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Who says that tree limbs have to touch.....

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This may just be your best post EVER. Lol. Dave

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True story...
Was on a close cast one night and the way we were struck in, I had to tree a coon by myself to win. Dog was locating around funny as the hunt expired so I threw a hail Mary and treed him.
We got to him and he was treed on a 15' pole, about four feet off of a monster cottonwood. We found a coon sitting in the tip top of the big tree beside mine, on the farthest limb from where my dog was. All total, he was a good 50 feet or more from the tree my dog was on.
I was catching all kinds of grief from the cast and squalled just for the heck of it. Soon as I did, that coon ran all the way down, crossed through the treetop, and leaped just like the one in that pic, right into my dog's tree.

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That's some good camera work. I've seen them jump out when squalling. Just like the one in the picture.

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I watched one jump from a small ash tree to a pine tree not long ago. We discussed about according to the rules the dog would need minused if we had not witnessed it. It jumped approximately 4’ to get where it did.

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My dogs treed on a big oak one night but missed the coon. He was in a pine tree next to the oak but they didn't touch. When I started squalling, the coon ran out a branch and took a flying leap back into the oak tree just like a squirrel. If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have believed it.
The next time that you are in a comp hunt and the coon is in a tree next to your dog's tree, you better see if you can squall and get him to jump back into your dog's tree.

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I have witnessed coons ju moping from one tree to another tree and have spoken with other hunters that have witnessed the same thing. Does it happen? You can bank on it, but not often and therein lies the problem of scoring trees. Most folks have not seen this happen and in fact don't believe they cross over even when the limbs do not touch, but some can and do. I witnessed a coon go from tree to tree out of sight up a ridge in daytime, several hundred yards by jumping from one tree to the next, just like a squirrel. Dave

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Anyone who has ever raised a raccoon knows they are capable of some unbelievable acrobatics!

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Yes, and the bad thing is a dog uses its nose to tell us what tree the coon climbed and WE get to use our eyes and all of our high powered lights to see if the dog is correct. What a game changer it would be if we could get our dogs trained to use our lights before they made a decision on what tree Mr, coon was in. Lol. All jokes aside, the best any dog can do is tree where the coon climbed and hope that he's not a tree jumper. Might outfit mine with one of those go pro s just in case I need a replay. Lol. Dave

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Originally posted by Sonny Phipps
I watched one jump from a small ash tree to a pine tree not long ago. We discussed about according to the rules the dog would need minused if we had not witnessed it. It jumped approximately 4’ to get where it did.

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Might have been that Rocket coon on the movie Guardians of the galaxy. If you get that coon treed you got a serious coonhound

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Had a young dog that was just starting to tree a few on his on. He got treed one night when we got to the tree it was a dead snag about 15 feet with the top broke out. Tied the dog back and started to squall my buddy said I was wasn't my time I was trying to see if it would poke his head out all the sudden the dog went nuts the coon came out the bottom of the tree and almost ran into the dog I hadn't noticed the hole in the bottom of the tree. My buddy said he had only seen something like that once in his life and I have never seen it or heard about anything like that. Cut the dog loose and he never did get it treed after all that.

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I had a male dog that was pretty fast. He treed a ole boar up a small tree not far from a large tree. As I approached the coon walked out on a branch and out towards the end of the branch. The branch hung lower and lower. Finally he reached out to grab the end of a branch from the larger tree (about the thickness of a wood pencil) and crossed like a monkey. The original branch he was on sprung back up to about 4-6 feet above the branch that he crossed to.

In the early 1990s I had an Animal Damage Control business. I had a call about a coon in a fire place that they couldn't smoke out. I got up on the roof with a catch pole and approached the chimney. The coon was sticking its nose out of the chimney breathing the fresh air as the smoke bellowed around him. I made a move with the catch pole, and the coon decided he had enough. He climbed out and jumped off the top of the chimney. He landed about 2 feet from the edge of the roof. He ran and jumped from the edge of the roof to a large spruce (about 8-12 feet away). All of the lower branches had been trimmed flush with the trunk. He hit that trunk about 6 feet from the ground and used its back feet as brakes sliding down the spruce.

Now having witnessed both feats of athletics, I still expect my dogs to tree on the correct tree.

Moral of the story, don't ever doubt what a coon can do. they are indeed amazing animals.

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I got a hunting spot that is 125 acres of virgin timber the trees in there are huge. The dogs split treed my hunting partner said let's see what my dog has first. He said I got the coon but it's not in the tree the dogs on. I said shot it anyway he shot it and that sucker came right down the tree straight to the dog when the coon got about 12 feet from her she just froze it got about 6 feet from her she grabbed it off the tree. He said I guess it was the right tree. I have been hunting along time and never seen this happen before. And now I seen it happen 2 times in 3 months.

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I got a hunting spot that is 125 acres of virgin timber the trees in there are huge. The dogs split treed my hunting partner said let's see what my dog has first. He said I got the coon but it's not in the tree the dogs on. I said shot it anyway he shot it and that sucker came right down the tree straight to the dog when the coon got about 12 feet from her she just froze it got about 6 feet from her she grabbed it off the tree. He said I guess it was the right tree. I have been hunting along time and never seen this happen before. And now I seen it happen 2 times in 3 months.

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