Went out to day.........

[radar]

Long bike ride to agine and as always well worth it.Cought one with my two then met up with a friend that was also out hunting and he cought one,he only brought one dog and the dog pulled a solo.Well we ended up getting together with another guy who was having the same day, he had one already also. We all ended up together and cought one more!!!! great day....

[radar]

[radar]

Went on sunday and cought the most coons I ever personaly cought in a days hunt. Started off bumbed out cuz we pulled up and there was people haveing a bird dog hunt test This always pissies us off cuz we only get so much time at the swamps and there season has long been over with.Anyways me and my buddy have been haveing a problem with my male and his two just running a muck,one of them is mines brother.We would get to the hunting spot open the box and they wouldn't even try and clean out, they would just run and run and run and jump from track to track.Are throat would sore the first 30min being there.Well on this day they acted normal and even better.

Theres a big tule patch right by the parking lot were in the back they cought quik,about 15 min cold trail to a jump and about a 20 min race to catch, after that one they almost immediately started on a second one and they ended up catching in the front of the patch close to where they were haveing the hunt test. There was about ten dudes standing out away from the test just listing to our dogs sing swamp music and on the way out they came to the truck and told us how sweet that sounded.So we hope'ed to turn a new page with them.We road our bikes down the road bit to an even bigger tule patch were we cought 4 more!!!For a total of 6 and they were all boars and all individal catches.Boy are the dogs whooped and chewed up the first patch were we cought two is nipple deep water and real thick.Dogs had to swim alot.

[beaglewalkerhunter4]

again Radar great pics. Are these the same dogs that you use on bear?

[Arkansas Frog]

this late in the year is the pelts blue or rubbed,will they bring any thing? do you sell the meat? or you jut wiping out coons, you are not going put a dent in them.

Around Oakly do you know a farmer by the name of John Mass.

[cobalt]

Great day, Radar.

[radar]

Yes Beagle these are same dogs we cought a cuple bears with this year except one main contributer my buddu bulfyter's liitle dog blue and his old dog lucy. Their the ones who are the starters but they hate the swamp But they shine in the hills!!!!!!!

arkansas frog we give them away to some one that eats them we don't sell them, it seems like the older they are the browner they are

Thanks Cobalt you always have good stuff to say and for that I thank you.........

[cjohnson1178]

i like your hunting rig ( bicycle) i've thought about doing it that way. but i gots a bad back.

[houndhavoc]

Frog I live in oakley and my family has been in oakley as long as it has been around. We used to farm almonds. I have never met a person by that name where about in oakley? Is he still aroound? What does he farm?

[norcalkemmer]

I was wondering Radar, do you believe in letting any coons live to run another day?

[Arkansas Frog]

Radar back in 1980 a levy broke and swamped his house, but he had rental house he moved into. he had a large farm where he raised Alfalfa hay and pheasants,you could come shoot Pheasants on his farm I think 5 for 100 dollars.

He build a farm pond and from Chevron[In Richmond] we hauled fertilizer around the clock to fill up that pond [it was for his feilds]he was 3 or 4 miles out of Oakly.it took 4 months ,I worked 12hrs. a night 7 days a week. 1980 you were still on the tit.

Don't worry about Radar killing all them coons, At Walnut Creek if you went camping in the hills before you could get your tent and coolers unloaded there would be 20 coons trying to get in your stuff, friend counted 23 one time.

[BULFYTR]

[radar]

thanks Arkansa and Bulfyter,I will add that its hard to save'em when most of your hunts end with ground catches also these hunting ground have been hunted way before I was on the tit and every year it just gets better and better..........

[arizonabeagle]

yeahh dont worry norcalkemmer, that place radar hunts is CRAWLIN with coon
been there a few times and its like the coons are appearing outta thin air, literally

radar, great pics man
looks like you got some awesome dog power workin for ya

[radar]

Thanks A.B.