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Nice looking young hound Richard...ya really gotta love it...eh?

It's nice to see how some of this blood mixes out and very interesting to see how it relates also. Is he by way of that female out of Rabble and Maggie? I didn't know you had another one stashed away there someplace.

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There is a little something there for everyone that loves Rabble/Ace/Timber Jack. Wilson spent most of his life stashed behind Danny Barret's (Pigeon River Redbones) house. Mr Straight Shooter Barrett and Joe,The Professor, Maitland are responsible for this cross. Wicked Wilson is out of '06 National Redbone Days Overall Champion and '07 Southern Redbone Days Opposite Sex Champion Gr Nt Ch Pigeon River Reddy Freddy X T-Top Red Ragin Rosie. Rosie is out of Rabble and Maggie. There is no telling what you might find out in the woods behind my house.

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Many years ago, Allan Hallada lived several miles from our place and at the time Timber Jack was a hot item as well as Dawn and some other real nice hounds that he kept around. He came for a hunt one night with Dawn and Rat and Maude put it on her on several coons.... a few weeks later she returned the favor when I took Maude to hunt over by his place...she looked real good while Maude sniffed around the bushes

We took Maude to Timber Jack but only had a couple of pups, one of which I started and sold to a guy that kept him and hunted him for many years...I dont' know what happened to the others...they were also out behind someone's house or barn.

At the time, we had the very foundation of what we're talking about now, right here within a few miles of each other and yet because of circumstances beyond anyone's control and life intervening like it has a way of doing...there were no more crosses made between those bloodlines. Now, all these years later, there is proof on the ground that those bloodlines would have and will mix very well and together and with the addition of some strong Pete blood, these dogs are creating a whole new bloodline that is just now barely scratching the surface of its potential.

It's exciting to see how it all turns out in the end...I only wish I was 30 years younger so that I could follow these hounds like I used to do...

We are going to start some real nice young hounds in the next several months and over the next couple of years and with the right help, we hope to be able to add one or two more positive stages to this bloodline and to our breed.

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"IF" you were 30 years younger that would only mean "30 more years of WORK AND MEETINGS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I'm glad I'm 60, and don't miss any of that BS.

Hope you have all your PRD's done and are ready for your March AgriStats meeting???

DID I FORGET TO TELL YOU WE'VER BEEN HUNTING A LOT OF COYOTES LATELY AND WORKING A FEW YOUNG REDBONES ALSO??? (ha--ha) Love you man.

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You've got a good point there...and thanks for rubbing it in

I'm glad you're enjoying the rest of the winter, I hope it's passing faster for you than it is for me. We got another 3" of snow today but at least the temperature has warmed up pretty good from a below zero start to the day. Tomorrow and most of next week we're supposed to see day time temperatures above freezing so hopefully this snow will slowly start to melt off again.

We've got a nice bunch of young dogs here that are ready for their final phase of training and then they'll be ready for the woods this spring...if spring ever comes...eh?

I hope you guys are putting some pressure on those yotes, there's enough of them around these days, that's for sure.

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Hey Tom, picked up a first on Brandy last night so maybe by next weekend I can get her finished to night ch.- hopefully.



ps. hope the snow gets gone for ya soon.

Almost forgot 0-circle 0- minus only coon treed in my cast.

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Nice job Tim, that's the big one so now it's just a matter of time before you get that cast win to finish her.

I was out plowing out the driveway again this morning...I hate it when I have to do that...it's time for Mother Nature to give us a break.

After I got done plowing, I spent a good bit of time doing some lead training. The 4 pups that I was working with, are all easy going and were getting with it in no time...no fighting and no struggling. It's nice when they're smart enough to figure it out after just a few minutes and a lot easier on the trainer...eh?

I really can't wait to get them back in the program, they've grown a lot, are good looking and all have good mouths so now it's just a matter of getting them back in gear and ready for the woods. I think I'm going to mess with them a little bit on the bench also because a couple of them are put up right with real good feet and legs.

Anyway, congratulations again, I'm glad to hear that you got a first place win on that nice female.

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Angel is starting to show a little so we're hoping she is mated. Older females will sometimes go through a false pregnancy but we're hoping the old girl is going to give us another litter for sure.

This is a proven cross so once we're more sure she's going to give us a litter, we'll update this and take reservations for the pups.

The cross is...

Nt. Ch. PR T-Top Northwoods Yankee

and

Dual Ch. PR T-Top Dark Angel

The weather was nice today, hitting 40 for a high and the sun shining...it was nice to see. It's supposed to get down to 0 tonight and only up to 18 for a high tomorrow but then back up into the low 40s for a week or so. We're hoping the snow will go down so we can make a night or two of hunting or at least day training on the weekend...the pups are getting rammy and ready to go.

