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Okay. Now let's get you to your podcast. Find yourself in the pages of Full Cry as we dive into the archives of America's leading tree dog publication.

Join us as we look back at decades of stories, articles, and more written by those bold enough to follow the echoes of a hound.

A Coon Hunter's Paradise, an Intruder's Hell, by James Kramer from the June

1972 issue of Full Crime magazine.

A swamp around Dayton?

A place where you could run a coon anytime and all night?

Water over your hip boots?

And the roughest brush anywhere in Ohio?

Show it to me.

So there we were.

In the middle of knee-deep water and brush you couldn't see two feet ahead in,

the dogs had been running an hour and 20 minutes and had settled on a small tree in the middle of this wet hell.

Shorty and myself had gotten off work and driven to the drop-off point.

We met two day-shift coon hunter friends of ours who had just come out.

They had treed one and pulled their dogs off a two-hour track, leaving one blue dog loss.

We talked for a while and promised to pick their dog up if it came to us.

We then entered a section of low brush and scattered trees, a Coon's Paradise. Our hunting partners were smoke,

a fine burgundy-colored red bone, Joe, a well-marked long-legged walker, and hammer, a masked,

blocky-bilt walker hound. The dogs hadn't been in the brush five minutes when they struck a track.

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