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As some of you know I hung up my hunting boots and sold all my stuff back around the first of the year. Now I have done this a couple times before for sure but this time feels different. I miss it less and less. Everytime i start to miss something about coonhunting, I immidiately think of the bad parts about it and imagine myself sneaking in a backyard to get my dog off a tree and getting the law called to me for retrieving my dog. Or something of that nature. The list is long. Yesterday i rode past one of my old favorite hunting spots and I didn't feel much of anything like I used to. I was outside right before dark the other night and I heard a hound from one of my neighbors crank up and start barking like crazy. A couple months ago that would give me the itch, now all it does is make me hope he shuts up so i can get some sleep tonight. Am I turning into a regular person? lol

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You still visit and post on a coon dog forum! Cant be too broke of the old habit! Lol...

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You still visit and post on a coon dog forum! Cant be too broke of the old habit! Lol...

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.... Am I turning into a regular person? lol

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lmao!!!! You'll be back.

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No he quit with a walker. He may try somthin else now. He done tried blueticks and walkers. What will he get next? A plott?

I know one of those big ole blue gaskhounds or whatever them things are that weigh over 100 pounds LMBO.

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When I was younger before training collars and tracking collars, I used to think about quitting but I never did....Guess I have outgrown those thoughts. I don't fish, play golf, deer hunt or turkey hunt...I coon hunt. I've decided when I can't coon hunt anymore I'm ready to leave this old world. I ain't quitting!

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Onced a coon hunter always one. Its in the blood....

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You never were a coon hunter, probly just a competitor and used coonhuntin to scratch that itch.If you don't miss a certain old hound everytime you hear another one crankin,Well,probly need a new hobby anyways.

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When I was younger before training collars and tracking collars, I used to think about quitting but I never did....Guess I have outgrown those thoughts. I don't fish, play golf, deer hunt or turkey hunt...I coon hunt. I've decided when I can't coon hunt anymore I'm ready to leave this old world. I ain't quitting!

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You never were a coon hunter, probly just a competitor and used coonhuntin to scratch that itch.If you don't miss a certain old hound everytime you hear another one crankin,Well,probly need a new hobby anyways.

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get you a mountain cur jason, they handle well and want go off the edge of the earth or somebodys back yard to tree a coon.lol

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so long .............have fun washing ur car.LOL

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please dont quit posting.some of the funniest things ive read on this board were youre posts.i still chuckle when i think of youre post about not questioning the big three.

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Jason. A few have quit around here. Id have never figured it also a few started back lol. Took up the others slack.You sold your Garmin yet?

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i started when i was alittle fellar with my granpap it will be in my blood till i leave this world my health got bad 2 yrs ago had to let my hounds go but this past season buddy start takeing me to easy places to walk and on his big red he could drive me real close to the tree in the ruffer woods i was as happy as a kid in a candy store if all goes well i may be able to afford me another decent red dog

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i hope your able to get you a good dog hillbilly56.

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As some of you know I hung up my hunting boots and sold all my stuff back around the first of the year. Now I have done this a couple times before for sure but this time feels different. I miss it less and less. Everytime i start to miss something about coonhunting, I immidiately think of the bad parts about it and imagine myself sneaking in a backyard to get my dog off a tree and getting the law called to me for retrieving my dog. Or something of that nature. The list is long. Yesterday i rode past one of my old favorite hunting spots and I didn't feel much of anything like I used to. I was outside right before dark the other night and I heard a hound from one of my neighbors crank up and start barking like crazy. A couple months ago that would give me the itch, now all it does is make me hope he shuts up so i can get some sleep tonight. Am I turning into a regular person? lol

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When I was younger before training collars and tracking collars, I used to think about quitting but I never did....Guess I have outgrown those thoughts. I don't fish, play golf, deer hunt or turkey hunt...I coon hunt. I've decided when I can't coon hunt anymore I'm ready to leave this old world. I ain't quitting!

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coon hunting aint a passion its an obsession. your either in it or you aint

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Since I was 16 I have hunted year round 3 to 4 times a week for going on 7 years now. I have seen several of my friends get into it and get right out. Like was said above you either have a passion for it or you don't. I enjoy seeing good dog work, yours or mine. Some have a very different oppinion of good dog work then I do and that's fine. I try my best to get people involved and see how fun this sport can be but alot of people get discouraged when they realize a great dog is very hard to come by and it takes night after night of dedication.

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I think of it more as an addiction, and sometimes a curse, but i do know that once you have it you never get healed....
I hunted as a young man and then raising a family and building a business kept me away, but there were always times especially in the fall if i happened to be outside on a nice clear night that i would find myself stareing off into the darkness listening for a hound. So now im gettin to be an old man,still following hounds and still addicted. YOU WILL BE BACK.

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Sometime priorities take away your hunting time. I have had hunts where I would swear I was gonna stop hunting. lol I havent turned a dog loose in a longtime. I just have other things going on right now and dont have time and if I do have time I am tired. On a good still cool evening sure gets me to wanting to turn a dog loose tired or not. I really cant say if you will get another dog or not Jason time will tell.

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Me too and until my girlfriends quit me and I can't make new ones then I'll be ready. For the reasons you stated I'd look at that possum dog thread on here. LOL I can't stay home at night. Never have. Never cared about deer or turkey but as I got older I quit with the river and Sound duck hunting. Never thought I would do that but I started growing corn in a pond in my back yard and a thirty minute duck hunt suits me just fine these days instead of loading and going and putting out and waiting on the tide and picking up and getting back at noon with a few ducks. I like chickens better. Check in to that possum dog thing or try a Leopard hound, That was my fix.


Edit: truthfully in seven years I have never had a leopard tree a possum, nor chase a deer, nor, come to think of it, never open on a hog unless it was riding down the road 50 miles an hour nor mess with an armadillo > Guess I am just lucky.

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