count on coon for survival BUT there was a time when I did & I understand the potential loss of the peak coon fetchin time. Ya know when them guard hairs start gettin long & sleek, some have a frosted glow,just spottin them in the tree brings on a jag that only coonhunters understand. Been known to cause some game takers to empty several boxes of lead, uncontrolably & everyone harvested causes a person to grin "&" pat " 'Ol Blue" on his scarred up head & say,"Come on Bum","Less fetch another"......
Been there done that........
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