1 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: Welcome to This Country Life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves 2 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: from coon hunting to trot lining and just general country living. 3 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: I want you to stay a while as I share 4 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:18,479 Speaker 1: my stories and the country skills that will help you 5 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: beat the system. This Country Life is proudly presented as 6 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 1: part of Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best 7 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: outdoor podcast the airways have to offer. All right, friends, 8 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: pull you up a chair or drop that tailgate. I 9 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: think I got a thing or two to teach you. 10 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:46,160 Speaker 1: My journey is a Coon Hunter Part two. We're back 11 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 1: this week with more tales of coon hunting and coon dogs. 12 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: The Bandidos we Chase are curiously smart creatures and their 13 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: survival instincts of slipping away from hounds is about as 14 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: legendary as it gets. To continue one struggle of my exploits, 15 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: along with observations and lessons learned, are up next on 16 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: meat Eaters of This Country Life podcast. But first, I'm 17 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: going to tell you a story. About three years ago, 18 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: someone sent me a want add for lack of a 19 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,119 Speaker 1: better term, that they'd seen on Facebook in some hunting group. 20 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 1: The post had had a number listed and it said 21 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: looking for someone to get coons off of Deer Lease 22 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 1: in central Arkansas. Well like Doc Holliday in the movie Tombstone, 23 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: when drunk Johnny Ringo challenged the earth Still Duel and 24 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: they ignored him, prompting him to shout, wretched slugs. Don't 25 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: any of you have the guts to play for blood? 26 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: Doc Holliday calmly said, and they y'all say it with me. 27 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: I'm a huckleberry. That's just my game. Well, that's just 28 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: that's how I felt what I saw that ad I 29 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,639 Speaker 1: broke a nail tapping the numbers out on my phone 30 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: to talk to the man and offered the services of 31 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: me and my coonhound whaling. I talked to him, and 32 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: in short order he'd sent me a waypoint on on X, 33 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 1: And just like that, I had four hundred acres of 34 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: private timber ground to hunt in the middle of agfects. 35 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: It was too good to be true, all short growth 36 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: hardwood timber, surrounded on four sides by rice, corn and soybeans. 37 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: It had a drainage canals on one end and would 38 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: hold water on about sixty percent of it That was 39 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: about ankle deep, making it primo for crawfish, tadpoles, and frogs. 40 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 1: Three house favorites of Ricky Raccoon and his kin good 41 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: night Nurse. If I was going to draw on a 42 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: piece of paper the perfect place to train it up 43 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: and come in Coonhoun, that would have been the place. 44 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: The coons were thick in there. And when I dropped 45 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: Whaling in there the first time he treated a coon 46 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: before kackied lick is behind. He tread so quick I 47 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: thought he'd messed up. Now I can count on two 48 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: hands and still have fingers left over the number of 49 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: times that old Whaling has slick treed. He just doesn't 50 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 1: do it. And if y'all don't know what a slick 51 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: tree is, it's like striking out in softball. It is 52 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 1: no bueno and a bit embarrassing. A slick tree is 53 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 1: when a dog sets in tree in which is the 54 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 1: way of saying, hey, boss, I found him. He's up 55 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: here in this tree, and then you look and look 56 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: and finally decide, hm, no, he ain't. That tree is slick, 57 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: meaning there ain't no coon in it. Nobody likes a 58 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: lion coon dog, especially the fellow he belongs to. Now, 59 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: some dogs do it because they just can't figure out 60 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: which tree is in and they gamble or they're they're 61 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: just not good enough to decipher it and figure it out. 62 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: The prey driving and the want of praise gets the 63 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: gets the best of them. Old Whaling he ain't never 64 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: been bad about that. He ain't never been bad about 65 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: that at all. And I've heard Michael Roseman say he's 66 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: one of the most accurate dogs he's ever seen. And 67 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: Michael has seen a lot of dogs in his lifetime, 68 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:18,039 Speaker 1: and coon hunting and making lights for coon hunters is 69 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 1: his business. So when he made that tree fifty yards 70 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:25,280 