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I posted on the other thread you started and asked if they were T-Top bred? Are these the pups you were talking about out of Rebel? They are nice pups, long and lean and getting with the program at an early age...not only looks familiar...it sounds familiar too.

I'd say it won't be long and they'll be tagging along at night.

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Yes they're the ones out of Rebel and that would make them T-Top bred.

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Tom, Moose might have beat Tom Tom Turkey to Nt Ch but I bet that Tom beats Moose to Bronze Champion. He won $60 Mon night.

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Congratulations Tom Tom and Richard. Dave

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Richard, I'm glad to hear that Tom made a bit of money and maybe showed he can keep moving forward...he sounds like a nice young hound with a lot of potential.

It's nice to see those youngsters showing good, it's fun to have a prospect like that to look forward to for a long time if you wanted to.

Tom has a couple of close cousins that are going to open some eyes in the next year or so, we always have something in the pipe line.

Good luck with him, he should be a hand full when he grows up...eh?

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T-Top Dark Timber Red Crank and T-Top Screamin Red Link

Crank on the tree and Link up against
I taped the young dogs last night and called and let Tom listen to them tree. They were sure treeing loud and hard. Crank is the same pup Tom called Cloud. Two nice young males. Crank is a younger brother to my Ace dog ( Link is out of Ace ). Dave

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Hey Dave, those pups sounded real good yesterday...they were really "cranking" them out. Link has a loud, deep voice for his age and I recognized Crank's mouth right away when I heard it...they were giving it as good as any dog could give it I think. The pictures are great, they are a good looking pair of young prospects...that's for sure.

I got an email from Bret Hendricks last night with some pictures from training with his young male Badger...

Badger on the wood...treeing like his great uncle Rebel...nearly all 4 feet on the tree...


I love it when a dog reacts to attention and praise like this...


Badger is out of Moose and Leinie and is a mate to those youngsters in the video further back in this thread...he was already getting after a coon when he went south and I can see that Bret has put some time on him. It won't be long and he'll be ready to tag along, just like the others and Crank.

We've got a few more youngsters here and they will start their formal training this weekend. They are already looking pretty good as far as interest in the ground work goes so now it's time to let them stretch their legs and see if they'll carry that same interest outside of familiar surroundings...I expect that they will.

I'll be looking forward to seeing how Link, Crank, Badger and all the rest continue to progress...that's what makes this sport so much fun.

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I got a nice email with a couple of pictures from Tom H. and I'm happy to share them. I get a big kick out of this kind of feedback for a couple of reasons...one is that the pup is doing real well and the other is that it pleases me to no end to have been able to be a small part of helping to teach youngsters about our heritage of hunting, and coon hunting specifically.

This is Boomer and a couple of young and successful hunters...




This was Boomers first trip to the woods. As you can see from the picture, he treed a real nice 26 pound boar but the really satisfying part of this entire hunt is surely stamped on the expressions on the faces of those two youngsters. What a great outcome when taking a couple of kids to the woods and they get to witness this kind of success the first time out...

Boomer is out of:
Nt. Ch. PR T-Top Northwood's Yankee
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Nt. Ch. Ch. PR T-Top Dark Angel

Boomer is just 7 months old and is coming on like his brothers and sisters from this same litter and also from the first cross we made.

I'll look forward to updates on Boomer through the fall but especially through next year, I'm guessing he's going to make a lot more smiles on some youngster's faces...and probably on the face of a proud daddy too...

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That coon is as big as the little girl LOL.

Tom the pup I got from you that we call "Wheels" which is litter mate to boomer looked as good the 2nd time at night as he did his 1st. This time a put a tracking collar on him!! LOL He took 1st strike on ol' Fern and Annie 2 times he still hasn't figured out that coons climb yet but he is running tracks as good as I have seen a 7 month old. The swamp marsh or flooded hard wood bottoms hasn't slowed him down at all. We will be working on the treeing part but if he keeps running with these old washed up GRNITE's he will probably make a coondog.
I just wanted to give you an update.

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Fired JJ up tonight. Three drops.
First drop is just a bad spot. But I keep trying it and it keeps giving nothing.
Second drop. I think I know where momma-ceta is. Hit this spot twice now since opening. We end at a big holed red oak den tree. Right area for her to be. Next time I'm standing guard at the tree.
Third drop. She struck right off the leash. Treed four in a short time. All in one tree. We have papa-son, momma-son, brother-son and baby-son.
Need sleep.
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Hey Scott, it looks like you bagged a pile of coons...those late nights aren't so bad when there is a pay off at the end...eh? JJ looks good Scott, she seems in pretty good rig and looking hard...It's hard to believe that deer season is just a couple of weeks away...I hope winter takes a break for another month or so after that, we'd get some good time on these young dogs if it stays open for awhile this fall and winter.

