Shawk
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Boy... there's just a flat out an unreal number of coon around Iowa these days. I'm assuming the rest of the states are seeing big numbers as well. I can't imagine that coon don't have a decent impact on the spring hatch (along with the growing number of possum & skunk)?? Anyway, I've been in the field 4 days this season now and my younger dog has already tangled with two coon. The first coon left a couple scratch marks around her left eye and a bite mark or two on her (I've read that the first thing coon do is try to scratch out a dog's eyes). While my GSP looked "vicious" and seemed to hold her own, these critters are just flat out tough and could easily do some serious damage and/or kill a pooch.
I was walking through heavy cover along a steep ditch when she locked up on point but not so birdy... but of course I'm still thinking bird when I walked in and stepped on the stink'n coon. Thankfully I had on my briar pants and long boots on. He immediately bit my leg and I ended up falling backwards down the ditch onto my hiney (I can smile now, but it wasn't funny then... ). My pooch jumped into battle mode and then of course the job was to get her to back off to take care of it. These things have few, to no enemies and I see no reason why a few more bird hunters couldn't be thinning a few more of these out while hunting. I'm assuming several here already do... but it's well worth the few extra bucks for the fur stamp IMO if you're not already doing it.
Be safe out there...
I was walking through heavy cover along a steep ditch when she locked up on point but not so birdy... but of course I'm still thinking bird when I walked in and stepped on the stink'n coon. Thankfully I had on my briar pants and long boots on. He immediately bit my leg and I ended up falling backwards down the ditch onto my hiney (I can smile now, but it wasn't funny then... ). My pooch jumped into battle mode and then of course the job was to get her to back off to take care of it. These things have few, to no enemies and I see no reason why a few more bird hunters couldn't be thinning a few more of these out while hunting. I'm assuming several here already do... but it's well worth the few extra bucks for the fur stamp IMO if you're not already doing it.
Be safe out there...
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