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I don't know if you have talked to Bret lately but his pup out of Moose named badger is treeing coons. He has been running him by his self and lil badger is running hot tracks and putting them up a tree, everytime I see him he has a big slime on his face. My pup Will hasn't figured it all out just yet but he is getting a lill better. He got to get some fur in his mouth the other day and the coon got some red fur in his mouth as well. Lil will got fired up and figured out real quike which end of the coon to control LOL He is COON CRAZY now so I think it won't be to long now before it clicks.

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Hey Mat, I have been visiting with Bret quite a bit and I enjoy hearing about his escapades with Badger. The last few times he has emailed me, he's telling me that Badger will track and tree a coon if he runs into a good track and that he's starting to get with it pretty good.

He sent a couple of pictures the other day and the pup looks good. Badger is a litter mate to our Slim and Rob's Moe and Jason's Joe and all are getting with it pretty good. There is a litter mate female down in Iowa that is also ready to hit the woods if winter ever lets go of those guys down there.

Pups are pups Mat, as long as they show interest and are willing to dive in now and then, they'll usually get with the program once they mature a little bit and have the right circumstance come along...maybe you got yours the other night

We're supposed to start seeing a little bit of moderation in the temperature but there are lots of days showing up in the forecast for snow again...we just hope it misses us for the most part. I'm ready to get these pups that are left here, back into gear so we can send them home and put them to work.

Good luck with Will...I'd bet it will come pretty quick.

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We had a great hunt tonight here are a few pictures.





Da Moose treed this one solo

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Great pictures Buck...I guess Moose has the life...eh? A little lovin' during the day and coon huntin' at night...ahhhhh...life is good!

I'm glad you guys got to get out and do some hunting, we've been pretty much locked down here although there are signs that things are changing. The forecast is for day time temperatures above freezing for over the next 10 days so even though they have some snow also predicted, we're hoping it will melt faster than it adds up

I might drag the coon out of hibernation and see if we can get things riled up around here a little bit so I can start throwing some pictures on here again. These pups are some fine looking specimens and they'are all wired up waiting for something to happen.

I sold the 4-wheeler and ordered a set of tracks for the Ranger....nothing will stop me now...those things will navigate over 4' of snow, swamp and hard ground and on all terrain and all seasons. I should have them in about a week or so and once we get them mounted up, I'll fill the back up with dogs and away we go...let'er snow...rain...ice...I don't care...I'm hitting the woods

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Gonna need shades today. Theres a big bright thingy up in the sky. I can't quite make it out. But it's warm!!

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I think it was the sun Scott...I know it's been awhile since we've actually seen it but I'm pretty sure that's what it was.

Balmy...that's how it felt...snow starting to melt...few birds that didn't freeze solid...singing in the weeds...life is good...eh?

Won't be long and we'll be slogging through da mud with a happy face on...

It's kind of funny to watch the dogs all sitting on top of a 3 foot high snow drift...sunning themselves

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Won't be long and we'll be slogging through da mud with a happy face on...

It's kind of funny to watch the dogs all sitting on top of a 3 foot high snow drift...sunning themselves

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I got a few pictures from Kyle B of a couple of nice young hounds out of Ficken's Rocky male

This is Zoey...




This is Slim...


These pups are carrying on the tradition of early starting, tree minded hounds with good coon sense.

They are by way of...

Gr. Nt. Ch. PR Ficken's Deepwoods Rocky who is by way of...

Dual Gr. Ch. PR T-Top Rabble Rouser

I don't know anything about the female they mated Rocky with to get these young hounds but it's looking like it was a good mix.

Hopefully Kyle can get on here and give a little more detail on them as far as age and how they're doing at this stage but I was tickled to hear that these grand pups of old Rabble Rouser are carrying it all on and looking good doing it.

Slim and Zoey
Slim is 8 months old and starting to turn it on!! his pedigree is
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.....GRNITECH CH"PR"FICKEN"S DEEPWOODS ROCKY

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Slim (DOB 06/12/2010)

..........CH GRNITECH'PR'MALLEY'S SOUTHERN RED COLONEL

.....'PR' VANS RED OAK DOT (NEEDS A FIRST TO BE NITE CH)

..........GRNITECH'PR'FELDMANN'S RED OAK BILLIE

Zoey will be 2 in april and she is doing it all on her own and will be put in hunts starting this month. A litter mate already has a first place win. Im not real sure what the bottom side of her pedigree looks like.

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Buck,

That pic of Moose treeing is awsome!!! I bet it sounded great. You have to call me some night so I can hear it.

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Went hunting last night with Aubrey had a great night with a lot of good dog work.




