Pastor Mike
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Radford, Virginia
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I won't be at American Days.....never get to go because I always will have kids from our youth ministry graduating the same weekend. I have two graduations on June 3rd this year, one at 5pm and the other starts at 8pm. I have walked with many of them through more crap than you could imagine so the last thing I would do is miss them walking the stage for graduation.
Haze is just a crap eater Kevin who went from registered to Grand in about 18 or so hunts. Haze wouldn't do good on bobcats.....he just won't run them but I want mine just running coon.... , but he's not a high profile stud either.....just a dog who trees coon on a consistent basis. He hunts medium......about 800 yards out is usually the furthest....unless on a track. And that is plenty far enough around here. He's straight......nothing else to add to that. A 3rd or 4th strike dog but typically a first or second tree dog. Likes a running track, not so much a very cold track. Will split tree and will hold pressure.......but normally splits when hunted with strange dogs. Nice mouth, but not overpowering.....has produced mouths alot better than his own. Bawl on track, chop on tree with an occasional bawl if track was colder.
We had a high profile stud.....well....he's popular now anyway and rightfully so.....come to Virginia one time to hunt with us. I know this dog was a good dog because I had talked to a previous owner about him. I never saw him under a coon while I hunted with him. Saw him under 2 slicks and watched him run up and down the road while my two dogs cold trailed and ended up on the mountain at over 900 yards treed on a den. It happens. All dogs get accustomed to where they are hunted....at least in my opinion and sometimes it's tough on them when everything changes so I won't judge them completely on one night....people who do that are idiots...or they believe their own press....plain and simple. If I was to say who that stud was....I would be hated by a BUNCH of people on here...
As far as Haze pups......there have been good ones.....i'm sure bad ones......mediocre ones and then some that were never given a chance.....of course about 75% of them are under 15 months of age so it's hard to judge them just yet. Frog is doing nicely and has been treeing coons by herself for quite some time now.....in some pretty rough conditions for around here. We also lost a real nice one that had a 2nd on her and she was just a pup when she got the win. There will be more good ones begin to pop up within the next year or so. I really don't care about when a pup starts.....you'll notice how there are so many pups who start at 3-6 months of age.....I don't really care about that.....I care about how they finish. I like seeing them start that young....but I don't get into much of a hurry.
I haven't hunted haze since last september and now it will be at least 3 weeks before I can put him out there because of where his stitches are. Maybe at some point you'll be able to see him go. He's just 5 so he's still young yet.
Richard......you can come up....just make sure you are not in heat if you are going to stay with Haze...
You can come over to Wendell.......Haze won't mind sharing.
Linkous.......the growth is gone....
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Mike Laster
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03-24-2011 06:22 AM
some of that walker stuff might not be a bad thing. 
