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Posted by harveycmd on 07-15-2015 03:16 AM:

Good stuff, Steve. The amazing simplicity of right and wrong befuddles contemporary times because many look for complexity in moral matters to make themselves feel sophisticated.


Posted by Misty river on 07-15-2015 05:45 PM:

Steve

How is everything going my friend, glad to see you are able to hunt a little bit anyway. I know your having to work a lot and this heat is something else. I'm having some trouble with Tramps throat again, I'm having to lay him up for a while. Good to see some one trying to do something with our worldly problems. This world is in a mess. No telling what Obama will do before his term is up. I see you have Stormy bred to Bo, should be a great cross. Take care Steve.


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Posted by steve bankston on 07-17-2015 01:06 PM:

HOT, HOT HOT!!!!!

Thanks guys, we trying to keep the Flag that has flown over this State a many a year, Flying High for many more. The senseless act of violence by one person with a gun should not make millions lose their Flag, their guns, their history or heritage. They are only using that as an excuse to come after us when they should use that energy to root out evil in this country and bury it for good and let it be a lesson to any other twisted, crazy person that might be getting ideas to harm innocent people. We have to come together in this country as a nation to get this country back on track and prepare to defend ourselves against our greater threat, TERROR. But as long as some carry hate in their heart and continue to pass it down generation after generation, they will never be free. Hate without forgiveness or understanding of the facts will consume a person like cancer, it will eat at you until their is nothing left. Leaders who are in power should be ashamed of themselves for stirring this hate, bitterness and dividing the people in this country. They do it for a couple of reasons. One to line their on pockets as some make money off the hate and anger of others. Two, as long as we fight or argue amongst ourselves we wont unite and come after the ones we need to focus our anger on, WASHINGTON DC. Yesterday 4 marines died by a terror attack in TN. that was in a safe zone, no guns allowed. Will our President now let our hero's pack guns in those areas to defend themselves against the terror that has threatened to target our military and their family's? Hell no, he will use this to come after our GUNS, the very thing we need to stop terror if we are ever in the situation to do so. Why then? Because they know that even a mouse will bite when cornered and had enough kicks in and they know we, like the 13 states years ago will get enough of this out of control government abuse of power one day and decide to do something about it. That's why they want the Confederate Flag down, the State Flag and your GUNS, Period. Its not to make a certain people feel better, its not to make us safer, its to put us under more control so we can never RISE UP!! I thought about forming a group and calling it H.E.L.P. It stands for HAD ENOUGH of LYING POLITICIAN'S!!!!!!!
I better talk about coon hunting now before I get deleted. I decided as bad as the heat is to not hunt the past couple days. The coolest days are 98 with heat index at 105 and we are hitting 101 by Tuesday coming with index of 110. When it gets dark its just to hot to take them so we have been swimming them in the river. Headed back to work at 3pm this evening for our big weekend of work. The type fast track job we have is brutal on the guys in this heat. Will get back to hunting after the heat backs off a few degrees. I think I was putting Briar in the woods to many nights in a row in this heat and may have been doing more harm than good. Good Hunting when it gets under 95, no more until then.

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Posted by steve bankston on 07-18-2015 09:18 PM:

RACING



Picture of Mason with Jimmie Johnson's Crew Chief, Chad Knaus from last year when we were at Championship Weekend in Homestead Miami Florida. We will be making the trip again this year, I bought the tickets yesterday and they give us passes to all the garages. Mason will get to see his Hero again and talk with the drivers. There is no words to explain the joy and wonder on his face when he is in there with all the teams and cars. Christmas might come close. He is in Hog Heaven and so is Paw Paw. We will also be carrying him by Disney World in Orlando for a couple days to the Magic Kingdom. I'm sure his face will be alive with excitement. Its the week in November before Thanksgiving. Should be nice weather and a Lot cooler than it is now, it is some Hot. We worked from yesterday evening at 5pm until 6am this morning which was a very short night compare to the 20 plus hours I had been doing on other weekends in a row without a break. We brought in extra help so not to burn everyone out. Will go back in the morning until finish up then we are off next weekend. If temps will drop a little I would like to get in a few hunts next week.