Speaker 1: from where I cut him loose, instead of getting on 71 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 1: to him and making him go on, I checked the 72 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: tree and there he was, the mass bandido, looking right 73 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 1: back at me. Less than a minute in and I'm 74 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: already looking at a coon. It was that way for 75 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: quite a while. We were flat smashing the coons in there, 76 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: and Whalen was getting some good training and experience, and 77 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: so were the coons. Night hunt there three or four 78 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,599 Speaker 1: nights a week, and never fail to tree coons. It 79 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: was more or less automatic. I'd parked my truck on 80 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: the north end of the property, walk into the edge 81 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: of the world woods, cut Whaling loose and he'd be 82 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:06,359 Speaker 1: struck and barking in pretty short order a few times, 83 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: and y'all gonna think I'm crazy, But he'd strike a 84 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: coon in the same place, or at least on the 85 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: same couple of acres, And I believe in my heart 86 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: that it was the same coon every time, because that 87 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: joker would make a couple of dips and dodges in 88 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: the woods before making a big loop and then a 89 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: bee line right out of the timber into a flooded 90 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 1: rice field and soybean fields across the county road. Now, 91 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: let me tell you it's hard for a dog to 92 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 1: catch up to a coon in a flooded field. They'll 93 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 1: get in there and zig zagger around, and it's hard 94 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: for the majority of dogs to gain ground on them 95 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: because the rice is thick or the soybeans are thick, 96 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: and they the coons, they'll just get away. Meanwhile, back 97 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: in the woods, old tricky Ricky will pull some fast 98 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 1: ones too, And in this scope of woods I got 99 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: to witness seeing the coons that whaling was running on 100 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: more than one occasion. I just happened to be staying 101 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 1: in the right place at the right time to see 102 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: the coons come ambling by with a hound in hot pursuit. 103 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: Some folks think that when the hound is trailing and 104 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: barking at a coon, that's he's always looking at him 105 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 1: and running through the woods in front of him, And 106 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 1: that's nearly always not the case. Even when I cut 107 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 1: Wailing loose and he treed fifty yards in front of me, 108 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: I seriously doubt that he ever saw that coon until 109 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: he fell out of the tree and on the ground 110 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: after I poked a hole in his ear with my 111 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: twenty two. That coon was probably spooked up that tree 112 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: by us walking in before I had ever cut Waiting 113 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: off the chain. But Whaling could smell him because I 114 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: was casting him into the wind, which means I had 115 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 1: him facing into the wind when I cut him loose, 116 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: and he just went straight to where he that coon 117 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: had just climbed up in a tree and started treeing. 118 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: What's really going on when the hound is chasing the 119 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: coon is the dog is barking where the coon has been. 120 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: And here's a short less on how that works. We 121 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: all leave scent wherever we are, regardless if we had 122 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: the buried o bomb for dinner or not. We are 123 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: constantly shedding skin cells from our epidermis called skirf spelled 124 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: s k e rf. Well, guess what soda coons and 125 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: all the other little creatures running around and making a 126 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: living in the woods. It's kind of like dropping bread crumbs, 127 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: but instead of leaving a visual trail of gravity and 128 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: fluence sign for the hound to follow, these bread crumbs 129 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: of scurf are floating on the breeze in the microscopic 130 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: particles that are affected by wind, humidity, temperature, and age. 131 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: And by age, I don't mean the age of the animal, 132 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 1: I'm talking about how long it's been since the animal 133 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: passed through. There. The dog is following the scin with 134 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 1: his head up for ways and down for ways, and 135 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: while moving through the woods, and depending on how the 136 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: scin is flowing, he could be several feet away from 137 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: where the coon actually walk, just catching scent enough every 138 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: few feet to make sure that he's going in the 139 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: right direction and staying on course. This is called drifting 140 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: the track, and that's what whalan does as compared to 141 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: a ground and pound style of hunting, where the dog 142 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,559 Speaker 1: has his nose literally on the ground smelling for every 143 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:20,679 Speaker 1: bit of scent that as he moved through the woods 144 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: following the coon. My old Buddy Rex had a dog 145 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: named Shadow that was absolutely excellent at this and that 146 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: was his style, and that's the way he hunted. He 147 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: could sniff out some coons that had been traveled through 148 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: a long time before. But the drifting style dogs are 149 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: usually faster on the track than the ground and pound types. 