Day 205-160 to go
11-9-2009 Mon
8PM-10PM

Weather: calm, clear, 41°, 30.42-steady, 8:53PM

Bagged – One raccoon

Location

Midway

Partners

Fritz


Comments

I am need of an activity I can do after work in the dark and tonight I found it. I had wanted to find out if Fritz would be any good at hunting raccoon. I thought he would be able to do this. Since he had done so well at tracking the bear I had shot earlier this fall I decided to give it a try. And for his first time out he did very well.
He actually located three different raccoon that were already up in trees or he had treed. Once I illuminated the critters Fritz figured out what was going on. He would then bark tree and jump at the base of the tree. Unfortunately I was using my air rifle and either my aim was off or the scope was. It took quite a number of pellets to dispatch the first raccoon. Once the critter fell out of the tree Fritz was all over it! The second treed raccoon was spared after I ran out of pellets without ever hitting it.
For our first trip out we did well: Fritz treed three coon and we bagged one.