Dave has been hunting a few hours a couple nights per week, taking Slim with either Leinie or Yank, depending on the night. The first night, Slim took off with Yank and didn't come back and when Yank treed, Slim was with him although not too sure about anything other than that he could smell a coon. Dave tied him back and shot out the coon and hung it back up and Slim treed his brains out. He took him with Leinie the next night and Slim was in on track and tree and was treeing some before Dave got in...he's very coon minded and already has started to put it together. Dave shot the coon out and it came out running...Leinie bayed it up in a tangle of black berry brush so he let Slim loose to see what he'd think of a live coon. He said that Slim went piling in and pounced on top of the coon and tried to give him the business but the coon was a bit more than he could handle. It started running around in the berry brush so Dave had to wade in and finish him off...he had visions of the coon disappearing down the ridge and ending up in a hole someplace...not that something like that has ever happened before...

Slim is 7 months old, just coming 8 months and he's hunting on the run, opening on the tracks and already treeing some after two nights in the woods...good stuff...eh?

I was going to take them tonight but I cut wood all day...and I'm feeling it...big time...I prescribe ibuprofen and lots of rest for tonight...

I'll get some video when Dave gets back and we can get Slim out again with Yank or Leinie...it should be fun to watch him come on...he has a lot of mannerisms like his sire, Nite Ch. PR T-Top Dark Timber Moose and a build just like Leinie. He doesn't have any trouble getting through the woods, that's for sure and once he learns to navigate all the obstacles a young dog thinks are impassable, he's going to be tough as nails I think.

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I really love reading about the Moose X Leinie pups. I missed the boat on them. Oh well.
JJ is in good rig for here. I don't know how she'd do else where.
She is just a big ball of energy.
We did 2 drops and 5 casts tonight. We had an awsome time.
1st cast was lay up in cedar tree.
2nd cast she headed down into the marsh. I thought she had one on the ground. But when I got to her, the coon was in a little bush. I reached out and tapped it with some lead.
Great vid.
3rd cast. She struck one on the way out. So I let her go. She was owned on that one. I pulled her after a half hour. I wanted to go and re-tap the well where she put them 4 up last night.

2nd drop. Back at the well.
Cast her into the corn. She lights up and blows thru it. It sounds like she has it on the ground. I get to her and she has it bayed under a dumpster. Another great vid.
We're walking back and she strikes on the leash. I cast her. Right back into the same corn and puts two more up in a big red oak. The new scope worked great for this one. LOL
She's on a roll. Just like she was 2 years ago when I decided to sell you Leinie. This is good stuff eh?
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That's great stuff Scott, a pretty good night of hunting to say the least. It's really fun when you have that kind of action and it works out in the end.

It's nice to see some really good days in the forecast for at least half of this next week, maybe it's a sign that we'll have a milder winter and can hunt a lot longer than we have been able to in the last several years. I guess it will get a little nasty by the end of this week but even that forecast isn't so bad considering it's nearly mid November already.

I'm back to the woods this morning and da Packers tonight...can't get much better than that...eh?

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Hey Tom
Well my pup has a name now. I named him Smith Mountain Lake Joe. Joe went to the woods two times this week. Last night he participated in the whole experience. Stayed gone with the older dogs the entire time. Mike and I hunted Shadow, Zoe, Frog and Joe. After the first two drops were a bust without a good track we moved up the road for a second drop. The dogs got struck deep and worked the track nearly to the top of the mountain. Zoe and Frog did a nice job with this track. Near the top it got really rough and rocky. Joe must have gotten hung up or barking in a hole, he stayed there for a good amount of time. The others moved about two hundred yards and came treed. It was a good sized boar. Joe treed some and did a good job in his participation.

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Jason, I can't believe you named that poor pup Joe! I guess that we will have to call him The Professor. Have they opened up the National Forest? Did y'all get any snow last night? Tell your boy that Rex said Donny and Jason got a bear every day last week including Sat.

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Robbie came up to pick his pup up and we made a few drop's. I will see in a few day's how he liked hunting the good old Virginia mountians. Wendell took us hunting and we had a great time. Here are a few pictures from last night.

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My goodness, I wish that I had Buck's camera. I took Slam and Tom by themselves tonight. I turned them loose at 7:30 and got back to my Jeep at 9:45. They went about 400 yds and got struck. They worked a bad feeder track along the edge of the river. They got hung up in some real thick stuff twice. It took them a while but they did not quit and finally got on through it. They finally got it warmed up and when they treed they had a big 10 lb boar. My two 11 mos old Rabble grandpups sure looked good stretched out on that tree. The Garmin said that Tom Tom had traveled 4 miles. It is no wonder that I can't put any weight on him. Tom and Slam still have a little ways to go but I believe that they will make it.

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I'd like to see them Richard, they sound like a nice pair of young hounds. Hardest part is waiting for them to mature and not putting too much pressure on them to be full blown, adult coon dogs until they get to be full blown, adult coon dogs.

