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I'm believing with you. The Bible says now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

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Southern Thunder Bluetick Kennels

At Stud: GRNITECH PR HAMLIN'S BLUE WHIP
PERFORMANCE SIRE $300 STUD FEE

HOME OF: GRNITECH GRCH PR HAMLIN'S DAVIE CROCKET HTX
2015 TRIPLE CROWN CHAMPION
2015 PURINA RACE BREED CHAMPION
2015 AUTUMN OAKS NATIONAL GRNITECH BLUETICK
2015 AUTUMN OAKS GRAND 16
2015 AUTUMN OAKS BBOA / BBCHA HIGH SCORING BLUETICK
2015 WINTER CLASSIC DOUBLE CAST WINNER PURINA POINTS EVENT
2015 WINTER CLASSIC BBOA HIGH SCORING BLUETICK
2015 ARKANSAS STATE PURINA CONTENDER CAST WINNER / HIGH SCORE
2015 MISSOURI STATE PURINA CONTENDER CAST WINNER / HIGH SCORE
2015 OKLAHOMA STATE PURINA CONTENDER CAST WINNER
2015 KENTUCKY STATE PURINA CONTENDER CAST WINNER
2015 INDIANA STATE PURINA CONTEDER CAST WINNER
2015 BBOA ZONE 7 CHAMPION / DOUBLE CAST WINNER / HIGH SCORE / KING OF HUNT
2015 BBOA TEXAS STATE CHAMPION / HIGH SCORE / KING OF HUNT
2015 BBOA / WESTERN ENGLISH SHOOTOUT DOUBLE CAST WINNER / HIGH SCORE / KING OF HUNT
2015 UNITED ENGLISH ARKANSAS STATE CHAMPIONSHIP CHAMPION / HIGH SCORE OVERALL CHAMPION
2015 BBOA YOUTH NATIONALS CAST WINNER 2ND OVERALL HIGH SCORE
2015 BBOA ZONE 7 HOUND OF THE YEAR
2015 BBOA/BBCHA GRAND REUNION RQE 1ST PLACE IOWA
2015 BBOA NATIONAL BLUETICK DAYS INVITATIONAL CAST WINNER / 1ST RUNNER UP
2015 ELBERT VAUGHN MEMORIAL CHAMPION
2015 BILL JACKSON MEMORIAL CHAMPION
2015 BOOMER SOONER CLASSIC CHAMPION
2015 WESTERN ENGLISH SPRING CLASSIS CAST WINNER
2015 OKLAHOMA STATE YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP CAST WINNER
2015 BLUETICK CHALLENGE CHAMPION
2015 BBOA OKLAHOMA STATE CHAMPION / DOUBLE CAST WINNER / HIGH SCORE / KING OF HUNT
2015 UKC WORLD HUNT CAST WINNER
2016 PURINA NATIONALS CAST WINNER / BREED CHAMPION / HIGH SCORING BLUETICK
5 Time World Qualifier and 3 Peat Zone Champion
Too many wins to list them all
2020 Performance Sire at Stud
GRCH GRNITECH PR HAMLIN'S DAVIE CROCKET HTX