150 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: But those dogs make fewer what we call loses on 151 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: the trail by staying as close to the scurf plume 152 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 1: as possible. Now, the first time this happened that I 153 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: saw coon that the dogs were chasing, I was hunting 154 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 1: with a new friend of mine named Michael Crosby. Michael 155 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: was looking to get his first coon hound, and I 156 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 1: took him along one night to give him a dose 157 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 1: of what it was all about. We cut Old Whalen 158 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 1: loose and he was making a big loop down through 159 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 1: that four hundred acre block of woods, and as he 160 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: started back towards where we were, he struck in barking. 161 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: I looked at my garment and he was over three 162 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: hundred yards away, but pointed back towards where we were. 163 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: Michael and I stopped and would cut her lights off 164 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,719 Speaker 1: and listened. I was explaining what was going on as 165 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:31,560 Speaker 1: it unfolded. I was talking soft and giving him the 166 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 1: play by play of what I assumed was going on 167 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 1: by how Whalen was barking while still listening to Whaling. 168 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 1: He was more or less coming straight to us, and 169 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: I told Michael, you know, if we're quiet and still, 170 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 1: he's liable to run that coon right over the top 171 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: of us. I was joking, but I was also thinking 172 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: how cool that would be if he did. All of 173 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:54,439 Speaker 1: a sudden, the conversation kind of died out as Whaling's 174 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: barking picked up and got closer, and I could hear 175 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: something coming toward us from about thirty or forty yards away. Wait. Now, 176 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: I ain't scared of the dark, not in the least, 177 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 1: not in one little bit. But standing in the middle 178 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: of the pitch black woods at ankle deep water, hearing 179 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: something weighing towards you will heighten your situational awareness. I 180 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: switched on the red lens of my son's spot light, 181 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: and I looked toward where that racket was coming from, 182 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: and sure enough, here comes the coon. We didn't move 183 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: an inch. That joker looked like he was out for 184 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 1: a Sunday stroll, not even trotting to amount to munch. 185 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: Every now and then he'd we'd we'd see him break 186 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: into a short lope for a few yards and then 187 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 1: go back to actually just walking with a purpose. He 188 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: got to a little log that was laying in front 189 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 1: of us and hopped up on top of it and 190 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: walked the length from one end to the other before 191 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 1: jumping off the ground at a forty five degree angle 192 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: and heading due east. And we watched him go slap 193 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: out of sight like he wasn't late for work, but 194 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: if he wasn't careful, he might be cutting it close. 195 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: Two minutes later, here comes whaling, barking his brains out 196 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: about ten yards further away from where that coon had 197 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: just come through. He was down wind and drifting that 198 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 1: coon scent as it settled according to all the environmental 199 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:15,560 Speaker 1: factors that affects it, like I just talked about, you know, 200 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 1: wind and humidity, all that Whaling stayed on that coon's 201 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 1: track until losing it one hundred yards or so from 202 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: where it came. By us no idea what happened. Sometimes 203 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: it's just like the world opens up and swallows them whole. 204 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 1: They just disappear, but we lost it. Other times it's 205 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 1: like when Rex Whiting and I were hunting in that 206 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 1: same spot one night, and Rex was training a tree 207 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 1: and walk up pup named June that he was running 208 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 1: with Whaling. Now, basically the same scenario played out, just 209 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: like it had when Michael Crosby and I were in 210 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: there a few nights before Whaling and June struck a 211 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: track and it looped back toward where we were standing. 