Dan's Hunting Gear available at Coon Hunters Supply

Coon Hunters Supply is a full line supplier of Dan' Hunting Gear. Dan's hunting clothing is made by an Amish family owned business based in Ohio. They have been making hunting clothing for almost 30 years. We also have bundles of clothing for the hunter, dog trainer, fisherman and more.

Dan's Products Are Produced by Amish Craftsmen in Ohio’s Amish Country Who Take Pride in Their Work. Clothing Products. Are Guaranteed Against Defects In Materials Or Workmanship.

SNAKE PROTECTION!

These boots are designed to give ADDITIONAL protection against snake bite, but NO amount of protection is totally fool-proof. Neither Muck Boots, the manufacturer, Honeywell Safety Products, Dan's Hunting Gear or Windwalker Outdoors makes any warranty against snake bite (express or implied) regarding this boot. Always exercise caution and good judgement when you are in an environment where snakes may be present, and constantly be aware of your surroundings. Remember - 99 times out of 100, a snake will strike only in self-defense.

Use awesome boots and add chaps to them making them guaranteed Water proof hip boots Dan's takes:

Dan's Froglegs

are constructed using an outer layer of briar proof material that is lined with guaranteed water repellent nylon liner (2nd layer) to stop any moisture that gets through the outer layer, plus they easily turn briars. The nylon goes all the way down to the lower ankle of the boot, providing the boots and your legs with protection from sharp sticks and briars. They are carefully made, and then sewn and sealed to the boots of your choice (GUARANTEED WATERPROOF FOR ONE YEAR). Dan's Froglegs can be attached to your belt using the adjustable straps, or folded down and snapped at your knees using the snaps in the leggins and the boots.
(Boots are imported, we have no choice there are no American made boots anymore)

This Dan’s Hunting Gear clothing is hand sewn by Amish craftsmen in the U.S.A. Dan’s Hunting Gear has been outfitting severe use hunters and outdoors people for almost 30 years.

The Wick Clothing line tradition lives on

The well trusted Wick Outdoor Works are out of business. Their hunting clothing was top of the line for us hunters for many years. They say you can`t turn back the clock, but Dan`s Hunting Clothing is now making the Rugged Wear Line to replace the Wick line of hunting clothing, with the same materials used by Wick. Coon Hunters Supply now carries Rugged Wear clothing made by Dan`s Hunting Clothing.

Custom Order Policy
We do consider custom orders a necessary part of a clothing business. However, these custom orders come with $10.00 extra charge, plus any other necessary charges. We highly recommend you make sure of your size before you custom order, there are no returns on them. Custom orders are process as soon as possible, (2-3 weeks) but we cannot promise exact delivery dates. During our busy time of the year, as well as the holiday season, please allow extra time for delivery.

Return Policy
Dan’s will return and/or exchange products for a different size, color, or style as long as the product is new and has not been soiled. If a return is sent to us it will be inspected and only then approved by Dan’s as a return or exchange. We will not accept returns or exchanges on custom orders. The customer is responsible for all shipping charge On all exchanges, please include $13.50 for return shipping back to you.

Warranty Policy
Dan’s Hunting Gear, LLC, does warrant their products against any defects and workmanship flaws. The product has to be sent back to Dan’s for inspection. However, Dan’s will not warranty product that has been abused, or has more than normal wear and tear. On defective product, Dan’s will either replace or repair the gear.

Coats, Vest, Boots, Coveralls, Shirts, Gloves and accessories
Dan’s coats are all made in the USA using original American made patterns. Therefore, the coats are sized a little BIGGER than coats coming from overseas. Please keep this in mind when ordering a coat.

