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Busseron Jack

Redbone male. Great pleasure coondog owned by Marshall Snyder of Paris Il. Jack was all coondog and accurate. Me being young and green and him being so accuate we went to a lot of hunts and didn't win our cast much. Never did make him a NTCH.
He will always be great in my mind, he had a coon or a den when he treed ( once in a while a possum ). No slick trees period. He spent a little too much time making sure he was right for competition hunting.
That dog made me love Redbones though.

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Darrin Gher
Elbridge Redbones
Home of
GRNTCH PR' Steve-O and Chili's Red Flow
NTCH PR' Twisters Musical Red Huey DNA-VIP Perf Sire 06'07 Deceased 11/07
Former Home of
NTCH 'PR' Swann's Lonesome Red Music/ Kitty
NTCH. CH PR' SawBlade Red Reckon
NTCH. CH PR' Gher's Timber Mt. Brandy
Breeder of
GRNTCH PR' Daugherty's Red BUBBA
NTCH CH PR' BA'S Tree Top Rockin Griddle
NTCH PR' Lickcreek Backwoods Lil Red Annie

A Black and Tan out of Northern Rocket that I bought as a 9 month old pup. At the time I didn't know the difference between Nothern Rocket and a bottle rocket, I just knew what a coonhound was. LOL I was in the Corps and hadn't hunted coons for 18 years and after watching "Where the Red Fern Grows" with my son I decided to get a pup. I was stationed in Beaufort, SC and drove to Ricon, GA and the gentleman had three male pups left. I took the houndy looking, bawl mouth runt and never looked back. By 12 months he was treeing his own, by 18 months there wasn't a coon in the Low Country that was safe. When I moved to PA I didn't know any coon hunters except a guy I met at a Dog Supply shop. We hunted alot and I helped finish his young walker male with my dog and they were a team. He suggested I comp hunt Thunder and I just laughed. Finally he said he would go with me and if I didn't place he would pay the fee. Well, Thunder did very well and a few hunts later he was a NTCh. Unfortunately Lyme disease took Thunder at the age of 6, but during that time he put smiles on a couple boys' faces and trophies in their hands at the Youth Nationals.

The 1st dog I hunted was NITECH 'PR' Plain Ole' Sam. He was so trashy as a pup that he was given to a deer hunter, & was run on deer for 2 seasons. He started treeing coons & possums early morning & late evening the 2nd year, & by the end of that deer season he had completely quit anything that wouldn't tree. I got him when he was 3.5yr old, & made him a NITECH. He made a tough old coondog.


----------GRNITECH House's Lipper
----GRNITECH Scott's Lipper Joe
----------'PR' Northam's Finley River Millie
NITECH Plain Ole' Sam
----------GRNITECH Homer's Gomer
----'PR' Northam's Maggie
----------'PR' Northam's Mandy(Spring Creek Radar)

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• PKC Ch 'PR' Triple X-Rated
http://www.hunt101.com/img/342861.jpg

• NITECH Beaver Creek Knothead
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n220/RBoyette/KnotHead-2.jpg

• Death Row Psycho aka "De"
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n220/RBoyette/Dee11-10-a.jpg

• 'PR' Skuna River Style
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n220/RBoyette/Stone2.jpg

**R.I.P.**
UKC NITECH - PKC CH
'PR'Beaver Creek Stylish Nellie
http://www.hunt101.com/img/369634.jpg

Wheeler

1977 a Blue Dog Named Jordan's Blue Wheeler. He was a Grand
Son of Vaughns Mack and Williams Blue Jack on the dam's side. I finished him to a dual ch before he turned 3. I have been hooked ever since.

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Bama Boy

dang didn''t think this thread would take off like it did.
thanks guys keep'em coming all good stories enjoyed reading all of them.

Carl i think the dog your talking about is a full mate to my old ghost dog and a mate to ronnie old hammer dog. they were out of zues and ruby.all dogs out of this litter were nice dogs. ghost was an akc ntch &had 2 1st in ukc before he died,hammer had 2 1st on him to.

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Cats Cove Kennels
Ntch,Grch. Timber Cruizin' Carlie
'PR'NTCH,Ch. Swampmusic Bear HTX ( Wtda Ntch,Ch)
Mad Cats Thunder Bella ( MTN Cur){Wtda Sqch,Tree Ch,Ch. World show ch.}

1980 Black n Tan Days

Back in the day of the 3 hour hunts, I entered my own 4 year old Black n Tan female. I did not win my cast that night. The following year I went on to finish her into Nt. Ch. Hassler's TamKris Barb in 3 weekends with 5 cast wins. The only Nt. Ch. cast I was ever able to enter her in before she was killed by a car was the 1982 Autumn Oaks were she won High Scoring Black N Tan female. I was 15 years old. She was out of the 1979 National Grand Night Champion of Breed Reik's Midnight King and a full littermate sister to Ed Able's Southern Comfort female. I was lucky enough to grow up next door to King and alot of his offspring and hunted against them almost every night.

