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Lets face it. If they were all like that. I'd be bored. Her only off nights are when the yotes are in the area or nothing is moving. she don't hunt that deep and I won't let her. 700 yards is about all we both do. I'll pack up and move. I have plenty of spots. No need to screw around going DEEEEEEP!!!!!

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I went to a local hunt last night for the first time in a few years. I hunted Griz and came up a little short but had a reasonably good time and saw some good dog work.

It came down to the last tree where all 4 dogs were treed when we topped a ridge so we split the tree points. We had to go a long ways through some really steep country and I was about wore out but when we got there, two dogs were on one tree and two dogs on another tree and both trees for 5' apart. Griz and another dog were on a den and the other two dogs were with the coon. I'd like to say that the trees were touching or that the trees should have been scored as one but it wasn't the right thing to do in this case.

An English dog ended up with 325+, the Walker female 275+, Griz 250+ and a little B&T female with 200+. If Griz had been on the tree with the coon, he would have ended up with 343 3/4+ and would have won the cast....Dang....that had to be one of the most unlikely scenarios I've ever been a part of but...that's the way it goes sometimes.

Overall, I held up pretty well. My knees weren't doing so good but nothing I couldn't handle and then I wore a blister through my heel...but other than that...I held up pretty well. We turned the dogs loose 3 times and the first time they went over the ridge and out of hearing so nothing to do but go up to the top. They were treed down the other side so...down we went and then back up...The second drop was easier and reasonably easy to get to them. The last drop...we had to have walked 3-4 miles up steep hills and down the other side and back around again...it was a tough test for someone just getting back to competition hunting after so much time.

My good friend Jeff was at the hunt and we drew out together...of course...He has a real nice little Walker female that has what it takes to win big. He made a bad call and it cost her but a very nice hound. The other two dogs in the cast represented themselves very well and a young lady handling the B&T represented herself very well. She said it was her first "adult" hunt and I was impressed with her from start to finish.

Anyway....so close....and yet so far away...Griz is good enough to win and deserves to finish to Nt. Ch. so we'll keep plugging away.

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Good to hear that Griz is ready to roll. That poor guy has the worse luck. That is not the first time that same scenerio has played out.

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There will be nights like that my friend. Glad all in all you had an enjoyable hunt. Dave

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You're right Dave...that's the way it goes sometimes. It's nothing new for this old boy...I've been there and done that a time or two in the past.

I've been asked about the secret to winning in competition and I always tell folks it's a matter of continuing to toss your nickel into the pot and let the law of averages do its thing. Honestly, there are lots of good dogs out there and the fact is that they can't all win every night so you just have to keep at it. If your dog has what it takes to tree a coon on a regular basis, you'll win your share...but you won't win them all.

I know I can't hear as good as I used to and I know that it costs me in competition sometimes...but not all the time...so we'll win our share going forward.

It has been a little more normal over the last week or so with morning temperatures in the upper 20s and day time near 60 or upper 50s at worst...that's pretty good stuff and I'm looking forward to a few more nights in the woods.

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Glad you had a pretty good hunt Tom. I had almost the same thing happen to me at southern days a few years ago with haze except no one in the cast had plus points going into the last drop. it was haze's second nite hunt he was ever in. all he needed was to be under one coon, didn't matter what strike or tree, just needed a coon. with about 5 minutes left in the hunt all the dogs got treed. when we got there, it was a two/two split. haze and one dog was just a little deeper and the other two were closer to us. we got them all tied up and scored the closer of the trees first. they had a coon, but still didn't bring those boys out of the hole. In my mind I thought, "I have it now".........well....haze and the other dog had a den.

Griz sounds like he is doing well and you'll get that last cast win soon enough.

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Richard

Wendell won his cast with Willow at the Va State hunt Saturday night and with her win at the RQE in Cedar Grove that gives her 100 purina points..don't know where that puts her in the redbone standings but he is talking about the NC and Tenn. state hunts coming up

something to watch out for anyway

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Get-Er-Dun Bond. Wendy will be pulling for her mom. Watch out for Wendy in 2014. She will be 2 years old then and ready to roll!