212 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 1: The only difference is this time the barking was a 213 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: whole lot more excited, which usually indicates that the hounds 214 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: know they're close to the coon. They're either actually seeing 215 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: or hearing it running, or the scent it's so fresh 216 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:12,199 Speaker 1: and hot that it's easy to follow, which actually can 217 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: sometimes work to the coon's advantage. But it appeared that 218 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: it was like the same song second verse from the 219 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,319 Speaker 1: other night, and I'd already told Rex about it. I 220 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: remember saying, we fixed a look at this coon, and 221 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 1: he immediately turned on his red light and out it too, 222 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:30,320 Speaker 1: And I grabbed my phone out of my pocket and 223 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: I started videoing. Sure, as I'm sitting here right now 224 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:37,080 Speaker 1: telling you this, we saw that coon coming and could 225 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: hear not only the barking and Whaling and jumble with 226 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 1: their feet splashing coming close behind. They weren't far away 227 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 1: when that coon ran past a big tree, stopped right 228 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: in front of us less than ten yards away, ran 229 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 1: back a few feet and laid down as flat as 230 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 1: a flitter. He looked like wiley coyote after a steam 231 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 1: roller had run over him. And both of those dogs 232 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:01,959 Speaker 1: ran within the feud of embarking and raising sand like 233 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:04,959 Speaker 1: they was about to catch him, and they kept going. 234 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: That coon got up like he'd been taking a nap 235 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: on the couch and just loped away. Whaling and June 236 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 1: had gone twenty five or thirty yards past where that 237 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 1: coon had stopped, and then they came roaring back to 238 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 1: pick up the scent. Whaling opened up and took off 239 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: with June ride behind him. That coon turned east, just 240 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: like the one had done a few nights ago, and 241 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: after a hundred yards or so, the dogs lost him again. 242 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 1: Now I can't swear that it was the same coon 243 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: from the hunt before, but he ran that whole circuit 244 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: just like the other one did. They struck him and 245 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 1: trailed him almost identically, and he looped around and came 246 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: back to that same two acres where the one before 247 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:52,440 Speaker 1: it does. Then that coon turned due east and disappeared 248 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:56,319 Speaker 1: just like the other one. Now I can't swear it 249 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:59,839 Speaker 1: was the same coon, but I saw him both and 250 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: it looked just like him, and that's just how that happened. 251 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: My journey is a coon Hunter, Part two. For a 252 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: fellow that's been a coon hunting for the better part 253 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: of forty two years, one would surmise he's had a 254 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: bunch of dogs during that time, and normally they'd be right, 255 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 1: but in this case, in my case, I've only had 256 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: three For the past thirty two years. My career has 257 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: limited the amount of time that I could dedicate to 258 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 1: training and being able to properly care for a dog 259 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: the way a hound should be cared for. They need space, 260 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: and they need hunting. Being on call and involved in 261 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: cases and such was a limiting factor over a large 262 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: portion of that thirty two years, and only in the 263 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 1: past five years or so have I been at a 264 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: stage in my job that I could dedicate the proper 265 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: amount of time to do it. So in twenty nineteen, 266 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: I decided it was time for me to start looking 267 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 1: for a hound to my own. I wasn't going to 268 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: be real particular about the bloodline or the breed for 269 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: that matter, although I've always leaned toward tree and walkers. 270 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: That was my first coon houn in my teens, and 271 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: even though my second one was a blue tick in 272 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: my late twenties, I never lost the preference for walkers. 273 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: My dad was a walkerman, but his dogs were used 274 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: for running codies. I remember taking my city mouse girlfriend 275 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 1: at the time, Alexis, down to dad's house to meet him, 276 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: and when we got there you could hear his hounds 277 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 1: over in the pen barking and raising cane. I introduced 278 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 1: her to my dad as we walked in the door, 279 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: and she asked him, what is all that barking. He said, 280 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: that's my cold dog's barking. She asked him, well, what 281 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: kind of dogs are they? He said, they're running walkers. 