Doug Robinson
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Warsaw, New York
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Hunt
Paul and Daryl,
Weather hit a high of 50 today and melted almost all the snow. With deer season in full swing and the recent freeze on haven't hunted Samson in a week. Loaded him up early in hopes of beating the projected rain coming, I headed up to one of the highest points near me we call Jenkins Hill. Parked near the radio tower back in off the road on the access drive. Collared Samson up and started walking towards the distant woods along a locust hedgerow when he struck on the leash not 30 feet from the truck. I cut him and he lined it up down the hedgerow just a singing! It was a good 250 yrds. to the woods, he took the track the full length of the hedgerow and down into the woods a couple hundred yards further down into the large Norway spruces, located three times and come treed.
We have treed several nice big coon in this area over the years they sure do like to go up those big spruce trees where it is thick and hard to find them. I shined and squalled and walked around trying to get eyes with my red light but just couldn't get the coon to look. I finally using my white light scanned the tree and saw a dark spot in the thick upper branches.
I fired and heard that familiar thunk, then he looked and got him with a head shot, out he came a nice big boar with a great hide.
Wanted to weigh him so decided not to skin him in the woods.
Hung him up in a sugar maple to get on the way out and headed further down into the valley woods. I spooked a flock of Turkeys and had them flying out over my head in all directions. Samson ran a nice track and put one in a big brush pile made up from tops when they had done some logging. Moved farther North, Samson exploded on the creek and was really moving when he caught a second coon on the ground. First time he has ever caught one. It was another boar coon, he couldn't kill it (he is not a kill dog)but every time the coon tried to climb he grabbed it and pulled it down so I finished it for him. The wind was picking up so decided to make the climb up out of the valley back to the truck. Grabbed my big coon on the way up and took this pic on the tailgate. Samson didn't want to quit but headed home to weigh my coon.
The small boar weighed 14 3/4 lbs and the big boy tipped the scales just a hair under 24 lbs.
Fun night and it looks like there is going to be a few more above freezing.
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