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Posted by Misty river on 07-20-2015 05:31 AM:

Race car drivers, Country Music singers and Coonhunters

Steve which one do you think Mason will be, Race Car Driver or Coonhunter or will he be both. Coonhunting Race Car Driver "WOW". That's what I told Jeremy about Darrel Singletary When he told me that Darrel was going to buy part interest in Shadow. I told him that I really liked Country Music singers, but a coonhunting country music artist was something else. Kind of like Roy Rogers, Now Roy was my Hero when I was growing up, but when I found out he liked to coonhunt too. I watched every movie he had and he is still my hero today. Take care.


Posted by steve bankston on 07-21-2015 12:43 AM:

RIVER BREAK



We took a river break today since I didn't have to work. The grass needs cutting bad and a lot of weed eating to do but its Hot and Dry and that means Dusty when you turn on those blades. So I told Beverly it could wait until we got a rain shower to settle the dust and we put the canoe in the river. I had took the 4 wheeler and trailer and left them down river at our cypress pavilion so we had a ride home when we pulled out. We had a nice trip for a couple hours and stopped a couple times looking for arrowheads or petrified wood. I found one good piece of that but no arrowheads. And of course I can't go anywhere on this river without looking for sinker cypress and we found 5 of them between 50 and 80 feet in length. I haven't been down the river in months and was surprised to see these because the river didn't get out of the banks this year and that's what it takes to wash these big sinkers out of the banks or sandbars where they are buried. One was a real good one, probably 36" at the butt and over 50' long and still close to 30" at the top. I haven't pulled any in a while and seeing these lit the fire on the passion to pull that burns deep inside of me. I see drag marks in my near future.

MR. Jack, that is some good news for yaw having a Country Star Singer involved with Misty River. Should be some good exposer for Coonhunting and Shadow. Maybe Mason and I can talk Jimmie Johnson into endorsing Ole Bo. That 48 car sure would look good with BO painted on each side in full stride and Full Cry! I think it will be a good thing for yaw and wish nothing but the best for yaw in this venture. I'm off the next 7 nights so if we get a little rain one evening to break these temps I will be making a few rounds. Take Care and Good Hunting!



This is one of the sinkers we spotted today. Its the big log running left to right along the bank of the river. I have pulled several from this spot over the years and every time the river gets up and chews on this bank it washes another one out. This is the same area where I pulled the monster with the track hoe. It would have been something to see 150 years ago when they were all standing as a virgin cypress stand of huge trees, no briars, no privet hedge and no thickets what so ever.

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Posted by steve bankston on 07-23-2015 05:22 AM:

SUNSET



Sunset Monday evening over the river here at the house after our canoe trip down river.

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Posted by steve bankston on 07-23-2015 05:29 AM:

Briar

Took Briar tonight to Bo's Bottom and cut him the first drop down an ole cypress slough that is about dried up. He got after a pretty fair track and moved it out over 500yds. I rode closer and when I shut off the 4 wheeler he had broke down at the rivers edge. Don't know if the coon took to the river to shake him or what but that was the end of that track. Next drop was down the side of the beaver lake and he hit a older track and worked on it about 15 minutes and located a couple times but didn't stick and after a while he came on back. Loaded him up and came home. At 11pm it was 86 degrees and heat index was 93, HOT!!! Bo's turn tomorrow night.

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Posted by Rowdy on 07-23-2015 06:16 AM:



Hey Steve you should load Briar and BO and come
on up and chase some cornfield coons.