282 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 1: She scrunched up her nose and said, running walkers. They 283 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: need to make up their minds went they're doing. He 284 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: laughed and loved her from that very moment. I had 285 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: never even thought about the paradox of that name until 286 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: she said that. Anyway, I was looking for a walker dog, 287 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 1: and for six months I made phone calls, I sent 288 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 1: texts and emails, and I scoured over the internet looking 289 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: for a dog that would suit me and what I 290 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: was after. And what I was after was simple. I 291 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 1: wanted a dog that would mind and tree coons. I 292 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 1: wasn't after a particular style of hound like. I didn't 293 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: care if he was a dog that drifted a track 294 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,119 Speaker 1: or if he was a ground pounder or a combination 295 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: of both. I wanted to be able to turn him loose, 296 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 1: have him treat me a coon and come to me 297 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: when I called. I had no interest in competition hunting. 298 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: I got nothing against it, and I loosely follow it 299 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 1: due to so many of my friends that I know 300 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: and hunt with that do enjoy it. Now, there's a 301 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 1: strategy and skill in competition hunting, and the handler that 302 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: knows the rules best will win a competition even when 303 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: his dog may not be the best dog in the cast. 304 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: And that's cool. It involves the human element and the 305 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: bond that's created between a handler and a hound. The 306 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: handler has to know the tendencies and habits of that 307 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: dog inside and out to be able to listen to 308 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 1: him and tell what's going on just by the different 309 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: barks or tones of different barks, and make his call 310 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 1: to the judge based on his observations. There's a lot 311 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 1: of skill in that. Me. I ain't that good at it. 312 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: And me went in a competition hunt with whaling rests 313 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: squarely on his shoulders, not my brain. Michael Roseman, Rex 314 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,439 Speaker 1: Whiting and I would hunt together and we'd use all 315 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:41,159 Speaker 1: the rules of a competition hunt, and they'd keep a 316 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:43,639 Speaker 1: running tally in their head of the time left in 317 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 1: the hunt and what everyone's score was. Heck, I couldn't 318 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:49,680 Speaker 1: even keep up with my own, much less everyone else's. 319 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 1: It was fun, but it just wasn't my thing. If 320 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: it's your thing, you should see what Alan Gingrich and 321 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: Trevor Wade and all those folks over at United kennlel 322 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:06,360 Speaker 1: cl Over doing. You'll find them online at Wwwukcdogs dot com. 323 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,399 Speaker 1: Then just search up to coonhout events. They've got a 324 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: lot going on and there's always room for more participation, 325 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: and these folks will bend over backwards to help you. 326 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 1: So to get back to my journey, After six months 327 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 1: of looking, I found a dog that interested me. I 328 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,959 Speaker 1: was scrolling through Facebook Marketplace and there was a picture 329 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 1: of a six month old tree in Walker puppy for 330 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: sale with an address that was forty five minutes from 331 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:36,199 Speaker 1: my house for two hundred and fifty dollars. Something struck 332 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 1: me about the picture. I can't tell you what it 333 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 1: is to this day, but there was something about that 334 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: dog that called to me. Up to this point, I 335 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,479 Speaker 1: had looked at well over one hundred pictures of dogs 336 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:51,439 Speaker 1: on the Internet, and talked to a multitude of people 337 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 1: on the phone or through texting about a jillion dogs 338 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: that I never laid eyes on. But I had never 339 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 1: been drawn to going and looking at one till now. 340 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,399 Speaker 1: I called the number, I talked to the lady and 341 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: made an appointment to go see the dog. The next day, 342 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:10,639 Speaker 1: she informed me that the address on the Facebook ad 343 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,880 Speaker 1: was wrong and that they had moved nearly three hours 344 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 1: away from me instead of the forty five minutes I 345 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 1: originally thought. Okay, I was still going to look. I 346 