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Went to Black Branch Swamp last night with BO. They have fresh Timber Flagging and Blue paint on trees up my trails so looks like they will be cutting soon. I hope they are just thinning but I know better. Most likely will look like a bomb hit it when they are done.

Cut him loose and he was over half mile before he hit a track and I came out of the swamp and road up the road to get closer. When I stopped he was treed a hundred yards across a field from a house. He was on a huge water oak at edge of field and he had the coon. Petted him up and we left the coon up and went to another spot. Got there and before I cut him I checked the battery life on Garmin hand held and it was almost dead. I had put fresh recharged batteries in it before I left so these will go in the garbage, their life is done. So, I didn't cut him, we just came on home. Still powder keg dry and no rain in sight the next 10 days.

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Jody here is a couple of 2" thick Sinker Cypress Slabs. Top one is 18" wide and the bottom is 24" wide.

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Girls are the top picture. They have really started ticking up and getting darker the past few days. The Boys are the middle picture. They darkened up early. All 10 at feeding time. It was hard trying to get a decent picture. I will give them a bath the next day or so and get Beverly to help me get some good pictures.

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Man, I bet you have your hands full with those good looking youngsters.... The 2 Zero pups I have here are about to drive me crazy. I'll be in the shop welding and they will raise all kind of cain... BUT they are learning pretty quick I don't put up w/ that.

Hope pebbles is not whooping up on bam bam too much The younger female I have (littermate to your pebbles) is half the size of the older pup, but rules the pen...

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Went to Black Branch Swamp tonight and cut BO down the dry Branch to the South. He went in to 375yds and opened a couple times and next time he opened he was over 500. A dozer had been in there pushing the line around where they are going to cut and he had made a road through the Bad Stuff. I road it as for as I could and when I stopped BO was treed but still 363 from me. It took a while as it was thick but I finally busted out into a field and he was at the backend of it treed on a huge gum and I saw the coon as I came in. I turned on the laser and popped one off and he turned around and down the tree he came. When he was about 10' from the ground he jumped but BO was waiting. There was a pretty good ruckus and I thought I might have to help but he got the job done. Nice size Boar Coon. BO had done got hot as it was 77 when we left to go and its humid again. Supposed to be 91 tomorrow but then a dry cool front is coming through on Saturday. NO rain in sight yet. Its as dry here and the river is as low as I have seen in the 20 years I have been here. Road the Jet Boat down river today cutting a few logs out of the way getting my river trail ready to hunt out of the Jet Boat some but right now it would be suicide. Bad shallow everywhere and the clay falls right below the house you have to get going wide open, trim up and shut it down as you hit the 2" of water over the clay and just skip and slide across. First time through I thought, yea I'm bad, but the next time it got sideways some and when I hit the deeper water it bit and liked to have pitched me from the boat. We need a good 4" or better rain to get the river up 3" to 6" and it will be safe but right now, at night, I'm to old to run it like I used to. The lights aren't as bright as what I remember 10 years ago.


Casey, Pebbles is a fine acting pup and yea she is full of herself too. Bam Bam don't get over on her much or she will dust roll him even though he is a good bit bigger. Don't intimidate her, she holds her on. Loves the river and when I ride the 4 wheeler up the sand bars she is always hitting the river cooling off and swimming around. They jealous of those little ones though and when I sit down in the yard petting on them they raise cain in the pen. I have to keep an eye on her and Bam Bam. They aren't the kind of pups you can leave in the yard while you go inside a while because when you come out they are gone. They will be getting DC- 50's on them soon, they roam that much which is a good thing. They would rather be checking out the woods than laying around waiting on me to come back out and pet them. I like that.

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Mason came over this evening and is here for the whole weekend. Pups will be Bomb Proof by Sunday evening, lol! We are having a great time watching him take care of the pups and making sure they all eat a little.

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Good Job Gram Pa! He will always remember you doing these things with him. I remember mine waking me up about 11pm one night when I was around 11 years old because he saw a coon cross the back road and we had a pup to start.

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Ron, Paw Paw's left most of us with great memories and that's what I hope my Grand Children get from me, Great Memories. We look back and say that was the good ole days and our Grand Kids will most likely do the same. I know the older I get the more I look back and Remember When.

Chris I watch that Christmas Story every year and can still hear my Mom saying the same thing and when I stuck that target for Mason on the end of the log I was thinking of the BB bouncing back and a couple did so we have moved it to the sand bar. Mason now knows BB's will bounce off trees and he shouldn't shoot them. Yea Right! It never stopped my Brother and me, we were bad growing up with those BB Guns. Lots of whippings for shooting at each other.

