Why Coon Hunting with Hounds Matters

Bear Hunting Magazine Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness, Leisure, Hobbies

4.8 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Hunting raccoons with hounds is as culturally iconic as apple pie. Liberal hunting seasons, lots of raccoons, ample amounts of public land and fun with hounds are just part of the allure. Coonhunting is fun option to recruit new hunters and your kids will love it, too. Coonhunting is a great way to acquire some beautiful pelts and, from a conservation angle, temporarily get rid of nest predators.

In this podcast we go on a live coon hunt in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas with Clay Newcomb and a first time hunter, Jonathan Webster. They discuss the history of coonhunting, what tree dogs are, the history of Plott hounds and the how-to of free casting hounds for coonhunting. You’ll hear the dogs strike and tree a coon and be right in the excitement. Be sure to listen until the end when their conversation turns into a play-by-play coonhunt! Be sure to check out www.bear-hunting.com

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0:00.0	You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.4	You're listening to the Sportsman's Nation podcast network, powered by Interstate Batteries.
0:11.5	From your truck to your trail camera, interstate batteries has you covered.
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0:21.9	Interstate batteries, outrageously dependable.
0:29.8	My name is Clay Newcomb, and I'm the host of the Bear Honey magazine podcast.
0:35.1	I'll also be your host into the world of hunting the icon of North American
0:40.5	wilderness. The bear. We'll talk about tactics, gear, conservation, but we'll also bring you
0:46.9	into some of the wildest country on the planet chasing bear.
1:05.7	On episode 15 of the bear hunting magazine podcast, we go on a live coon hunt with myself and a good friend of mine named Jonathan Webster.
1:07.3	We take my two plot hounds, fern and jed, here in the Ozark Mountains.
1:12.9	We'll talk about the history of coon hunting, the cultural significance of coon hunting, the
1:18.5	conservation aspects of coon hunting, the how to, what we're actually doing inside of coon
1:24.6	hunting, and then we'll take you along to a tree where we got a coon.
1:29.5	How does this hunt tying with bear hunting?
1:31.7	These dogs of mine I got from a bear dog breeder.
1:37.0	And these dogs, their whole family history for a long ways back were bear dogs, but I've
1:42.5	trained them to be coon dogs and we have had a tremendous
1:46.3	time the last four years hunting these dogs. You're going to enjoy this podcast. It's
1:52.1	something different. Stay tuned to the end. Don't knock it until you tried it.
1:57.6	Okay. until you tried it.
2:03.8	Okay.
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