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Posted by steve bankston on 07-24-2015 06:41 AM:

BO 3 for 3



Took Bo tonight to Bo's Bottom and he looked good. Cut him down a steep hollow into the swamp and he went 963yds before he struck and trailed it another 350yds and came treed on the edge of a dried up slough on a big cypress tree. I backed off down the dry bed and hit the squaller and he looked at me with both eyes from the very top. I petted him up, walked about 100' and recut him on down the slough. He didn't go 100yds and popped one up. It was a kitten coon in an ironwood not 30' off the ground. Petted him up again, walked across the 4 wheeler trail and cut him toward the river. He went in about 300yds opened a few times then went to circling the area in about a 50yd radius that got tighter and tighter on the Garmin until it looked liked a scribbled dot, went to locating then sat down and treed. Went into him and he was treeing on a huge vine that went into a medium size cottonwood and the coon was laid up in the first big fork. Hooked him up and home we came. Very rarely do we tree 3 coon that we look at, especially in the summer but all 3 trees were where I could shine them good and that makes all the difference, and an accurate hound. Sometimes Bo, on those layups, takes a few minutes to zero in on the right tree and I set there watching it on the Garmin getting impatient sometimes but remind myself that when coon aren't moving a coon treed like this could win the hunt. He just isn't going to pull the trigger unless he truly believes a coon is there. Tonight was hot but the humidity was down so the heat index wasn't as bad as the past couple weeks.

Chris I would love to load these hounds up and come up your way in all those coon, corn fields everywhere and in the low 60's. Work won't let me get away though. Thanks for the invite and I hope one day to take you up on it. Sounds like Jazz is back to putting them up the tree. You enjoy every minute with that young hound, she's special. Take Care and Good Hunting!

Just setting here typing this and listening to Fox News and some lunatic has shot up a movie theater in Lafayette, La. That's about 30 miles west of the job we have been doing on I-10. They say he killed 2 or 3 and injured up to 10, some in critical condition and that he took his on life as well. Sick, twisted, coward. Until we fight fire with fire this crap will never stop. It frustrates me to no end the stuff I see going on in this Country, the Circus the Media makes out of violent terror to innocent people. Take them out in the alley and turn their on gun on themselves. Show that on TV, once, then say no more about it. Do that a few times and this stuff will stop. But our great Government won't do what makes sense. Instead they blame it on guns and all the people who own them. They only want to disarm us, if you think they are out of control and abusing their power now just give up your guns when they come for them and it will be 10 times worse than it is now. God help us, because I feel this country is to far gone for any human to ever lead Her back to where She belongs.

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Posted by steve bankston on 07-25-2015 02:23 AM:

SWIM TIME



This is what swim time looks like every evening when I'm home. They look so forward to getting out and into the cool water. When we pull up with all of them in the back of the Kubota to the swim hole, they all go to bawling like they just saw a coon run across the sand bar. Like a bunch of kids cutting up. I take each one into the deeper water behind where I'm setting and let them swim against the current for a few minutes then get another one. We do this about 3 reps each evening and it sure makes them feel better on these hot days. Heat index today was 108, getting back up there again. Going to take Bo and Briar tonight and see if we cant tree a couple.

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Posted by steve bankston on 07-25-2015 06:32 AM:

HOT HUNTING

Took Bo and Briar to Bo's Bottom tonight. Was hoping of a repeat of last night but it didn't happen. Cut Bo down the steep hollow that runs into the swamp and when he hit 200yds I fired up the 4 wheeler and road a little the other way and cut Briar down a dried up slough bed. Briar struck before I heard anything from Bo. He moved it out from 143yds to just at 400 but got into some sand bottoms and it being so dry he just couldn't put a tree at the end of it. Bo in the mean time had struck an old cold track and was opening every minute or so but was moving on through the swamp in the opposite direction so I loaded Briar up and we headed Bo's way. Watching the Garmin as I rode it said he was treed and was close to the trail so I rode until I could hear him over the 4 wheeler then shut it off. He was 60yds off the side of the trail in a thicket that was loaded with vines and privet hedge and small oaks. He had a kitten coon up one of the oaks with a lot of vines in it. Petted him up and we came on home. Heat index was 94 when I left the house and its 12:30am and its still 87. We need some rain bad and a break in this heat. August and September is usually worse than July, hoping its not this year. Ready for some cool weather. Good Hunting!