Thanks to everyone who has breed to Crocket or is hunting one of his offspring

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Registered: Sep 2013
Location: tylertown,mississippi
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My 2 pups, Rango and Neo, are 6 months old now. They lead, load and I’ve taken each one at night with Roxy a couple times. Haven’t shown them a live Coon yet, probably will next month. Took Neo tonight for the third time. He’s went every step with Roxy the other two times and tonight he was off to himself at over 600 yards deep in Black Branch Swamp. Roxy struck a good track and got treed at close to a thousand yards deep. When I rode up the little county road to get closer, Neo met me on edge of road but went back to the tree when I started walking to Roxy. He was all up on the tree and vines going into it, smelling it over good. When she struck the track he came across the swamp the hundred yards to her and opened a few times. Never had a pup hunt this deep and fast this young. At 3 weeks old he would crawl away from the other pups and was the second one that figured out how to climb out of the kiddy pool I had them in. Then he would crawl around in the building exploring. Once they got 5 weeks old and playing in the yard, he was always by himself, never wanting to play and wrestle with his littermates. I said then that he was a loner, peculiar acting for a little puppy. Totally different attitude than a normal pup. I’m seeing that more and more as he gets older. When I take him to the farm in the daytime and cut them loose, Rango wants to wrestle and play but Neo gets loose from him and runs wild across the fields into the swamp. I’ve had him go over 700 yards and had to run him down in the rhino because he was headed back toward the road. I’ve felt since he was 3 weeks old he would be a wild, go fast and far type hunting dog and after tonight I believe more than ever I’m right. I’ve heard his Great Grandsire, Bodacious, was a big, wide hunting dog that would end up way in yonder and I feel Neo is gonna do the same. Not scared of the dark whatsoever and don’t need his mama with him to go. He has no fear and seems to know he’s suppose to be looking for something he just doesn’t know what just yet. I’m going to get some corn souring and start filling up my tire feeders in different places. Once I flip their switch with a live Coon, I will hunt them separate, one at the time, in the area with a feeder until they treeing their on Coon. Right now they getting use to going at night and getting use to the swamp. Loving what I’m seeing so far.

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Registered: Sep 2013
Location: tylertown,mississippi
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Deer season is coming to an end here in Mississippi next week. It was another good year hunting on the farm with the grandkids, Cayden and Mason. Mason killed a 7 point during Thanksgiving break and an 8 point the Saturday after Christmas. Cayden killed a 9 point the Wednesday after Christmas. Hard to believe just 6 months ago Cayden underwent brain surgeries for an AVM at children’s hospital in Boston. He’s a walking miracle from God. I sat with him when he came to hunt because his mom said the doctor said he could have seizures from loud noise or bright lights. Mason hunted our shooting houses sitting by himself when he shot his bucks. Awesome job for a 13 year old, they both put great shots on their bucks and I didn’t have to track any of them. I didn’t hunt the farm at all except with them until they got their bucks and were done for the season. I went over there Saturday evening and wasn’t in the Rusty Rack Shack shooting house but 40 minutes and a big buck came out. I could tell his rack was busted up from fighting but I didn’t care, I filled the freezer. Dropped in his tracks. One side was broke off and the other side half the rack was gone and the points that were left were broken off to. He had scars on his neck and puncture wounds in his hind quarter from being run off by another big buck. Been Coon hunting fairly regularly and my pups are progressing good. They just 7 months old but go every step with their mom or dad, Bo and Roxy. I took Neo with Bo the other night and they struck over a thousand yards deep and puta Coon in a hole in the ground by a creek. Neo was giving it hell when I got to them, trying to help Bo dig him out. I hooked them back and found a long limb and run it up into the hole and out came the Coon, headed down the creek. Bo saw him and was screaming so I cut him loose then Neo. Neo went back to the whole bawling and digging. Bo treed the Coon a hundred yards down the creek. I left him to run again. Both pups have big big mouths and lots of giddy up. Good looking rascals to and well built. Looking like both of them will make good ones, by this time next year I should have solid Coon dogs out of them. Now that the bitter cold and zero degrees wind chills of last week are gone, it’s 70 degrees and raining sideways. They saying we could get 10 to 15 inches of rain between now and Saturday. Sure hope they wrong, I hate dealing with river flooding here at the house. Glad the pups ain’t scared of water because the swamp will be full by the weekend.

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Mr. Steve. I have been reading and following your thread for years. I live over in Georgia. I have hunted different breeds but still own and prefer a good blue dog. I have a young blue female coming along nicely now. Your post reignited my desire to hunt that I thought I had lost several years ago. You are a great writer and even better story teller. I am thankful for your stories and posts as they are educational and inspirational. I wish you good luck with the pups and pray for good health for you so you can keep those dogs in the woods. I hope you continue this thread for as long as it continues to bring you joy. You never know who’s life you might change and inspire with your stories. Happy hunting.