If they've got that kind of go in them now, at that age, I'd guess they're going to be a real handful in the not so distant future.

Lots of good cameras available nowadays for a reasonable price...you just gotta take a run to town once in awhile and find yourself one instead of hunting all night and sleeping all day.

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I had to start feeding them Purina Puppy Chow again to try to put some weight on them. I keep forgetting that they are just puppys but you are right. I keep thinking that I should sell Tom before I ruin him. Maybe in another year when they are 2 yrs old they will be coonhounds. Getting to town is easy. Paying for a camera is not. I spend all of my money on dog food and bullets. Those CB Longs are $8.00 a box now. It is hard when you are retired and on a fixed income. All of my check goes to pay bills and I don't have any left over for "discretionary spending". Oh well, Christmas is coming up. Maybe Buck will get a new one for Christmas and give me his old one.

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You can always sell one of those pups and buy yourself a real nice camera and at least take pictures of the other one so I can get a good look before you ruin them

The best way I know to not ruin a pup is to give them to another old fart....someone like me for instance... who doesn't know enough about dogs to actually ruin one yet...You won't feel guilty about over charging me if you give him to me and then we'd probably both be happy...eh? I think that sounds like a reasonable idea...on the other hand...if you're short of bullet money and groceries...I'd say you'd best sell one, it should be enough to keep you going at least until season is over.

Trouble with those young dogs is that they sort of start to grow on you and then we're sunk...another 10 years of buying dog food for nothing more than wonderful memories of good times...with good friends and good dogs...what the heck?...Geez...maybe that's not so bad after all...

Hang in there Richard...it will come to you in a flash and then, what ever it is...you'll know it's the right thing to do. In the mean time, enjoy the process...I think those young dogs you've got are probably pretty good prospects and not much to complain about just yet.

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Richard I will lighten your feed bill and take one of those pups off your hands. Hay I dont have a pup at all to hunt at the time. If you would give it to me and meet me half. Thats a darn good deal for you.HEHEHE!

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Tom, Pastor Mike and I took Da Moose, The Frog Dawg, and Hurnie to the Cox farm. Jason had called just before we went and Joe, one of the twins run and treed with the meat. This was the 3rd time to the wood's at night, he was pumped.

Here is a few pictures from tonight.





Pastor Mike with one of our big Virginia coon's...lol.

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That is a fine looking bunch of red dogs.

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Hey Buck, those are some nice pictures of a real good looking bunch of hounds. I get a kick out of how they all want to dig in their toe nails on the wood...good thing it was a big tree...eh?

When you called and told me how Jason sounded when his Joe pup tracked and treed, it was great...I could just about imagine how it made him feel to see that kind of reaction from a 7-8 month old pup. I wish I could have been there with him to hear it and feel the emotion for that first time...it must have been great.

Dave came out last night again to take the dogs out, he was back early but I missed him so didn't hear how things went. He likes to make a drop or two, get a coon and get home during the week because morning still comes early during the work week. It's been working out and he has been getting Slim some action now and then and I'm real happy with his development also, he goes hunting on the run, strikes and runs the tracks with the older dogs and is treeing some when they get hooked. He's got lots of fire and no back up in him so already I know he's going to have the goods. He has mannerisms just like Moose, how he carries himself, how he reacts to a gruff voice and how he reacts to praise but he has Leinie's overall make up and attitude in the kennel and around other dogs...it's a great combination and makes for a very smart and likeable young dog.

I'll look forward to hearing about Moose and the young dogs, I liked The Frog Dawg real well, she's got the goods so it should make for a fun fall and winter for you guys.

Hey Don...maybe we can double Team Richard and help him get over the misery of trying to handle two young dogs at the same time...heck...in the right hands...that Tom Tom dog could maybe be the real deal...eh?

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Moe's first night out was just as Tom said. This is the litter mate to Jason's Joe pup.


1st drop
Left with the other dog we were hunting with. Barking a lttle behind the other dog. The other dog open on track and Moe got a lttle louder. They made tree and when we got to the tree he was hitting up on the tree. Tree was full of vines and all in two other pines.

2nd drop
Walked them down 30 to 40 yards cut them lose. Heck, saw deer run behind them within 25 yds. They went on an the other open on track and Moe was talking, By this time they were working in so water. The tree was on soon after that Moe was sounding to be up and was trying to change his tone. The other dog is a walker that counts them off very well when beening treed. Got to the tree Moe was there on the side of the ditch bank at base of tree. Shoot coon out and Moe had a mouth of Fur.

3rd drop
Loaded up and went to drop down to the road. They got gone then the race was on. Got to tree and Moe was smiling I think. Hitting and holding on to the tree. Shoot coon out but the coon got hung up and would not fall out.

What a night, Moe went thur the diffferent task just as his foundation had been set by Tom. I am in no way saying he treed his own or even knew all about what the track was about, but I am very happy.

O'yeah, he is very, very LOUD!!!!

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