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 ...

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 ...

In order to be buried at Coon Dog Cemetery in northern Alabama, a dog must have a proven track record for hunting raccoons. It's a tradition that... A Resting Place For Hunting Hounds In Alabama ...