Two Sundays ago I was approched by a lady to "run the coons out of her sweet corn patch". I told her I'd be glad to. Yeah I know what a deal!
Now I don't own a coon dog per se. I have Treeing Feist...squirrel dogs yes, coon dogs not so much. However I know that my dogs tree several coons in the day and my house dog trees them around the yard when they try for a chicken dinner. I figured I still give it a try.
First I needed a light. I bought a 3 d cell LED maglight. Now it's not like some of those 21 watt head lamps the pro's use but I still haven't shined a tree where I felt I didn't have enough light. As an added bonus the pack came with a little 2 AA cell flash light that is just the berries for walking around in the woods.
I loaded up a dog and headed to the patch. Until the last 48 hours Mid-Michigan has been in a drought. The dog worked a couple in the corn patch but couldn't straighten them out. Then we hit the patch of woods behind it. There's a nice gravel pit/pond in the woods and we finally got our first tree. Of course with the leaves we couldn't find the coon.
In the last few trips we've been getting more coons. So far they've all been treed coming out of the pond. My take is that the coons are wet, hence giving the dogs some scent finally. The only exception is the one my house dog ran out of culvert. Hopefully tonight that will change with the rain soaked ground.
So are my dogs coon dogs? Not necessarily. I think they'll tree coons and they are about ideal for keeping them out of this corn patch as all the hunting is shorter range. Of course I'm not necessarily a coon hunter either so I guess were even!
Mike
BAD RIVER FEIST
2 comments:
Sounds like some fun to me. Yall's coons are as big as the dog isn't. lol
Kevin
Had 2 feists 10 years ago .. 1 great coon dog ,other1 new the coon was up the tree but wouldnt bark ..would love to find another good coon feist.
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