First dog I comp hunted was GRCH PR Wilkinson's Jebb. I ended up putting a 2nd and 5th place wins on him, as well as many other club hunt wins. Never did get to make him a NITECH, he taught me more than any other hound has. He was a coondog through and through and was the same dog every night, every drop. He died this December, a month shy of 14 years old. I wish I would have known what I was doing in the hunts when I first started hunting him, a 15 y/o girl that don't know the rules is easy pickin's for some.

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Danielle Haney
UKC Licensed Bench Show Judge

Home of:
CH Crystal Springs Dear Darla
Crystal Creeks Dizzy Spell

Proud Handler of:
GRNITECH CH PR Jamie's Trashy Big John
NITECH PR Lifeways Fire Cracker

In Fond Memory of:
NITECH CH PR Jamie's Trashy Hightech Redneck
GRNITECH GRCH PR Morgan's Losses Hills Dawn
GRCH PR Wilkinson's Jebb
NITECH CH PR Gimme Three Steps Mister

sorry about your'e dog Geminite,sounds like a good one.
I lost probably the best dog i have had last x-mas eve,GRNTCH,CH.STYLISH HARDWOOD PANIC ATTACK.

Panic and i had a great run in the hunts though.
made NTCH at 15mnths
made GRNTCH at 22mnths
placed 4th in AKC KY st hunt
had 105$ in 3 PKC hunts
had a win in ACHA
won close to 4000$ in perf.$

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Cats Cove Kennels
Ntch,Grch. Timber Cruizin' Carlie
'PR'NTCH,Ch. Swampmusic Bear HTX ( Wtda Ntch,Ch)
Mad Cats Thunder Bella ( MTN Cur){Wtda Sqch,Tree Ch,Ch. World show ch.}

yeah she was nice i drew her a couple times.

seems like all the dogs from that first cross on zues and ruby were good dogs. i know the ghost dog i had out of them was a decent little dog.

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Cats Cove Kennels
Ntch,Grch. Timber Cruizin' Carlie
'PR'NTCH,Ch. Swampmusic Bear HTX ( Wtda Ntch,Ch)
Mad Cats Thunder Bella ( MTN Cur){Wtda Sqch,Tree Ch,Ch. World show ch.}

First was

Grand Nite DALTON'S WV BUSTER. HE WAS A DIRECT SON OF MERCHANT'S TREE BLASTER AND OUT OF A CHICO FEMALE. SUPER LOUD AND EASY TO CALL. HE TAUGHT ME HOW TO COON HUNT. THE COMPETITION LESSONS WAS LESSONS LEARNED.

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3 X WORLD TOP TWENTY FINALSIST
4 X WORLD TOP 100
6 X WORLD RQE WINNER
WV STATE CHAMPION
ALLEN SHOE GRAND NITE CHAMPION
YOU WILL BE MISSED!!

RIP OLE BUDDY YOU ARE DEARLY MISSED!!
HOME OF Grand Nite Ch Grand Ch 'PR' THE LEGENDARY TRAP
2011 SETWA Days Over All Winner!!
First Place Grand Nite Champion Fri.
Second Place Grand Nite Champion Sat.
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qualified for the 2010 world hunt and show!!
2011 RQE Winner 1st place Shoals, WV
2011 Lee Crawford 7th place

GRAND NITE CH FRANK'S DOODLEBERRY
TOP 16 AUTUNM OAKS 2011
2012 ALLEN SHOE GRAND NITE CH WINNER
2012 SETWA DAYS FRI NIGHT GRAND NITE CH FIRST PLACE
2012 SETWA DAYS SAT NIGHT GRAND NITE CH SECOND PLACE
2012 FIRST PLACE SHOALS

Grand Nite Ch Ice Cold Sweat Bead
Top Twenty of the UKC 2011 World Hunt


GRAND NITE CH FRANK'S LUCY
MINI SLAM WINNER AT AUTUMN OAKS

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thanks guys ,very interesting stories,enjoyed all of them so far,keep'em rollin in.

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Cats Cove Kennels
Ntch,Grch. Timber Cruizin' Carlie
'PR'NTCH,Ch. Swampmusic Bear HTX ( Wtda Ntch,Ch)
Mad Cats Thunder Bella ( MTN Cur){Wtda Sqch,Tree Ch,Ch. World show ch.}

1985 'PR' Hickory Hill Finisher call name Dan was the 1st dog I competition hunted. I won 1 cast and had 2 bad experiences. One was just plan ole extremely poor sportsmenship and the other I got cheated. The worst part was the cheater bragged loud and proud about it at the club house. At that point I had absoluetly no plans to ever competition hunt again.

A buddy finally talked me back into competition hunts a few years later, but at heart I am much more a pleasure hunter than a competition hunter. I do take pride in being one of the worst handlers out there ... figure if I can't be the best at least I am the best of the worst.

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Larry Atherton

Aim small miss small