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I remember that picture of Bonnie. She had a good bit of white and reminded me of my Molly. Good ole Spanky blood. We don't get a lot of that down here where Smokey River and Echo tend to dominate. Dan Hoffman has a pretty heavy Spanky bred female that's Mad Dog kennel bred. He says she's really good. He's going to breed her to his Hammer and Jet V bred dog, Cold Creek Brummy.

I might end up throwing Wolf to the curb if my Maverick male pup (Blue) turns it on. Blue is already going out on his own. Like Wolf, he leaves on a dead run. If he's more accurate than that Walker boy but still has good speed and tree power, then he'll be first choice.

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Steve, I was hoping it would not rain enough to get the river out of its banks, but as much rain as they are forecasting looks like it will, as I'm sure you already know once it gets out of its banks and fills all these sloughs it wiil take awhile for them to dry up some. I looked at it the other day and it only liked about 2 feet. I'm sure by now its either close or may even be over its banks by now. Hey Steve If you think you are falling apart at 50 just wait till you get 60. lol. Hope everything goes well with your hand and rist. Take care.

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Steve hope you get your health all fixed up soon. I am going to try to get me some little Bells this Spring. Get well soon. Dave

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Chris, Nitro is bred up good too. You have your hands full with all them hounds like I did but that gives you more choices to see which ones suit you best. Good Luck with them.

MR. Jack I always compare us older guys to old pickup trucks. Its not the year model, its the miles on us! And believe me I got more than a few and they weren't those " EASY Highway Miles"! lol!

Scot, I have already been thinking about calling you anyway before this little surgery stuff came up. My plan was to see if you were interested in hunting Bell a few months since yaw are about to thaw out and it would give you a hound to hunt and maybe start your pup with and would let me keep pounding the swamps with Bo and also work on starting Briar. I felt it would be a good deal for both of us and if you took care of the ride your way I would take care of her ride back. Just a thought I have had for about a month but was thinking I would get to missing her is only reason I haven't called you about it. It would do her a lot of good to be hunted hard by herself or with just a pup along. I will give you a shout tomorrow and we will talk about it.

Dave I will be glad to get back on track for sure, thanks. I have had this little surgery to do for over 2 years but just been putting it off waiting for the right time. Work is slow so going to get it over with. Hounds will have a few weeks off but hopefully I won't have to retrain them, lol! Take Care and good luck getting Lou with some pups.

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I found these books on EBAY the other day for 18 bucks for all three so I bought them. I am never to old to learn about these ole hounds and have always loved reading. They were wrote by Claude Miller in the 70's and early 80's. It is a 3 volume set. He had a tree hound school in Springdale, Arkansas back then and worked lots of hounds. Have any of you guys heard of him or read his books? I have read two of them and I tell you what, this man knew hounds and what they were thinking. He gets right to the point, no beating around the bush to make the book any thicker. Some things he talks about, I have figured out on my on over the years or read in other books or magazines. But there are things in here that really help you to get on the same page as your hound where it benefits both hound and trainer and you end up with a better end result. Lot of great stuff in these old books from back in the day of simpler times and that I feel is being lost in the fast pace world we live in today where everything is instant and at your finger tips. Old School is sometimes the best way to go, especially when training a hound. That being said, I would fight to keep my Garmin, lol!

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After several nights of no hunting, last night I took Bell and Stormy across road from the house. I cut them down the cypress slough and they were over 500yds when they both got struck. They moved on down the slough toward the river and I started walking to keep them within hearing. I don't know what it was about last night but I couldn't hear them that good at less than a thousand yards and most times they are easy to hear well over a mile. Air was heavy so maybe that was it. They treed about 30 minutes after they struck and it took me close to 45 minutes to get in to them. Slough was to deep to cross so had to walk down it and cross on the beaver dam. They were on edge of swamp where it was joined by the landowners cow pasture and I saw the coon when I backed out into the field. They were treed on a huge Magnolia tree. I went back down to them, petted them up and came on out of there. Temps had dropped to below freezing and it was after 10pm so we came on in. Good Hunting!