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COON HUNTING LIGHTS PAST AND FUTURE

Carl Moore http://coonhunterssupply.com/
 
As a coon hunter I look at the history of coon hunting lights. I find coon hunting lights, like the history of our great country, always seem to get better as time goes on.
The early settlers trapped and hunted raccoon for their fur and meat. When they did hunt raccoon of course they hunted them at night. The raccoon is a nautical animal and sleeps all day. These early hunters used pine Knots for torches to follow their coon hounds through the night woods. When the coon was treed by the hounds. The hunters would go to the tree to get their coon. With only a torch the hunters could not see the coon and had to cut the tree down and let the dogs catch and kill the coon. The fur was saved to be sold to the hide buyers at a trading post in the spring. The coon meat was food for the family.
Then after many years oil lanterns became the walking light for them. These lanterns burned Whale oil. Other refined oils were not available until after the discovery of oil in NW Pa. in 1859. The hunters still followed the hounds to the tree, but could not see the coon. These lanterns were good for walking, but the hunter still could not see where the coon was in the tree. The tree was chopped down and the coon was killed. Again the hide was traded at a spring round up at the closest trading post. The meat was prepared for the family.
The next lighting improvement was the carbide light. These lights were used in the coal mines through out the country. The coon hunters, still used a lantern, but found the carbide light was bright  enough to see the coons eyes in a tree. Once coon was treed and spotted he could be killed with a small caliber rifle. This prevented dog damage to the hide and meat. The Tree still stood in the forest. The undamaged hide traded at a better value and the meat had very little damage waste.
When I started coon hunting in the late `40s. We stilled used carbide lights. By then the very bright Coleman lantern was used as a walking light. This lantern burned a highly refined oil. We still carried our carbide head lights. There were many improvements on the coal miners hats and lights. Batteries were carried on a belt and used standard flash light in the light head, attached to a bump hat. Most used 6 Volt batteries or less. We always had to carry an extra spotlight to see the coon. We hunted for coon more to enjoy the hounds and the hunt. We still collected hides in the late fall and early winter. These hides had prim fur at this time and were sold to the fur buyer at the best price. After WW2 the demand for coon meat went down, but even today we still find folks that love coon meat. We give or sell what little coon meat we take as food for folks that love raccoon meat.
In the last few decades hunting lights have really changed. The hunting light still uses a battery, but these new batteries today were the dreams of the past. The new type of batteries have longer life, are lighter per Voltage than ever before, No acid dripping. The new bulbs have gotten better almost yearly. They last longer and can burn brighter. You can find a bulb to work on almost any battery voltage. These work just fine but you still have to carry a spotlight and always extra bulbs.
Then we come to the newest type of the coon hunting lights. In the middle `60s the LED lamps were brought to the market. The new type of lamp was first were designed to be used for low voltage applications. They were used as indicator lights on electronic gear. But in the years since the LED lights kept getting stronger and able to use higher voltages. The LEDs also got brighter and brighter. We now have LED light arrays that when used in a head is brighter than any light we have ever seem before. LED lamps don’t blow out like other bulbs. There is no filament to blow out, just different chemicals that use voltage to excite them into glowing.
Now we have this LED head. Add a battery, and a dimmer switch. You have a great light for hunting. This new light is so bright you don’t need to carry a spotlight. Battery drain is a unbelievable 50 hrs on low/ 25 hrs on high beam. LED lights last 10,000 hours or more Check with coonhunterssupply.com/. Read about the new light. With the help of Cajun Light Co. we think we have designed the ultimate coon hunting light.
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How to spoil the pup and make a Coon Hound

coonhunterssupply.com Carl Moore

I got that new coon hound pup. What do I do now? That is the big question. You have picked a pup after a lot of research, picked the breed, the parents, hopefully you hunted with them, and of course picked your favorite pup.

Now you got him home the first thing to do is take him to your vet. Let him give the full check out and give the shots needed. Your pup should get used to the handling and probing by his vet. Give him time to get learn to trust in his vet. Use the same vet for each visit, the pup will feel more at home with someone he knows and his vet will know all about him.

