Sep. 16—JEFFERSON — Raccoons throughout northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania found themselves up a tree this weekend, as a coon hunting competition came to the Ashtabula County Fairgrounds.

This story, “Jug Head — a Coon Dog!” originally ran in the January 1949 issue of Outdoor Life. IT WAS MAC who brought the new dog home. We had argued for a month, he and George and I, as to whether we ...

Discussing the best hunting dogs for various game is kind of like arguing whether a Chevy or Ford is better: No one ever changes camps because they’re happy with what they’ve got. Still, we’re going ...

Chris Stoppelman says he'll never get the image out of his mind. It was early the morning of Sept. 18, and Stoppelman was on a nighttime coon hunt south of Gonvick, Minn., with his friend, Kila Butler ...

May 1—Red Fern Festival visitors heard the familiar sound of coon dogs at the April 29 Hound Dog Field Trials, where competitors met to test their canines' abilities and pay homage to the book and ...

The coon hunt involves scoring dogs on locating and treeing raccoons, which are not killed. The Grand American for both men is a place for many to come together and spend time with others in the ...

It was Christmas Day when Wattsburg resident Kayla Zocki’s Australian shepherd jumped out of her Jeep and took off into the woods. “I put it on every social media thing I could think of. I put it on ...

I overheard a group of fellas in a restaurant talking about the 40th Grand American Hunt and Show that is scheduled for Jan. 7-8. They were boasting about their beloved dogs, and one of the guys said ...

Franky Hatton has two dogs buried in the Key Underwood Memorial Coon Dog Cemetery in Cherokee. The second hound was laid to rest in August 30 years ago, but his connection to the sacred hunting ...

LITCHFIELD, Minn. -- A $200 reward and publicity have failed to turn up a Walker coon hound named Herbie, who has been missing for more than a week. The dog and his owner, 12-year-old Cody O'Connor, ...

This forest of pine and hickory in the hills of north Alabama isn’t necessarily where these coonhounds used to hunt. While some spent dark and dewy nights of yesteryear sprinting after raccoons and ...