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Mason and I had two coon this morning in our live traps and worked with Briar. Pictures and story coming!

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This should be end of this page. I want to start Briars pictures and story on top of new page.

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Mason and I caught a double on coons this morning in our 2 live traps over by my shop. I brought them home and put one in the roll cage and had Beverly let Briar out as I went down through the woods. Briar found me quick, did great on roll cage so held him back and let the coon go. Gave him 2 minutes then released Briar. He picked up the track quick, gave good mouth as he ran it and hit the tree at around 200yds with 2 big locates but got down and came running back to me and the roll cage. He turned and headed right back to the tree and I went with him. When he got up on it and located again and I saw he had the coon, I hooked him up and loved him up good as Beverly took some pictures. He got rewarded and we went home.

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BRIARS COON

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Proud of my pup!

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Short video of Briar on cage coon before we turned him loose.

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Thanks Chris. It's a good start for Briar. It hasn't been quite a year since Bo treed his first wild coon. And he has come a long way and treed a lot of coon in that time. Be interesting to see Briar's progress one year from now.

Took Bo last night to Black Branch Swamp and had some company along with us. A friend and neighbor of mine came over with his two sons and wife yesterday and we grilled up some ribs, hamburger and sausage as we watched a race on TV outside in the warm sunshine. After dark we all rode 4 wheelers to the swamp and as we rode up the trail BO blew up on back of my 4 wheeler so I stopped and cut him. He ran around with his head in the air screaming, trying to locate the layup he had winded. He ended up settling on a tree 100yds away from where he first struck off the 4 wheeler and he had him in a nest up in a big water oak. We petted him up and moved up the swamp a bit and recut him. He went in and struck an old feeder track and worked it in all that water and moved to our left several hundred yards and treed. He really shined on this bad track and how I wished it was still season so I could have put that coon down to him but gun was at the house. He was treed on a big bushy water oak and I found him looking at us pretty quick. The boys had never been coon hunting and enjoyed it and getting to see the coon. I think they enjoyed riding the 4 wheelers through the water and mud more than they did listening to ole Bo work that bad track but when they got to see those red eyes looking down they got excited. Might have a new coon hunter joining the ranks soon, we shall see! Good Hunting!

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Great news on Briar. Sounds like he will get a good start. I have not been able to trap a coon yet here but this may be the week. It has warmed up and the snow is melting. I hope to get his brother (Sage) and my two Logan and Hammerhead pups started. they are all the same age and we will see how it goes. I wont be able to keep them all through the Fall but I will try and get a few in the right hands. We will be hitting it again tonight after a two month layoff. I asked Creek (Briar and Sages half sister) if she forgot how to tree one yesterday and she said no. Ha ha.

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Yes, it's good to get the youngsters interested and maybe plant the seed for future generations. They will be the ones who must carry it on.

I took Wolf and Molly over to Neil Hudson's (the guy from whom I got Molly) and hunted with a dog of his named Clyde that he's getting ready for Super Stakes. It was the first time Wolf had been hunting away from my place. Wolf took off on a dead run when we cut loose. He split and worked his own, but then he would go check Molly when she opened. Molly treed and missed. Wolf didn't tree with her, so I was glad he had sense enough to keep going. Then Clyde treed. Wolf went to him. Clyde had a double. We shot one down and let Wolf get him. It hit the ground fighting (from about sixty feet no less), but Wolf finished him quick, getting a little nip on the muzzle but not bad. Bad tracks in a swamp after that. I was pleased with Wolf's attitude and performance.

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Mason and I cut the 2nd coon loose this morning and went and collard Briar up then cut him loose. He struck quick, smoked the track up the river a couple hundred yards, turned around and came back our way. Just as I was beginning to wonder if he had lost the coon and was running the track backwards here comes the coon across the trail in front of Mason and I. It felt like we were in the movie " Where The Red Fern Grows" after seeing that coon cross the trail and head up a cypress tree dry gully. Briar never missed a step as he flew across the trail and up the gully in hot pursuit. He drove him another 200yds and hit the tree with 3 long bawls. We started his way and was half way there and he hushed, came toward us then went back and got right on that tree, hammering. I hooked him up, started video and backed out and videoed coon up the tree. We petted him up and came on home. You can see coon in video up the tree. Right where it forks he is on left side about 5' above fork. Good Hunting!!

