Jerry Spech handles Colonel and Thor, two of his five bluetick coonhounds, at the base of a cottonwood tree with a treed raccoon. You don’t have to spend much time around a raccoon hunter to figure ...

You go out with coon dogs a dozen times, or maybe a hundred times, and the results are just so-so. Sure, you have fun. You strike coons and you chase them. You tree one 10 minutes after you put the ...

FLOYD -- For some residents of urban and suburban neighborhoods the howl of a hound is not always a welcome sound. But out here in the Floyd County woods on a chilly night in early March, the baying ...

Raccoon season is open in the summer, but I'll confess the last time I went 'coon hunting was in the winter of '78. That's when my roommate, Hog Ears, and I went raccoon hunting with Ernest, a ...

Several states have long-established seasons on the crop, garden and trash-hunting animals. DNR proposes to establish a hunting season. The Coon Hound Association -- about 300 members strong statewide ...

A lot of my puppies are used for hunting which is what the breed was bred to do They hunt mainly for food and to protect the ...

Rain dropped between bare branches and into a zone of red light. At times the drops looked like flakes. Merely an illusion, but fitting in an illusionary scene: a black cloak surrounded us, the woods ...

GREG MAYNARD bows his head in prayer. It’s about an hour before sunset on a Friday in May, and the president of the ProSport Kennel Club is standing inside a clubhouse in western Indiana that looks ...

Chris McCosky talks to AJ Hinch and Dillon Dingler about Thursday's series-clinching win in Cleveland. Taylor Decker on Jared Goff: 'He's not afraid to take a hit. We don't want him to get hit . . .