Article: RACCOON HUNTS PROVIDE THRILLS OF LARGER GAME : TALES ABOUND FROM THE FIELD.(SPORTS)

Byline: Conrad Grove Philadelphia Inquirer

These were not the silent woods of night. The wind spit sleet sideways. Snow that had fallen just hours before crusted and snapped under each footstep. And Nitro was who-knows-where.

But Rocky Dillow was not about to turn tail just yet, even though that wind and sleet had combined to shear off a sizable tree limb a few yards away. Nitro is his big bluetick hound, and somewhere, Dillow figured, he was hard on a coon and about to bawl a blue streak.

``A night like this might make or break a beginner,'' Dillow said. ``But once you get coon hunting in your blood, there's no turning back.''

So it ...

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