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Posted by steve bankston on 07-26-2015 07:01 AM:

BO and BRIAR

We finally got a good rain this evening about 5pm. Close to an inch and we sure needed it. The temp dropped from 98 to 75 and felt nice setting out on the porch watching it come down as I sipped on some coffee. I knew coon would stir early, right at dark. I took BO and Briar to Black Branch Swamp about 9pm and drove in there about a half mile and pointed them toward the creek and cut'em loose. Bo struck at 241yds with Briar soon joining him. It was a good track and they made the swamps ring with their roar as they floated that track out of the open swamp and the coon headed to the Bad Stuff. They were over 600yds quick so I fired up and headed deeper into the swamp to stay up with them. When I shut it off they were still right at 300yds and had slowed down some as they were in some awful stuff where they were at. Its not many times I set on that 4 wheeler that I'm not longing to hear one of their big locates but I was Not wanting to hear it where they were. They worked the track a little closer then BO let out his Big Quivering Bawl Locate and I just hung my head. He give about 5 more of them and then rolled it on over and blew the top out. It took Briar a minute but he joined him and he ever more treed hard for almost 15 minutes as I was headed to them but like usual, he hushed before I got there and met me off the tree over a 100'. I had a switch ready and give him a smack and sent him back into the tree. He crawled up on it a treed pretty good but nothing like he did while I was coming into them. Bo was really blowing and I was scared he would overheat. It was a good size bushy water oak surrounded by a bunch of thick stuff and try as I might I couldn't find anywhere I could shine the tree so I give up and we slowly made our way out of there. I fell more times than I can remember, it was awful going in and worse coming out with 2 hounds. When the hounds tree a coon in there and you get it out to them, the hounds and you have Truly EARNED that Coon.
Dropped Bo at the house and took Briar to Bo's Bottom. He got after a good track and hit a tree with a few locates and left, went 100yds to the left, got on another track and rolled it 345yds back toward the Beaver Lake. I rode closer and it sounded like he was treed but it wasn't right. Half way to him I decided it sounded like he was baying a hole in the ground and when I got to him that's exactly what he was doing. He went to school, again. I was not happy and I'm still steaming because I have done all I can do putting out bucket feeders trying to keep him on just coon and have him not staying hooked or locating and moving on to another track or meeting me WAY off the tree and having to walk into it before he will climb back on it BUT he can dang well stay at a hole in the ground until I get there. Back in my younger days I would just about Had Enough of Mr. Briar. But back then I realize now I culled to quickly on some that might have made it. Briar will be rested a few weeks as I enjoy Bo. When I get in this mood the best thing I can do for a young hound and myself is to give them a break. He just isn't progressing as I want one to and he has to much running on his mind and not enough treeing. The feeders might be some of the trouble as there are several coon hitting them and I feel he is running one up a tree, swinging out and grabbing another track. Until Star is ready to start which will be a few more months, I'm done with spending money to keep feed in feeders for good tracks for Briar to run. 3 weeks of rest then 90 days to show me some good progress. He will be 15 months old at the end of the 90 days and that's going to be my decision time. He is a nice hound but he has got to put it all together or he won't be living in the Hound Hotel out back.

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Posted by Scott VH on 07-26-2015 01:33 PM:

Bo

Steve,
Nice picture of Bo on the tree. He sure looks classy on the wood. Nice to see you have a nice spot to cool off with the dogs in the warm weather. It has been nice up here this Summer. Somewhat warm from time to time but not Hot anyway. You probably know that Briars brother got hit on the road after I sold him so he is no longer alive. Stay patient with Briar and maybe he will put it all together. I enjoy reading your posts on the board here so keep em coming.
Take Care and Good luck with your hounds,
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Posted by Rowdy on 07-26-2015 01:58 PM:

Hey Steve that picture of you and the dogs is great. Looks like you are contemplating where to hunt that night, a cypress log to pull or where to fish.