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Here's a couple more


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Great bunch if pictures Carl...the dogs look good and in good shape.

I took a little hike down the spring bottom below the house today and I found a few coon tracks coming down off the hills and a lot of muddy paw prints along the springs. The coons are walking on top the snow but that didn't work so well for me, I kept breaking through and it's still up to my knees down there and in the woods. There's no doubt though that the coon are moving and looking for something to eat so we might take a young dog along with Cherry or Yank and see if we can scrape up a track one of these nights.

They're predicting a big snow storm next week Tuesday into Wednesday and it sounds like it could be a good one...typical March in Wisconsin...eh?

I think tomorrow I'm going to drag the coon out, it's supposed to be above freezing and maybe even a little sunshine..which will be better than today...we'll see what kind of ruckus we can make.

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Slim is 8 months old and starting to turn it on!! his pedigree is
..........GRNITECH GRCH"PR"T-TOP RABBLE ROUSER

.....GRNITECH CH"PR"FICKEN"S DEEPWOODS ROCKY

..........GRNITECH CH'PR'THOMAS MIDNIGHT MUSIC

Slim (DOB 06/12/2010)

..........CH GRNITECH'PR'MALLEY'S SOUTHERN RED COLONEL

.....'PR' VANS RED OAK DOT (NEEDS A FIRST TO BE NITE CH)

..........GRNITECH'PR'FELDMANN'S RED OAK BILLIE

Zoey will be 2 in april and she is doing it all on her own and will be put in hunts starting this month. A litter mate already has a first place win. Im not real sure what the bottom side of her pedigree looks like.

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We finally got a decent day with a little sunshine so I took the tractor and plowed a road down to the ditch so we could do some pup training...turned out to be a great day.

This is Gun and Deacon...




Deacon...


This is Slim along with two male pups out of Yank and Shelly...




These are the two males out of Yank and Shelly...


It was the first time Deacon and the two males out of Yank and Shelly, have been out of the pen and turned loose on a drag trail. Gun went along last fall as a 3 month old pup and he picked up right away where he left off, he tracked fast, located quick and went to treeing like a champ. Deacon acknowledged the track right away but didn't know to look up at the end. We left him alone and pretty soon he checked the tree that Gun was hammering on and man oh man...he lit up like morning sunshine and treed like he meant it. I'm really pleased with the result because Deacon is a real nice pup and bred right coming out of Yank and Shadow. I really like what I see out of him, I think he's going to transition quick and be a real tree dog.

The two males out of Shelly have never been out of the big pen but they know what a coon is and once they realized there was one in the tree, they lit up pretty good and treed hard.

Slim doesn't need this kind of training anymore but we decided that we should have a lead dog for the two males out of Shelly, seeing as how they had never done any of this before. Slim is ready for alone time and is a real good prospect for this spring and summer. He's starting to look a like like his daddy...Da Moose but his body style is all Leinie and I love it from top to bottom. He's got long legs and is tall but carries his weight like a T-Top hound should...sporty and put up right.

All in all, a very good training day. There is a lot of crusty snow yet to have to navigate but it should go down pretty quick over the next couple of weeks if the long range forecast holds true. I'm hoping the big snow predicted for this coming week misses us and that we can keep looking forward to spring without having to fight a big storm.

These pups are showing me what I look for at this stage and it's sure good to see it...again...

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Hey Tom, All i can say is i love them Darker ones. Im just a little more partial to the Darker ones. No matter they all look good to me. Good to see the pics on here again. Love to look at um.


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Some folks have a color preference and that's fine...if a person can line up everything we'd like in a hound and then have it all come out just like we planned...life would be good...eh?

I don't really care I guess, Redbones come out all shades of red and that's fine with me but we get our share of dark pups so we usually have one we can keep back if everything else looks like it's stacking up like it should. On the other hand, if I see characteristics that are stronger in a lighter pup, that will be the one we'd want to start. Most times, we end up with what's left so I don't get a choice but when I have a special or first time cross, we try and keep a little of everything to start, just to make sure we're on the right track.

These pups all have decent mouths and good attitudes. Considering the fact that it was the first time some of these pups had been turned loose to run a drag trail, I was happy with the outcome. I can tell well before we get to the start of the drag, if a pup is engaged or not and all of these were. They can wind the scent and start coming to attention because they know what a coon is and that was enough to overcome any apprehension they might have had being away from the confines of familiar ground. They're 8, 10 & 11 months old and they're ready for action. I don't think it will take much refreshing this spring to get them all ready to tag along at night and then it's a matter of them getting put where there are coons and plenty of repetitions.

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It look's like you were haveing a little fun today. The young ones look like they are really getting with the program. I bet you were smiles from ear to ear. lol

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