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 1: couldn't shake the image of that hound out of my head. 347 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 1: When I pulled up and saw him, I knew he 348 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:29,879 Speaker 1: was the one that I'd be taking home. When I 349 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 1: found out his name was Whaling, it solidified it for me. 350 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: For half a year, I had fretted and worried about 351 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 1: finding a dog and having one reason or another not 352 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,880 Speaker 1: to even commit to going and look anyone. Now, after 353 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 1: learning at the last minute that I'd be driving two 354 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: hours further away, I hadn't been deterred. Pulling up to 355 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: the address and seeing the dog in the subpar of 356 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: living conditions he was being housed in. I didn't really 357 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: know if I was going to be buying him or 358 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 1: rescuing him, but I knew I was leaving with him. 359 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: Come to find out, he was rescuing me. It was 360 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:21,120 Speaker 1: Thursday in March twelfth of twenty twenty. I had made 361 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: it back to the outskirts a little rock when I 362 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: got a call from Alexis saying through her job, she'd 363 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 1: learned of a possible exposure to the COVID virus earlier 364 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:35,199 Speaker 1: in the week. This was when all that started. They 365 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: were instructing her to go home and we had to 366 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:42,199 Speaker 1: report our family's possible exposure to my employer in Bailey School. 367 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,679 Speaker 1: Now Bailey was in the first grade. Alexis had called 368 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 1: the school and they said that we'd have to come 369 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 1: get Bailey and do that whole quarantine thing that was 370 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: just starting to get so popular. Then it was all 371 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 1: the rage and everyone was doing it. I would have 372 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 1: never thought that Bailey wouldn't get back to her class 373 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:04,639 Speaker 1: that year. I also would never have thought a dog 374 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: could have meant so much to us in such a 375 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 1: short amount of time. Bailey was doing her classes online now, 376 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,679 Speaker 1: so she was free to roam around with me and 377 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 1: our new hunting hound. So while elementary school was basically 378 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 1: out for Bailey, coon hunting school was in for her 379 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: and Whalen. The rest of that spring and summer was 380 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,199 Speaker 1: spent taking that dog to the woods and turning him 381 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: loose and just seeing what he'd do. Bailey went with 382 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 1: me on a bunch of those trips. She like riding 383 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,199 Speaker 1: the four wheeler and watching and learning what Whalen was 384 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 1: doing and asking a million questions. And I are while 385 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 1: unknowingly tried to burn the retinas out of my eyeballs 386 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,640 Speaker 1: by shining her coon light in my face every time 387 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 1: she looked at me. I bought a metal diamond played 388 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: a dog crate for my truck that attracted the attention 389 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 1: of a guy that happened to be driving by one 390 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: time who stopped and introduced himself, And that was Rex, 391 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: who is now like a member of our family. He 392 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 1: introduced me to Michael Roseman, who is now like family 393 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:09,679 Speaker 1: and who I'm going hunting with tonight, all because of 394 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: a dog. I've been to the ears of those boys 395 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 1: and several others in the training of old Whalen, and 396 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 1: they helped me beyond measure in the development of this 397 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 1: dog from coonhound to coon dog. And there's a difference, 398 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 1: a big difference. He was born a registered purebred coonhoun, 399 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 1: but he earned the title of coon dog by being one. 400 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 1: I took him religiously every opportunity that I had that 401 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 1: didn't interfere with anything related to my family. Alexis leaves 402 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 1: for work early, so she goes to bed early, and 403 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: I worked from home and I set my own hours. 404 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 1: Bailey goes to bed early, so when they hit the hay, 405 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: I usually hit the woods with this dog. The best 406 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 1: advice I ever got was from my dad, who passed 407 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: away twelve years ago, and I mentioned it earlier in 408 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 1: part one of my journey as a coon hunter, when 409 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:10,679 Speaker 1: he said he could always tell which dog out of 410 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: a litter that was going to make the best because 411 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: it was the one that got hunted and messed with 412 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: the most. You can't take that literally, because some have 413 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 1: more natural abilities than others. He meant when all things 414 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,439 Speaker 1: are equal. The pup that gets hunted will be better 415 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 1: than the ones that are still sitting in the pen. 416 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: And that's simple and straightforward. But his message was more hidden. 