OK now that is done. Take your strong healthy pup home. Introduce him to the family. Let him play with the kids and your wife, he should know he is a part of your family. House break him, teach him manners, how to lead, stay close, sit, follow directions and most of all to trust you and the family to protect him and love him When the time comes he will do his best to please you when training to make you a great coon hound. Not all pups will turn out just the way you want, but don`t give up on him. He may just be a pleasure to take to the woods, and only tree a few coon, but give lots of love tell him how great he is. The more one on one time you spend with him the better he will get. Make sure you take your children with you often. The pup wants to show them how much he learned from you. Make day trips to the open spaces with the pup and the kids, let them play in the woods, streams and fields.

Yep make him a lap dog.

I think I can hear you screaming. Think about it you want a well behaved hound when you go hunting don`t you. One that only wants to please you and make you proud of him. Coon hunting is not fun if the dogs only hunts for his own pleasure.

You can make up a game for the family when the pup has grown a little. play hide and seek with him. Let the kids make drag a trail with a hot dog or sausage, and let the little guy find it. Of course that is his treat. Make it harder each time for him and hide it a little higher. After while put the sausage just out of reach. Cheer him on get him to tree that thing. Always give him his treat if he earns it. Before long the kids can put down a trail in the back yard and put the treat in a tree. Now you have a tree dog and trees how you want a real coon hound.

With lots of hikes in the woods and knowing how to tree you now have a hound that is ready for training.

The Great Coon Hunting Magazines

By Carl Moore
The coon hunters of to day and of the past has a great selection of magazines to read. Some of these have been around for a long time and are fairly new. There main object is to cover the sport and the hounds we love. They have stories of hunts, training, reviews of the products we need to make our sport better. I read and reread the magazines until they are tattered and torn, but never throw them away. I use them as references for a problem that I may have. The stories are alway a great read and have some great hints in them. some of these magazines have been around for ever. I have been a subscriber to Full Cry, American Cooner, and now a fairly new Mag. called GunHound Magazine. www.treehound.com/html/fullcry.html, www.americancooner.com/ and gunhoundmag.zoomshare.com/ These are all great magazines.
There are others you might be interested in. Check out the Breed Assoccions, UKC, AKC and Hunting Clubs have their own magazines. These are all good reading on almost subject in the hound hunting world. As you search the web for info you may find other site that you will find helpful. Of course don`t forget the Blogs. http://www.coonhunterssupply.com

Dennis, Pug, the Bear, Airhead and I

Dennis, Pug, the Bear, Airhead and I
By Carl Moore coonhunterssupply.com
As a coon hunter and a competition hunter I was well known as a trainer of good coon hounds. Some times I would hunt and finish training a coon hound for other hunters. A few years ago I got a call from some gentlemen who had a fairly good bluetick hound. They wanted me to get their dog ready for some major hunts and if possible make him a champion. I drove over to their home to check the hound out.
When I got to the house and parked the truck. I saw some great looking Bluetick hounds chained here and there around the property. I knew the guys[ Pug and Dennis] from some of the hunts I had been to in the past. They were both wheel chair bound and had people to handle there every need. The handlers would hunt the hounds in the forest around the home place and the guys could follow on the near by roads, with the wheelchairs, The handlers would take care of the hounds.
I was asked to finish training and competition hunt their best hound. The dog was called “Airhead”. As a young pup he made some big mistakes and made for some great fun, with his dumb moves.
Our first competition hunt with the guys was in McKain County Pennsylvania. Airhead was the first to strike the coons trail. We hunt four dogs in each cast and the best dog wins the cast. The other hounds joined in to the chase. The coon went up the side of the mountain and down the other side. We could hear when the dogs treed. Airhead was first to bark tree. We had to drive around the mountain to get to the dogs. The guys, their handlers and I rode in their Van. The van was set up for the wheelchairs and had a very large roof that opened the front 2/3 of the van top. There were four other trucks in our small convoy.
The little convoy stopped a couple of times to hear the hounds and make sure of their location. They were treed right where I thought they should be. At the next stop I was sure they had moved about fifty yards to the left, but the hunt judge disagreed with me. When we got close to where the dogs were treed we parked the van, in a place so the guys could hear the hounds tree.
We parked under a very large Hemlock tree. The hounds were about fifty yards down by a stream, treeing like they should. The tree was checked, the coon seen, and the hounds were scored. When I got back to the van the guys were setting there laughing. They would not talk to me until the convoy started back to hunt headquarters.
Then they told me, when we went to the hounds. They heard a noise in the tree above the open van. When they looked up there was a black bear up the hemlock tree. The bear was racing down the tree and limbs were flying. Some falling into the van. they thought the bear would soon join them. I thought about the hounds moving from one tree to another and was sure Airhead had treed the bear first. Then smelled the coon in a near by tree. He was smart enough to go to the coon and win the hunt.
Airhead won his share of hunts and soon became a great champion. He was a great hound and a ball to hunt. We never knew what he might do in a hunt. He always was good for a few laughs, but he was still won enough hunts to become a great champion.

