Doug Robinson
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Warsaw, New York
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Opening Night
As tradition has it we were all excited for opening night. My hunting partner Paul works nights for the Sheriffs Dept. so he got half the night off and we hunted four dogs. Paul's friend has a big farm up on Youngers rd. and said since they had been choppin corn some coon have been coming up from the East woods and getting into the bunker. We had never hunted the area so thought we would give it a try despite the warm windy conditions. Dogs struck off the leash walking in. Paul had his 7 yr old Mainstreet Jacki dog and a pup off Jackie and my Bluspeck he calls Two eyed Jack. I was hunting my Bluspeck and Mike Casselbury's big Hutch pup that is off of the Rat Poison dog.
We cut all four dogs once they winded and took a track down thru a thick swampy bog area just full of multiflora rose. Coon circled back and all four dogs come treed in a big maple full of vines and surrounded by that darn thorny rose! Coon was up top, we tied the two older dogs back and let the young Jack and Hutch dogs tree and knocked the big boar coon out. Jack got a good cut on his nose nothing bad before the two young dogs dispatched him.
Hutch the redtick and Jack the blk and white pup treeing in the multiflora rose:
Cut again dogs treed up further in a big ash with grapevines everywhere coon was not there. Third cut ended up in the woods on a big home tree. 4rth drop was a nice long run and ended in a big hemlock, try as we might couldn't get coon to look!
Jacki, Blu, Hutch and Jack on the hemlock
Hutch, Bluspeck and Jack
Hutch and Jack:
We decided to run up to Camp Weona and cut by the pond. Walking across the levee the dogs struck hot and away they went over the hill, run went over 500 yrds then circled back down into the swamp full of beaver dams. Jacki, Hutch and Jack continued down the creek and Bluspeck cut across the valley up over the ridge and treed 750 yrd up in the hardwoods. I couldn't hear him but tree switch went off. We could see lightning and hear the thunder the wind picked up fast so Paul caught up Jacki and Jack I grabbed Hutch. Paul headed for the truck and I headed off towards Bluspeck. I couldn't hear him in the wind till I got about 350 yrds from him he was treeing hard and fast. Hutch heard him too so I cut him to go to Blu and heard him tree.
Lightning was flashing all around me wind whipping and rain and hail falling. I spotted eyes just once in the top of the big hemlock and fired and heard that familiar plunk. It was so windy never heard the coon hit the ground, nice big boar. Dogs wooled him good I grabbed dogs and headed for the long walk back to the truck soaked to the skin.
Bluspeck and Hutch treed in a lightning rainstorm:
Got home and weighed coon just a bit over 22 lbs
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