417 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 1: In order for that dog to get better, I had 418 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 1: to take him out and give him the opportunity. In 419 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:44,160 Speaker 1: doing so, I was outside, and I was getting better. 420 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:49,880 Speaker 1: My dad taught me a million things about trees and animals, hunting, fishing, 421 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,199 Speaker 1: taking care of dogs, and the whole time he was 422 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,159 Speaker 1: really teaching me how to take care of myself. I 423 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:59,359 Speaker 1: just didn't know it. It worked the same way with 424 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: old whaling. All I really did was give that dog 425 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 1: the opportunity to make choices, both good and bad. When 426 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:10,439 Speaker 1: I cut him loose, the good choices were praised and 427 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,679 Speaker 1: the bad ones were corrected. The maturation of a hound 428 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: is very comparable to that of a person when you 429 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 1: think about it. A dog lives a week of their 430 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: life for every day of hours. Imagine if it was 431 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,920 Speaker 1: the other way around, we wouldn't live long enough to 432 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: see how good a dog could be, or have the 433 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 1: opportunity to learn just as much or more from them 434 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 1: as they do from us. The core of my law 435 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:40,160 Speaker 1: enforcement career was during my hiatus from owning a coup. 436 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: Now I saw more tragedy and ugliness during that time 437 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:47,400 Speaker 1: of my life that I'd ever imagined one person could 438 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,199 Speaker 1: I live with that? And dealing with those memories or 439 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 1: not dealing with them, has led me to where I 440 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 1: am now. I used to hunt alone a lot when 441 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: I first started out training Whaling. I'd go five nights 442 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: out of seven, slowly implementing what I desired for him 443 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 1: to do and corrected the things that I wanted him 444 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 1: to stop. I had a lot of sitting on a 445 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: log in the woods in the dark time, and while 446 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 1: I was watching Whalen's Tracker, I was thinking about stuff. 447 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,919 Speaker 1: It allowed me moments to talk out loud with my 448 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 1: dad and talk to the Good Lord too. And my 449 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: journey as a coon hunter is still going on, just 450 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 1: like my journey and my faith as a husband and 451 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 1: a father, a brother, and a friend. That old dog 452 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 1: that a Lexus follows around the house with a vacuum 453 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 1: like she's hot on his trail has been an important 454 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 1: factor in helping me do all those things by making 455 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 1: me slow down and pay attention to what was going 456 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,959 Speaker 1: on around him, so I could get a clear picture 457 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 1: in my head of what he was doing, and in 458 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,159 Speaker 1: doing so, I started to pay attention and see what 459 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 1: was going on around me. That, as Barney Fife would say, 460 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 1: was very therapeutic. The rest of us would say therapeutic. 461 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: So that's your challenge this week. Find your whaling and 462 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,879 Speaker 1: give yourself the opportunity to have that sitting on a 463 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 1: log in the woods in the dark time, whether you're 464 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: literally doing that or on your dinner break at the office. 465 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: If you're on your dinner break at the office, you're 466 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: probably gonna want to leave that coon dog at home. 467 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,880 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, Hey, I hope y'all have enjoyed these 468 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: episodes about coon hunting and it ventures me and whaling 469 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 1: to wonder how and have had. I got a lot 470 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 1: more stories about him and chasing those river bottom bandidos 471 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:42,640 Speaker 1: that I'll share later, but like I always say, that's 472 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: another story. Thank you so much for listening and sharing 473 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,199 Speaker 1: our show with others. You folks are simply amazing, and 474 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,440 Speaker 1: I appreciate you allowing me some time during your life 475 00:26:56,760 --> 00:27:00,240 Speaker 1: to talk about mine. It don't matter where you're from 476 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 1: or where you are, We're all alike. We can sit 477 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,640 Speaker 1: down and have the noon meal and I can call 478 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,640 Speaker 1: it dinner and you can call it lunch, but it's 479 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 1: still gonna taste the same. This is Brent Reeves signing off. 480 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:15,360 Speaker 1: Y'all be careful.