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Location: tylertown,mississippi
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Thank you for the kind words B. Edwards. I don’t post on here near as much as I use to, mostly on Facebook. I’ve enjoyed writing my stories, good or bad, and looking back on them like a diary. Love my Ole hounds and will follow them a few more years. My pups are doing good, not great but good enough so far not to give up on them. I hope you enjoy many years and memories with your young blue female. She sounds like she has you excited and that’s what it takes to keep you in the woods night after night. Take Care and good luck with her.

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Haven’t been on here in quite a while. I’ve had a lot going on. My younger brother died first part of July and my Pops started having seizures back in June and been in and out of a bunch of hospitals and currently he’s been in the one he’s in now for two months. His mind comes and goes and it’s been tough watching him decline. Rango is making a real nice hound. Hunt him every week. Sometimes just a night or two for one or two drops. Starting to cool off and I’ve picked up the pace some. Took Bo with us the other night. First time he’s been out in months. Over 11 years old but he still got 3/4 of a mile deep pretty quick and treed one on the edge of a beaver pond. Rango was almost 900 yards from me treed with one and Bo was another 600 yards deeper than him with his Coon. Had to get wet getting to Bo crossing the beaver pond. About chest deep. Bo is still in great shape for a old dog. Don’t have the volume he use to have but still plenty loud enough to hear at a mile in a cool clear night. Rango has a big mouth and I enjoy listening to him. 15 months old and starting to work tougher tracks and learning to drift out when he can’t move one. Clean tree dog so far. No chewing or biting and no jacking. Great handle on him and I need that in my older age. Bo still a handful. He was always a Alpha male and me and him shared that role. Never could get him to lead without pulling on the leash. Rango is like his mama Roxy, good calm dog without all the high strung energy that Bo has. Rango has been trash free like Bo and Roxy except he did tree 2 possums so far. Bo only treed one in his life at 13 months old and Roxy has never treed one. Don’t think Rango will get to liking them to much. I scolded him good on the second one and he hasn’t treed another one yet. That’s all I had to do to Bo and he never treed another. Back in the old days you could wear one out and cut them again and they liable to tree another one. Praying for all those affected by the hurricane. It’s a sad tragedy for so many. Our government helping everyone except Americans. Hope everyone enjoys this season and their hounds. Take the old ones out every now and then. They gave their best to us in their younger years and still want to go. I can imagine a kennel becomes like a prison to a hound that don’t get taken hunting. They deserve to have fun to until they can’t anymore.

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I lost Roxy this evening at 4:30 to Blastomycosis. Never showed any signs other than the past couple months just didn’t have the energy she’s always had but I thought it was because it been so hot and dry. Wasn’t eating as fast as normal but still ate all of it at each feeding. Never coughed, didn’t have any skin sores. First sign she showed was an eye a couple weeks ago was all matted up like allergies. I treated it a few days then it turned cloudy blue and swole up so took her to vet. He put her on antibiotics and ointment and few days she was back to her old self then all sudden Friday she was breathing extremely fast and foaming at the mouth. Took her to vet and he x rayed her chest and her lungs were ate up. Started her on Fluconazole and Prednisone Saturday. She went downhill and I knew she was about to go so I brought her in the house this evening and laid her on a blanket and laid down beside her. Rubbed her head and back for an hour or so telling her Roxy is a good girl over and over. When she panicked and tried to stand up I knew she saw death coming. I held her tight and told her I loved her as she took her last breath. I buried her on the river bank in my yard. She was the most loving hound I’ve ever had and the hardest going, looking to get treed gyp I’ve ever hunted with. In the right hands she would of won a ton but in my hands we just had fun treeing coons and she knew she was loved and not just a tool for someone’s ego. I truly don’t know if I will hunt again. Black Branch Swamp is a bad, nasty place and several dogs that got their start here then moved on, eventually had lung problems from fungal infection. Blasto. Roxy is the first one I’ve had to watch die from the horrible disease. By the time you start seeing signs, it’s to late. My joy comes from loving my hounds and hearing their big bawls on the trail of Rocket the Raccoon. But I never want to see one I love so much suffer the way Roxy did the past 4 days. It ain’t worth it anymore.

