The Weekend of the Black Hare. The trip all started and from Ryan Becker’s house, we were supposed to be there for 6:30, but Josh didn’t get there till 7:30. We then made the trip up to Peggy Hood’s house, with Mike Johnson, Mike Frantz, Josh Herring, myself (Louie Burger) and Ryan Becker, all stuffed in one truck like sardines and didn’t get there till three in the morning. When we woke up the first morning to hunt it was solid ice on the roads and raining, it wasn’t pretty. First jump of the morning we had a split. Mike Frantz got a shot at the one and missed it. When they brought the second one around it was black and Larry Papineau shot it. I was one jump away. When Larry shot it we all thought he had shot himself, he was yelling and screaming. I walked over to see it and sure enough it was black. We continued to hunt the first day and Mike Frantz got one, Jeremy Flanders got one, Mike Johnson shot at two and missed, with five shots. I also got one, before the weekend was over we would all get one. We had good running for the day and dogs stayed up pretty easy, and we ended up with four. Oh, and Josh Herring slept on the couch all day with the sniffles. On the second day of the hunt, the first hare we got wasn’t till noon. Larry was kind of tweaked and wanted to switch up some dogs; since we had a couple young one’s down with Chewy. The dogs then got a jump and Mike Frantz told him to hold on, that Chewy would bring it around. And who did he bring it to, Larry himself. He missed with five shots, and then Chewy ran it to Ryan Becker. Ryan shot twice, killed the hare and blew up the end of his gun barrel. We then got to the truck and Larry picked the dogs to run the rest of the day, Chewy Tucker and Timber, and they really put on a show, ran six hare to the gun in under four hours, wounded another and ran it to a den tree. The hare won. Larry Papineau and Jeremy Flanders were our guides and we really have to thank them for all they did for us. Every spot they took us to had plenty of game. All in all running was good for the weekend and ended up with eleven hare over the weekend. The snow was deep, and soft in some spots. First day we stayed up, but the second day we sank like a (bugger). And all of the boys decided, Chewy got the blue ribbon for the weekend.