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good looking dog OUTLAW REDBONE!!

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The pictures of you guys and Haze looks good, it's easy to see that you all were having a real good time this last weekend. We'll hope that we can get out pretty quick and start making a dent in the local competition scene but...

Friday night and Saturday morning we got 5" of snow. This morning it was 11 below zero...this winter sucks!

We had a good start with training but this puts things at a standstill again. It's supposed to warm up over the next couple of days but then rain and snow and then cold again by the weekend...

I hope the rest of you folks are able to enjoy some later winter and early spring hunting because we sure have been tipped sideways here in the north and it seems to just hang on and hang on.

We'll be back at it as soon as this weather breaks and I'll enjoy getting some good hunting pictures posted as we leave winter behind and move on towards spring and better times in the woods.

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Hey Tom,
I took Hernie and Sledge out tonight. I do not like to hunt solo but it was fun. First drop treed and had the meat. On the way back to the truck Hurnie started pulling. I cut her and took Sledge on to the truck. As I was putting the him the dog box Hernie opened up. Just a few min she was treed. I picked up the gun and off I go. Hernie was blowing the top out. When I got to the tree it was a den. Ol well, I patted her on the head and came on home.

This is of the first tree

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looks great!! wish i had me a good hound like that

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Had a good one tonight first time we have got to get out in about three weeks or so.First cast Deuce peeled off from the others struck about 400 hundred yards out in the flat waters. Trailed for about ten min's and treed shut every thing out. He trees so hard it makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Second cast he caught one on the ground you talken about a mess WOW. It started to rain so we called it a night after that. Man that Rabble/ Annie cross is working for me. I hope to get some pic's soon. I will report next trip I hope to go tomorrow night.

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Hey Buck, Hernie looks good on the wood. Seeing her reminds me of this fall, we had some good times with these young dogs.

Don, it sounds like Deuce is coming on real nice, I'll look forward to seeing him and meeting you somewhere down the road.

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To The Top. D.W.

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It was below zero yesterday morning and again this morning. We got another 5" of snow and colder that an ice box for the last few days. I know spring is right around the corner but I wish it would peek at us once in awhile so we know it's ready to jump out and warm things up.

The dogs play around in any sunshine they can find and bark at night when ever a light comes on but...it will have to warm up a bit before they see this old boy put the belt light on.

I see that some folks are enjoying the competition season already, that's good to see...good luck with all those Red dogs.

We'll get at as soon as we can.

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Your belt still fit ? Mines getting tight.....errrr. LOL
Spring is around the corner. Someone elses corner.....
Going stir crazy..




Scott

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LOL... SPRING WILL COME! It HAS all of my 49 yrs.. I KNOW it will... We're having a little bit of flurry activity at the moment...then we here the SNOW from DOWN SOUTH... Like THE SOUTH... is going to give us a foot or so if the track stays true...HAHAAHHAAAAA! ANOTHER SUNDAY night into MONDAY storm... There are kids missing school days who are even sick of snow days... OUR kids will love it... till we get them up to shovel and blow snow....
STIR CRAZY?!!!!! WAAAHhhhHAaaaaaaaaaa! Never....

Seriously...it WILL end......... ?????......
Happyhunting to anyone getting out!
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Hey Scott, we made it out last night but it was a tough night for dogs that aren't getting hunted. Yank tried to lay one up and was treed like he was looking at it but was off a couple of trees. He was winding it and was hooked hard. We dumped him again and he worked his butt off on frosted over snow pack track that ended in a hole so we called it a night after that.

It would help a lot if we could just call an end to the snow and maybe get a few nights above freezing so these dogs can get the hang of hunting open ground again. I guess we'll just have to be patient and wait it out...spring will be here soon enough but it's not soon enough for me.

Dave W. said he hunted Cherry tonight and she looked real good. Got deep and hooked with the meat. He says it was near 80 there yesterday...what the heck...it will be nice to see at least one day like that around here in the near future.

Calling for snow tomorrow, 1-7"...what a forecast...leaves plenty of room for error...eh?

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Tom! Hunted Cherry the last two nights and treed two Friday. First track Cherry could have treed better ( Popular tree ). Saw the coon. Second track Cherry did a great job track and tree and saw the coon. ( Wild Cherry Tree ) Sat. night took Cherry and Star and heard Cherry open about a quarter mile from us up a creek. We hustled up the creek to hear the race. They took the track about quarter mile on up the creek and up a hollow and then treed on a steep bank on a pine tree and the wind blowing so hard you could hardly hear. Cherry came on the tree with a real loud locate and went into a real hard chop. Put my Amber lens on and squawed once and the coon looked right at us. Deadeye some day I may be as good as you finding and getting a close look at them old coons eyes. LOL! Dave

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Hey Scott, we made it out last night but it was a tough night for dogs that aren't getting hunted. Yank tried to lay one up and was treed like he was looking at it but was off a couple of trees. He was winding it and was hooked hard. We dumped him again and he worked his butt off on frosted over snow pack track that ended in a hole so we called it a night after that.

It would help a lot if we could just call an end to the snow and maybe get a few nights above freezing so these dogs can get the hang of hunting open ground again. I guess we'll just have to be patient and wait it out...spring will be here soon enough but it's not soon enough for me.

