Jim
12-01-2012, 11:09 AM
We went 'coon' huntin' last night. We turned the dogs out down by the river at the bottom of a pretty steep grade. In about five minutes, Susie and Jasper struck a scent and cranked up. Murphy showed up and the dogs treed about half way up that steep grade.
Ya' can't just stand there waitin' on 'em to come down 'cause they'll stay right there all night. So, we started up. We got to the bottom of the grade and ran into a big tangle of thorn bushes. Nice. Nothin' like startin' off gettin' scratched up real good by a bunch of 2 inch needle thorns.
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After crawlin' under the thorns, we got to where the grade starts and had to crawl through the Laurels. The grade looked to be about 45 degrees.
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The grade was littered with dead leaves, so we slid back about a step for every two we crawled up. After about 15 minutes of this, we got to the dogs. They were treed on a huge Red Oak that turned out to be a den tree. The 'coon was in a hole about 40 feet up, so all we could do was catch the dogs and leave. All of the above in reverse order.
Sometimes I think I need my head examined.
Ya' can't just stand there waitin' on 'em to come down 'cause they'll stay right there all night. So, we started up. We got to the bottom of the grade and ran into a big tangle of thorn bushes. Nice. Nothin' like startin' off gettin' scratched up real good by a bunch of 2 inch needle thorns.
55028
After crawlin' under the thorns, we got to where the grade starts and had to crawl through the Laurels. The grade looked to be about 45 degrees.
55029
The grade was littered with dead leaves, so we slid back about a step for every two we crawled up. After about 15 minutes of this, we got to the dogs. They were treed on a huge Red Oak that turned out to be a den tree. The 'coon was in a hole about 40 feet up, so all we could do was catch the dogs and leave. All of the above in reverse order.
Sometimes I think I need my head examined.