coon hunting season ?

[beerthief]

I just do not understand this ! A guy i know hunts coons . He has a dog that cost a few thousand $$ . A gun that cost more . He hunts for the pelts = money .
I gave him 16 pelts last year by simply putting dinner scraps out by the tree and used a PCP .22 from my deck . I mean it is all about the money ,and he does pay for the dog and gun . seriously he hunts for the money. out in the cold / drizzle rainy .

 

[Ranchibi]

Well, maybe it's just an excuse to purchase the pup and gun....! I still like your method better .

 

[Ezana4CE]

I just do not understand this ! A guy i know hunts coons . He has a dog that cost a few thousand $$ . A gun that cost more . He hunts for the pelts = money .
I gave him 16 pelts last year by simply putting dinner scraps out by the tree and used a PCP .22 from my deck . I mean it is all about the money ,and he does pay for the dog and gun . seriously he hunts for the money. out in the cold / drizzle rainy .

@beerthief Dunno about the money part, but I grew up hunting raccoons as he does. Some of our hounds cost a significant amount of money. It’s a hobby and sport like airgunning. Hunting with dogs is very entertaining. It’s really fulfilling to watch them work and see your time and efforts (in training them) pay off. Spending thousands on a gun to hunt raccoon with dogs is nuts to me. They will often times be in a tree and shot from close range. The thing is you have to be able to get to that tree to take the shot and then you need to be able to retrieve the animal once it falls. Most raccoon hunting hounds I’ve seen aren’t retrievers. They will tug on and maul that carcass once it hits the ground. Imagine a head-shot raccoon doing the death dance on the ground in front of a pack of hunting hounds. If you can’t get to it quickly or call the dogs off of it, there goes your money.

That guy sounds like someone happy to get away from the house and/or the wife for a while and go out doing something that he loves.

 

[dens228]

I'd say it's for the fun. Before they built up all around my house we had deer running around all over the place. An elderly gentleman a few doors down had and still has a huge garden. I was an avid bowhunter and he'd always tease me about driving an hour away to hunt when I could sit on his elevated deck and shoot a deer anytime I wanted. I told him it just wasn't the same.

 

[beerthief]

@beerthief Dunno about the money part, but I grew up hunting raccoons as he does. Some of our hounds cost a significant amount of money. It’s a hobby and sport like airgunning. Hunting with dogs is very entertaining. It’s really fulfilling to watch them work and see your time and efforts (in training them) pay off. Spending thousands on a gun to hunt raccoon with dogs is nuts to me. They will often times be in a tree and shot from close range. The thing is you have to be able to get to that tree to take the shot and then you need to be able to retrieve the animal once it falls. Most raccoon hunting hounds I’ve seen aren’t retrievers. They will tug on and maul that carcass once it hits the ground. If you can’t get to it quickly or call the dogs off of it, there goes your money.

That guy sounds like someone happy to get away from the house and/or the wife for a while and go out doing something that he loves.

Yes i can see that part of it, . Same as when i go out to star gaze , sit in the cold waiting 45 minutes for the telescope tube to stabilize.

 

[Ezana4CE]

I sure wish I knew about PCPs as a boy. Having something like a an Airforce Talon .25, that would’ve been the bees knees! To take that shot at night via spot light? I’d still be bragging about something like that. Although I have no idea which types of PCPs were around back then.

 

[ba49]

Growing up my across the street best friend's Dad was a coon hunter. Went out on night hunts with them many times. He always said its about listening to the "Hounds making music" with their howls. He could tell exactly what they were doing by the sound of their barking. He had Plott Hounds and they were fearless and definitly one man dogs. He once spent $500 for one in the 1950s and it got hit by a car chasing a coon one night three weeks later. Those guys are definetly a breed of their own.

 

[beerthief]

I am very happy we didn't have pcp's when i was a kid .

 

[Ezana4CE]

Growing up my across the street best friend's Dad was a coon hunter. Went out on night hunts with them many times. He always said its about listening to the "Hounds making music" with their howls. He could tell exactly what they were doing by the sound of their barking. He had Plott Hounds and they were fearless and definitly one man dogs. He once spent $500 for one in the 1950s and it got hit by a car chasing a coon one night three weeks later. Those guys are definetly a breed of their own.

Yessir. That man sounds like a coon hunter to me. If you’ve done it long enough then you can relate.

 

[qball]

I’ve spent way too much money on airguns and pellets to kill squirrels in my yard where a cheap break barrel would do the trick. Think we all can relate to that guy to some degrees.

 

[Chuck-in-Ohio]

We used to unleash the hounds and hunt from Mule back.

Witnessed a guy once, who pulled up in a Plymouth Fury and let the dogs out of the back seat. He then opened the trunk and two kids got out......
The dogs were 2 Grand Night Champions and a Jack Russell, fairly valuable in his eyes I gathered.

 

[Ezana4CE]

We used to unleash the hounds and hunt from Mule back.

Witnessed a guy once, who pulled up in a Plymouth Fury and let the dogs out of the back seat. He then opened the trunk and two kids got out......
The dogs were 2 Grand Night Champions and a Jack Russell, fairly valuable in his eyes I gathered.

You win for most outlandish coon hunting story. That’s is funny as hell!!

I’ve heard of guys hunting with mules. Never saw it though.

 

[Chuck-in-Ohio]

You win for most outlandish coon hunting story. That’s is funny as hell!!

I’ve heard of guys hunting with mules. Never saw it though.

Thanks man, I actually witnessed him do the same thing twice. Once was at the field trial nationals, with the same dogs and kids!

Mules are the ticket for covering wood lots and fields. I do recommend dismounting if you do not have experience jumping fences with a mule though!

 

[qball]

Thanks man, I actually witnessed him do the same thing twice. Once was at the field trial nationals, with the same dogs and kids!

Mules are the ticket for covering wood lots and fields. I do recommend dismounting if you do not have experience jumping fences with a mule though!

I thought you were kidding…..

 

[EdinGa]

I had an uncle that was a coon hunter. It wasn't a hobby to him; it was a full blown crack addiction.

 

[MAUMAU]

He then opened the trunk and two kids got out......

I like a man who has his priorities straight.

 

[Chuck-in-Ohio]

I thought you were kidding…..

Not kidding at all sir, the occurence was personally witnessed and noted.

The incident made me very appreciative of station wagons! The station wagon was also quite useful for road working hounds in preparation for the upcoming season.

For anyone interested,the hounds we hunted with were Black and Tans, Plotts, and Catahoulas.

 

[Ezana4CE]

Witnessed a guy once, who pulled up in a Plymouth Fury and let the dogs out of the back seat. He then opened the trunk and two kids got out......
The dogs were 2 Grand Night Champions and a Jack Russell, fairly valuable in his eyes I gathered.

I spoke to my father and told him this story and he said he saw something like that on television today.

 

[dparsons]

I racoon hunted for years a lot of fun. Making money on coon hides not any more.

 

[ba49]

I once bought a riding mule from the Amish auction in Sugar Creek Ohio for trail riding.. Owner said he used him for coon hunting. He was trained to leap over fences when you laid your jacket over the top of the fench and got down off of him. I kept a halter with a long lead attached for that purpose. They walk up to the fences then lean back on their hind feat and leap over like a deer. Most coon hunters like to ride small pony-sized mules so they are easier to get on and off in a hurry. Loved that mule, he was way smoother and smarter than my Tenn. Walking Horses.