Something to try with Briar, when he meets you off the tree reach down, leash him and tie him up right where he met you. Go on into Bo and squall, shine and really praise Bo up, LOUD and EXCITED. If you can get the coon down all the better. Try this about a half dozen trees. If you are hunting him alone do the same thing. Move to where he came from on the Garmin. You don't have to be exact. If Briar is as smart as he sounds, he will not like you in there squalling without him. Fire a shot or two and throw a short log or rock in the air so it really splaps that swamp water. Then go back and collect briar and load him on the 4 wheeler and go out of the area before cutting him again.

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Posted by harveycmd on 07-26-2015 02:20 PM:

I wish we could get a good soaking like you had, Steve. Been about five weeks now since we had any rain. Had over 20 inches in May and then it stopped. Of course, we knew that would happen. Lucky to get a good rain any time in July and August.

Like to get a good rain and then take Wolf out. He was treeing well in the coon pens and with older dogs. Heat index has been running 110-115 now for about three weeks. Over 90 until after midnight. Have to go early in the morning in a couple days if we don't get a break.


Posted by Gary Napier II on 07-26-2015 06:23 PM:

Hello Steve,
I have'nt posted on your thread before but I enjoy looking at the pictures and reading the stories of your hunts. Keep it coming your thread is very interesting.


Posted by steve bankston on 07-27-2015 06:50 PM:

Briar

Scott, hope all is well up your way and congrats on Logan and Banjo being in the top 10 on the reproducers list, that's an awesome thing and I know your proud and I'm proud for you. Its been Very Hot here and hunting's been tough but I have just been going for short hunts and getting into the tree as quick as I can so they don't overheat and trying to get there before Briar loses interest. I think I let him get away with running rabbits to long before I put a stop to it. He just wants to hunt a track and run. He can come on a tree so hard with those huge, long , bawling locates that will make your heart stop then hammer that tree for ten minutes of the finest treeing you could ask for, then just quit. I know its hot and dry and he just turned a year old so that's why I'm backing off some and going to pick my nights and hopefully it will cool off in a couple months and he will come around. Take Care and give ole Creek a pat for me.

Rowdy Chris, thanks for the tips on Briar and that's good info for sure and I will try it. It seems when I take Bo by himself the coon tree in better trees and I can shine and find them But when I take Briar with us and I have my mind set that if he leaves the tree or don't tree but I find coon that I'm hooking him back and putting the coon on Bo and do that a few times and Briar might tighten up but always it seems its in a bad thicket and I can't even shine the tree. I also feel like when he hits that tree hard if I could get in there within those ten minutes or so before he gets hotter and loses interest and pet him up good if he has the coon and put it on him with some fight that would help too. But it is Thick and you can't hardly get through it. When I swim Briar a little while he pants pretty good, a lot more than Bo with the same swimming. Some hounds can take the heat better than others and I think part of Briars problem with losing interest is that he is overheating. If I had your 62 degree nights down here I couldn't use that excuse for ole Briar, I would have to think hard to come up with another one! Take Care and keep rolling with Jazz.

Chris, I hope yaw get some rain soon. We had been several weeks without any and it was sure nice to get it Saturday evening. A weak cold front is coming Wednesday and Thursday and our rain chance gets pretty good again so maybe yaw will get some from the front as well. I know you and Wolf are raring to go, keep me updated on your hunts. Take Care.