Dave W. said he hunted Cherry tonight and she looked real good. Got deep and hooked with the meat. He says it was near 80 there yesterday...what the heck...it will be nice to see at least one day like that around here in the near future.

Calling for snow tomorrow, 1-7"...what a forecast...leaves plenty of room for error...eh?

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Hey Tim, it sounds like a mess down there. It's been snowing for a couple of hours up here but it doesn't look like we're going to get the worst of it, seems to be going more south of us. I suppose there's still plenty of it out there so we'll have to wait and see how it piles up before I start feeling too good about it missing us. There's a couple of inches on the ground and some wind blowing but nothing too serious, that's for sure.

I hope you guys don't wash away down there and that spring starts to get a foot hold pretty quick...

The dogs don't seem to mind the snow, they're out chasing each other around the big pen and having a great time...I guess they feel better about it than me!

They're talking about a high of 15 for Wednesday and a low of 4 below zero...but then warming up by next weekend again. We'll see how it goes and hope for the best.

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Tom,

Thought I'd drop a line and tell you about some good work I saw out of Sis tonight. As Tim mentioned, it is pretty wet around these parts, and was raining tonight when I cut loose. I'd have got some pics, but was afraid I'd wreck the camera.

She is currently in the hunt alone program. I had to psyche myself into going out in the rain, but I think you have to challenge those young dogs instead of giving them the easy treatment all the time. It's been my experience that it usually pays off when you need it the most.

So across two flooded creeks she goes, flies in there about 600yds per the GPS and gets one hooked up on the outside. I was pretty impressed. There were some things she could have done better on it, but overall considering the circumstances she did great.

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Hey Chris, I hear you about the weather, it's been kind of crappy up this way also. We got snow a few days ago and today it rained and was foggy most of the day. Overnight tonight, we're supposed to get winds up to 45-50 MPH gusts and the temperature will drop to close to zero by morning with wind chills well below zero again. It's only supposed to last for a couple of days but I sure hate to see it like that when we're so close to spring.

Dave got out last night for one drop. He took Yank and made one good track and tree and called it a night. He did real good, winding the track from way out in an open field and then chasing the wind for a couple hundred yards until he struck it and ran it. He came treed with a great locate and was pounding hard and had the meat. Good nights to hunt have been few and far between lately and we're way behind with getting dogs in the woods and back in training. Hopefully it will break soon and we'll see some extended stretches of good weather.

It sounds like Sis is getting it put together and that's good, she's got talent so what you're doing with her is good stuff.

This is Yank treed from last night...


Yank is pretty much a sit down tree dog just like his older brother Dagger was. Hopefully we can string together some good nights in a row once this weather settles down and gives us a decent opportunity to get back in the woods regular.

We've got some real nice young prospects sitting here waiting to get back in regular training so it should be fun once spring gets sprung...

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Who owns the Pigeon female?

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Tom and Dave, Yank sure looks good . Hope the weather breaks for you soon. Dave

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Hey Tom,

Boy idk what it is but I realllly like that yank male of yours1 He seems like he is one hell of a dog. Are you bringing him too red days this year????

Corey

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Hey Corey...if everything goes as planned Dave will hunt Yank in Kansas and we'll be at National Days in July. We'll hope to be hunting Yank and one other dog depending on who steps up the most this spring. We have a couple of good prospects lined up and right now Leinie is leading the pack as far as being put into competition this spring and summer along with Yank but we'll see how everything falls into place. Leinie is a full sister to Yank and is looking real good.

Yank is a nice young hound Corey. If he continues to develop to maturity like he has to this point, he'll be tough to deal with by mid to late summer...and maybe even before that...we'll see.

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Chard Cartwright sent me an email the other day with this nice picture of his Ruby female. Don't mind the date stamp...it was from just the other night. Ruby is out of Starr and Rabble Rouser.

Ruby


Ruby is coming along nicely and is sure looking good on the wood...

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Chard Cartwright sent me an email the other day with this nice picture of his Ruby female. Don't mind the date stamp...it was from just the other night. Ruby is out of Starr and Rabble Rouser.

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Ruby is coming along nicely and is sure looking good on the wood...

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Deuce and I did'nt make the hunt this weekend . I am down with the FLU or something like it been sick for two weeks. But I will get him started in the next couple weeks.

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Dave was able to get out last night and enjoy a real nice spring night. It has been up and down this late winter and conditions really not good going into spring hunting. Last night it stayed above freezing and Dave was able to make a couple of trees.

This is Yank in his usual mode...sitting down at the base of the tree...


This is another of Yank and one of the few times you'll see him standing on the wood. He'll do it once in awhile but usually a sit down tree dog.


He took Red along for the first time in a long time and he looks good on the wood...


This is a good time of year when it doesn't get down below freezing at night. We're moving into the time of year when dogs have to deal with open ground instead of frozen ground so it doesn't do them any good to be put on frozen ground when trying to get ready for competition. More good nights to come...

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Got up to 70 the last couple days. the mud is starting to settle and the land is starting to get a shade of green. When the mud settles a little more, I plan on getting out more.

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