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Location: Oklahoma
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I'm sorry to hear this. I also love my hounds and know it's hard. I'll be praying for you 🙏

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918-448-7321
Laelaps Pro Staff
Southern Thunder Bluetick Kennels

At Stud: GRNITECH PR HAMLIN'S BLUE WHIP
PERFORMANCE SIRE $300 STUD FEE

HOME OF: GRNITECH GRCH PR HAMLIN'S DAVIE CROCKET HTX
2015 TRIPLE CROWN CHAMPION
2015 PURINA RACE BREED CHAMPION
2015 AUTUMN OAKS NATIONAL GRNITECH BLUETICK
2015 AUTUMN OAKS GRAND 16
2015 AUTUMN OAKS BBOA / BBCHA HIGH SCORING BLUETICK
2015 WINTER CLASSIC DOUBLE CAST WINNER PURINA POINTS EVENT
2015 WINTER CLASSIC BBOA HIGH SCORING BLUETICK
2015 ARKANSAS STATE PURINA CONTENDER CAST WINNER / HIGH SCORE
2015 MISSOURI STATE PURINA CONTENDER CAST WINNER / HIGH SCORE
2015 OKLAHOMA STATE PURINA CONTENDER CAST WINNER
2015 KENTUCKY STATE PURINA CONTENDER CAST WINNER
2015 INDIANA STATE PURINA CONTEDER CAST WINNER
2015 BBOA ZONE 7 CHAMPION / DOUBLE CAST WINNER / HIGH SCORE / KING OF HUNT
2015 BBOA TEXAS STATE CHAMPION / HIGH SCORE / KING OF HUNT
2015 BBOA / WESTERN ENGLISH SHOOTOUT DOUBLE CAST WINNER / HIGH SCORE / KING OF HUNT
2015 UNITED ENGLISH ARKANSAS STATE CHAMPIONSHIP CHAMPION / HIGH SCORE OVERALL CHAMPION
2015 BBOA YOUTH NATIONALS CAST WINNER 2ND OVERALL HIGH SCORE
2015 BBOA ZONE 7 HOUND OF THE YEAR
2015 BBOA/BBCHA GRAND REUNION RQE 1ST PLACE IOWA
2015 BBOA NATIONAL BLUETICK DAYS INVITATIONAL CAST WINNER / 1ST RUNNER UP
2015 ELBERT VAUGHN MEMORIAL CHAMPION
2015 BILL JACKSON MEMORIAL CHAMPION
2015 BOOMER SOONER CLASSIC CHAMPION
2015 WESTERN ENGLISH SPRING CLASSIS CAST WINNER
2015 OKLAHOMA STATE YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP CAST WINNER
2015 BLUETICK CHALLENGE CHAMPION
2015 BBOA OKLAHOMA STATE CHAMPION / DOUBLE CAST WINNER / HIGH SCORE / KING OF HUNT
2015 UKC WORLD HUNT CAST WINNER
2016 PURINA NATIONALS CAST WINNER / BREED CHAMPION / HIGH SCORING BLUETICK
5 Time World Qualifier and 3 Peat Zone Champion
Too many wins to list them all
2020 Performance Sire at Stud
GRCH GRNITECH PR HAMLIN'S DAVIE CROCKET HTX

Thanks to everyone who has breed to Crocket or is hunting one of his offspring

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Registered: Sep 2013
Location: tylertown,mississippi
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Thanks Eddie, it’s been a tough year for sure. Lost my younger brother first of July and my Pops went into hospital end of June with seizures and stayed in hospitals all these months until a few weeks ago and we brought him home on hospice. He died early Saturday morning and we will bury him tomorrow. Roxy dying and helping tend to Pops really took the wind out of my sails this year. Hopefully the fire and passion for hunting the hounds will come back soon now that Pops is no longer suffering. I take Rango every now and then and Ole Bo, but it just hasn’t been the same. Deer season starts Saturday and some of the kids are coming to hunt my farm so that will be fun helping them get a buck. Life goes on no matter how much we lose or hurt. Have to keep marching on.

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Registered: Nov 2019
Location: Spain
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Very interesting. I am going to travel soon to do an international volunteering and I hope to have an experience as extraordinary as the one you are describing.

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