Chris, my Paw Paw never called me dead eye but if I shot near enough to his house for him to hear then when I came walking up he would look at me and say Buck or Doe? I missed my share the first couple years but after that I settled down and if Paw Paw heard my shot he expected meat to be on the way.

The pups developed a watery Diarrhea yesterday morning and was hoping it was just because I had mixed some chicken broth in their food but last night they wouldn't eat nor this morning. A few looked dehydrated so I had Beverly call the Vet and open his office today and she took two pups for him to check while I force fed a few of them Pedialyte. He told her they had bacterial infection. He gave us the medicine to give them, Proviable-DC and Albon. We give them that late this morning and have force fed them a couple times and just now they were nibbling on their on and I held Stormy while they nursed. She is trying to wean them back some and won't stand long for them. I believe they will all be ok but Beverly, Mason and I have been worrying over pups all day. And it sure wasn't cheap to have the VET open up on a Sunday either but I didn't think they could make it until tomorrow. A couple couldn't have for sure. Hoping after another day or so of the medicine they will be back on track. It was diagnosed as, Coccidia. I have bought a couple pups that developed Diarrhea a few days after arriving but it was called something else and he give them Flagyle. Never had this before but it sure got my pups down quick.

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Got up at 3am this morning and went out and brought All the pups in the house to give them medicine and feed them. Beverly and I couldn't believe the difference that one dose of medicine made. They were barking, jumping, wrestling and just looking and sounding great. Man were we relieved. They ate good and I put Stormy in a different pen and when Beverly came home and fed them at lunch they woofed it down and this evening also. We just put Stormy back in with them for the night but her trips will get shorter and shorter over the next 2 weeks as we gradually wean them off by 6 1/2 weeks old. So happy they will be alright.

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Good luck with the pups, Steve. It sounds as though they are feeling better.

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Thanks Gary they are doing fine now and eating like pigs.

Took BO to Haunted House Bottom and he made a big round and was coming out on the little gravel road a half mile from me so I rode up there and caught him up, not a bark. Took him to the cypress slough across the road from the house and he was gone a little while before he struck at 782yds and moved it back my way some then out through some 12 year old planted pines on to the river then back through the pines down into the beaver pond where the track went bad on him and he never did tree. I would have thought for sure I was going to look at this coon but he did something around that pond and BO couldn't get under him or pick the track up and move on. He stayed in there a while looking for it then finally got on out of there and made his way back. I caught him up and came on in. Pretty bad hunt but better than setting on the couch watching nothing but junk on the TV. We will try again tomorrow.

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I read yours and Mr. Jacks post just about every day. I kind of use y’all hunts to compare to ours. Seems like when hunting is tough for yall, so is ours. Last night we couldn’t get a good track going. We made two trees, both were cold, cold tracks. Could have been coon in both, but we never saw them. It’s just odd that our hunting conditions follow so close with yours. Must be the barometric pressure, moon phase, or something like that. But as you said, it was still better than watching Hillary in that rigged debate! People PLEASE vote before it’s too late.

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I was off work yesterday through the rest of the week. Our concrete pile were delayed and won't be delivered until next Thursday so I didn't have anything going on so I am off work. Yesterday did a lot over at my shop, cut grass and ate dust as it was awful when I cut those blades on, mulched leaves, bleached the Kennel, ect. Today I was bored so I got the big saw out and got in the Jet Boat and went upriver about a quarter mile. I knew where a big Sinker Cypress was as Shane and I cut about 40' of it a couple years ago. The biggest part was still buried in the river but with it being so low I knew I could get about a 10' cut off it so that's what I did. Once it was cut I went back to the house and drove the tractor with the winch through the woods and got into position, pulled 150' of the 5/8" cable down the bank and out to the log then winched it on up and came to the house. Got a video of the boat ride coming home by clipping the cell phone to my shirt. I will post it later and give yaw an idea what a Mississippi Jet Boat Ride on the Bogue Chitto is like. This is picture of log pulled today.

