9/28/2015
You can not live in the country without partaking in a coon hunt from time to time and on Friday night, three little boys enjoyed their first one. We were honored to have local legendary hunters, Clyde Ray Pearson (aka The Coon Eliminator) and Roger "Bobcat" Sheffield take us out to our swamp for an evening of fun.
The boys were particularly excited to get to shoot at the coons themselves but they quickly learned the difficulty of such when the coons tree high in huge oaks that are still full of leaves.
The air was a little cooler than the recent humid evenings we have endured but the full moon and dry weather was expected to make the going difficult. It did, but not immediately.
As soon as the two hounds hit the first hardwood bottom they caught the scent of a coon and it did not take long before they treed. We moved in and Clyde Ray finally saw the coon and was able to get a shot. Again the dogs were turned loose and again they treed for another successful kill. We continued to hunt for another few hours and they treed several more times but these were unsuccessful attempts as the oaks were simple too large and offered too many hiding places for the coons to elude us. Just before midnight, we called it quits.
We all got a stronger appreciation of just how hard it is to see the coons in the tree and how well they can hide. Clyde Ray and Roger had much better trained eyes than the rest of us for picking out the coon on the limb, but even they struggled in the large, leaf filled oaks that provide refuge. However, the boys are looking forward to the next adventure with The Coon Eliminator and it will sure happen as soon as the temperatures begin to fall.
The boys were particularly excited to get to shoot at the coons themselves but they quickly learned the difficulty of such when the coons tree high in huge oaks that are still full of leaves.
The air was a little cooler than the recent humid evenings we have endured but the full moon and dry weather was expected to make the going difficult. It did, but not immediately.
As soon as the two hounds hit the first hardwood bottom they caught the scent of a coon and it did not take long before they treed. We moved in and Clyde Ray finally saw the coon and was able to get a shot. Again the dogs were turned loose and again they treed for another successful kill. We continued to hunt for another few hours and they treed several more times but these were unsuccessful attempts as the oaks were simple too large and offered too many hiding places for the coons to elude us. Just before midnight, we called it quits.
We all got a stronger appreciation of just how hard it is to see the coons in the tree and how well they can hide. Clyde Ray and Roger had much better trained eyes than the rest of us for picking out the coon on the limb, but even they struggled in the large, leaf filled oaks that provide refuge. However, the boys are looking forward to the next adventure with The Coon Eliminator and it will sure happen as soon as the temperatures begin to fall.
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