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Another good night
Aaron and his friend Josh came for a hunt on Saturday and we had a great time visiting and then hunting later on that night. Josh brought his nice English female along and she took to Yank and Moose very well and we had a great night of hunting with some good dog work...and...of course...lots of excitement at the trees
This is a picture of Libby, Josh's nice English female on the first tree with Moose and Yank
This is Libby and Moose doing it right
Moose is doing it right
This is Yank...he's hard to catch in a picture of any kind...
These next couple of pictures are of Josh and Aaron and Libby. Believe me, these pictures are the result of a night to remember...
These are 4 of the 5 coons we harvested last night. From left to right they weigh 32, 27, 26 and 20 pounds. The one we skinned in the woods was around 22 give or take.
The first track of the night was pretty easy with all three dogs working together and getting treed together. There was very little excitement involved with the harvest but...there was more to come.
The next drop produced a quick strike and a hard driving track into the corn field. The dogs were pushing hard and the track turned and came back towards a real brushy fence line with lots of downed crap in it. They hit the brush and it got quiet for a minute and then Libby came hard on a small tree followed right away by Yank and Moose...there was a big coon up the little tree. Dave was a little nervous about shooting...considering his run of bad luck so he handed me the Cricket and I squeezed off a shot. The coon folded like a tent but hit the ground like he hadn't been touched and the fight was on. After a lot of fighting, yelling, jumping and running, we finally got the coon finished but all the dogs were bloodied in the fracus.
I carried the coon back to the truck because he was a good sized boar and Dave, Aaron and Josh went on to dump again along the same field. The dogs got struck deep and I could hear Moose and Libby treed hard followed shortly by Yank. I also heard two quick shots and then quiet...for a little while...I soon heard a bark then another and then the chase was on. Finally, I could hear a dull roar waaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy down in the valley and it was plain to hear that the dogs had the coon bayed up. It wasn't long after that and the dull report of a shot could be heard and then quiet again. I waited by the truck and soon could see lights coming in the distance, Dave in the lead carrying what appeared to be a small bear cub...turns out it was another big boar coon.
We made one more dump but Libby had enough and came back but Moose and Yank went deep again and tried hard to lay up a coon but couldn't do it. They came up a few trees short barking in the wind but we left the coon sit for another night. Once they got back to the truck, Aaron brought up the fact that he would have liked to see old Angel go so...home we went and Dave, Aaron and Josh unloaded Yank, Moose and Libby and loaded up Leinie and Angel for another few hours of hunting...this was about 1:30 AM
I only got the story this morning but to make a long story shorter...they make two more tracks and trees and harvested two real nice coons in the process.
Overall a very interesting night. I can say now that Aaron has become a new member of the shoot to miss club and even I had to admit that the Cricket didn't seem to have a lot of knock out power. It's like Dave says...we always make it interesting but it was a night to remember, that's for sure.
We enjoyed the company and I think that Aaron and Josh will remember last night for a long time to come. The dogs worked very well together and it made for a good night.
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