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Bo and I went for a hunt down river in the Jet Boat tonight. I knew it would be a wild ride in the dark but it wasn't so bad. I picked up a little bit of trash in one spot as you can see in the 2nd picture. That's the Jet Foot that sucks water up through those grates. Those two little rocks and that green moss, slime will slow you way down. With that in the grate you can't even get up on plane. I take a screwdriver and put just a little pressure on the grates prying them slightly apart and the rocks will drop right out. The bottom picture is an Artesian Well. Flows all the time and this one has great pressure. Someone has this one rigged up to divert the water down a blue hose that runs 500' to their food plot. They have been flooding their plot and have the only Rye Grass and wheat I have seen yet because of the drought. BO swam the river trailing a coon and treed just past this Flow Well. He was on a huge Cottonwood and had the coon. We left him to run again and came on in. Short hunt as I'm pretty sore from cutting the Sinker and pulling cable today and with river as shallow as it is I didn't want to push my luck.

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This is the video from the other day when I pulled the Sinker Cypress. Gives you an idea 0f the logs I dodge riding this river. When I go through the glimmering water that looks a little rough that's when its about 4" deep. Click on picture to see video.

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That right there is some text book river reading. You hit all the downstream Vs on a dime. I learned my skills at the school of Indiana Fast Water Rescue and 25 years on the job. I'd bet you learned yours at the school of hard knocks and a lifetime of running the river. My advantage was that I didn't have to pay for stuff I tore up learning. When you have to foot the bill it accelerates learning!

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Pictures of the pups from this evening. Top picture is feeding time, next picture is let me OUT time, next picture is one of the males saying Hi to Daddy and the last picture is the female I'm keeping saying Hi to Daddy.

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Ol' Bo looks good in that boat. Different hunting than up here for sure. It was 30 degrees when we hunted last night. Perfect weather the coon where really moving.
Those pups sure look good and healthy. You must be doing a great job with them. Looks like your new kennel is really working out nice. Take care and safe hunting.

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BO and I took the Jet Boat down river again tonight but went twice as far as we did the other night. Saw 2 coon on the edge of rock bars going down and one on other side of river coming back up. Bo blew up on the 2 but I kept rolling. Told him those easy, hot coon would be for Bam Bam and Pebbles in a few months. We pulled into a sand bar where a spring fed creek dumps into the river and its a big patch of river Birch Trees then it turns into big oak woods. He didn't make it 200yds and struck a good track, rolled it a minute then slammed the tree. I made my way to him and he was treed on the other side of an old river bed where it use to flow but now is just dead water. He was on a medium oak and the coon was in the top looking at me. I popped 3 quick rounds off and out he came. I laid my rifle down on top that bank then started sliding down to the bottom and waded across the shallow water. Petted BO up and was taking a couple pictures when BO did something he has never done. He picked the coon up high, and Took Off. I mean Stepping like a Tennessee Walking Horse. I took out after him shouting every thing I could think of that use to make him stop, Bo, Snacky! Bo, I love You! Bo, I'm gonna Kill You! lol! Nothing worked. I caught up to him a couple hundred feet up in the woods just as he went over the lip of the old river bed headed down hill. I caught him by his tail just as we both started to slide. I bet I sounded like a 800lb Bull Gator when I hit that water with that dang hound and coon! I was pretty mad when I came up but what ya gonna do? BO did a good job in this dry weather treeing a coon and was just tired of my picture taking and taking away HIS COON every time so he just decided he would leave with it. I guarantee next time he will be hooked Before the coon comes out. Not going to let this become a game. Good time tonight with the moon setting in the west. Good Hunting!!

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Bam Bam treed on another drag this morning. I said I wasn't going to do another but after BO ran from me with it last night and I had to tackle him and get wet I said, shoot, I'm gonna make this coon go as far as I can. So I brought it home and this morning laid a drag But I pulled the coon up in this big tree with a small rope and into a huge fork that hid it from Bam Bam. We cut him loose and he did his thing and found the tree and lit it up. I made a video I will post in a bit, hooked him up and fired the .22 into the top of the tree then pulled the rope that was hid in the bushes and down came the coon with a thump. Bam Bam was on it in an instant pulling fur. No Fear, I love it. I petted him up good and lead him back to the Kennel and put him up. After I had to tote him last month I have broke him to the lead and he is leading good. He turned 4 months old on the 13th and we made our trip to the Vet and got his last shots and he weighed 39lbs. 4 pounds shy of what Briar weighed at the same age but he is going to be plenty big. I love this pup and can't wait until him and I are in that Jet Boat going down the river spot lighting some coon for him to run and get him started.

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Video of Bam Bam from this morning, click on picture to see video.

Thanks Scott. Pups have been a handful as I'm sue you know. But we have enjoyed the little fellows especially the past week now that they are old enough to roam around the yard some. Will be giving them their first shots this week. hope Creeks foot is better and yaw are back in the woods, Take Care.

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Bam sure has a horn on him !!!
Looks like he likes that game.

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