Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 1554

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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Registered: Aug 2015
Location: Vilonia Ar
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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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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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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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