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Posted by John Carroll on 04-25-2008 05:24 AM:

Tonight's Hunt--Picture

I was pretty proud of my five month old male puppy.

He ran and treed tonight, his first night in the woods.

He has seen got to run two turn-out coon, and has run loose his whole life.

He treed hard and solid, setting on his backside most of the time, just like his mama does when she is hunted down and not fresh.

Here he is, sitting right beside her, clicking them off...

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Posted by BIGCASTLEDAWGS on 04-25-2008 01:14 PM:

Awesome John!

He sure is a Handsome fellow too! Hope his future is bright!

Have Fun, HappyHunting! Heather

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Posted by Rick Ennen on 04-25-2008 01:21 PM:

I bet he'll be doing it all by himself long before fall gets here. Good luck with him.

Posted by John Carroll on 04-25-2008 01:41 PM:

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I bet he'll be doing it all by himself long before fall gets here. Good luck with him.

Rick, I am going to go easy with him for now. He has more want to than he has the maturity to handle.

I won't hunt him a whole lot for a while, and for sure not with his mother. She is really not any good for starting pups. She goes too hard and is geared a little high. A puppy can't physically stay with her if she has to go far to strike, or if the coon wants to run much.

I didn't really expect him to do much last night. I just took him along for the ride, but he hadother plans.

When the mulberries get ripe and the kittens are down, he will be in the timber all by his lonesome self. He would tree a pop up coon by himself now.

I don't intend to ruin him by overloading him too young. I like him too much for that.

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Posted by Ron Ashbaugh on 04-25-2008 01:48 PM:

John I believe you are one of the purest examples of the benefits of raising your own dogs for years. You have such a large amount of experience with generations of these dogs that I have a feeling every generation gets a little better for you.

Best of luck with this young fella.

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Posted by John Carroll on 04-25-2008 02:08 PM:

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John I believe you are one of the purest examples of the benefits of raising your own dogs for years. You have such a large amount of experience with generations of these dogs that I have a feeling every generation gets a little better for you.

Best of luck with this young fella.

Well, really I just tag on to the best efforts of the breeders who raised these dogs for years.

This pup is the product of a total outcross--something I don't do much.

His mother is heavily linebred on the old Ranger blood, and his sire is a linebred Echo hound, which basically is a lot of old Smoky River Diamond Jim lined up with some Jimmy I blood crossed in a few years ago.

I had his sister out with him too last night, and while she didn't get treed like he did, she ran the hair off the track with a good bawl mouh. It was her first time in the woods too.

These pups, if they go ahead and make it, will be bred back to each side of their pedigrees over time to see what works best.

For example, I'll breed the bitch to an Uchtman hound eventually, and probably back to something Echo bred, to see what I get each way.

That will determine the direction I go from there. Of course, that is thinking way ahead, and assumes that these youngsters will make something that suits me. They got off to a good start, but it's a long way from here to what I call a coon dog.

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