Making a Better Coon Hound

Well Coon Hunting is well under way. This is the time of year when the ole coon is up a bare tree, well maybe. Some of these old smart coon can hide in the open, a large nest, a hollow or hole in the tree. Most pick a fir tree with its needles, as a place to hide. We old timers don`t often kill a coon for its hide, the price is not the effort it takes to skin and care for the little money you can get. We just tree him and check the tree to make sure he is there and lead the dogs away. This is one coon you can chase many more times. We enjoy hearing the hounds work the trail and the tree. Each chase makes our hounds better. Let them know how proud of them you are. Make a big fuss at the tree. Telling them how great they are and a little snack of their favorite food is in order. You will find they will hunt for you, because they love to be told how great you think they are.
My best dogs loved the chase and the tree. These hounds were part of my family and they knew it. Treat your hounds like you would treat a best friend or one of your children. They will Hunt for you and make you proud. And they will be proud to have you as a hunting pardner
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In the mid 1970s I hunted with my buddy George. George had been badly burned in a fire where he worked. George had an fairly good coon hound. One night the dog was killed on a back woods road as we hunted.
George wanted me to find him a good pup we could train. I checked with all the breeders I could and with all the coon hunters I knew. I was ready to give up. One night George called me and said he just bought a old coon hound for $20.00. Could we hunt him that night.
When I got to Georges house, he was leading a yellow colored hound toward my truck. This was one old beat up hound. His ears were torn and scared. His face looked like old scare face. He seemed to be strong and moved well. On the way to the woods George told me the dog was deaf and could not hear a thing. We could only get him at the tree that he was tree on. We could not call him cause he could not hear us.
We turned him loose in a corn field and the old guy did a great job with the track and tree.
We found out later not to let him loose again until we moved to a new place. If you did the next coon treed may be miles away. One time we turned him loose at a cornfield. He was just off the chain when I found a hot cigar butt on the road. I told George than someone had just left this spot.
George drank beer a lot to ease the pain from his burns. He could get mad at the world at the drop of a hat. He carried a 6 inch barrel 357 Mag revolver. That night Yellow took forever to check the corn field. After an hour we heard him coming our way. The old dog stepped unto the gravel road, looked at us and headed the other way. We both tried to call him, but he just kept going. George chased him for a few steps. Out came the big 357 mag. George shot all six shots. The gravel hit the old hound from back to front. Not one shot found its mark, The old dog just froze in his tracks. George just walked up and put the chain on him.
George held on to that hound and cried. Findly he brought the dog to the truck. They got in the front seat. From then on we always rode in the front of the old Chevy truck. That was one big hound and had bad breath. What could I say I was just an on looker.
We hunted for years after and when the old hound was out you could wisper his name and lookout. He would run over you to get to the truck. George was amazed that the old hound could now hear. I just smiled when he would try to figger it out. I tried to tell him the shooting did it.