MOcoondogs
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Registered: Nov 2021
Location: MO
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I took Sally out somewhere new and she hunted close by at first but struck a track and tried to work it. After a bit she quit it and checked back in, then took off hunting again but in the opposite direction. Soon she picked up another track and worked it quite a ways before losing it as well. Then she came across an armadillo and bayed it until I started to her. She quit and came right to me then took off hunting again. Her first track was only about 100-125 yards long, the second track went about 300-350 yards. Next she started a track and took it 400 yards before treeing. She didn't tree good but she was barking enough you could call her treed, and she stayed a little longer than when she marks a tree to go on. Before I got to her she got down and began to trail on. This time she went another 285 yards and gave a good locate. She treed a few licks then fell silent but wasn't moving from the tree. I marked it on my Garmin just as I had done on the previous tree and then I waited on her. She left the tree to make a circle and check herself. Soon she came back and she treed some better but then fell silent again as she stayed there. I began walking to her and she treed occasionally but was mostly silent. When I was in sight of the tree I saw her leaving to check herself again. I could see about where the tree should be so I shined my spot light where I thought it was and called to her. Here she came back and jumped up on the tree and began treeing. I walked on in to her and saw her ripping down grape vines hanging from the tree. I noticed some other vines that had been chewed into, swinging loose from the tree while their counterpart layed on the ground. The tree was so huge, full of vines and other hiding spots it was going to be tough to find a coon, if 1 was up there. But I guess all of her thrashing around on those grape vines had the coon's attention because as well hidden as he was I could see his eye glowing back at me. I worked Sally on the tree before I knocked him out to have her finish him off. She carried him in her jaws most of the way back to the truck before she was satisfied. Then we loaded up and called it a night.
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