Gary, thanks for the compliments on my thread. I just post the way we hunt and live here on the Bogue Chitto River. When I got back into Coon Hunting and found this UKC Forum I was reluctant to start a thread because I'm not the kind of person that is politically correct or beat around the bush hinting about something or lie about what my hound did or didn't do. Being very straight forward I thought might offend some folks in todays world. But the more I read other folks threads I found there were more folks on here like me than I thought. Darren Hollis tells it like it is, for better or worse, like it or not. Danny Glista is another and I am also like that so their threads give me the inspiration to start my on and just be myself. I'm sure there are some who could care less but they don't have to read it but I sure appreciate the ones who do and like the stories and pictures. I truly enjoy typing it on here, even the bad hunts! By the time I'm done telling the bad hunt stories I feel better, kind of like letting off steam, lol! Take Care and Good Hunting!

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Posted by Tom Jones on 07-27-2015 09:47 PM:

great thread

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Posted by steve bankston on 07-28-2015 01:30 AM:

BO and BRIAR



BO and BRIAR treed Saturday night on a hard running swamp coon. It was Bad Thick going into and all around this tree but I have No Doubt the coon was there. BO was blowing it out and Briar had hammered at least 10 minutes on my way in then he got back on it once I got there and every now and then, when he stopped treeing a few seconds he would lean back further away from the tree winding the coon and go to hammering again.

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Posted by rufusblue on 07-28-2015 03:36 AM:

Briar and Bo

That's a good looking pair of blue dogs you got there Steve !!!
I really like that pic of them!!

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Posted by steve bankston on 07-28-2015 06:43 AM:

BO and BRIAR



Thanks Tom and Wendell. Here is another picture of Briar from tonight. I wasn't hunting him for a while but when I went to put BO on the 4 wheeler Briar talked me into letting him go, lol! Glad I did because he looked good tonight. They got deep before BO struck an old feeder track about 10pm. Coon must have stirred right before dark. Bo worked on it a few minutes and drifted on out with it and Briar started to put in from time to time. I rode my 4 wheeler a quarter mile down the trail and got them within 200yds and listened another 5 minutes or so to them work the track then Bo hit the tree. Briar was about 30 seconds behind him and wasn't treeing hard but he was there. I rode 4 wheeler within 25yds of the big popular they were treed on and parked it in a food plot. Threw my light up the tree and he was looking at me 2/3rd the way up. I went in and petted Briar and Bo up then hooked Briar back some. Went and got my shooting iron off the 4 wheeler, propped up on the back rack, turned the laser on and put one in him. He held a few seconds then fell. Both hounds went silent at the shot and when the coon dropped we were all waiting to hear the thump. NO THUMP. The bad luck continues, the sucker hung in the muscadime vines half way down. But when he hit those vines, 20' above and out in front of Briar, he went NUTS. Man did he hammer that tree. I unhooked him and led him back into the tree and he crawled up on it and hammered away. I could see the dead coon hung in a mess of vines and I shook every vine I could, rocking and snatching every which way until I was almost sick because I got so hot but no luck, still hung up. Nothing I could find to cut down was long enough to reach him to poke him out. Dogs were blowing the top out getting hotter and hotter and I was give out from shaking vines and had to give up and bring them out and get the water off my 4 wheeler and their pan so to give them some and cool them down. If it hadn't been a food plot on that one side close to the tree I would have never found him. That whole area was a privet hedge thicket with those vines everywhere. The muscadime vines were loaded but they were all still green. it might be a few getting ready but it will still be a couple weeks before the coon are hitting them good. I hated I couldn't get the coon out to them but it sure got Briars attention when he landed in those vines above him and was low enough that he could wind him. I think it did him good as he was sure looking up until I drug him off the tree. Wasn't worried about leaving and looking for a track and I sure let him know I was proud of him. BO did great on that rough track and getting the right tree so I petted on him some too. Good Hunting!!

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Posted by steve bankston on 07-28-2015 01:06 PM:

BRIAR



This is a video of Briar from last night, click on picture to see video.

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Posted by HILLBILLYS BLU on 07-28-2015 10:49 PM:

Really nice lookin bunch of hounds Steve!! I really want to add some of that blood into my dogs..

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