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slash setup like many of your listeners I have hunted and fished all of my life.

I've traveled all over the country and hunted in many different terrains.

I've hunted quail, rabbit, squirrels, coyotes, raccoons, and deer.

While hunting, I've encountered bobcats, cougars, and even bear. I say this because I want you to understand how familiar I am with the woods and all the animals that live there. And what's more, I know there sounds.

My dad loves to hunt raccoons. My maternal grandfather, my brother and a cousin and I have often joined

him over the years. One night in 1983, we were all with him and close family friends

on a piece of land just outside Paradise, Texas. Our general practice was to wait for the

dogs to open on a trail and then sit down and wait for them to tree.

Once they did that, we'd find the dogs and praise them for a job well done and then lead them away from the tree so that the raccoon could get away.

Then we'd move to another spot and turn them loose on another trail to tree another raccoon.

We enjoyed the time together and working the dogs. I especially loved hunting at night.

All the other hunting I did was during the day, but nature is more exciting in the dark.

There's a mystery to it that makes it even more adventurous.

Well, that night, things got a little too adventurous.

We were sitting on a creek bank listening when the dogs,

barks turn from the sound they make when they're trailing a raccoon

to the one they make when they've treed one.

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