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I'm thrilled with the dogs I have, an own daughter of Buster II, a daughter of Dodge City Jimmy, a couple of pups by Moses out of a Mudslingin Maniac female and our older home-bred dogs that go back to Red Oak Mike, Hoffmiester stuff, Sandy Creek Jake, etc but I was very impressed with Josh Sterkis's dogs, a GrNite Ch by Rabble and Music and his offspring when I had an opportunity to hunt with him last fall and I will be keeping my nose in the wind for a male bred like that, that I could use as an outcross to what I have in the future. I'm somewhat out of the loop, but it appears that guys like you and Kevin (Buster II dogs) and a few others who have actually created LINES of dogs with consistent traits are the real breeders and developers of this breed. You are all to be commended.

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I think wendy is a haze/willow pup.

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I'm thrilled with the dogs I have, an own daughter of Buster II, a daughter of Dodge City Jimmy, a couple of pups by Moses out of a Mudslingin Maniac female and our older home-bred dogs that go back to Red Oak Mike, Hoffmiester stuff, Sandy Creek Jake, etc but I was very impressed with Josh Sterkis's dogs, a GrNite Ch by Rabble and Music and his offspring when I had an opportunity to hunt with him last fall and I will be keeping my nose in the wind for a male bred like that, that I could use as an outcross to what I have in the future. I'm somewhat out of the loop, but it appears that guys like you and Kevin (Buster II dogs) and a few others who have actually created LINES of dogs with consistent traits are the real breeders and developers of this breed. You are all to be commended.

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buck you coming to christainsburg tomorrow that young man looks sharp with da moose. The moose can convert a fellow now i had the pleasure to hunt with chicken foot tonight she is a nice hound.

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Here is Autumn from last night in NC.
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She looks real good Buck, that's a nice young female with a lot of life ahead of her. It's nice to see some of those traits carry on through and she's good lookin' too so that's a double plus. Autumn is one of those nice young prospects that I can see fitting back into the program at some point. She has some good choices to be matched with out in your part of the country so maybe a bright future for her both ways...in the woods and as a reproducer. She's got the foundation to be good so I guess time will tell.

Dave has been taking Gun out alone and then again with Griz and from what he's telling me...any coons in the Tri-State region had best be watching their tails...He says they're doing it right in every possible way. He hunts Gun alone and he'll lay them up, strike, track and tree them and he hunts on the run and covers ground in a hurry. Griz is the same, he hunts hard, takes his tracks as he finds them, locates and trees.

Once we get Griz finished, Gun will get his chances and from what I see right now, he's going to be tough. I know a dog won't win them all but I like them to at least make any other dog earn a cast win and he's that good already. He's a good looking cuss too, I wish I had messed with him on the bench more, I think he could win both ways...maybe I'll give it a whirl...he likes to be handled and is pretty easy to manage regardless of the circumstances.

There are some nice young hounds coming down the line and it should make for a lot of fun over these next few years.

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I heard from Mark today and he said they had some snow in the mountains so he loaded up old Boomer, Cuz, Slim and a pack of puppies and went looking for lion tracks last night. When he texted me earlier today, he said that number 30 was treed today...what a season!

Most folks will go a lifetime without ever seeing one of the most amazing creatures this country has to offer...Mark and his Redbones have been under 30 of them...just since last December...that's amazing!

I would think that he got a lot of satisfaction out of this last cat treed because old Boomer was along. Old dogs only get older but they still have that desire to be part of the race...that's pretty cool that he was part of this kind of a season at least one more time. Cuz and Slim will hold it together for a long time to come and more great seasons in the future for both of them I'm sure.

Congratulations on a great season Mark.

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Wendy is opening on track now. I couldn't figure out how to get a picture of that.

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With all the technology available these days...someone ought to be able to come up with a way to use a GPS to control a microphone on the collar of a dog...eh?

Just think...it would be like doing a sound track for a hunt. We could go back to the art of "story telling" and play the sound track in the background...yep...I think we're on to something here Richard...when you get it figured out...let me know and I'll write the script and then folks can listen in where ever they are in the world...good stuff...the next big thing!

In the mean time...when Wendy starts putting it together on both ends...I'll still settle for a picture

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Hey Tom heres a few pics 1 of Roxy & 1 of Hooch & together .Had bad luck with the pups crazy dog laid on them while at work only got 5 left. But they are nice ones.






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Dave took his older son Chase on his first turkey hunt this last weekend and at 6:30 AM he bagged this big Tom.

This bird weighed in at 27 lb. 15 oz and has a double beard so a real trophy for the first.

Chase is a good little hunter, he has already bagged a couple of deer and now a trophy Tom for his first time turkey hunting.

I'm real proud of Chase and Dave was a pretty prould daddy on Saturday morning...

Chase and his first turkey...

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