Great night!
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 5:07 am
First thing ill say is this is my first coon hound I've ever owned. He's a redbone, ttop bred I got from Mark Bates up in Montana. I got him as a 8 week old pup and raised him the Wick way so to speak. I taught him basic handling as a pup and just let him grow. I would take him on hikes in the mountains and along various rivers and creeks whenever I could, during the day. When he was real good at getting around and venturing out farther and farther I started taking him every now and again at night. He's a super athletic dog and could get around with ease anywhere I took him at 6 months. He grew up in my back yard which is full of trees and started treeing squirrel at 4 months. He then had about 4 or 5 encounters with a coon that liked to come up to the back deck in the middle of the night! I'd have to crawl under there to get him! He'd be baying his head off! Lol! so at 10 months I went ahead and trapped that coon (mostly cause I was tired of having to crawl under the porch) and took it out and released it. I turned Boozer loose and he took that track screaming all the way! He ended up losing that first coon cause it hit the creek and fooled him. From then on Its been wild coon, no trainers. It took him a while to catch one but he's always hunted hard and deep! He's been casting out a good half mile and now he'll go as far as needed. The first probably 10 or so he caught were in wood piles and I thought for a while that Colorado coon wouldn't climb, but that was in the dead of winter so maybe that was why? Anyway I thought he might not catch on to treeing cause all we were doing was ground catches. Eventually he treed one (not with much style ill add) but I could see progress so I was happy. Since then he'll hit a track, trail it, and then lose it a lot of times and I know he wasn't locating the tree. But every couple times out he would tree, still not hammering away, but treeing and always with a coon! Well the last two nights out previous to tonight he hit a track, trail it, and tree a coon and gettin better both nights. Now tonight!
First drop I turn him loose and he's takes off like a bullet! Goes 300 yards and strikes! Takes the track for maybe 50 yards and turns around. Goods up the river pretty fast opening up every maybe 2 or 3 min. He trailed for just under a mile and lets out looong locate ball and starts in on a constant short ball tree! Nicest job he's done to date! I was pumped up to say the least. I make my way over and he's got a huge coon trees up a Russian olive. He crossed the big Thompson river 3 times on that track! Long story short, I turned him out 3 more times and he trees 3 more coon, all coon seen, all on the outside! He let out that real long locate on every tree and stuck right there! He's not a 100 bark per min type but he sure has a nice mouth!
I know this is a long post but I'm pretty excited, he's done all this by himself, no help from other dogs. Thanks for reading and good hunting, Joe.
First drop I turn him loose and he's takes off like a bullet! Goes 300 yards and strikes! Takes the track for maybe 50 yards and turns around. Goods up the river pretty fast opening up every maybe 2 or 3 min. He trailed for just under a mile and lets out looong locate ball and starts in on a constant short ball tree! Nicest job he's done to date! I was pumped up to say the least. I make my way over and he's got a huge coon trees up a Russian olive. He crossed the big Thompson river 3 times on that track! Long story short, I turned him out 3 more times and he trees 3 more coon, all coon seen, all on the outside! He let out that real long locate on every tree and stuck right there! He's not a 100 bark per min type but he sure has a nice mouth!
I know this is a long post but I'm pretty excited, he's done all this by himself, no help from other dogs. Thanks for reading and good hunting, Joe.