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Sweet!!

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Gotta love it

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Thanks guys! Briar is showing he can tree an easy coon quick. No more turnouts for him. A few feeder bucket coons at night and I think he will be headed down the road to becoming a coon hound.
This is picture of him this evening. I have fooled with him a little on the bench and all I have to do is walk toward it and point at it and he jumps up there like he looks forward to it. Well our Cocker Spaniel, Freckles, is jealous of all these hounds and has got to jumping up there every time he does so I will pet her too. Took this picture of him trying to push her off HIS bench. Its amazing the personalities these ole hounds have.

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That's some good stuff. Wolf loves to play with my American Bulldog female that I'm training as a catch dog for hogs. The problem is that she'll make him mad by biting too hard or getting by the ears, and then I have to break them up. He can put it on her quick when he gets worked up.

Briar should be a winner in the shows. Bo is nice looking too, but Briar really is a great looking specimen for such a young dog.

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dang steve briar sounds fantastic!!!!!!!!! I will give you 200 bucks for him today. sounds like a good deal for me. yall getting all this rain? looks like the rain is going to keep us in the house all week.

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Thanks Jason! He's not for sale, yet! I think he is off to a good start. He impressed me with how quick he ran and treed those two coon and looked a lot better on the tree with the 2nd coon than the first. Him and Bo almost have identical personalities and try hard to please. Bo is very smart, BUT, Briar is even smarter. Catches on to everything a little quicker than BO. We will see if one year from now he can get it done as good as BO can.
We have rain here to but not that much yet. The heavy stuff is either west or east of us. Got my fingers crossed we don't get all they say we might. Its a pain moving stuff up and away from the river when it comes out the banks. Hope all is good over your way, take care.

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Briar is making me want to cancel that surgery I am going to have Friday. I was eating supper about 6 this evening and he was running loose as I let him out every day when I get in from work. As we were setting here eating I heard him go to treeing in the front yard. All the hounds in the kennel blew up thinking he had a coon. We went out and he was treed on a big water oak and as I went to him and hooked him up to go put him in the pen my wife said the squirrel came around to her side of the tree up near the top. His tree switch and desire switch have Definitely been turned ON!! He is so ready for a few feeder bucket coon but I will be laid up for 4 weeks. Won't hurt him a bit to mature another month but going to hurt me bad, I'm ready to hear him hit that first tree on a wild coon at night. Its not a question now of IF he will make a coonhound but HOW GOOD he will finish out. Time will tell.

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It's still pretty wet, but I'm going to take Ann out tonight to see if she'll nail her first wild coon. Can't decide if I will take her alone or with Wolf or maybe Lei.

I should be receiving my new Alpha and collars Thursday. Send young Briar here and I'll hunt him three or four times a week for the next month. But I'm sure you want to be there with him when he gets his first wild coon.

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I got in from work about 1pm today and as usual I turned Briar out. He ran around the yard a few minutes and I went in the house to get a bite for lunch. 10 minutes later the other hounds started raising cane in the pen so I went back out. Briar was treed about 400yds up river from the house so I grabbed a lead and took out. He was on a huge, hollow Beech tree. Coon Den. I have treed at night on this tree before. I petted him up, brought him home and turned him loose again. Before I had time to check the radar on the weather channel he was treed again in the front yard. I grabbed my phone to get this picture and the lead again and went and put him back in the pen. Mason's little pup ain't a pup anymore. He's a big ole hunting dog. Hoping the rain will hold off tonight so I can go cut him loose. I don't have any feeders with anything in them but I think he could get on a good track around that beaver lake. If he can, I bet he puts a tree on the end of it with a coon in it. He had the squirrel again. He's not just treeing to tree. Coonhound in the Making!! Good Hunting!!

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