Registered: Sep 2013
Location: North Carolina
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this man right here got me started on hunting with two 8x Registered 7x world champs. A redtick named Frank and an ol Black n tan Ol Hank! thanks grandpa!!! I LOVE YOU ALOT!! and thanks for introducing me into an awesome sport <3

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Registered: Mar 2009
Location: Spring Creek N.C.
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A pair of brothers from fines creek in hardwood county n.c. took me under their wings and got me started hunting with hounds. Dean Surrett and his brother Phillip. Dean has been dead now for 9 years and i miss him everyday. I still run into Phillip from time to time during bear season.
HAYWOOD COUNTY NOT HARDWOOD...... STUPID PHONE

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Registered: May 2008
Location: Gillett, Pa
Posts: 1861

i was born into it and so was my dad and my granddad if that gives you any idea ! i'll bet it goes back even farther the first dog i can remember were granddads high tans not much white !

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Registered: Sep 2012
Location: Coldwater Mississippi
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I have 3 men that took me under their wing. Gary Billingsley, Kevin Wilson both from here in Mississippi. And Grady Williford form Illinois. I miss those nights in the woods with them and to my knowledge not one of them coon hunt anymore.

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Registered: Apr 2013
Location: michigan
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my buddie marlin martin got me hooked on red bones great friend and teacher

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Registered: May 2007
Location: fairmont wv
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on my mothers side got me started he kept serval fox hounds which i really enjoyed listeing to sittin around the fire on cool nites but i loved coon hunting he had a big ole bluetick name mike he could tree them coon but he would tree a possum to but that was in the late 50s but didn't bother us boys long as we got something up a tree and ive had hounds and beagles all my life

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Registered: Aug 2012
Location: Yazoo City
Posts: 368

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Registered: Aug 2012
Location: West Virginia
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my popaw Alfred Rectenwald got me into running and chasing rabbit beagles at a early age probably around 7 years old along with my dad , and cousin . they had a buddy that ran beagles with them that also coon hunted , we would spend a weekend at his house running beagles during the day and coon hunting at night . my dad and popaw co-ownd a walker hound named willie that they used to hunt when I was little . But outside that i'd have to say my uncle Olan "machette " toppings was the one who really got me into coon hunting and owning my own dogs when I was around 14 I guess .I've deer hunted , squirrel hunted , turkey hunted far back as I can remember , with family , and my popaws . I've been blessed with a outdoors type family and its gave me a lot of memories !

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Registered: Feb 2011
Location: Charleston, Il.
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My dad,when I was a young pup,hardly ever missed a night durin' season,I couldn't begin too carry the hides he'd skinned,or the ones we got together....R.I.P. pop.

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Registered: Jun 2012
Location: McRae Ar
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Where the redfern grows. I got a dog from a man down the road that didnt hunt but like to keep hounds. Me and a friend coonhunted together for three years before we ever met another coon hunter. We hunted almost every night for the first year before we ever treed a coon.

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Registered: Apr 2013
Location: My old Kentucky home
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My uncle got me into hunting at a very young age, but it was a little crossed up cur that I kept as a yard dog that really got me interested in hunting. We had hounds, but the cur would get treed while everybody was asleep,as he ran loose. I'd get up and hear him in the mornings before school. He would tree anything , coon, possum, squirrel , house cat. I started taking him in the woods around around my house on nights my uncle didn't go. I was only 12, but I hunted that dog 3 or 4 nights a week up until I got my license at 16. I've quit hunting a few times due to work or lack of dog power, but I've always kept some kind of tree dog around to run loose in the yard. I guess it's something you never get out of your system lol

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Registered: Sep 2009
Location: NORTH CAROLINA
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MY DADDDY HE WAS A HARD HUNTER IN HIS YOUNGER YEARS TILL DIEBTES GOT HIM DOWN WE JUST BURRED HIM THIS WEEK AND HOW I HAVE RUN THEM MEMORYS THUR MY HEAD OF MY YOUNGER YEARS AS A YONG GUY HUNTING IN THEM MOUNTAINS AND GOING TO WILSON CAMPING IN THE TRUCK FOR THE WEEKEND THEY HAD COONS BACK THEN AND LOTS OF GROUND TO HUNT ON WE WOULD GO TO VL WITISONS AND HUNT 4 OR 5 TIMES A WINTER THEM WERE GOOD TIMES

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Registered: Sep 2013
Location: North Carolina
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my buddie marlin martin got me hooked on red bones great friend and teacher

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TIMBERCHOPPIN' LiL Red Devil~Redbone

Dixie's Dirty Little Secret PlayBoy Grizz~(Deceased)
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Zach's Dirty LiL Secret~Walker/Cur
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Dixie's LiL Momma~(Retired) Australian Shepherd/Mtn. Feist
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LiL Momma's PlayBoy Moose~(Deceased)~Labrador/Chow Mix
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JR's Romeo & Juliet~(Deceased)~Kemmer Cur/Plott Mix
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OL Hank & Frank~8x World Champs Redtick and Black n Tan*~

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