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OK--it's time:

to shake the tree--dump the box or just get gone to the dogs.

With everyone able to watch or listen to these play by plays today of "world" championship casts. I'm just wondering=

Would you trade the BEST hound you ever owned for anyone of these winners? I'm not talking the truck, the check or the title but the 4 legged, butt sniffing animal.

My answer would be no. Why? First off, any hound that goes over a mile from were I cast will be on land that I don't have or can not get permission to be on. Second, they just passed up on probably a dozen tracks. And third, I will not hunt an independent hound, if they don't strike it first they best be giving it their all to tree it first and if they come in second and it's there, then second isn't all bad as long as they did their best.

And if you're going to ask, would my best win over these winners on a score card, again my answer would be NO, but I never got into the enjoyment of hunting with hounds because of a "score card".

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Sir you just described the difference in a competition dog and a pleasure dog if I知 huntin throughout the week for the enjoyment give me the pleasure dog if I知 huntin for $100,000 puttin up an entree fee no 2 average Americans could afford together well give me the comp dog

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Philippians 2:9-11

Pleasure/competition dog

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Originally posted by Cthornberry
Sir you just described the difference in a competition dog and a pleasure dog if I知 huntin throughout the week for the enjoyment give me the pleasure dog if I知 huntin for $100,000 puttin up an entree fee no 2 average Americans could afford together well give me the comp dog

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Dave Richards Treeing Walkers Reg American Saddlebred and Registered Rocky Mt. Show Horses

Follow the money!

Back in the old days of competition hunting, the hounds entered in night hunts were the same hounds you hunted for pleasure.

I致e said it before I値l say it again take the money out of the equation and in a few generations you might get back to hounds that are a pleasure to hunt for the ordinary working man.

How many competition hunters want to hear a dog run a track with an honest open mouth? How many pleasure hunters want a dog that opens a half dozen times on the ground and then their treed.

I know, I知 a member of a soon to be extinct group of houndsmen that actually loves to hear a hound run a track using more than 2 barks on the ground and is treed in the space of 50 yards or less.

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Dan

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Originally posted by DL NH
Follow the money!

Back in the old days of competition hunting, the hounds entered in night hunts were the same hounds you hunted for pleasure.

I致e said it before I値l say it again take the money out of the equation and in a few generations you might get back to hounds that are a pleasure to hunt for the ordinary working man.

How many competition hunters want to hear a dog run a track with an honest open mouth? How many pleasure hunters want a dog that opens a half dozen times on the ground and then their treed.

I know, I知 a member of a soon to be extinct group of houndsmen that actually loves to hear a hound run a track using more than 2 barks on the ground and is treed in the space of 50 yards or less.

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Dave Richards Treeing Walkers Reg American Saddlebred and Registered Rocky Mt. Show Horses

I could have been a basketball player but I couldn稚 shoot the basketball

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jason

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Originally posted by ole hoss
I could have been a basketball player but I couldn稚 shoot the basketball

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Donald Bergeron

My wife married me because she likes bad boys and well I知 bad at just about everything

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Philippians 2:9-11

My experience

While limited is a little different than what sounds like the majority. First I do not consider myself a competition hunter by any stretch of the imagination. I have however hunted in a few and prefer the bigger hunts. Little hunts seem more often than not to get bloody! Big hunts folks spend time and money traveling. Many make it a family event and are lot at the very least want to have a good time. During about 2007 I was packing one of my all time favorite dogs. He was a pleasure dog that hunted for me and took his tracks as they came. He was honest hard working and accurate. I expected to see a coon every time he treed and he did not disappoint me often. He never blew out of the country, if things got ruff at the tree you most likely would not see him with that dog on a tree again. A lot of folks said I had a real nice dog if I could only break him from leaving a tree that had a mean dog. That seemed messed up to me. Teach mine to fight?? I prefer they break theirs from being mean. The one year I hunted him I placed in several big hunts, won a couple small ones made him a Nt. Ch. and had 3 or 4 my ch wins toward grand. I have often said he was not the best dog I ever hunted but I believe I enjoyed him most of all dogs! Thanks

To answer your question no sir I would not .